Policing, Ethics and Human RightsRoutledge, 2001 M01 1 - 256 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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... (Waddington, 1999) a series of'causecelebres' All of which have combinedto create the context fora renewed debate about the purposes, limits and ethics of 'public' policing. It is a debate that hasbeen intertwined with adebateabout human ...
... Waddington (1999) sees policing in a complex relationship withthe citizen andthe marginalized underclass. Strong citizen rights restrain policing and force it to be more respectable. But policing is always waiting forthe next scandal ...
... (Waddington, 1999).This approach onitsown is provingmore and more inadequate as the examples quoted above illustrate.National attemptsto overcome these inadequacies vary from involving Security Services in policing (United Kingdom) ...
... (Waddington, 1999), is the relationship between police and citizen. Thisrelationship isa cornerstone ofdemocracy. Inthe totalitarian states of theformer Soviet eastern bloc, the prime purpose of the police wasto protect the government ...
... (Waddington, 1999). Emerging. interdependence. Alongside Scarman and the Miners' Strike, a further feature of the 1980s was the emergence of the interdependent approach. The threads were there in Scarman's recommendations on consultation ...
Contents
A history ofthe policing mission | |
Notes | |
Ethics and policing | |
towardsethics | |
Complaints misconduct and corruption | |
Policing diversity | |
Further | |
Training | |
Personnel investigations operational controls and anticorruption | |
Conclusions | |
Decision making | |
Ethical codes | |
A new ethicsfor policing? | |
human rightsasa new agenda in policing | |
Part 2 | |
The professionalvocation of policing? The cultures of policing Discretion | |
Towards anew paradigm | |
Operational ethics | |
Conclusions | |
The UKpolice services response to the Human Rights Act 1998 | |
Integrating human rights intoperformance management and inspections Observations from nongovernmental organisations | |
Bibliography | |
Index | |