Principled Policing
Protecting the Public With Integrity
1st Edition
Published on 31. October 1998
190 pages
978-1-908162-50-2 (ISBN)
Description
The author of this book describes how it is all too easy for quite "ordinary" police officers to descend into behaviour which is difficult to comprehend, as a result of state manoeuvring, police culture, and what he believes is a lack of any fundamental values for police work. Through an account of what Alderson calls "high police", and by way of examples from around the world - including Northern Ireland, Tiananmen Square, Nazi Germany, J. Edgar Hoover''s days at the FBI, and the British miners'' strike of 1984/85 - he advocates the creation of a code of principles designed to act as a touchstone for police everywhere.
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Content
- Intro
- About the author
- Copyright and publication details
- Preface
- CONTENTS
- Acknowledgements
- Dedication
- Introduction
- Part I: Theories and Principles
- 1. Police, Government and Society: A Search for Principles
- 2. The People's Peace
- 3. The Police Ethos and the Doctrine of Human Rights
- Part II: Theory Into Practice
- 4. Moral Failure, Disorder and Police
- 5. Disorder and Police in a Not Well-Ordered Society
- 6. Disorder and Police in a Well-Ordered Society
- 7. Political Morality and the Policing of Revolt
- 8. Principled Policing and the Totalitarian State
- Postscript
- Bibliography
- Index
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