Comparing Charges: The Experience of Discrimination and Harassment among Women Police Officers Serving in Australia, the British Isles and the United States of America

1998 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 227-240 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer Brown
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Police Officers ◽  
United States Of America ◽  
The United States ◽  
British Isles ◽  
Women Police Officers ◽  
Women Police

scholarly journals Police Bodycams as Equiveillance Tools?: Reflections on the Debate in the Netherlands

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 284-287
Author(s):  
Lotte Houwing ◽  
Gerard Jan Ritsema van Eck
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Law Enforcement ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
Police Officer ◽  
Police Officers ◽  
United States Of America ◽  
The United States ◽  
Regulatory Framework ◽  
Police Action

In the United States of America, police body-worn cameras (bodycams) were introduced to protect civilians against violence by law enforcement authorities. In the Netherlands, however, the same technology has been introduced to record and discipline the behavior of the growing number of citizens using their smartphone cameras to film the (mis)conduct of police. In answer to these citizens sousveilling the police and publishing their images on social media, the bodycam was introduced as an objective referee that also includes the perspective of the police officer. According to this view, the bodycam is a tool of equiveillance: a situation with a diversity of perspectives in which surveillance and sousveillance are in balance (Mann 2005). Various factors, however, hamper the equiveillant usage of bodycams in the Netherlands. Firstly, the attachment of the bodycam to the uniform of the officer leads to an imbalanced representation of perspectives. The police perspective is emphasized by the footage that is literally taken from their perspective, in which others are filmed slightly from below, making them look bigger and more overwhelming. Also, the police officers’ movements create shaky footage with deceptive intensity that invokes the image of a hectic situation that calls for police action. Secondly, it is the officer who decides when to wear a camera and when to start and stop recording. This leaves the potential to not record any misconduct. Thirdly, access to the recorded images, whilst in theory open to police and citizens alike, is in practice exclusively for the police. Within the current regulatory framework, bodycams are thus not neutral reporters of interactions between civilians and the police. We will end our contribution to this Dialogue section with suggestions for the improvement of those rules and reflect on the question of whether bodycams can ever be objective referees.

Liponyssus sylviarum Injuring Poultry in this Country

Parasitology ◽  
1930 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 313-313 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. L. Taylor
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
United States Of America ◽  
The United States ◽  
British Isles

This mite was reported by Hirst in 1923 to be causing damage to poultry in Bedfordshire. He states that, although it had previously been found in pigeons, it had not before been recorded as a pest of fowls in this country. In the United States of America it has frequently occurred, and is regarded as a dangerous parasite, but Hirst's record seems to be the only one of its occurrence as a pest in the British Isles.

British Influences on the United States of America

1959 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
pp. 2-3
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
British Empire ◽  
United States Of America ◽  
American History ◽  
Country Of Origin ◽  
The United States ◽  
British Isles

One of the finest indications of regionalism in the British Isles is a good course in American history. If no American history is available, a sound grounding in the story of the British Empire should serve much the same purpose. It is surely no accident that the last work of the great British Imperial historian, Sir Reginald Coupland, was a book on Welsh and Scottish nationalism. As one studies the settlement of British peoples overseas and tries to assess the marks which they have made on their adopted countries, one becomes more and more aware of the differences which exist amongst these peoples in their country of origin.

Thinking About Scots Law

1996 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan Rodger
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
British Empire ◽  
United States Of America ◽  
Case Law ◽  
The United States ◽  
Memorial Lecture ◽  
University Of Edinburgh ◽  
The University

This article is the revised text of the first W A Wilson Memorial Lecture, given in the Playfair Library, Old College, in the University of Edinburgh, on 17 May 1995. It considers various visions of Scots law as a whole, arguing that it is now a system based as much upon case law and precedent as upon principle, and that its departure from the Civilian tradition in the nineteenth century was part of a general European trend. An additional factor shaping the attitudes of Scots lawyers from the later nineteenth century on was a tendency to see themselves as part of a larger Englishspeaking family of lawyers within the British Empire and the United States of America.

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