Recovering Police Legitimacy challenges conventional criminological, political, and public solutions to the problem of legitimacy. Written accessibly for students, police officers, policymakers, scholars, and anyone with an interest in police legitimacy, this is a groundbreaking study of a pressing social problem.

Rafe McGregor is Reader in Criminology at Edge Hill University, UK, prior to which he spent fifteen years in the police and the prison service.

Part 1: The Problem 1. The Crisis of Police Legitimacy 2. Practice, Institution, and Context Part 2: Methodology 3. Autoethnography 4. Critical Case Studies Part 3: Case Studies 5. Southern California, 2013-2014 6. West Yorkshire, 1980 7. Los Angeles, 1947-1958 Part 4: The Solution 8. Public Protection and Police Legitimacy 9. Reviewing the Evidence 10. The Radical Framework