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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... balance between the protection of individual rights and the interests of the community at large ' ( Starmer , 1999 : 169 ) . It requires a police officer to balance the means proposed against the outcome intended , or in the words of ...
... balanced and interrelated is crucial . What their analysis starts to indicate is that crude attempts to tinker with one ... balance in the organisation , increasing the transparency of the organisation to community inspection and , above ...
... balanced scorecard is that there needs to be balance among measures of different facets of performance . Kaplan and Norton suggest financial , customer , internal process , and innovation measures in their ' balanced scorecard ...
Contents
Transition or crisis? | 11 |
what do the police actually do? | 26 |
From ethics to principles and practice | 37 |
Copyright | |
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