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Title Discretion, community, and correctional ethics / edited by John Kleinig and Margaret Leland Smith
Published Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, ©2001

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 256 pages)
Contents Professionalizing Incarceration / John Kleinig -- The Shimmer of Reform: Prospects for a Correctional Ethic / Margaret Leland Smith -- The Possibility of a Correctional Ethic / Derek R. Brookes -- The Case for Abolition and the Reality of Race / John P. Pittman -- Prison Abuse: Prisoner-Staff Relations / Audrey J. Bomse -- Correctional Ethics and the Courts / William C. Heffernan -- Health Care in the Corrections Setting: An Ethical Analysis / Kenneth Kipnis -- First, Do No Harm / Heather Barr -- Brokering Correctional Health Care / John Kleinig -- Ideology into Practice/Practice into Ideology: Staff-Offender Relationships in Institutional and Community Corrections in an Era of Retribution / Joseph V. Williams -- Moral Reckoning and the Social Order of the Prison / Polly Ashton Smith -- The Path of Least Resistance: Sexual Exploitation of Female Offenders as an Unethical Corollary to Retributive Ideology and Correctional Practice / Zelma Weston Henriques -- Management-Staff Relations: Issues in Leadership, Ethics, and Values / Kevin N. Wright -- The Ethical Dilemmas of Corrections Managers: Confronting Practical and Political Complexity / Michael Jacobson
Summary Is it possible to develop and instill a professional ethic for prison personnel that, in partnership with formal regulatory constraints, will mediate relations among officers, staff, and inmates, or are the failures of imprisonment as an ethically-constrained institution so deeply etched into its structure that no professional ethic is possible? The contributors to this volume struggle with this central question and its broader and narrower ramifications
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Corrections -- Moral and ethical aspects -- United States -- Congresses
Correctional personnel -- Professional ethics -- United States -- Congresses
Prison administration -- Moral and ethical aspects -- United States -- Congresses
Imprisonment -- Moral and ethical aspects -- United States -- Congresses
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Business Ethics.
Correctional personnel -- Professional ethics
Corrections -- Moral and ethical aspects
Imprisonment -- Moral and ethical aspects
Prison administration -- Moral and ethical aspects
Politieke correctheid.
Gevangenschap.
Ethische aspecten.
United States
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings
Form Electronic book
Author Kleinig, John, 1942-
Smith, Margaret Leland
ISBN 9780742577138
0742577139