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Ethics and criminal justice : an introduction / John Kleinig.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Cambridge applied ethicsPublisher: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008Description: x, 283 pages ; 26 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0521864208
  • 9780521864206
  • 0521682835
  • 9780521682831
Other title:
  • Introduction
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 174.3 22
LOC classification:
  • HV7419 .K54 2008
Contents:
Introduction -- Part I. Criminalization -- 1. Civil society: its institutions and major players -- 2. Crime and the limits of criminalization -- 3. Constraints on governmental agents -- Part II. Policing -- 4. Tensions within the police role -- 5. The burdens of discretion -- 6. Coercion and deception -- Part III. Courts -- 7. Prosecutors: seeking justice through truth? -- 8. Defense lawyers: zealous advocacy? -- 9. The impartial judge? -- 10. Juries: the lamp of liberty? -- Part IV. Corrections -- 11. Punishment and its alternatives -- 12. Imprisonment and its alternatives -- 13. The role of correctional officers -- 14. Reentry and collateral consequences.
Summary: "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 sets the issues in the context of a liberal democratic society and its ethical and legislative underpinnings, and illustrates them with a wide and international range of real-life case studies. Topics covered include discretion, capital punishment, terrorism, restorative justice, and re-entry. Kleinig's discussion is both philosophically acute and grounded in institutional realities, and will enable students to engage productively with the ethical questions which they encounter both now and in the future - whether as criminal justice professionals or as reflective citizens."--Publisher's website.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- Part I. Criminalization -- 1. Civil society: its institutions and major players -- 2. Crime and the limits of criminalization -- 3. Constraints on governmental agents -- Part II. Policing -- 4. Tensions within the police role -- 5. The burdens of discretion -- 6. Coercion and deception -- Part III. Courts -- 7. Prosecutors: seeking justice through truth? -- 8. Defense lawyers: zealous advocacy? -- 9. The impartial judge? -- 10. Juries: the lamp of liberty? -- Part IV. Corrections -- 11. Punishment and its alternatives -- 12. Imprisonment and its alternatives -- 13. The role of correctional officers -- 14. Reentry and collateral consequences.

"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 sets the issues in the context of a liberal democratic society and its ethical and legislative underpinnings, and illustrates them with a wide and international range of real-life case studies. Topics covered include discretion, capital punishment, terrorism, restorative justice, and re-entry. Kleinig's discussion is both philosophically acute and grounded in institutional realities, and will enable students to engage productively with the ethical questions which they encounter both now and in the future - whether as criminal justice professionals or as reflective citizens."--Publisher's website.

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