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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... moral administrator' (Elliston and Feldberg, 1985) or, less optimistically, a 'snappy bureaucrat' by Klockars (1985) ... morality more as a.
... moral choice, whether it beof police managersor policeofficers, in contrast to Skolnick and Westley for whom the structural and social conditions of policing all butpredetermined morality. For both Ellistonand Feldberg (1985) andGary ...
... morality has been in his studies ofpoliceimages in the media(Reiner, 1994).He drew out thedualism of policing in a similar waytoCarl Klockar's useof theDirty Harry filmscript toillustrate difficult choices in policing. Lord Scarman ...
... moral panicabout crime is highonthe agenda, concernsabout policing and its consequences tend not tobeheeded. However, the major constitutional change in the United Kingdomto incorporate the European Convention on Human Rights inBritish ...
... moral foundations' for policing(Kleinig, 1996a). We willlookatthe purposesofpolicing in a number of ways: The relationship between policing, government and society. The'formal mission' of policing. The 'present mission' of policing ...
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 | |