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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... suggesting serious problems are confined toa small minority (HMIC, 1999a). However, the consistency ofthe themesacross nationaland criminal justice system boundaries provides compelling evidence thatthe problems confronting policing are ...
... suggest that citizens may find it easiest toengage at a very locallevel. Bottoms and Wiles (1996) also concur that globalisation at one level isbeing matched by'localisation' at another and that policing andcrime prevention are ...
... suggested that previous formsof trust relationship, such as kinship, local community ofplace, religionand tradition have been replacedby more abstract systems, notably thosebased on technology. Giddens' analysis has immense implications ...
... suggest both. Indeed, the nature of the transition and the scale of change taking place as we enter the twentyfirst ... suggested are selfreinforcing. Nevertheless, there is an opportunity for change and renewal. We haveargued that the ...
... freedoms. Jones,Newburn and Smith's study of policing and democracy for the Policy Studies Institute suggested that this delicate balance requires a set of democratic principles to run through the police (Jones, Newburn.
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 | |