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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... accountability' Complaints, misconduct and corruption Policing diversity Conclusions Further reading Notes Part 3 9 Human resource solutions Introduction Recruitmentofpolice officers Training Personnel investigations, operational ...
... accountability in the UK 8.2 Levels of policing and their relationship to government 8.3 The Patten modelofaccountability (Patten, 1999) 8.4 Ekblom's modelof community safety andcrime reduction applied to Sherman's analysis of the ...
... accountable policing. For Skolnick itwas the inherent tension within thepolice role that created the problem. Maintaining order and upholding the lawhe sawas potentially irreconcilable. How could an officer square the circle ofa need to ...
... accountability or culture and the 'canteen'. Robert Reiner (1978)first concentrated on culture– in theform of 'policeunionism', which was onthe ascendant in the 1970s asaresult of poor pay and conditions. He next turned topolitics and ...
... Commission, 1993). Each ofthe authors reviewed abovehave tendedto lookatthese problemsfromoneside, whetherfrom the point ofview ofpolice Figure 1.1 The 'vicious cycle' accountability, encouraging ethical standards, preventing.
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 | |