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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... framework : legislation ; democratic control ; inspection and audit ; judicial and Commissioner oversight ; complaints procedures . The covert surveillance legislation has been criticised for being confusing and providing a series of ...
... framework of policy designed to minimise the use of force • A legal framework that emphasises ' reasonableness ' in balancing the ' intrusion ' of force with the necessity of action Conflict management training • Intervention training ...
... framework which is used to evaluate it , how that framework is used and by whom . Fitzgerald has demonstrated just how corrosive quantitative approaches have been in encouraging numbers of stops without any proper control over their ...
Contents
Transition or crisis? | 11 |
what do the police actually do? | 26 |
From ethics to principles and practice | 37 |
Copyright | |
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