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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... principles outlined by a number of authors , research bodies and government reports . Principles in policing During the 1990s , there was a rash of publications advancing proposals for ' principles ' in policing . The major ones were as ...
... principles that must underpin policing and , now , better understanding of how these principles can be derived from ethical theory . With the Over- arching Aims and Objectives , it is also much clearer how the principles link with the ...
... principles . There are several ways to look at these four human rights principles . Firstly , we can represent them as a sequential decision - making process ( see Figure 4.4 ) . In this model , the principles stand on their own as a ...
Contents
Transition or crisis? | 11 |
what do the police actually do? | 26 |
From ethics to principles and practice | 37 |
Copyright | |
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