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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... risk communication , blurring neat law enforcement boundaries and challenging concepts of policing as a public good . For Brodeur , like Marx ( 1988 ) , the risk results from technology and policing creating a ' new surveillance ' , out ...
... risk ' extends far beyond information exchange . It includes the development of actuarial tools like risk assessment , the profiling of high - risk groups , the identification of high - risk locations ( Johnston , 1997 ) and potentially ...
... risk . Low risk misconduct being regarded as unnecessary rather than unethical . Comradeship This was closely related to risk avoidance and could be a risk - reducing mechanism in considering misconduct . Although ' proper ' conduct 80 ...
Contents
Transition or crisis? | 11 |
what do the police actually do? | 26 |
From ethics to principles and practice | 37 |
Copyright | |
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