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Teaching and Learning Police Ethics: Competing and Complementary Approaches

NCJ Number
122683
Journal
Journal of Criminal Justice Volume: 18 Issue: 1 Dated: (1990) Pages: 1-18
Author(s)
J Kleinig
Date Published
1990
Length
18 pages
Annotation
There is still much confusion over the teaching of police ethics, a confusion rooted not only in uncertainty about the specific character of police ethics, but also in the varied audiences and contexts for which the teaching is intended.
Abstract
This article attempts to separate out the main questions that the teaching of police ethics must confront and then to provide some critical evaluation of the options to which these questions give rise. 15 notes, 37 references.