NCJ Number
143023
Journal
Journal of Criminal Justice Education Volume: 4 Issue: 1 Dated: (Spring 1993) Pages: 15-41
Date Published
1993
Length
27 pages
Annotation
An argument in support of requiring ethical studies in criminal justice programs examines the role of ethics in criminal justice, cultural literacy in criminal justice ethics, major unethical perspectives in criminal justice, core areas and core literature in criminal justice ethics, and problems that arise in teaching criminal justice ethics.
Abstract
Certain core areas and core literature become essential in the effort to promote cultural literacy in criminal justice ethics. Five core areas emerge as essential for criminal justice students to become literate in the discipline: the philosophy of ethics, moral rules and moral judgment, justice theories, ethics of public service, and ethics of criminal justice agencies. For each core area, the article identifies ten works considered essential to the discipline. These have been chosen on the basis of their sense of reasoning, their focus on ethical issues, their moral direction, and their applicability to the profession of criminal justice. 5 tables and 67 references