Professional ethics in criminal justice
Subtitle: being ethical when no one is looking
By: Jay S. Albanese.
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: Pearson Allyn & Bacon
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 205
ISBN-13: 9780205594092
Subjects: Criminal justice, Administration of -- Moral and ethical aspects.; Law and ethics.; Critical thinking -- Examinations, questions, etc.
Genres: Examinations, questions, etc.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: value: Recognizing ethical decisions : ethics and critical thinking; value: Virtue ethics : seeking the good; value: Formalism : carrying out obligation and duty; value: Utilitarianism : measuring consequences; value: Crime and law : which behaviors ought to be crimes?; value: Police : how should the law be enforced?; value: Courts : how ought a case be adjudicated?; value: Punishment and corrections : what should be done with offenders?; value: Liability : what should be the consequence of unethical conduct?; value: The future : will we be more or less ethical?