Criminal law, morality and the institution of the police

Abstract

In this book a number of central philosophical and moral issues that arise in relation to police corruption are examined. In this chapter I elaborate a normative theory of policing according to which the principal institutional purpose of policing ought to be the protection of justifiably enforceable, legally enshrined, moral rights. Hence the close relationship between policing and the criminal law, on the one hand, and the protection of moral rights on the other.