Albanese, Jay S.

Professional ethics in criminal justice : being ethical when no one is looking / Jay S. Albanese. - 2nd ed. - Boston : Pearson Allyn & Bacon, c2008. - xviii, 205 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Recognizing ethical decisions : ethics and critical thinking -- Virtue ethics : seeking the good -- Formalism : carrying out obligation and duty -- Utilitarianism : measuring consequences -- Crime and law : which behaviors ought to be crimes? -- Police : how should the law be enforced? -- Courts : how ought a case be adjudicated? -- Punishment and corrections : what should be done with offenders? -- Liability : what should be the consequence of unethical conduct? -- The future : will we be more or less ethical?

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Criminal justice, Administration of--Moral and ethical aspects.
Law and ethics.
Critical thinking--Examinations, questions, etc.

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