The Interaction Between Ethics and The Criminal Justice System -- The Importance of Ethics in Criminal Justice -- The Meaning of Ethics -- The Value of Ethics -- Police Brutality in New Orleans -- Police Brutality During Katrina -- Normative Ethics -- Ethical Relativism -- Death Row Inmate Set Free -- Cultural Relativism -- Ethical Absolutism -- Ethical Pluralism -- Religion and Ethical Standards -- Conduct Is Right Because God Commands It -- God Commands Right Conduct Because It Is Right -- Ethics and Natural Law -- Ethics and Law -- Ethical Dilemmas -- Ethical Issues in Criminal Justice -- Ethical Problems in the Use of Authority -- Ethical Problems in the Relationship Between Personal and Professional Interests -- Ethical Problems in Personal and Professional Commitments to Clients -- Ethical Issues in Criminal Justice and Public Policy -- Ethical Issues Resulting From Policing Policies.

Ethical Problems in Information Sharing -- Ethical Problems Dealing With Human Rights Issues in the Criminal Justice System -- Ethical Issues in the Media Reporting of Crime -- Summary -- Discussion Case -- Discussion Questions -- Ethics and the Police -- Ethics and Policing -- The Nature of Policing -- Police as an Institution -- Police Culture -- Police Discretion -- Ethics and Codes of Ethics -- Police Use of Force -- Cop Gets 15 Years in Torture Case -- Blowing the Whistle on Police Violence -- Dirty Harry/Dirty Hands -- Police Officer Shown Hitting Man With Baton on Video -- Police Corruption -- Conditions Contributing to Police Corruption -- Combating Corruption -- Whistle-Blowing -- Punished for Whistle-Blowing? -- Discrimination as Corruption -- "Looking Mexican" -- Racial Profiling: When Color Signals Dangerousness -- Ethical Issues in Investigation, Interrogation, and Custody -- Rights of Suspects -- Privacy -- Entrapment -- Deception -- Lying -- Explanations for Police Corruption -- Summary -- Discussion Questions -- Web Resources.

Racial Discrimination in the Criminal Justice System -- Ethical Background -- Historical Context -- Is There Racial Discrimination in the Criminal Justice System? -- Police Encounters With Citizens and Police Arrest -- Bail -- Jury Selection -- In Dallas, Dismissal of Black Jurors Leads to Appeal by Death Row Inmate -- Conviction and Sentencing -- Imprisonment Disparities -- Death Penalty Disparities -- Hate Crimes -- Explanations for Racial Discrimination in the Criminal Justice System -- How Do We Explain the Existence of Racial Discrimination in the Criminal Justice System? -- Summary -- Discussion Questions -- Web Resources -- Lawyers and Ethics -- Legal Ethics: Historical Context -- The Nature of Professional Ethics -- The Principle of Partisanship -- The Principle of Neutrality -- The Lawyer -- Client Relationship -- Confidentiality -- Client Perjury -- Client Crime -- Buried Bodies Case -- Defense Lawyers -- The Prosecutor -- The Duty to Ensure Justice Is Done -- Prosecutor Misconduct -- Discretion to Bring Charges -- Prosecution Disclosure of Evidence to the Defense -- Plea Bargaining -- Prosecutorial Misconduct.

Wrongful Conviction Payment -- Convict's DNA Sways Labs, Not a Determined Prosecutor -- Prosecutor Withholds Evidence -- Release After 14 Years -- Judicial Ethics -- Ethical Rules Governing Judges -- Prosecutor Says Tape Shows Brooklyn Judge Took a Bribe -- Judge Receives 28-Year Sentence for Taking Bribes -- Judicial Misfeasance -- Federal Judges and Financial Interest Conflicts -- Appearance of Partiality -- Judicial Bribery -- Gross Abuse of Power -- Texas Judge Reprimanded -- Summary -- Discussion Questions -- The Purpose of Criminal Punishment -- What Is Punishment? -- Theoretical Approaches to Punishment -- Why Punish? The Philosophical Approach -- The Nature of the Punishment: Corporal Punishment -- Deterrence -- Retribution -- Just Deserts -- Reconciling Utilitarian and Retributive Theories -- Rehabilitation -- Incapacitation -- Restorative Justice -- Why Punish? The Sociological Approach -- Summary -- Discussion Questions.

Ethics in Corrections -- The Prison Explosion -- Maximum Security -- Women's Incarceration -- Medium Security -- Minimum Security -- Stateville Prison: The Changing State of Corrections -- Guarding Ethically -- Male Prison Rape and "Deliberate Indifference" -- The Experience of Guarding -- Corruption of Authority -- Power and Authority in Prison: Controlling the Inmates -- The Battle for Compliance -- Evaluating Guards -- Rewards and Punishments -- Enforcing Rule Violations -- Informal Controls -- Guarding With Discretion -- The Gray Wall of Silence: Prison Guard Subculture -- Subculture and Socialization -- Guard Types -- Use of Force -- Sex Offenders and Use of Force -- The Court's View of Correctional Officer Use of Force -- Correctional Policy on the Use of Force -- Prisoner "Power" -- Unethical Situations -- Rape in Prison -- Rape in Prison -- Transgender Experiences of Prison Rape -- Guard Forces Transgender Inmate to Have Sex With Him -- Transgender Prisoners -- Corruption.

Jail Guards Charged With Smuggling -- Fixing a Drink in Prison -- Ex -- S.C. Correctional Officer Sentenced -- Whistle-Blowing in Corrections -- Ethical Considerations in Probation and Parole -- Arming Probation Officers -- Treatment or Control? -- Parole -- Summary -- Discussion Questions -- Web Resources -- The Ethics of Criminal Justice Policy Making -- The Ethics of Policy Making -- An Example of Unethical Policy Making? -- Morality Policy -- Public Opinion About Punishment -- Mandatory Minimum Sentencing -- The War on Drugs -- Truth in Sentencing -- Predators and Superpredators -- Sexual Predators -- Superpredators -- Capital Punishment -- Public Opinion on Capital Punishment -- Private Prisons -- Private Prisons -- A Good Policy Choice? -- Disenfranchising Inmates of Their Voting Rights -- Summary -- Discussion Questions -- Web Resources -- Ethics and the "War on Terrorism" -- Defining Terrorism -- Warfare or Crime Control?

What Are the Morally Justifiable Constraints and Restrictions That a Government Should Be Permitted to Impose on Its Citizens in a War on Terrorism? -- What Moral Restrictions Apply to the Conduct of Counterterrorist Operations? -- Is Torture Morally Permissible as a Counterterrorist Strategy? -- The Morality of Targeted Killing -- Summary -- Discussion Questions -- Media Ethics and Criminal Justice -- Reporting the Truth -- Avoiding Bias -- Avoiding Harm -- Serving the Public -- Maintaining Trust -- Manipulation -- Summary -- The Application of Ethical Theories to the Criminal Justice System -- Duty and Principle -- Hypothetical and Categorical Imperatives -- The Principle of Universality -- Respect for All Persons -- Kingdom of Ends -- Conflicting Duties -- Applying Deontological Theory -- Rough Justice in a Juvenile Institution -- Summary -- Discussion Case -- Discussion Questions -- Considering the Consequences -- Pleasure and Happiness -- Act Consequentialism -- Rule Consequentialism -- Public Policy and Utilitarianism -- Arguments Criticizing Utilitarianism -- Applying Utilitarian Theory.

Good Friends Are Hard to Find -- Summary -- Discussion Case -- Discussion Questions -- The Importance of Character -- Virtues -- Aristotle and Happiness -- The Golden Mean -- Practical Wisdom -- What's Wrong With Virtue -- Applying Virtue Theory -- Profiling in the Neighborhood -- Summary -- Discussion Case -- Discussion Questions -- Egoism, Pleasure, and Indifference -- Stoicism -- Hedonism -- Ethical Egoism -- Psychological Egoism -- Ethical Egoism -- Applying the Theory of Ethical Egoism -- Giving Your Own Punishment -- Summary -- Discussion Questions -- A Sense of Justice -- Application of the Principles -- Justice as Fairness -- Moral Development -- Applying Rawlsian Theory -- Summary -- Discussion Questions -- Caring for Others -- Kohlberg and Gilligan -- A Theory of Moral Development -- "In a Different Voice": Carol Gilligan -- Gender and the Ethic of Care -- An Ethic of Care -- Developing the Ethic of Care -- The Ethic of Care and Justice -- Peacemaking -- Applying the Ethic of Care.

Tough Love -- Summary -- Discussion Case -- Discussion Questions.