Summary
"This thesis is based on government research undertaken by the author as part of a Home Office research team. It presents an empirical examination of the impact of the reform of police stops and searches recommended by the Stephen Lawrence Inquiry. This reform focused on increasing accountability by requiring a record to be made by the police for a broader range of police stops, of concern for their impact on relations between the police and ethnic minority communities. The core of the empirical analysis is based on qualitative and quantitative data drawn from observational fieldwork of routine police patrol and face-to-face interviews with police officers over the period November 1999 to April 2000."--Abstract.