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Two Futures for Police Cautioning

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In 1993, the Royal Commission on Criminal Justice recommended that police cautioning be governed by statute. This recommendation reflected the failure of advice in successive Home Office Circulars to promote consistency across police force areas, in terms of both policy approaches and decision-making practices. Yet, despite this, given the ineffectiveness of existing national standards for cautioning, it is difficult to foresee the difference that a statutory approach will make, especially as there are definite structural, organizational and occupational limits to achieving a satisfactory level of uniformity.

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  1. University of Northumbria, Newcastle, Australia

    Peter Francis (Lecturer in Criminology and Sociology), Pamela Davies (Senior Lecturer in Criminology and Sociology) & Victor Jupp (Principal Lecturer in Criminology and Sociology) (Lecturer in Criminology and Sociology),  (Senior Lecturer in Criminology and Sociology) &  (Principal Lecturer in Criminology and Sociology)

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Campbell, E. (1997). Two Futures for Police Cautioning. In: Francis, P., Davies, P., Jupp, V. (eds) Policing Futures. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-25980-9_3

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