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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... Principles in policing Conclusions Further reading 4 From ethicsto rights Introduction: human rightsasa 'new agenda in policing' Human rights:the history of an idea and its meaning Human rights andinternational standards in policing ...
... principles in decisionmaking sequence 5.1 The police'clinician' 5.2 Hierarchical value systemof the Western Australia Police Service 6.1 The vicious cycle of management control 6.2 Principal/agent relationshipin policing 6.3 Control ...
... principles 7.2 The continuumof force 7.3 Approaches tothe use offorce 8.1 The dimensions of police accountability in the UK 8.2 Levels of policing and their relationship to government 8.3 The Patten modelofaccountability (Patten, 1999) ...
... principles thatare longstanding features of our criminaljustice system. In addition, milestone statutessuch as thePolice and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 haveimproved compliancefurther. The arrivalofthe Human RightsActtherefore confirms ...
... principles: beneficial intervention; problem solving, with animplied relianceonevidencebased methods; andtolerance. Good policing involves using evidenceto intervene and solve problems,but doing so in a way thatis tolerant and ...
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 | |