John Kleinig

Ethics and Criminal Justice

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book shows students the main ethical questions that confront the criminal justice system, illustrated by a range of case studies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 294
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. April 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 250mm x 175mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 690g
• ISBN-13: 9780521864206
• ISBN-10: 0521864208
• Artikelnr.: 23427184

Autorenporträt

John Kleinig is Director of the Institute for Criminal Justice Ethics and Professor of Philosophy in the Department of Law and Police Science, John Jay College of Criminal Justice and he holds the Charles Sturt University Chair of Policing Ethics in the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, Australian National University.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part I. Criminalization: 1. Civil society: its institutions and major players
2. Crime and the limits of criminalization
3. Constraints on governmental agents
Part II. Policing: 4. Tensions within the police role
5. The burdens of discretion
6. Coercion and deception
Part III. Courts: 7. Prosecutors: seeking justice through truth?
8. Defence lawyers: zealous advocacy?
9. The impartial judge?
10. Juries: the lamp of liberty?
Part IV. Corrections: 11. Punishment and its alternatives
12. Imprisonment and its alternatives
13. The role of correctional officers
14. Re-entry and collateral consequences.