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Author Kleinig, John, 1942-

Title Ethics and criminal justice : an introduction / John Kleinig
Published Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008

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Description 1 online resource (x, 283 pages)
Series Cambridge applied ethics
Cambridge applied ethics.
Contents Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- pt. I. Criminalization -- 1. Civil society : its institutions and major players -- 2. Crime and the limits of criminalization -- 3. Constraints on governmental agents -- pt. II. Policing -- 4. Tensions within the police role -- 5. The burdens of discretion -- 6. Coercion and deception -- pt. III. Courts -- 7. Prosecutors : seeking justice through truth? -- 8. Defense lawyers : zealous advocacy? -- 9. The impartial judge? -- 10. Juries : the lamp of liberty? -- pt. IV. Corrections -- 11. Punishment and its alternatives -- 12. Imprisonment and its alternatives -- 13. The role of correctional officers -- 14. Reentry and collateral consequences -- Selected further reading -- Index
Summary "This book examines 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, defense 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."--Jacket
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Criminal justice, Administration of -- Moral and ethical aspects
Criminal law -- Moral and ethical aspects
Criminal justice, Administration of -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Cases
Criminal law -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Cases
LAW -- Ethics & Professional Responsibility.
Criminal justice, Administration of -- Moral and ethical aspects
Criminal law -- Moral and ethical aspects
Strafrecht -- Ethik.
Ethik -- Strafrecht.
Strafrechtspflege -- Ethik -- USA.
juridiction pénale.
USA -- Strafrechtspflege -- Ethik.
Genre/Form Trials, litigation, etc.
Form Electronic book
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