Policing, Ethics and Human RightsWillan, 2001 - 240 pages Ethical and human rights issues have assumed an increasingly high profile in the wake of miscarriages of justice, racism (Lawrence Inquiry), incompetence and corruption - in both Britain and overseas. At the same time the implementation of the Human Rights Act 1998 in England and Wales will have a major impact on policing, challenging many of the assumptions about how policing is carried out. This book aims to provide an accessible introduction to the key issues surrounding ethics in policing, linking this to recent developments and new human rights legislation. It sets out a powerful case for a modern 'ethical policing' approach. Policing, Ethics and Human Rights argues that securing and protecting human rights should be a major, if not the major, rationale for public policing. |
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... Figure 6.3 we must therefore add the role of external stakeholders . Figure 6.4 shows how different stakeholders may prefer different types of control . In Figure 6.4 , the Treasury view dominates input controls , its sole concern being ...
... Figure 8.1 . - The number of different strands of accountability has sometimes been held up by police officers – particularly senior police officers - as evidence that the service is ' very accountable ' . However , the quantity of ...
... Figure 8.2 that there are growing areas at the macro and micro levels of policing where the existing tripartite structure , which we described in Chapter 6 , does not assist . MacLaughlin ( 1991 ) has argued that to maintain ' consent ...
Contents
Transition or crisis? | 11 |
what do the police actually do? | 26 |
From ethics to principles and practice | 37 |
Copyright | |
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