A growing body of research has shown the experience of fair treatment within police organizations (internal procedural justice) leads to a greater willingness among police officers to treat members of the public fairly (external procedural justice). Despite recent scholarship in this area, the associations between internal and external procedural justice, and the intervening mechanisms at…
Category: Procedural Justice
Ben Bradford, Jonathan Jackson: Trust in the Police: What is to be Done?
There are some important caveats to the discussion above. While it is fairly clear that improvements in public trust are most likely to be garnered from policing styles that can be glossed as neighbourhood or community policing, visibility, presence, and rapid, effective, response to low level—or volume—crime, this does not automatically imply that this is…
Dmytro Yagunov: Police Training and the European Human Rights Standards
The CPT standards on prevention of ill-treatment in policing are strictly linked to the issue of police trainings. Every national report made by the CPT on torture prevention in policing contains recommendations to improve the system of police trainings with the aim to exclude excessive use of force by the police and to avoid unnecessary…
Virtual Reality Police Training: 4 Benefits and Use Cases for Leveraging VR Training Tools
In order for law enforcement professionals to best protect and serve their communities, they need continuous training. Evolving social and cultural norms, advancements in technology and ever-changing state and federal guidelines all require officers to be up-to-date and ready to respond to almost any situation. However, traditional training methods can be time-consuming and costly, eating…
Maryna Demura: The State of Compliance with Fundamental Human Rights Guarantees in Criminal Proceedings Under Martial Law
Access to a lawyer is an important guarantee of the right to a fair trial, the right to defence, the presumption of innocence and other fundamental rights. In Ukraine, representation in courts and public authorities is carried out exclusively by lawyers (advocates)[1]. Article 213 of the Criminal Procedure Code of Ukraine (CPC) obliges the official who carried out…
Michael Allingham: Distributive Justice
Theories of distributive justice seek to specify what is meant by a just distribution of goods among members of society. All liberal theories (in the sense specified below) may be seen as expressions of laissez-faire with compensations for factors that they consider to be morally arbitrary. More specifically, such theories may be interpreted as specifying that the…
Procedural Justice: A Step By Step Guide for Law Enforcement
Section 1: Understanding Procedural Justice Procedural justice refers to the fairness and equity in the processes used to make decisions and administer justice. In the context of law enforcement, it means ensuring that police officers follow the law and adhere to ethical standards while carrying out their duties. Procedural justice is important because it promotes…