Ethics in Crime and Justice: Dilemmas and Decisions

by Joycelyn M. Pollock

This text provides readers with the information needed to solve moral dilemmas within the complicated criminal justice system. It begins with a straightforward presentation of the major ethical systems followed by a discussion of moral development and the ideal of justice. The book includes not only philosophical information but practical applications as well, because of the issue-based approach, which allows each student to make individual decisions.

Contents
•Morality, ethics, and human behavior
•Determining moral behavior
•Developing moral and ethical behavior
•Justice and the law
•Further issues in retributive justice
•The ethics of social control
•Corruption and the “code”
•Ethics and law enforcement practices
•Ethics and legal professionals
•Special issues for prosecutors and judges
•The ethics of punishment and corrections
•Ethics for correctional professionals
•Corrections in the community
•Criminal justice policy

384 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1989