Introduction; Part I. Criminalization: 1. Civil society: its institutions and major players; 2. Crime and the limits of criminalization; 3. Constraints on governmental agents; Part II. Policing: 4. Tensions within the police role; 5. The burdens of discretion; 6. Coercion and deception; Part III. Courts: 7. Prosecutors: seeking justice through truth?; 8. Defence lawyers: zealous advocacy?; 9. The impartial judge?; 10. Juries: the lamp of liberty?; Part IV. Corrections: 11. Punishment and its alternatives; 12. Imprisonment and its alternatives; 13. The role of correctional officers; 14. Re-entry and collateral consequences.
This book shows students the main ethical questions that confront the criminal justice system, illustrated by a range of case studies.
John Kleinig is Director of the Institute for Criminal Justice Ethics and Professor of Philosophy in the Department of Law and Police Science, John Jay College of Criminal Justice and he holds the Charles Sturt University Chair of Policing Ethics in the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, Australian National University.
'… an outstanding exploration of the tensions that arise between
the demands of ordinary morality and the special duties that govern
the behavior of various practitioners in criminal justice in virtue
of their institutional roles. … I recommend it to non-specialists
who hope to be brought up to speed on a set of issues with which
they are unfamiliar. Academics and non-academics alike can profit
greatly by thinking about the myriad topics examined by Kleinig. …
Many fine introductions to criminal justice are available, but no
competing book rivals Ethics and Criminal Justice in the depth of
philosophical sophistication it devotes exclusively to the ethical
issues that govern the behavior of criminal justice practitioners.
Kleinig demonstrates what can happen when an excellent philosopher
turns his attention to the real world of criminal justice.' Notre
Dame Philosophical Reviews
'The writing has a care and clarity which places it firmly in the
English-speaking tradition of philosophical ethics over the last 70
years. No generalisation remains unqualified, no argument lacks its
counter-argument. … The primary use of this book will be for
students, but anyone wishing to think through ethical issues in
criminal justice will find it a useful and honest exposition of the
liberal democratic (but realistic) ethical standpoint which
continues largely to define the parameters of policy debate.'
Prison Service Journal
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