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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... that the right of individual petition means that the starting point is the individual asserting their position rather than a fuller democratic debate ( Bellamy , 1999 ) . This means that the individual or group's challenge drives the ...
... that the victims all booked their holidays direct with the company and flew out of the same airport . The analysis of internal telephone records at the company reveal that all the victims had spoken to a single booking clerk . The ...
... that the existing model - partly because of the lack of clarity of the police role , partly because of an overemphasis on quantitative measures - produced a ' ritualistic ' and , therefore , ethically problematic system of measurement ...
Contents
Transition or crisis? | 11 |
what do the police actually do? | 26 |
From ethics to principles and practice | 37 |
Copyright | |
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