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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... problems ofcorruption in policingin the mid1980s. They returnedtosome of thethemes identified byMuir and Skolnick –free will or the nature of policing andthe system. For Delattre the solution was 'character': the way to.
... problems with covert policing methods and renewed corruption scandals in major USpolice forces, sought asolutionin abroader definition of policing as 'public servants'rather than 'crime fighters' (Pollock) or 'social peacekeeping ...
... problems in an Indian system, whichhas failed to achieve independence from a corrupt political system, and has yet to create the professionalism that Wilson hankered after fifty years ago. This brief analysis hasdrawnout a number of ...
... problem. The second element of the 'virtuous cycle' must be a better alignment ofthe formal mission andthe informal and tacitly accepted practice inpolicing. This, in turn,requiresa mission for policing which isbroad enough todescribe ...
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 | |