FIRE ALARMS, JURIES, AND MORAL JUDGMENT

Think ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 13 (37) ◽  
pp. 27-34
Author(s):  
Renée Smith
Keyword(s):  
Moral Judgment ◽  
Police Officers ◽  
Jury Selection ◽  
Fire Alarm ◽  
Thursday Morning ◽  
State Police ◽  
Fire Drill ◽  
Alarm Sounds

It's nearly 10:00 AM on a Thursday morning and the courtroom is filled with more than 100 members of the jury pool. Court officials, state police officers, and defendants line the halls waiting to be called for pre-trial conferences and for jury selection to begin, then the fire alarm sounds. There is no obvious evidence of fire, no smoke, no shouts, and no other warnings. At the same time, no one announces that there is a fire drill in progress, that the alarm is merely being tested, or that the alarm was pulled by accident. Sitting in the court room, what would you do? And, more importantly, why would you do it? What goes through your head when you hear the alarm?

STATE POLICING AND INVISIBLE FORCES IN MOZAMBIQUE

Africa ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 84 (3) ◽  
pp. 424-443 ◽  
Author(s):  
Helene Maria Kyed
Keyword(s):  
Rule Of Law ◽  
Police Officers ◽  
The Rule Of Law ◽  
Ethnographic Fieldwork ◽  
War Zone ◽  
Police Authority ◽  
State Police ◽  
State Authority ◽  
Post War ◽  
Spiritual Problems

ABSTRACTThis article explores how the state police in Mozambique tried to (re)encroach upon a former war zone and what their methods implied for state authority more generally. Post-war reform efforts to professionalize the police in accordance with the rule of law and human rights have had apparently paradoxical results. This is in part because efforts to constitute state authority have relied on both embracing and taming ‘tradition’ as an alternative domain of authority, order and law. Ethnographic fieldwork at police stations shows that the police increasingly handle witchcraft cases and spiritual problems. This, the article argues, does not only reflect a tension between local/customary and state/legal notions of order and justice. Equally significant is the existence of partial sovereignties. A spiritual idiom of power and evildoing constitutes an alternative articulation of sovereignty due to the capacity of invisible forces to give and take life. This is an idiom mastered by chiefs and healers. Police officers engage with invisible forces to gain popular legitimacy and manifest state power, and yet they never manage to fully master those forces. Consequently, state police authority remains uncertain, and must be continually reinforced by enacting hierarchies and jurisdictional boundaries and by using force.

How cops see themselves

2016 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 273-280 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Tewksbury ◽  
Allen Copenhaver
Keyword(s):  
Police Officer ◽  
Food Consumption ◽  
Police Officers ◽  
Fast Food ◽  
Police Agency ◽  
Health And Wellness ◽  
Work Shift ◽  
Fast Food Consumption ◽  
State Police ◽  
Confidence Data

This study provides the first assessment of officer self-regard and physical confidence among a sample of state police officers. Specifically, this study aims to identify health and wellness predictors of officer self-regard and physical confidence. Data were collected from surveys of all sworn members of one state police agency. State police officer self-regard is predicted by officers’ work shift, officer exercise, fast food consumption, officer sleep, and officers experiencing depression. No significant predictors of officer physical confidence were identified. This is the only study of health and wellness predictors of officer self-regard and physical confidence. Several health and wellness factors are predictive of officer self-regard, but more research should be conducted to identify health and wellness predictors of officer physical confidence.

Professional Ethics of Officers Responsible for Security and Public Order in the Light of Empirical Research

2019 ◽  
Vol Special Issue ◽  
pp. 77-91
Author(s):  
Marek Fałdowski
Keyword(s):  
Police Officers ◽  
Professional Ethics ◽  
Vocational Training ◽  
Problem Area ◽  
The State ◽  
Private Life ◽  
Police Academy ◽  
Scientific Exploration ◽  
State Police ◽  
Patterns Of Behavior

The values and patterns of behavior of officers of the pre-war State Police find their reference in today’s rules of professional ethics for both policemen and officers in charge of public security and order. It is not without significance for today’s Police that the duty of an officer of the State Police to take control, both in the service and in private life, with the commandments that confirmed him in need to help those in need. Appealing to the values that are the foundation of the service is combined with the knowledge of the basic terms used in ethics. Determining whether the values raised in today’s service are not alien to police officers justifies the scientific exploration of the problem area in the title of the study. The article presents partial results of a survey carried out at the Police Academy in Szczytno on a group of policemen studying or undertaking vocational training, which refer to the issue discussed. Their goal was to determine, among others knowledge of the principles of professional ethics in force in the Police and the sources of their knowledge about these principles. In addition, the article attempts to diagnose standards that Polish policemen are guided by, among others by indicating the state of their knowledge in terms of attitudes and values that they should follow in their daily service.

Modularity in moral judgment by police officers

1996 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-52 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuval Wolf ◽  
Nachman Ron ◽  
Joel Walters
Keyword(s):  
Moral Judgment ◽  
Police Officers

scholarly journals Implementing the Code of Ethics for Police Officers as Corruption Actors

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 116
Author(s):  
Franciska Mifanyira Sutikno ◽  
Indah Dwi Miftachul Jannah
Keyword(s):  
Police Officers ◽  
Code Of Ethics ◽  
The State ◽  
Applicable Law ◽  
State Police ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Legal Consequences

Police is a profession requiring law and code of ethics as a benchmark for any actions and legal consequences. The code of ethics in the State Police of the Republic of Indonesia is applied in corruption along with the applicable law. This study aims to analyze and compare the implementation of the code of ethics of the Police in corruption in Indonesia and Singapore. This study applied a normative juridical approach. The results showed that the code of ethics is internal, administratively binding and implemented in Indonesia and Singapore following the legislations in a coordinated manner. The conclusion of the study is that the implementation of the code of ethics in corruption is carried out without violating the provisions of criminal acts processing by the authorities.Keywords: Indonesia, Police, Code of Ethics, Singapore, Corruption.�Pengimplementasian Kode Etik pada Polisi sebagai Pelaku Tindak Pidana Korupsi�AbstrakPolisi merupakan suatu profesi yang membutuhkan hukum dan kode etik sebagai menjadi tolak ukur tindakan dan akibat hukumnya. Kode Etik dalam Polri diterapkan dalam tindak pidana korupsi beriringan dengan hukum yang berlaku. Tujuan dari penelitian adalah untuk menganalisis dan membandingkan pengimplementasian kode etik polri dalam tindak pidana korupsi di Indonesia maupun Singapura. Metode penelitian yang digunakan dengan metode pendekatan yuridis normative yaitu peraturan perundang-undangan dan perbandingan. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa kode etik bersifat internal, mengikat secara administratif dan pengimplementasian di Indonesia dan Singapura mengikuti ketentuan peraturan perundang-undangan secara koordinatif. Simpulan penelitian adalah pengimplementasian kode etik dalam tindak pidana korupsi dilakukan dengan tidak melanggar ketentuan pemprosesan tindak pidana oleh otoritas.Kata Kunci: Indonesia, Kepolisian, Kode Etik, Singapura, Tindak Pidana Korupsi.

scholarly journals The ‘pure apples’: Moral bordering within the Kenyan police

2020 ◽  
Vol 38 (3) ◽  
pp. 490-509
Author(s):  
Tessa Diphoorn
Keyword(s):  
Police Officers ◽  
The State ◽  
Reform Initiatives ◽  
Urban Centre ◽  
Police Reform ◽  
Ethnographic Fieldwork ◽  
State Police

This article analyses various police reform initiatives in Kenya as a form of ‘moral bordering’. Drawing from ethnographic fieldwork conducted in Nairobi between 2017 and 2018, I analyse how police officers differentiate themselves from other police officers along (moral) ideas of reform and how this occurs in two divergent, yet interconnected, directions. The first is a process of bordering in: moral bordering occurs internally within the police and reform efforts aim to break down borders among police officers. The second is a process of bordering out: reform initiatives are designed in the urban centre and are aimed at spatially pushing the border externally, away from Nairobi. My approach to reform as moral bordering shows how borders can simultaneously take on disparate dimensions: with bordering in, borders are primarily social and symbolic, and with bordering out, borders take on a more spatial nature. This duality encapsulates the inherent friction that results from reform initiatives simultaneously moving in distinctive directions and differs from much of the (anthropological) work on the state police that analyses how the police themselves either enact borders or act as borders.

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