Professional Ethics in Criminal Justice : Being Ethical When No One Is Looking

by Albanese, Jay S.

• ISBN13: 9780205594092
• ISBN10: 0205594093
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-01-01
• Publisher: Allyn & Bacon

Summary

A well balanced survey of ethics presented through applications to the criminal justice system. The text introduces the reader to ethical decision making in the first chapter and then moves through three major ethical perspectives: virtue, formalism, and utilitarianism. The text then moves to the social and criminal justice context where ethics is discussed in separate chapters as it relates to law, police, courts, and corrections, and liability in general. The final chapter looks to the future development of ethics in everyday life.

Table of Contents

Recognizing Ethical Decisions: Ethics and Critical Thinking

What are ethics and what is ethical?

To what types of things or beings should we limit the discussion of ethics?

What is the difference between morals and ethics?

What are values?

Why is critical thinking fundamental to ethics?

Ethics Checkup: Too Much Nintendo

Can morality be taught?

What is moral relativism?

How can we choose what to believe and how to act ethically?

Ethics in Books: The World According to Mr. Rogers

Ethics in the Movies: The Emperor's Club

Critical Thinking Exercises

Teenagers and Drug Sniffing Dogs

Sentenced to the Newspaper

Brewing Up a Storm

Internet Predator Sting

Virtue Ethics: Seeking the Good

The Roles of Socrates and Plato

Nichomachean ethics of Aristotle

A hierarchy of "goods"

The ultimate good

Stoicism and Hedonism

Ethics Checkup: ATM Trouble

Moral virtue

Achieving moral virtue

The habit of moral virtue

Evaluating ethical dilemmas

Ethics in Books: Why Can't We Be Good?

Ethics in the Movies: Return to Paradise

Critical Thinking Exercises

A Parole Fugitive at Princeton

Misrepresentation at MIT

Presidential Exit Ethics

A Large Contribution

Formalism: Carrying Out Obligation and Duty

Kantian ethics

The categorical imperative

The practical imperative

Ethics Checkup: Punishment for Lying

Lying & Criticisms

Comparing Formalism and Virtue Ethics Ethics in Books

Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers

Ethics in the Movies: Hotel Rwanda

Critical Thinking Exercises

Lying to the Sick and Dying

Lies of Public Officials

Is a Good Deed Required?

Raising Awareness, Committing Crimes

Utilitarianism: Measuring Consequences

John Stuart Mill and utility

Pain, pleasure, and happiness

Motivation versus consequences

Ethics Checkup: Martha Stewart an Example?

Criticisms of utilitarianism

Summarizing ethical theories

Ethics in Books: The Good, the Bad & the Difference

Ethics in the Movies: Quiz Show

Critical Thinking Exercises

A Flexible Expense Account

The Bad Samaritan

The Ring of Gyges

CSI Effect on Offenders?

Crime and Law: Which Behaviors Ought to be Crimes?

The outer limits of morality

Choosing what to criminalize

Violating laws on moral grounds Ethics Checkup: Beeper Ban

The ethics of criminals

An ethical explanation of crime

Ethics laws Ethics in Books: Ethics for the New Millennium

Ethics in the Movies: Enron

The Smartest Guys in the Room

Critical Thinking Exercises

A Boat Ride with Some Close Friends

It Fell Off a Truck

Prostitution: Just a Business?

'24' and Depictions of Torture

Police: How Should the Law be Enforced?

The scope of police decisions

Investigation and surveillance

Curtailing liberty: and stop and frisk

Placing in custody: arrest and search

Police Corruption

Ethics Checkup: Dirty Harry

Questioning: interrogation o

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