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Serve and protect : selected essays on just policing / Tobias Winright ; foreword by Todd Whitmore.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Winright, Tobias L., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Police ethics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xvii, 179 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Eugene, Oregon : Cascade Books, [2020]
- Summary:
- This collection of essays on policing and the use of force, while written over the course of the last twenty-five years, remains relevant and timely. Although issues in policing and questions about excessive force and brutality have been addressed by criminologists, sociologists, philosophers, and criminal justice ethicists, only a handful of theological ethicists treat this pressing matter. While the Christian moral tradition has a voluminous record of theological attention to violence and nonviolence, war and peace, there is a dearth of references to policing. And most considerations of criminal justice issues by Christians and their churches concentrate on prison reform, or abolition, and the death penalty, but not policing. These essays, authored by a theological ethicist possessing professional experience in law enforcement, seek to fill this curious gap. They offer a framework for moral reasoning concerning the justification for police use of force and the just application of such force, and they propose just policing as a model that is consonant with promoting a just peace in communities and society. In addition, they explore the implications of such an approach for wider, international questions about just war, terrorism, the responsibility to protect, and post-war justice.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- The perpetrator as person: theological reflections on the just-war tradition and the use of force by police
- Two rival versions of just-war theory and the presumption against harm in policing
- From police officers to peace officers
- Just cause and preemptive strikes in the war on terrorism: insights from a just-policing perspective
- Just policing and the responsibility to protect
- The police in war
- Militarized policing: the history of the warrior-cop
- Demilitarize the police!
- Faith, justice, and Ferguson.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781725253933
- 1725253933
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