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Ends and Means in Policing (Paperback)
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Ends and Means in Policing (Paperback)
Series: Innovations in Policing
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Policing is a highly pragmatic occupation. It is designed to
achieve the important social ends of peacekeeping and public
safety, and is empowered to do so using means that are ordinarily
seen as problematic; that is, the use of force, deception, and
invasions of privacy, along with considerable discretion. It is
often suggested that the ends of policing justify the use of
otherwise problematic means, but do they? This book explores this
question from a philosophical perspective. The relationship between
ends and means has a long and contested history both in
moral/practical reasoning and public policy. Looking at this
history through the lens of policing, criminal justice philosopher
John Kleinig explores the dialectic of ends and means (whether the
ends justify the means, or whether the ends never justify the
means) and offers a new, sharpened perspective on police ethics.
After tracing the various ways in which ends and means may be
construed, the book surveys a series of increasingly concrete
issues, focusing especially on those that arise in policing
contexts. The competing moral demands made by ends and means
culminate in considerations of noble cause corruption, dirty hands
theory, lesser degradations (such as tear gas, tasers, chokeholds,
and so on), and finally, those means deemed impermissible by the
majority in Western culture, such as torture.
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