The subject offers an overview of most of the central ethical issues in criminal justice ethics, such as those which arise in the exercise of discretionary authority by the police and in the processes of adjudication, prosecution and legal defence work. It provides opportunities for focused research on one or two topics of choice.
No offerings have been identified for this subject in 2019.
HD/FL
One session
School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Part I: Criminalisation 1. Civil Society: its institutions and major players 2. Crime and the limits of criminalisation 3. Constraints on government 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
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