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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... balance ofrights and responsibilities between the citizenandthestate whichgoes to the heartofpolicing. The Act presents achallenge, but it is not athreat. It places a statutory duty on allpublic authorities, including the police, not to ...
... balanced maintaining order andupholding the law. The former should always be given ahigher priority and, therefore, by implication'hard policing', which overemphasized enforcement and failed to take account of community support was not ...
... necessary to secure those rightsfor all.The three key, interrelated concepts that remain highly relevant are those of contract, consent and balance, particularly the balance between Policing, government and the citizen.
Peter Neyroud, Alan Beckley. those of contract, consent and balance, particularly the balance between state power and freedom. Each of these will be seen to be at least implicit – and at times explicit –in the various formal missions set ...
... andcollective freedoms. Jones,Newburn and Smith's study of policing and democracy for the Policy Studies Institute suggested that this delicate balance requires a set of democratic principles to run through the police (Jones, Newburn.
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 | |