Description |
1 online resource (x, 283 pages) |
Series |
Cambridge applied ethics |
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Cambridge applied ethics.
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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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Print version record |
Subject |
Criminal justice, Administration of -- Moral and ethical aspects
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Criminal law -- Moral and ethical aspects
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Criminal justice, Administration of -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Cases
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Criminal law -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Cases
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LAW -- Ethics & Professional Responsibility.
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Criminal justice, Administration of -- Moral and ethical aspects
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Criminal law -- Moral and ethical aspects
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Strafrecht -- Ethik.
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Ethik -- Strafrecht.
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Strafrechtspflege -- Ethik -- USA.
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juridiction pénale.
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USA -- Strafrechtspflege -- Ethik.
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Genre/Form |
Trials, litigation, etc.
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9780511806155 |
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0511806159 |
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9780511649592 |
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0511649592 |
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1282390074 |
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9781282390072 |
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0511645503 |
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9780511645501 |
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9786612390074 |
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6612390077 |
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0511384122 |
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9780511384127 |
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0511573162 |
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9780511573163 |
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0511385951 |
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9780511385957 |
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