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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... practice in policing ; secondly , building a workable framework of principles , which we will test against the key ethical issues in policing that are the subject of the second part of the book . There are , therefore , five parts to ...
... practice . Lawton represented this as a chain , linking ' VALUE - VIRTUES - PRINCIPLE - PRACTICE ' ( Lawton , 1998 ) . Implicitly , this model suggests that there must be congruity between these four . An example of an ethical framework ...
... practice . Clear and visible leadership , which makes active use of the monitoring data . • Societal and legal : It ... practice cannot be fully determined in advance by prescriptive policies or training manuals we would argue that there ...
Contents
Transition or crisis? | 11 |
what do the police actually do? | 26 |
From ethics to principles and practice | 37 |
Copyright | |
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