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 |
Notes |
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Subject |
Corrections -- Moral and ethical aspects -- United States -- Congresses
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Correctional personnel -- Professional ethics -- United States -- Congresses
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Prison administration -- Moral and ethical aspects -- United States -- Congresses
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Imprisonment -- Moral and ethical aspects -- United States -- Congresses
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Business Ethics.
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Correctional personnel -- Professional ethics
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Corrections -- Moral and ethical aspects
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Imprisonment -- Moral and ethical aspects
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Prison administration -- Moral and ethical aspects
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Politieke correctheid.
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Gevangenschap.
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Ethische aspecten.
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United States
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Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Kleinig, John, 1942-
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Smith, Margaret Leland
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ISBN |
9780742577138 |
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0742577139 |
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