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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... increasingly, questioning the traditional model of public policing (Leishman, Loveday and Savage, 1995) two decadesormore ofresearchwhich has, increasingly, questioned the effectiveness of public policing (Waddington, 1999) a series of ...
... increasingly polarised debate about criminal justice. Rutherford divided theminto three 'credos': punishment – believing inthe punitive degradation of offenders;efficiency – committedto pragmatic, expedient management; caring ...
... increasingly exposed to the case law of theEuropean Convention onHuman Rights, after a decade oflosing cases in the European Courtof Human Rights. Thedistinctively different theme of Crawshaw's work is that policing is tobe viewed ...
... increasingly concerned aboutasuggested declinein theintegrity ofthe police' (HMIC, 1999a:7) Internationally, thetaleissimilar and canbetoldagainst the same themes: Corruption Perhaps the most notable corruption scandal wasthe one in ...
... increasingly globalised, international nature of policing and crime prevention. National boundaries are more and moreirrelevant bothinthe commission of crime and, of necessity, its prevention and detection. Crimes such as drug dealing ...
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 | |