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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... culture of policing . This has been a major area in the literature on policing , often with a concern about the rather unhelpful epithet ' canteen culture ' . It remains , however , an important issue , not least because for some ...
... culture of the organisation . It is this aspect of policing to which we turn next . The cultures of policing Culture has been an increasingly important theme of both organisational theory and studies of policing since the 1960s . Schein ...
... culture . In an important study that has challenged many previous approaches , Chan ( 1997 ) has argued that most studies of police culture , Reiner included , tend to be underpinned by three assumptions : that police culture and the ...
Contents
Transition or crisis? | 11 |
what do the police actually do? | 26 |
From ethics to principles and practice | 37 |
Copyright | |
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