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

Published by Pearson (July 14, 2021) © 2016

  • Jay S. Albanese Virginia Commonwealth University
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Title overview

Professional Ethics in Criminal Justice posits that every major issue, scandal and crime in the criminal justice field has ethics at its core. In examining major ethical schools of thought, you'll learn how ethics impacts individual decision-making and you'll gain a framework for analyzing 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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