Ethics and criminal justice an introduction
This textbook looks at the main ethical questions that confront the criminal justice system - legislature, law enforcement, courts, and corrections - and those who work within that system, especially police officers, prosecutors, defence lawyers, judges, juries, and prison officers. John Kleinig set...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge
Cambridge University Press
2008
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| Series: | Cambridge applied ethics
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| Collection: | Cambridge Books Online - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- pt. I. Criminalization
- 1. Civil society : its institutions and major players
- 2. Crime and the limits of criminalization
- 3. Constraints on governmental agents
- pt. II. Policing
- 4. Tensions within the police role
- 5. The burdens of discretion
- 6. Coercion and deception
- pt. III. Courts
- 7. Prosecutors : seeking justice through truth?
- 8. Defense lawyers : zealous advocacy?
- 9. The impartial judge?
- 10. Juries : the lamp of liberty?
- pt. IV. Corrections
- 11. Punishment and its alternatives
- 12. Imprisonment and its alternatives
- 13. The role of correctional officers
- 14. Reentry and collateral consequences
- Selected further reading
- Index