ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses in particular on ways normatively appropriate – i.e. "good" – policing might be encouraged, and on the challenges posed by the social and operational context of policing. It discusses an important link between governance and the policing good, and looks at particular aspects of police practice. Consideration of the intrinsic motivations of police officers to conduct themselves in an ethically and normatively desirable manner offers a counterpart to the arguments above and provides for a new way of looking at the notions of democratic, or legitimacy-based, policing. The chapter considers the vexed question of how to ensure policing is conducted in an ethical manner as possible. How, that is, can police organizations and the architectures of governance that sit around them shape the behaviour of officers?.
