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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      05 June 2012
      23 February 1996
      ISBN:
      9781139172851
      9780521482066
      9780521484336
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139172851
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.595kg, 348 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.476kg, 348 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Criminology, Philosophy, Sociology, Political Philosophy
      Series:
      Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Public Policy
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    Subjects:
    Criminology, Philosophy, Sociology, Political Philosophy
    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Public Policy
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    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. Offering the fullest, most rigorous and up-to-date treatment of police ethics currently available, this book will be a perfect textbook in courses on applied ethics in philosophy departments or police and criminal justice ethics in departments of criminology and law schools.

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    "The book is very tightly argued and rich in provocative and imaginative arguments." Teaching Philosophy

    "Kleinig's new survey of the ethics of policing is an excellent introduction to the subject. it provides a very useful survey of a variety of topics--presenting careful analyses, considering (but not getting booged down in) recent contributions of other scholars, and offering sensible solutions. It does exactly what a book of this kind should do in a way that is neither oversimplified nor too complex for the lay reader." Ethics

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