scholarly journals How procuratorial judicial and police misconduct can get us foreign researchers in trouble

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pardis Tabaee Damavandi
Keyword(s):  
Police Officer ◽  
Violent Crime ◽  
Mental State ◽  
Word Of Mouth ◽  
Duty Of Care ◽  
Police Misconduct ◽  
The Public ◽  
Authority Figure ◽  
Authority Figures

Police misconduct has soared in recent years particularly in locations that are unable to handle the cases. Procuratorial and judicial misconduct usually follow due to strict correlations between the public entities. This is an abuse of court time and proceedings as well as of members of the public. An authority figure is supposed to provide a duty of care towards everyone regardless of religion, background, profession or word of mouth. Most of these cases are impacted by the mental state of authority figures. A study conducted recently shows that psychopathy is raising in number in certain jobs. It is unsafe to attend court nowadays due to continuous miscarriages of justice. How could someone who was a victim of assault by a police officer simply for rejecting be convicted of a similar violent crime? And what are behaviours that identify misconduct at those high levels?

scholarly journals Theoretical Aspects of Professional Competence of Police Officers from the Tactical and Operative Response Unit

2021 ◽  
Vol 81 (2) ◽  
pp. 79-84
Author(s):  
Ye. S. Romanenko
Keyword(s):  
Police Officer ◽  
Police Officers ◽  
Professional Competence ◽  
Political Activity ◽  
Professional Activity ◽  
Police Misconduct ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Events ◽  
High Level ◽  
National Police

In this article the author has made a theoretical analysis of law enforcement officials’ professional competence and has defined the meaning of professional competence of the police officer in the tactical-operational respond unit (TOR) of the National Police of Ukraine. Taking into consideration specific official tasks and professional activity the author describes the main abilities of the police unit (TOR). Among the structural components of professional competence of the police unit TOR: personal, active, social competence is separated. It is shown the intentional filling of structural ingredients of the professional competence of the police unit TOR. It is underlined that the actuality of the research of the development of police officers’ professional competence in this tactical-operational respond unit is connected with the increasing of citizens’ “close” looks at the police actions on the whole and a new-organized unit of the patrol police especially.    Social-economic and political changes which are taking place in the lives of modern Ukrainians are characterized by the considerable increase of their civil activity and are expressed by their participation in public events of the different types: political, economic, social, sports, cultural, gendered, religious, ecological and so on. Considering Ukrainians’ high political activity, the urgent necessity of security guaranteeing and holding the public order were formed by the National Police Bodies during public events with participation of a great number of people. That’s why on purpose of providing civil security and law-and-order guard of the public events in 2017 the new unit of patrol police of tactical-operational respond TOR was organized. The new challenges have arisen before the new-organized police unit [3, 6]: to minimize the risks which may appear during public events; to decrease tense in the crowd without demonstrating force; to prevent and to resist street criminality; to be on patrol in the city for the operational support of the patrol police crews in the case of calls with the higher degree of the risk; to react on the situations where there is a real threat of using the weapon or another threat to people’s life; to detain people who are hiding from justice or are wanted and can be dangerous. “We need the units of the civil guard with a new mentality, and absolutely a new approach”, said the assistant of the minister of MIA of Ukraine S. Yarovyi in his interview [3].    The fulfillment of the mentioned tasks demands from the policemen a high level of preparation and professional competence, which is expressed according to O. Tsylmak in the person’s possibility to use the set of acquired knowledge, skills and abilities in practical professional activity effectively [11]. The actuality of the research of the development of professional competence of a police officer in the tactical –operational respond unit is connected with the increasing of people’s “close” looks at the policemen in general and the new-organized patrol police unit in particular. The question of the policeman’s professional competence is a central one because nowadays in the communication with the policemen people use technical means of fixation (such as photo-, video-fixation), somebody to protect themselves against the police misconduct, somebody to show policemen “in not the most flattering light”.

scholarly journals Ethics and auditing: Setting the bar too low

2015 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 549-561
Author(s):  
Keith Hooper ◽  
Jenny Wang
Keyword(s):  
Professional Ethics ◽  
Conceptual Analysis ◽  
Social Values ◽  
Financial Statements ◽  
Social Darwinism ◽  
Duty Of Care ◽  
Accounting Firms ◽  
The Public ◽  
Audit Firms ◽  
Empirical Perspective

Purpose - from a philosophical and empirical perspective this paper seeks to show how the big audit firms have managed to set the bar low so that they offer only opinions on whether financial statements meet accounting standards. It is argued that while the concepts of virtue ethics have now largely disappeared, ethical legitimacy has moved beyond consequential ethics to a form of social Darwinism. It is a Social Darwinism that is legalistic and technical as evidenced by the audit firms’ widespread use of the Bannerman clause attached to their opinions. Design - to illustrate the shift of ethical positions, the paper is informed illustrations of a failure to discharge a duty of care to the public. Findings – the shift in underlying social values contributes to what the Economist Journal describes as a steady decline in professional ethics. This arguable conclusion is supported by various illustrations and cites the shift in combinations of cognitive, moral and pragmatic legitimacy as drivers employed by accounting firms. Research Limitations – the paper uses secondary and documentary data and is informed by conceptual analysis which necessarily in the realm of ethics may be contentious. Originality – the paper seeks to link the changing social values with changes in legitimisation and to show shifts in accounting practices like the recent practice of issuing disclaimers.

scholarly journals PENGARUH THE PUBLIC GOOD DAN KNOWLEDGE SELF-EFFICACY TERHADAP NIAT KONSUMEN MELAKUKAN ELECTRONIC WORD OF MOUTH (E-WOM) (Studi pada Pengguna Kaskus di Indonesia)

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 16-28
Author(s):  
Nurul Hafizah ◽  
Maya Ariyanti
Keyword(s):  
Public Good ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Word Of Mouth ◽  
Partial Least Square ◽  
Least Square ◽  
Electronic Word Of Mouth ◽  
Discussion Forums ◽  
The Public

Kemajuan jaringan internet WWW mampu memberikan pilihan informasi mengenai suatu produk, memungkinkan adanya sebuah komunikasi word-of-mouth yang tidak hanya menjadi sebuah bentuk komunikasi person-to-person namun juga memberikan kesempatan untuk merambat secara mendunia melalui media online yang biasa dikenal dengan Electronic Word of Mouth (e-WOM). Komunikasi e-WOM dapat dilakukan melalui online opinion platforms atau discussion forums, salah satunya adalah Kaskus. Dalam tulisan ini, penulis fokus pada faktor-faktor yang mempengaruhi niat konsumen melakukan e-WOM di Kaskus. Penulis mengidentifikasi motif utama dari niat eWOM konsumen yaitu Egoisme (reputasi dan timbal balik), Collectivism (rasa memiliki), Altruism (kenikmatan membantu), Prinsiplism (prinsip moral) dan Knowledge Self-Efficacy. Penulis menguji model penelitian dengan sampel 100 pengguna/member Kaskus di Indonesia. Dalam penelitian ini analisis data menggunakan pendekatan Partial Least Square (PLS) dengan menggunakan software Smart PLS 3 for windows. Hasil dari penelitian ini menunjukkan 27.9% varians dengan kenikmatan membantu, rasa memiliki dan reputasi berhubungan positif dengan niat konsumen melakukan e-WOM.

Digital policing technologies and democratic policing

2018 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 97-108 ◽  
Author(s):  
Temitayo Isaac Odeyemi ◽  
A. Sat Obiyan
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Application ◽  
Police Force ◽  
Police Misconduct ◽  
Positive Outcomes ◽  
The Public ◽  
Response Unit ◽  
Democratic Policing ◽  
Police Accountability ◽  
The Government ◽  
The One

The police are expected to perform functions critical to relations between the government and citizens in democratic societies. However, in Nigeria, the reality is that the police organisation suffers limitations that undermine effective and democratic policing. Although the Nigeria Police Force has a long and chequered history, its services are dogged by challenges including adversarial police–citizen relations and mutual suspicion and police misconduct. To address these problems and enhance policing, the Nigeria Police Force has deployed digital technologies through a Complaint Response Unit [later renamed the Public Complaint Rapid Response Unit (PCRRU)]. The PCRRU allows the public to connect with the police through dedicated phone numbers for calls and SMS, and a round-the-clock presence on Twitter, Facebook, WhatsApp, Blackberry Messenger and a mobile application. Although this initiative often draws attention and commendation, it also raises doubts about sustenance and utility value. Drawing on David Easton’s input–output nexus as a theoretical underpinning on the one hand, and data sourced through expert opinion interviews and web measurement on the other hand, this article investigates how these digital policing technologies, through the PCRRU, enhance efforts at mutually rewarding police–citizen relations and police accountability, as requisites of democratic policing, in Nigeria. The findings expand discussion on the dimensions of Nigeria’s police–citizen relations and the potentials of technology in promoting positive outcomes. The findings also suggest means through which police managers can optimise technology in ways that aid strategic efforts at improving public security.

Crimes against the body: causing harm

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alannah Tomkins
Keyword(s):  
Violent Crime ◽  
Expert Witness ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Other ◽  
Medical Practitioners ◽  
The Public ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Lay Public

Medical practitioners who were accused of committing violent crime against the bodies of people other than patients presented both the profession and the public with a problem. Both professional bodies and the lay public desired doctors to be social heroes, inhabiting the role of expert witness and protecting the body rather than appearing as a defendant. This study of practitioners accused of either rape or murder finds the limits of medical competition, as men accused of rape were likely to be acquitted to courtroom applause. Medical murderers, on the other hand, offered the profession viable scapegoats to reinforce the impression that the medical fraternity was willing to admit to limited instances of wrong-doing.

Rise of Experiential Marketing in Emerging Markets

2016 ◽  
pp. 284-312
Author(s):  
Mervat Medhat Youssef ◽  
Hanan Atef Abdallah
Keyword(s):  
Emerging Markets ◽  
Business Model ◽  
Word Of Mouth ◽  
Communication Channels ◽  
Marketing Strategies ◽  
Marketing Communication ◽  
Experiential Marketing ◽  
The Public ◽  
Consumption Experience

This chapter aims to contribute towards the improvement of using Experiential Marketing as a business model in Emerging Markets. This chapter also clarifies how experiential marketing fits within the Emerging marketing climate, and how to go about planning and evaluating it for best results. It provides examples focused on Emerging Markets ethics, market mix strategies, customer brand consumption experience and consumer word of mouth. The finding suggests how Experiential Marketing strategies can best utilize marketing communication channels to achieve Emerging Markets objectives. This chapter will encourage companies and brands in Emerging Markets to look into using experiential advertising in their marketing strategies. The chapter will focus on highlighting the connection between Emerging Markets and Experiential Marketing in different aspects, which then will be analyzed in order to determine how functional and successful Experiential Marketing can be. It concludes with analysis of demonstrating views from the public and experiential specialists.

scholarly journals THE NEGLIGENCE LIABILITY OF PUBLIC AUTHORITIES FOR OMISSIONS

2019 ◽  
Vol 78 (3) ◽  
pp. 545-569
Author(s):  
Tom Cornford
Keyword(s):  
Common Law ◽  
Public Law ◽  
Public Authority ◽  
Duty Of Care ◽  
Public Authorities ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Common

AbstractIn this article I address the question of whether the omissions principle – the principle that the common law does not impose liability for omissions – applies with the same force in negligence cases involving public authority defendants as in cases involving private defendants. My argument is that the answer depends upon the answer to a prior question: can a duty of care be based upon the public law powers and duties of a public authority? In making my argument, I refute the views both of those who insist that a claim in negligence against a public authority can be rejected purely because it relates to an omission not falling within one of the standard exceptions to the omissions principle and of those who insist that such a claim can succeed while at the same denying that a duty of care can be based on a public authority's public law powers and duties.

Policing Diversity — Managing Complaints against the Police

2002 ◽  
Vol 75 (2) ◽  
pp. 117-135 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter C Kennison
Keyword(s):  
Public Attitudes ◽  
Good Practice ◽  
Easy Access ◽  
Police Misconduct ◽  
Critical Perspective ◽  
The Public ◽  
Police Accountability ◽  
Police Deviance ◽  
Civil Libertarian ◽  
Police Practices

This study takes a critical perspective in examining public attitudes towards police stop-and-search powers and, more particularly, police misconduct. It shows how police accountability works through the formal and complex system of complaints against police. It shows a system designed to favour the police against the citizen. In the eyes of some citizens this has tended to reduce the legitimacy of the complaints process, which has led to its under use. Certain police practices and services appear to impact more on diverse sections of the public than it does on the white community. It shows how aberrant police behaviour exposes some of the sociological issues such as black over-representation in public dissatisfaction and complaint statistics. The research also highlights the hidden figure of police deviance and misconduct. This study acknowledges future changes in complaints management proposed by the Home Secretary, David Blunkett MP. However, these proposals do not appear to go far enough. The complaints process is beset with a number of significant problems which include inaccessibility, complication and inequality. The study suggests, as the way forward, a model of ‘good practice’ using a pragmatic approach, which is customer-focused and overcomes many of the problems that allow for easy access, simplification and informality. The principle of civil libertarian ideals prevails, satisfying the legal notion, ‘justice must not only be done but must be seen to be done’.

Violence: Occurrence and reporting

1977 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 244-252 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jerzy Krupinskif ◽  
Roma Emmerson
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
19Th Century ◽  
Violent Crime ◽  
The Sun ◽  
Bodily Harm ◽  
The Public ◽  
Grievous Bodily Harm ◽  
Real Increase ◽  
The 19Th Century

A study has been carried out to determine whether there has been a real increase in violent crime in Victoria or whether the public has been affected by the greater prominence given to violence in the mass media. The rates of violent crime, based on “persons taken into custody or proceeded against” were highest in the seventies and eighties of the 19th century. They, then, showed a steady decline until the mid thirties of the 20th century. Since the fifties, there has been an increase, but, with the exception of assault causing grievous bodily harm, they are still much lower than they were 100 years ago. The content analysis of the four main dailies ( The Age, The Argus, the Herald and the Sun) has shown an increasing coverage of violent crime both in the number, and in the size of articles devoted to it. The authors discuss the reasons for and possible effects of this phenomenon.

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