| Description |
1 online resource (x, 283 pages). |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Cambridge applied ethics
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Cambridge applied ethics.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Criminal justice, Administration of -- Moral and ethical aspects.
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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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Criminal law -- Moral and ethical aspects. |
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Criminal law. |
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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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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Trials, litigation, etc.
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| Subject |
Criminal law. |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Kleinig, John, 1942- Ethics and criminal justice. Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008 9780521864206 (DLC) 2008273753 (OCoLC)181141177 |
| ISBN |
9780511806155 (electronic book) |
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0511806159 (electronic book) |
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9780511649592 (electronic book) |
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0511649592 (electronic book) |
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9780521864206 |
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0521864208 |
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9780521682831 |
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0521682835 |
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