Professional ethics in criminal justice : being ethical when no one is looking /
By: Albanese, Jay S.
Publisher: Boston, Mass. ; London : Allyn and Bacon, c2008Edition: 2nd ed.Description: xviii, 205 p. : ill ; 23 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0205594093 (pbk); 9780205594092:; 9780205594092 (pbk).Subject(s): Criminal justice, Administration of -- Moral and ethical aspects | Critical thinking -- Examinations, questions, etc | Law and ethics
| EthicsDDC classification: 174.9364 Summary: A well balanced survey of ethics presented through applications to the criminal justice system, this text introduces the reader to ethical decision making in the first chapter and then moves through three major ethical perspectives: virtue, formalism, and utilitarianism.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Recognizing ethical decisions : ethics and critical thinking -- Virtue ethics : seeking the good -- Formalism : carrying out obligation and duty -- Utilitarianism : measuring consequences -- Crime and law : which behaviors ought to be crimes? -- Police : how should the law be enforced? -- Courts : how ought a case be adjudicated? -- Punishment and corrections : what should be done with offenders? -- Liability : what should be the consequence of unethical conduct? -- The future : will we be more or less ethical?.
A well balanced survey of ethics presented through applications to the criminal justice system, this text introduces the reader to ethical decision making in the first chapter and then moves through three major ethical perspectives: virtue, formalism, and utilitarianism.