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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... discussion of ' naïve ' scenarios . We have , therefore , sought to keep our scenarios simple and realistic . ― The discussion of ethical theory , which follows concentrates on those theories - duty , utility , virtue and care which are ...
... discussion is the much - debated question of whether police officers are ' professionals ' and , if they are in some way , what the implications of this are for the ethics of policing . As we shall see , there are no simple answers to ...
... discussion of ethics , this suggests , as Cohen has argued ( Cohen , 1991 ) a strong leaning towards the ethics of utility and a concern with ends rather than the ethics of duty and the importance of means . A similar argument was made ...
Contents
Transition or crisis? | 11 |
what do the police actually do? | 26 |
From ethics to principles and practice | 37 |
Copyright | |
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