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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... public order. The publication of this important book coincides with the implementation oftheHuman Rights Act, oneof the most significantconstitutional changes since the1688Billof Rights. The Actis fundamentally aboutstanding up forthe ...
... public policing (Waddington, 1999) a series of'causecelebres' All of which have combinedto create the context fora renewed debate about the purposes, limits and ethics of 'public' policing. It is a debate that hasbeen intertwined with ...
... public. Westley argued formore open and accountable policing. For Skolnick itwas the inherent tension within thepolice role that created the problem. Maintaining order and upholding the lawhe sawas potentially irreconcilable. How could ...
... public confidence in policing was typified byadverse juryvotesand national calls for investigations into policing,which paralleltheUK developments around the death of Stephen Lawrence. Barker proposed a 'proactive' approach in order to ...
... policing and its relationships withhuman rights at a time when British policing wasbecoming increasingly exposed to ... public good. For Brodeur, like Marx (1988), theriskresults from technology and policing creating a 'new surveillance ...
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 | |