Police Custody in Ireland

Police Custody in Ireland brings together experts from policing studies law criminology and psychology to critically examine contemporary police custody in Ireland what we know about it how it operates how it is experienced and how it might be improved.This first-of-its-kind collection focuses exclusively on detention in Garda Síochána stations critically examining it from human rights and best practice perspectives. It examines the physical environment of custody police interview techniques existing protections rights and entitlements and experiences of specific communities in custody such as children ethnic minorities non-English speakers the Mincéir/Traveller community and those with intellectual disabilities or Autism Spectrum Disorder. Police Custody in Ireland gives a snapshot of garda custody as it is now and makes important recommendations for necessary future improvements.An accessible and compelling read this book will be of interest to those engaged in policing and criminology as well as related areas of interest such as human rights youth justice and disability studies.The Open Access version of this book available at taylorfrancis has been made available under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND)] 4.0 license.