This book is the most systematic, comprehensive and philosophically sophisticated discussion of police ethics
yet published. It offers an in-depth analysis of the ethical values that police, as servants of the community,
should uphold as they go about their task. The book considers the foundations and purpose of police authority in
broad terms but also tackles specific problems such as accountability, the use of force, deceptive stratagems used
to gain information or trap the criminally intentioned, corruption, and the tension between personal values and
communal concerns.
Table of Contents
I PROFESSIONAL ETHICS
1 Introduction
2 Moral Foundations of Policing
3 Professionalism, the Police Role and Occupational Ethics
II PERSONAL ETHICS
4 Institutional Culture and Individual Character
5 Police Discretion
6 The Use of Force
7 Deception 8 Entrapment
9 Gratuities and Corruption
10 Public Roles and Private Lives
III ORGANIZATIONAL ETHICS
11 Police Accountability
12 Ethics and Codes of Ethics
13 Unions, Management and Industrial Action
