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| Dimensions: 6'' x 9'' |
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| 538 pages |
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AEI Press
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| Publication Date: April 2006 |
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| Paperback |
| ISBN: 0-8447-4217-1 |
| Price: $ 25.00 |
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View the press release/summary, Chapter 1 (the introduction) and Chapter 2, as well as information on the April 20 book forum.
The fifth edition of Character and Cops asks how today's police officers can meet the ethical challenges of policing while living up to heightened demands for better security. Although the author focuses specifically on the importance of character in law enforcement, the book has broader application to questions of public trust and ethics education.
Edwin J. Delattre of Boston University is a resident scholar in applied ethics, professor of philosophy in the College of Arts and Sciences, and professor of education and former dean of the School of Education.
Table of Contents
Foreword
Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Excellence of Character
- The Mission of Police
- The Public Trust and Probity
- Discretion
- Public Corruption for Profit
- Authority and Reform in Controlling Corruption
- Leadership and the Character of a Department
- Illegal Narcotics--Moral Issues and Public Policy
- The Fundamentals of Character and Training
- Deliberation and Moral Problems in Training
- Tragedy and "Noble Cause" Corruption
- Death and Bereavement, Deadly Force, and Guilt
- Taking Our Lives Seriously
- Fatalism, Microcosms, and Therapeutic Reductions
- Ethical Ideas, Youth Violence, and Gang Enforcement
- Police, the O. J. Simpson Trial, and Race
- The Spirit of Public Service and Individual Conscience
- Ethics in the Future of Policing
- Terrorism and Policing
- Ethics in Action: Case Studies of Professional Excellence in Policing
Appendix A: A Guide to the Further Study of Ethics
Appendix B: Internal Affairs and Integrity
Appendix C: Prefaces to Previous Editions
Notes
Index
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