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Promoting the Moral and Conceptual Development of Law Enforcement Trainees: a deliberate psychological educational approach
Barbara Morgan, Franklyn Morgan, Victoria Foster, Jered Kolbert
Journal of Moral Education
Publisher: Carfax Publishing Company, part of the Taylor & Francis Group
Issue: Volume 29, Number 2/June 1, 2000, Pages: 203 - 218
The history of ethical problems and corruption in American law enforcement is well documented. Current law enforcement training lacks a significant focus on ethics training and is in need of modifications which would include a greater emphasis on ethics education. This study drew on cognitive development theory, applied specifically to the domains of moral and conceptual development, to create and implement an educational programmer for police officer trainees and college students studying criminal justice. The Deliberate Psychological Education model provided the framework for this educational program designed to promote development of moral reasoning and conceptual complexity among the participants. Significant gains were achieved for participants in the Deliberate Psychological Education intervention when compared with a control group in which the participants received the ethics training in a more traditional lecture format.
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Character and Cops: Ethics in Policing (Fourth Edition)
March 2002 By Edwin J. Delattre
This book is a study of the nature and formation of the moral integrity and intellectual competence that make individuals and institutions worthy of the public trust. The book focuses above all on the achievement of integrity and competence in policing and law enforcement. The fourth edition emphasizes ethics in the future of policing and in the capacity of police departments and law enforcement agencies to seek to prevent and mount first responses to terrorist atrocities. The author is a professor of philosophy and a resident scholar in the Center for School Improvement at Boston University and an adjunct scholar at AEI. A summary of the book follows.
Since the third edition of Character and Cops was published in 1996, leading police departments have continued to refine the mission of policing. Many have renewed or expanded their efforts to help local residents turn fragmented and dangerous neighborhoods into safe and livable communities. A substantial number of police departments are making themselves into progressively more complex and sophisticated institutions dedicated to community service, public safety, crime prevention, and law enforcement. Yet policing faces persistent and familiar ethical problems and unexpected levels of incompetence and grave wrongdoing within some departments.
http://www.aei.org/bs/bs13814.htm |
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Government Ethics and Law Enforcement: Toward Global Guidelines
Yassin
El-Ayouty ed. , Kevin
J. Ford ed. , Mark
Davies ed.
(Praeger Publishers, 7/30/2000) ISBN: 0-275-96592-9. 344 pages.
Examines how the principles of ethics and law enforcement can be applied to create more effective and efficient governments. Recognizing that the quality of governance is a crucial factor in the overall development of a country, experts on government ethics and law enforcement examine the principles that need to be applied to create more effective and efficient governments. While focusing on the approaches adopted by the City of New York, case studies from around the world are also given. As the essays make clear, it is difficult to over estimate the importance of authorities to set proper ethical standards and regulations while operating on the basis of transparency, predictability, and accountability. An important resource for scholars, researchers, and policy makers involved with public administration issues.
http://www.praeger.com/books/BookDetail.asp?dept_id=1&sku=C6592 |
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Professional Law Enforcement Codes: A Documentary Collection
Greenwood Press; 2/28/199; ISBN: 0-313-28701-5; 288 pages.
John
Kleinig comp. & ed., Yurong
Zhang comp. & ed.
Although law enforcement codes have a history that parallels most other recent codes, they have been almost entirely ignored in the literature of occupational and professional ethics. This volume fills that gap and offers teachers in criminal justice ethics and law enforcement practitioners a rich selection of materials that have emerged in the course of law enforcement professionalization.
http://www.praeger.com/books/BookDetail.asp?dept_id=1&sku=GR8701 |
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Enforcing Ethics: A Scenario-Based Workbook for Police and Corrections Recruits and Officers
Prentice Hall; ISBN: 0137696965; September 2, 1997
Debbie
J. Goodman
Provides realistic scenarios that encourage ethical behavior among police or corrections officers. Presents fifty real-life scenarios in "Ethical Encounters" which ask the best means of handling the situation and resolving the matter ethically.
http://www.ethicsweb.ca/books/index-profl.htm |
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Law Enforcement Ethics... The Continuum of Compromise
Police Chief Magazine; January, 1998
In this article, the authors explain the "continuum of compromise" (Gilmartin & Harris, 1995). It is a framework for understanding and teaching how the transition from "honest cop" to "compromised officer" can occur. Law enforcement agencies can help prepare their officers for the ethical challenges they will face during their careers. However, that will require changing the way this topic is approached by the organization and teaching and integrating the information throughout the organization.
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The Measurement of Police Integrity
National Institute of Justice Research in Brief, May 2000
This 11 page brief discusses research exploring police offers' understanding of agency rules concerning police misconduct and the extent of their support for these rules. The survey also considered offer's opinions about appropriate punishment for misconduct, their familiarity with the expected disciplinary threat, their perceptions of disciplinary fairness, and their willingness to report misconduct. The results of this survey have important implications for researchers and policymakers, as well as for police practitioners.
http://www.ncjrs.org/pdffiles1/nij/181465.pdf |
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Police Ethics Training:
Is it Enough?
Steven Carl Dickinson
The research contained within these papers are a continuation of ongoing research being conducted by the author in the field of police ethics. The foundation for this research is provided by work of authors specializing in developmental psychology. Previous research, based on qualitative data, proposed that ethics training is only one of the four elements needed to cultivate and maintain a sound ethical organization. The other three elements are education, leadership, and awareness of organizational culture. In order to provide empirical evidence to support this argument each element will be further researched in relationship to ethical behavior in a series of reports. This paper focuses on ethics training.
Elements of Ethics
Ethics Training
Ethics
Training Figures and Tables
Elements References
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The International Association of Chiefs of Police
The world's oldest and largest nonprofit membership organization of police executives, with over 19,000 members in over 100 different countries. IACP's leadership consists of the operating chief executives of international, federal, state and local agencies of all sizes.
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Police Leadership in the 21st Century: Achieving and Sustaining Executive Success
Perhaps the biggest challenge facing police executives of the 21st century will be to develop police organizations that can effectively recognize, relate and assimilate the global shifts in culture, technology and information. Changing community expectations, workforce values, technological power, governmental arrangements, policing philosophies, and ethical standards are but a sample of the forces that must be understood and constructively managed by the current and incoming generation of chief executives. It is in this same environment that the first IACP President's Leadership Conference was held. Carefully selected teams of nationally recognized and accomplished practitioners were brought together to examine the roles of the contemporary police executive, how those roles are changing, and how to successfully manage current and changing community and organizational environments to satisfy the objectives of the many and complex constituencies that must be served.
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Atlanta Police Department
Website opens with press release describing as administrative order signed March 2, 2002 which implements a strict ethics policy for all employees under the supervision and
direction of the Mayor. The administrative order encompasses various components of ethics legislation that has been proposed to the City Council and provides for mandatory
ethics training for the leadership of city government and an ethics hotline that will allow city employees a direct line to the Interim Ethics Officer to report any ethics
violations. Following the press release is a description of the Core Values of the Atlanta Police Department.
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Ethics Roll Call
Published by the Institute for Law Enforcement Administration, this on-line publication provides articles and information for Law Enforcement professionals.
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Police Integrity: Public Service with Honor
This 103 page report documents the National Symposium on Police Integrity sponsored by the National Institute of Justice and the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services in July 1996. It was held to allow discussion of recent issues which had received extensive media coverage including incidents of major corruption and excessive use of force and brutality. Included in the report are two keynote addresses, summaries of plenary sessions, recommendations and model practices related to integrity and ethics, and selected issue papers.
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Code of Conduct for Law Enforcement
This page from the Administration and Cost of Elections Project provides insight into the law enforcement involved in election security. Included on this page is the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation's statement of institutional values and bullet points generalizing codes of ethics for the conduct of police officers and others involved in law enforcement.
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