Policing, Ethics and Human Rights

ISBN-13: 9781903240168 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 256 str.

Peter Neyroud; Alan Beckley; Alan Beckley

Opis

Ethical and human rights issues have assumed an increasingly high profile in the wake of miscarriages of justice, racism, incompetence and corruption both in Britain and overseas. This title aims to provide an accessible introduction to the key issues surrounding ethics in policing, linking this to recent developments and human rights legislation. It is divided into three parts, putting ethics in the context of changes in Britain and international policing, analyzing the purpose and aims of poicing, setting out a framework for the discussion of ethics and human rights. Part two discusses ethics in relation to four categories of values - personal, organizational, quality and conumerism and societal and part three examines and critically reviews approaches to value drive change, recruiting, training and compliance audit models and ethical codes which have been used to try an achieve an ethical and professional police service.

Spis treści

Foreword, by the Rt. Hon. Jack Straw, M.P  lntroduction  Part 1  1. Ethics in context: policing and its environment in the 21st century  2. The purposes of policing: past, present and future  3. From ethics to principles and practice  4. From ethics to rights  Part 2  5. Personal ethics  6. Police performance management - an ethical dilemma?  7. Operational ethics  8. Organisational ethics  Part 3  9. Human resource solutions  10. Decision making, codes and control systems  11. 'Auditing' for compliance: a human rights case study  12. Towards ethical policing