Morality in Criminal Justice

Includes index.

1. Introduction to ethics in criminal justice. Ethical relativity and ethical absolutism / Walter T. Stace
What utilitarianism is / John Stuart Mill
The categorical imperative / Immanuel Kant
Morality versus slogans / Bernard Gert
Canons of police ethics / International Association of Chiefs of Police. 2. Due process. The rule of law / John Rawls
Rochin v. California / U.S. Supreme Court
Crime control and due process / Philip Jenkins
Due process -how much is enough? / J.S. Fuerst, Roy Petty
Duty to intervene: an officer's dilemma / Benjamin B. Ferrell
The Bill of Rights. 3. The individual: discretion and decision-making. Criminal investigation and the classical application of ethics / Peter Longo
Toward a new code of police ethics / T.H. Cook
How structural variables constrain the parole officer's use of discretionary powers / Richard McCleary
Learning police ethics / Lawrence Sherman
Law enforcement code of ethics / International Association of Chiefs of Police
Code of ethics / American Correctional Association
Code of ethics / Federal Probation Officers' Association. 4. Loyality. Loyalty to loyalty / Josiah Royce
Whistleblowing and employee loyalty / Ronald Duska
The moral status of loyalty / Marcia Baron
Whistleblowing in corrections / Mark S. Hamm. 5. Truth. Ethical duties towards others: truthfulness / Immanuel Kant
Blue lies and police placebos: the moralities of police lying / Carl. B. Klockars
Deception by police / Jerome H. Skolnick
Police lies and perjury: a motivation-based taxonomy / Thomas Barker, David L. Carter. 6. Corruption. Training key #254: police corruption / International Association of Chiefs of Police
Patterns of prison corruption / Bernard J. McCarthy
Police corruption / Michael Johnston
The informal "code" of police deviancy: a group approach to "blue-coat crime" / Ellwyn R. Stoddard
Should we tell the police to say "yes" to gratuities? / Richard R.E. Kania. 7. Force. The Dirty Harry problem / Carl B. Klockars
Tennessee v. Garner / U.S. Supreme Court
The victimization of prisoners by staff members / Lee H. Bowker
Tolerating illegal use of force against inmates / Agnes L. Baro
Hudson v. McMillian / U.S. Supreme Court
Policy on use of force / Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction
Policy on use of force / Los Angeles Police Department. 8. Punishment. Punishment / J.D. Mabbott
Two concepts of rules / John Rawls
The death sentence / Sidney Hook
How to argue about the death penalty / Hugo Adam Bedau
Prision guards and snitches: social control in a maximum security institution / James W. Marquart, Julian B. Roebuck. 9. Race, gender, and discrimination. Being black in America / Andrew Hacker
Barriers to equality: the power of subtle discrimination to maintain unequal opportunity / Mary Rowe
Reverse discrimination as unjustified / Lisa H. Newton
A defense of programs of preferential treatment / Richard Wasserstrom
What is wrong with reverse discrimination? / Edwin C. Hettinger. 10. The institution: criminal justice administration. A proposed bill of rights / David W. Ewing
Discretionary decision-making in the administration of justice / Burton Atkins, Mark Pogrebin
A vignette on loyalty: the rehabilitative ideal and corruption in prison administration / Mark S. Hamm. 11. Ethics and the realities of life: surviving the vortex. The vortex / William Tafoya