Professional Ethics in Criminal Justice: Being Ethical When No One is Looking, 4th edition

Published by Pearson (November 10, 2015) © 2016

  • Jay S. Albanese Virginia Commonwealth University
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  • A print copy
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Features

  • Extensive Critical-thinking exercises
  • Ethical Checkup exercises
  • Ethics in the Movies section

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Title overview

For the Ethics in Criminal Justice course

Every major issue, problem, scandal, and crime in the criminal justice field has ethics at its core. Professional Ethics in Criminal Justice: Being Ethical When No One is Looking presents the three major ethical schools of thought (virtue, formalism, and utilitarianism) in a clear way that emphasises how ethics impacts individual decision-making. Extensive Critical-thinking exercises, Ethics in the Movies features, and Ethics in Books features use current events and media to raise ethical questions and help students develop ethical-reasoning skills. Separate chapters are devoted to law, police, courts, corrections, and liability so students see the direct connection between ethics and specific aspects of the criminal justice system. Professional Ethics in Criminal Justice helps readers recognise ethical decisions and provides the framework for analysing ethical dilemmas.

Table of contents

  • 1. Recognizing Ethical Decisions: Ethics and Critical Thinking
  • 2. Virtue Ethics: Seeking the Good
  • 3. Formalism: Carrying Out Obligation and Duty
  • 4. Utilitarianism: Measuring Consequences
  • 5. Crime and Law: Which Behaviors Ought to Be Crimes?
  • 6. Police: How Should the Law Be Enforced?
  • 7. Courts: How Ought a Case Be Adjudicated?
  • 8. Punishment and Corrections: What Should Be Done with Offenders?
  • 9. Liability: What Should Be the Consequence of Unethical Conduct?
  • 10. The Future: Will We Be More or Less Ethical?

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