Cyndi L. Banks 
Criminal Justice Ethics [EPUB ebook] 
Theory and Practice

Criminal Justice Ethics, Sixth Edition examines the criminal justice system through an ethical lens by identifying ethical issues in practice and theory, exploring ethical dilemmas, and offering suggestions for resolving ethical issues and dilemmas faced by criminal justice professionals. Bestselling author Cyndi Banks draws readers into a unique discussion of ethical issues by exploring moral dilemmas faced by professionals in the criminal justice system before examining the major theoretical foundations of ethics. This distinct organization allows readers to understand real life ethical issues before grappling with philosophical approaches to the resolution of those issues.

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Preface

Acknowledgments

About the Author

Part I: The Interaction Between Ethics and The Criminal Justice System

Chapter 1: The Importance of Ethics in Criminal Justice

Chapter 2: Police Ethics: The Nature of Policing and Police Corruption

Chapter 3: Police Ethics: Use of Force, Investigations, Interrogations, and Lying

Chapter 4: Racial Discrimination in the Criminal Justice System

Chapter 5: Judges, Lawyers, and Ethics

Chapter 6: The Purpose of Criminal Punishment

Chapter 7: Ethics in Corrections: The Nature of Corrections

Chapter 8: Ethics in Corrections: Guarding Ethically

Chapter 9: The Ethics of Criminal Justice Policy Making

Chapter 10: Ethics and the “War on Terrorism”

Chapter 11: Media Ethics and Criminal Justice

Part II: The Application of Ethical Theories to The Criminal Justice System

Chapter 12: Duty and Principle

Chapter 13: Considering the Consequences

Chapter 14: The Importance of Character

Chapter 15: Egoism, Pleasure, and Indifference

Chapter 16: A Sense of Justice

Chapter 17: Caring for Others

References

Index

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Cyndi Banks is Associate Vice President of Student Success at Capilano University in Canada.  She spent 16 years as a professor of criminology and criminal justice and Dean of University College at Northern Arizona University. She has more than 24 years’ experience of research and project implementation in developing countries in the fields of juvenile justice, probation, justice policy, and child rights. She has worked as a criminologist in Papua New Guinea, Bangladesh, Iraq, Kurdistan, Timor Leste, Sudan, and Myanmar. She is the author of numerous articles and books, including Criminal Justice Ethics; Youth, Crime and Justice; Developing Cultural Criminology: Theory and Practice in Papua New Guinea; Alaska Native Juveniles in Detention; Comparative, International, and Global Justice: Perspectives From Criminology and Criminal Justice; and most recently, Prisons in the United States.