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Subject(s)

• Criminal justice, Administration of—Moral and ethical aspects [Browse]
• Criminal law—Moral and ethical aspects [Browse]
• Criminal justice, Administration of—Moral and ethical aspects—Cases [Browse]
• Criminal law—Moral and ethical aspects—Cases [Browse]

Series

Cambridge applied ethics. [More in this series]

Summary note

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.

Notes

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Language note

English

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.

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Other title(s)

Ethics & Criminal Justice

ISBN

• 1-107-17841-X
• 1-282-39007-4
• 0-511-64550-3
• 9786612390074
• 0-511-80615-9
• 0-511-64959-2
• 0-511-38412-2
• 0-511-57316-2
• 0-511-38595-1

OCLC

476145779

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