Overview

This ground-breaking book offers a practitioner-oriented overview of professional standards in all aspects of policing. With a radical, scenario-based approach, featuring both the extraordinary and the seemingly mundane, it aims to capture some of the complexities and interpretations that form the basis of such professional standards in policing today. Awareness of professional ethics has become not only a central requirement of officers seeking promotion to the senior ranks, but also a necessity within the training framework of UK policing, so the editors have brought together contributions from both practitioners and academics in order stimulate debate and present contrasting views. Split into five parts, each begins with a realistic scenario posing a distinctive dilemma, not just ethical but also legal and political. Ranging from community policing and the use of intelligence to problems arising from the conduct of superiors, the scenarios invite the reader to place themselves in the midst of an acute policing dilemma and asks how they would navigate an appropriate path through it to a desirable end. As the reader considers such questions, contributions from police officers both in the UK and abroad, as well as academics connected to the policing world, offer personal and professional responses to the situation at hand - resulting in wildly differing but no less important opinions. Finally, each of the five parts concludes with commentary from the editors which, rather than offer solutions, seeks to frame both the scenario and response within a more neutral setting. Equally, and perhaps understandably, these commentaries also throw into sharp relief the plethora of opinions and perspectives that have yet to be addressed. Professional Police Practice represents a considered but innovative evaluation of the nature of professional standards within policing, using common, everyday dilemmas that any police officer would recognise. By drawing on a range of opinions, from different areas of policing and different jurisdictions, the editors hope to inspire a degree of reflection and self-examination in anyone, either within policing or connected to it, as they consider the dilemma and their own response to it, and challenge them to recognise similar difficulties in their own operational roles.

Full Product Details

Author:   P A J Waddington (Professor of Social Policy and Honorary Director, Central Institute for the Study of Public Protection, University of Wolverhampton) ,  Professor John Kleinig (, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, USA and Centre for Applied Philosophy & Public Ethics, CSU, Australia) ,  Martin Wright (Director, Central Institute for the Study of Public Protection and Head of Department of Uniformed Services, University of Wolverhampton)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 18.40cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.364kg
ISBN:  

9780199639182

ISBN 10:   0199639183
Pages:   236
Publication Date:   20 June 2013
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   To order  
Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us.

Table of Contents

Part One - Police Practice and Ethics1: P.A.J. Waddington: Introduction2: John Kleinig: Reflections on Teaching Police Ethics with ScenariosPart Two - The Compromised Senior Officer3: Scenario: The Compromised Senior Officer4: Jenny Fleming & Juani O'Reilly: Addressing the Scenario: Integrity Insights and Dangerous Liaisons5: Peter Neyroud & Colin Paine: Addressing the Scenario: A Socratic Police Dialogue6: P.A.J. Waddington: Editor's CommentaryPart Three - 'A Free Cup of Coffee' Problem7: Scenario: 'A Free Cup of Coffee'8: Sarah Stewart: Addressing the Scenario: Ethical Policing Practice in Community Policing9: P.A.J. Waddington: Editor's CommentaryPart Four - Community Negotiation10: Scenario: Community Negotiation11: Vern Neufeld Redekop: Addressing the Scenario: Mutual Respect, Complexity and Community Dialogue: Charting a New Path12: P.A.J. Waddington: Editor's Commentary13: Vern Neufeld Redekop: Author's ResponsePart Five - Intelligence14: Scenario: Intelligence15: Steve Darroch: Addressing the Scenario: The Dilemmas of Intelligence and Ethical Police Practice: Policing Terrorism and Managing Covert Human Sources16: P.A.J. Waddington: Editor's Commentary17: Steve Darroch: Author's ResponsePart 6 - Public Order18: Scenario: Public Order (Nuclear Power Plant)19: Monique Marks & Sean Tait: Addressing the Scenario: Nuclear Power Plant Scenario: Responding to a Complex Public Order Policing Situation20: Michael Messinger: Addressing the Scenario: Public Order Command: Dilemmas of Police Practice21: P.A.J. Waddington: Editor's Commentary

Reviews

Author Information

P A J Waddington is Professor of Social Policy and Honorary Director of the Central Institute for the Study of Public Protection at the University of Wolverhampton. He has over 30 years of academic research and is the initiator of the BSc (Hons) Policing degree. Dr Martin Wright, a retired police inspector, is the Director of the Central Institute for the Study of Public Protection and Head of Department of Uniformed Services at the University of Wolverhampton. He is the lead for the BSc Policing, Fire & Rescue and Armed Forces degrees. John Kleinig is Professor of Philosophy in the Department of Criminal Justice, John Jay College of Criminal Justice and Professorial Fellow in Criminal Justice Ethics at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics (Canberra, Australia).

Tab Content 6

Author Website:  

Customer Reviews

Recent Reviews

No review item found!

Add your own review!

Countries Available

All regions