Criminal justice ethics : theory and practice

Summary: Criminal Justice Ethics examines the criminal justice system through an ethical lens by identifying ethical issues in practice and theory, exploring ethical dilemmas, and offering suggestions for resolving ethical issues and dilemmas faced by criminal justice professionals.

Record details

ISBN: 9781544353593
ISBN: 1544353596
Physical Description: print
xix, 428 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Edition: Fifth edition.
Publisher: Thousand Oaks, California : SAGE Publications, Inc., [2020]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Part 1. The interaction between ethics and the criminal justice system. Chapter 1. The importance of ethics in criminal justice -- Chapter 2. Police ethics: the nature of policing and police corruption -- Chapter 3. Police ethics: Use of force, investigations, interrogations, and lying -- Chapter 4. Racial discrimination in the criminal justice system -- Chapter 5. Judges, lawyers, and ethics -- Chapter 6. The purpose of criminal punishment -- Chapter 7. Ethics in corrections: The nature of corrections -- Chapter 8. Ethics in corrections: guarding ethically -- Chapter 9. The ethics of criminal justice policy making -- Chapter 10. Ethics and the "war on terrorism" -- Chapter 11. Media ethics and criminal justice.