Ethics and Criminal Justice: An Introduction

Ethics and Criminal Justice: An Introduction (Cambridge Applied Ethics)

by: John Kleinig (Author)

Publisher: Cambridge University Press; 1st edition (13 Mar. 2008)

Language: English

Print length: 294 pages

ISBN-10: 0521864208

ISBN-13: 9780521864206

Book Description

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.