Ethics and criminal justice : an introduction / / John Kleinig [[electronic resource]]

• Autore: Kleinig John <1942->
• Pubblicazione: Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2008
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (x, 283 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 174.3
• Soggetto topico: Criminal justice, Administration of - Moral and ethical aspects; Criminal law - Moral and ethical aspects
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Altri titoli varianti: Ethics & Criminal Justice
• Titolo autorizzato: Ethics and criminal justice
• ISBN: 1-107-17841-X; 1-282-39007-4; 0-511-64550-3; 9786612390074; 0-511-80615-9; 0-511-64959-2; 0-511-38412-2; 0-511-57316-2; 0-511-38595-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910808699803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Cambridge applied ethics.