Ethics and Criminal Justice An Introduction

Name: Ethics and Criminal Justice An Introduction
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ISBN: 9780521864206

ISBN-10: 0521864208

ISBN-13: 9780521864206

Edition: 2008

Authors: John Kleinig

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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…

Book details

List price: $83.00
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 3/13/2008
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 294
Size: 6.69" wide x 9.61" long x 0.67" tall
Weight: 1.628
Language: English



Introduction



Criminalization



Civil society: its institutions and major players



Crime and the limits of criminalization



Constraints on governmental agents



Policing



Tensions within the police role



The burdens of discretion



Coercion and deception



Courts



Prosecutors: seeking justice through truth?



Defence lawyers: zealous advocacy?



The impartial judge?



Juries: the lamp of liberty?



Corrections



Punishment and its alternatives



Imprisonment and its alternatives



The role of correctional officers



Re-entry and collateral consequences