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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1. Verfasser: Kleinig, John 1942- (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2008
Schriftenreihe:Cambridge applied ethics
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Zusammenfassung: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
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Beschreibung:1 online resource (x, 283 pages)
ISBN:9780511806155
DOI:10.1017/CBO9780511806155