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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... integrity. William Westley (1970) and Jerome Skolnick (1975) cast their sceptical eyesoverthe abilityof thepolice tomeet Wilson's professional agenda –observing theproblems of corruption with sociologists'eyes ata timewhen the consensus ...
... integrity. For Sherman, it was not the character of the recruit somuch as the environment oftemptation into whichthey were pitched that was theproblem. A slippery slopefrom small giftsto major graft could only be prevented by police ...
... Integrity', because 'of evidence that the public were becoming increasingly concerned aboutasuggested declinein theintegrity ofthe police' (HMIC, 1999a:7) Internationally, thetaleissimilar and canbetoldagainst the same themes ...
... integrity levels sincethe NationalPolice Commission report(1977)' (Raghavan, 1999:227). Covert policing and the 'fight against organised crime' The extension and accountability ofcovert policing methods have raised widespread concerns ...
... Integrity' inspection does advance a version of the 'rotten apples' theory at one point, suggesting serious problems are confined toa small minority (HMIC, 1999a). However, the consistency ofthe themesacross nationaland criminal justice ...
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 | |