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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... terrorist trials. Zander argued firmly that police officers should not blame the criminal justice system for 'noble cause corruption'. Actions so motivated could never be right, however 'justified' in the shortterm outcome.
... corruption and racism.Raghavan reflects similar 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 ...
... corruption or, mostrecently,from the perspective of human rights (or in the US context,the constitution) and policing. Each have, in their own way,been just as reactive as policing to the crises. No one author has attempted to construct ...
... corruption, abuseof force, overpolicing and under protection of minority communities (Donziger, 1996). Therehave also been the revelations around the handlingoftheWaco siege and, mostrecently, of serious allegations of misconductby New ...
... Corruption Perhaps the most notable corruption scandal wasthe one in Holland which lead to the parliamentary Van Traa Commission (Van Traa, 1996 and Justice, 1998). A high profile covert operation against drug dealing in North ...
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 | |