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• Halftitle Page
• Key Themes in Policing
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• List of abbreviations
• Series preface
• Introduction
• Critical friends
• Aims of the book
• The importance of reasoning within ethical policing
• Outline of the chapters
• 1. Establishing the parameters of ethical policing
• Introduction
• An emphasis on moral obligation in understanding ethical policing
• Ethical policing is competent policing
• Ethical policing requires reflective practice
• A normative approach to understanding ethical policing
• The contested nature of policing within liberal democratic contexts
• Philosophical but not unnecessarily abstract
• Embedding ethical reasoning in routine police work
• Conclusion
• 2. From ethical neutrality to principled policing
• Introduction
• Are principles necessary to achieve ethical policing?
• The classical liberal perspective and the role of ethical neutrality within liberal individualism
• The limitations of ethical neutrality
• A distinction within moral philosophy between amorality and immorality
• Moral obligations, Immanuel Kant and a deontological ethic
• Conclusion
• 3. The role of human rights in providing the basis for good policing
• Introduction
• The emergence of rights: a brief overview
• Challenges of embedding human rights in policing
• Do human rights provide a moral basis for policing?
• The universalism and international character of human rights versus national self-interest
• Human rights do not necessarily achieve what they are supposed to achieve
• Conclusion
• 4. Justice as fairness, procedural justice and police legitimacy
• Introduction
• Philosophical and empirical accounts of legitimacy
• Procedural justice, consensual legitimacy and policing by consent
• The liberal democratic understanding of legitimacy related to ethical policing
• The dual characteristics of legitimacy as a defining feature of liberal democratic societies
• Rawls’ liberal democratic thinking as it applies to ethical policing
• Conclusion
• 5. Ethical policing in practice: consequences matter
• Introduction
• Utilitarian ethics as a form of consequentialism
• Noble cause corruption
• The declining influence of harm to others
• The dirty hands doctrine
• Lesser evil ethics
• The problematic nature of obligation with contexts of police ethics: consequences matter!
• Moral aspirations as opposed to morally binding obligations
• Conclusion
• 6. Embedding ethics within police practice
• Introduction
• An officer’s responsibilities within ethical policing
• Aristotle’s virtue ethics
• The re-emergence of virtue ethics in the 20th century
• Context, particularism and the linking of ethics to a practice
• Understanding virtue as it relates to the will
• Police discretion and the idea of reflective police practice
• Conclusion
• Concluding remarks
• Looking forward
• References
• Index
• Back cover