Criminal Justice: Police Ethics and Corruption

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Criminal Justice: Police Ethics and Corruption

Introduction

The virtue of the police is to keep the peace by knowing the law and enforcing the law for the greater good of public safety. For Aristotle, virtue is the ability habitually to know the good and to do the good. Morality is a matter of character, and character is a matter of habit. The more one is in the habit of knowing and doing the good, the more one is virtuous. Honest means being in the habit of telling the truth. According to the definition, it can be said that honesty is an essential component of every human's character. Similarly, it is also an essential characteristic of a police officer's character and integrity. The conduct of the police cannot be reduced solely to comply with legal requirements. Thus, it is necessary to strive for social legitimacy. Social ethics is the foundation of ethics and modern police professional ethics (Jenkins, 2007).

The ethical and lawful function of the police is based precisely on respect for the dignity and human rights. Consequently, it is a matter attached to the learning processes of the agencies responsible for enforcing the law, but is the ontological and ethical pillar base on which social identity is constructed based on the size of public service, so of policing itself. Consequently, police ethics does not seek to become an "ethics utilitarian” rather "virtue ethics".

Discussion

The relationship between social ethics and police ethics is obvious: The first is the theoretical relation projections gives meaning and ethical reflection police aims and seeks to humanize action of the members of the institutions responsible for enforcing the law. Apparently there is no assumption that property police ethics seeks to guide policing humanizing, creating a bridge between objective values and actions. There is, of course, a set of beliefs concerning police practices, which constitute problematic precisely focus the social legitimacy of the police because the police organization is part of the community. Corruption is now a popular topic in the social sciences. Some organizations publish indicative data on corruption. Based on the highest scale moral calculus, the immoral act of corruption may be com- moral thought by the results of the noble cause; however, corruption is still corruption (Ahern, 2009). Occasionally, the police break the law because they think they do for a good cause. Formation of corruption negatively affects economic development in virtually all countries of the world.  The modern police ethics should be integrated into contemporary police culture, promoting and to require the development of effective management, transparent, respectful of the rights and dignity and subjected to public scrutiny.

The analysis of recent trends in ethics and deontology can come to the conclusion that renewing the paradigms of policing is an unavoidable challenge, and that this should be done based on the promotion of a democratic police culture that respects the rights which would facilitate, in turn, the generation process of updating practices, beliefs and principles that contribute to professional excellence and ...