Ethics and Criminal Justice: An Introduction

By John Kleinig

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521682835
• ISBN13: 9780521682831
• Release Date: March 2008
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 294 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.5" x 9.5"