Governing Police Stops Across Europe

Elizabeth Aston is Professor of Criminology at Edinburgh Napier University, UK, and the Director of the Scottish Institute for Policing Research.Sofie De Kimpe is full time Professor of Criminology at the Department of Criminology at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Belgium and was Chair of the EU COST Action on Police Stops.János Fazekas is Associate Professor at ELTE University, Budapest, Hungary. He was co-leader of the Governance Working Group of the EU COST Action on Police Stops.Genevieve Lennon is Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of Strathclyde, UK. She was co-leader of the Governance Working Group of the EU COST Action Police Stops.Mike Rowe is Lecturer in Public Sector Management at the University of Liverpool, UK, and was Vice Chair of the EU COST Action on Police Stops.

• Chapter 1: Police Stops: a comparative perspective on governance.- Chapter 2: Stop in the name of the law: the legal regulation of police stops in Europe.- Chapter 3: Internal Governance of police stops: an unresolvable challenge?.- Chapter 4: External accountability: the limited influence of oversight bodies on the governance of police stops.- Chapter 5: Civil oversight practices in Europe: exploring the impact of civil movement against police stops.- Chapter 6: Legal remedies for victims of unlawful police stops: European and domestic contexts.- Chapter 7: The role of data in enhancing the governance of Police Stops in Europe.- Chapter 8: The possibilities and pitfalls of the use of accountability technologies in the governance of police stops.- Chapter 9: Conclusion: the three levels of governance of police stops.