Discretion, Community, and Correctional Ethics

by Kleinig, John; Smith, Margaret Leland; Barr, Heather; Bomse, Audrey J.; Brookes, Derek R.; Clear, Todd R.; Heffernan, William C.; Henriques, Zelma Weston; Jacobson, Michael; Kipnis, Kenneth; Pittman, John P.; Smith, Polly Ashton; Williams, Joseph V.; Wrig

• ISBN13: 9780742501843
• ISBN10: 0742501841
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-08-28
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

Is it possible to develop and instill a professional ethic for prison personnel that, in partnership with formal regulatory constraints, will mediate relations among officers, staff, and inmates, or are the failures of imprisonment as an ethically-constrained institution so deeply etched into its structure that no professional ethic is possible? The contributors to this volume struggle with this central question and its broader and narrower ramifications.

Table of Contents

Foreword	vii
Preface	xiii
Professionalizing Incarceration	1	(38)
John Kleinig
Response:
The Shimmer of Reform: Prospects for a Correctional Ethic	17	(22)
Margaret Leland Smith
The Possibility of a Correctional Ethic	39	(40)
Derek R. Brookes
Response:
The Case for Abolition and the Reality of Race	69	(10)
John P. Pittman
Prison Abuse: Prisoner-Staff Relations	79	(34)
Audrey J. Bomse
Response:
Correctional Ethics and the Courts	105	(8)
William C. Hefferman
Health Care in the Corrections Setting: An Ethical Analysis	113	(36)
Kenneth Kipnis
Responses:
First, Do No Harm	125	(16)
Heather Barr
Brokering Correctional Health Care	141	(8)
John Kleinig
Ideology into Practice/Practice into Ideology: Staff-Offender Relationships in Institutional and Community Corrections in an Era of Retribution	149	(54)
Joseph V. Williams
Responses:
Moral Reckoning and the Social Order of the Prison	179	(14)
Polly Ashton Smith
The Path of Least Resistance: Sexual Exploitation of Female Offenders as an Unethical Corollary to Retributive Ideology and Correctional Practice	193	(10)
Zelma Weston Henriques
Management-Staff Relations: Issues in Leadership, Ethics, and Values	203	(32)
Kevin N. Wright
Response:
The Ethical Dilemmas of Corrections Managers: Confronting Practical and Political Complexity	219	(16)
Michael Jacobson
Additional Resources	235	(2)
Index of Names	237	(6)
Index of Subjects	243	(10)
About the Contributors	253