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Download filePolicing in a Time of Austerity: Understanding the Public Protection Paradox through Qualitative Interviews with Police Monitoring Officers
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posted on 2023-08-30, 15:54 authored by Natalie Mann, Priya Devendran, Samantha LundriganThis article examines the changing nature of public protection police work in a climate of continued austerity and increasing prosecutions for sexual offending, which have impacted significantly on the workloads of police teams who manage and monitor registered sexual offenders in the community. This increase has run parallel to a decrease in the general policing budget, which has seen it cut by an average of 22% across England and Wales (BBC, 2017). Utilising data from observations and in-depth qualitative interviews with police officers from a force in England, this article highlights the effect which cost saving measures have had on the professional standards of the police service in the management of sex offenders; how collaborative working practices have been hindered by these austerity measures, and finally how continual cuts have had a detrimental effect on the police’s ability to protect the public.
History
Refereed
- Yes
Volume
14Issue number
3Page range
630-642Publication title
Policing: A Journal of Policy and PracticeISSN
1752-4520External DOI
Publisher
Oxford University PressFile version
- Accepted version
Language
- eng