Key Features
- The seventh edition includes three new chapters focusing on deception in police interrogation; using ethical dilemmas in training police; and terrorism and justice.
- Essays are enhanced with case studies and exercises designed to stimulate critical and creative thinking regarding ethical issues in crime and justice.
- Discussion questions and lists of key concepts focus students and help them to understand ethics in the context of the criminal justice system.
Description
The contributions in this book examine ethical dilemmas pertaining to the administration of criminal justice and professional activities in the field. Comprehensive coverage is achieved through focus on law enforcement, legal practice, sentencing, corrections, research, crime control policy and philosophical issues.
Quotes
"The seventh edition of this criminal justice text on ethics has been updated with new case studies and exercises, new chapters on ethics in police training and interrogation, and expansions and revisions throughout. Material is grouped under sections on ethical issues in policing, ethics and the courts, ethical issues in corrections, ethical issues in crime control policy and research, and ethics and the future. Specific topics discussed include how police officers learn ethics, legally permissible but unethical conduct, guidance for lawyers, types of restorative justice programs, ethics and prison, and the Ford Pinto case. The text is geared towards undergraduates in criminology programs and offers lists of key concepts, text boxes, and discussion questions among its learning features."--SciTech Book News
Contents
Section I: INTRODUCTION
1. Ethics, Crime, and Justice: An Introductory Note to Students
2. Utilitarian and Deontological Approaches to Criminal Justice Ethics
3. Peacemaking, Justice, and Ethics
Section II: ETHICAL ISSUES IN POLICING
4. How Police Officers Learn Ethics
5. Deception in Police Interrogation
6. Using Ethical Dilemmas in Training Police
7. Police Ethics, Legal Proselytism, and the Social Order: Paving the Path to Misconduct
Section III: ETHICS AND THE COURTS
8. Whatever Happened to Atticus Finch? Lawyers as Legal Advocates and Moral Agents
9. Prossecutor Misconduct
10. Criminal Sentencing: Goals, Practices, and Ethics
11. Crime and Punishment: Punishment Philosophies and Ethical Dilemmas
12. To Die or Not to Die: Morality, Ethics, and the Death Penalty
Section IV: ETHICAL ISSUES IN CORRECTIONS
13. Ethical Issues in Probation, Parole, and Community Corrections
14. Restorative Justice and the Peacemaking Ethic
15. Keeping an Eye on the Keeper: Prison Corruption and Its Control
16. Ethics and Prison: Selected Issues
Section V: ETHICAL ISSUES IN CRIME CONTROL POLICY AND RESEARCH
17. Crime and Justice Myths
18. The Ford Pinto Case and Beyond: Assessing Blame
19. Ethics and Criminal Justice Research
20. Terrorism and Justice
Section VI: ETHICS AND THE FUTURE
21. Criminal Justice: An Ethic for the Future
Author Information
By Michael C. Braswell, East Tennessee State University; Belinda R. McCarthy, Missouri State University and Bernard J. McCarthy, Missouri State University
