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This 7 page paper explores the ethical foundation of this branch of law enforcement. The author emphasizes that despite many efforts to make it a thing of the past, corruption is alive and well in community policing. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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listed below. Citation styles constantly change, and these examples may not contain the most recent updates. Ethical Behavior in Community Corrections
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In order to be effective community corrections must be structured around ethical principles and police behavior must reflect that structure. Police
officers, after all, are regarded as belonging to one of the noblest professions of our society. They serve as the front line between citizens and the criminal justice system.
Police should interact with the public not just on an authoritarian basis but on a basis of mutual respect and ethics. Those
who enforce the laws of our society not only carry their own morals and ethics in their hands but they are put into the position of judging those of others.
Not only must police officers but society as a whole must grapple with the ethical questions confronting contemporary police actions. In community policing, however, there is always the
possibility of police officers going wrong, of them abandoning the ethical principles upon which their profession is structured. Indeed, in some regards the police profession might be considered extremely
susceptible to falling into less than ethical behavior. Gaines and Kappeler (2002) argue that traditionally law enforcement agencies have promoted the control of
personnel behavior in terms of ethics through their para military structure. This has, of course, been supplemented with written policies and procedure to regulate officer conduct. Zalman and Smith
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