Leadership, Ethics and Policing: Challenges for the 21st Century, 2nd edition

For courses in Police Leadership, Administration, Management, Ethics and Supervision.

From street cop to chief, this guide develops a wide-range of ethical leadership skills applicable to all police ranks. Moving beyond incident-driven techniques, the book embraces problem-oriented, intelligence-led policing and integrates both ethics and leadership concepts. This edition includes two new chapters to address today’s environment—one on Homeland Security and one on strategic policing. New case studies, examples and applications appear throughout the text and help officers develop essential ethical leadership competencies.

Hallmark Features

Focuses on ethical leadership skills for all officers–from street-level officers to the chief.

• Supports a wide-range of ethical leadership skills applicable to all police ranks. 

Distinguishes leadership from management–by focusing on strategic thinking for all.

• Examines leadership in various situations not just the chain of command.
• Explores leadership in situations such as accidents, criminal events, disaster scenes and community events. 

Covers both ethics and leadership–and examines the relationship between the two.

• Explores principles of leadership and those associated with values and morality and their relationship to police work.  

Includes examples of effective/ineffective leadership.

• Challenges students and practitioners to think creatively and think appropriately about their responses to a variety of situations. 

Includes examples of unethical conduct–such as abuse of discretion, use of excessive force, discriminatory practices, uncivil conduct, abuse of power and dishonesty.

• Shows a broad range of areas that can be affected by unethical conduct.

New! New chapter on Homeland Security–see Chapter 11.

• Addresses police leadership in a post-9/11 world and covers topics such as the Patriot Act, disaster and emergency planning, and operational planning and response. 

New! New Chapter on Strategic Policing–see Chapter 12.

• Moves beyond incident-driven policing to promote modern, visionary thinking and discussion of team policing, problem-oriented policing, intelligence-led policing and more. 

New! Includes new examples, case-studies and applications that illustrate ethical leadership skills such as:

• Communications
• Motivation
• Decision-Making
• Problem-Solving
• Planning
• Organizing
• Human Relations