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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... individual. Striving to act inline with human rights involves the application of fundamental ethical principles which the police service hasbeen standingupfor since itcame into being, butit can alsopresent conflicts. Few rights are ...
... individual officers had 'free will' to exercise choice about their style ofpolicing. Crucially, both Goldsteinand Muir champion 'freewill' and moral choice, whether it beof police managersor policeofficers, in contrast to Skolnick and ...
... individual choice that should be controlled by better supervision and management. Ralph Crawshaw (Crawshaw, Devlin andWilliamson, 1999) dealtwith theissues of policing and its relationships withhuman rights at a time when British ...
... individual 'consents' to thesethree aslongas theyprotect life, libertyand property. The executive,in particular, mustonly restrict theindividual's liberty as far asis absolutely necessary to secure those rightsfor all.The three key ...
... individuals to live asthey wish. From Popper we can draw threemore significant principles: beneficial intervention; problem solving, with animplied relianceonevidencebased methods; andtolerance. Good policing involves using evidenceto ...
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 | |