Ethics and Criminal Justice: An Introduction (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780521682831)

This textbook looks at 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, defence 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.

Author: John Kleinig
ISBN-10: 0521682835
ISBN-13: 9780521682831
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 03/13/2008
Pages: 294
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 9.50h x 6.50w x 0.70d