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  • Becoming an Ethical Professional
  • Determining Moral Behavior
  • Justice and Law
  • Discretion and Dilemmas
  • The Police Role in Society
  • Police Corruption and Responses
  • Law and Legal Professionals
  • Discretion and Dilemmas in the Legal Profession
  • Ethical Misconduct in the Courts
  • Correctional Professionals
  • Making Ethical Choices
  • Fort Apache the Bronx
  • Serpico
  • A Civil Action

Part 1- Becoming an Ethical Professional

What type of professional do you want to be know for?
Read Chapter 1 Morality, Ethics and Human Behavior- 

Power Point Presentation - Morality, Ethics and Human Behavior 

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ETHICAL DILEMMAS- Case Study (Complete assignment in etudes.org) Discussions and Private Messages forum)

Read the following case study.  Identify and relate in your answer, from Patty’s view, her father, the radical extremists and the community of law enforcement court and corrections.

Situation 1

Patty was a rich businessman’s daughter. She had the best of everything all her life. Her future would have been college, a good marriage to a successful young man, and a life of comparative luxury, except that she was kidnapped by a small band of radical extremists who sought to overthrow the government by terror, intimidation, and robbery. After being raped, beaten, and locked in a small, dark closet for many days, and continually taunted and threatened, she was told she must participate with the terrorist gang in a bank robbery.  If she didn’t, she and her family would be killed. During the course of the robbery, a bank guard was shot. 

Was her action immoral?

What if she had killed the guard?

What if the terrorists had kidnapped her mother or father, too, and told her if she didn’t cooperate, they would kill her parents immediately?

What would you have done in her place?

Criminal Justice - Ethics on judgement as right and wrong

Judgements are directed only at voluntary human behavior that affects other people. We can restrict our inquirers regarding those behavioral decisions that are relevant to one's profession, fire, law enforcement, corrections or the courts; attorney(s) and judge(s). 
Ethics for police officers fall in the following categories; 
Whether to take gratuities-
Whether to cover up the wrongdoing of a follow officer-
sleeping on duty-
Defense attorneys might include:
Devote more effort to private cases than appointed cases-
allow perjury-
do you attack the character of a victim in order to defend a client.
Key Terms

Ethical dilemmas
ethics
duties
discretion
ethical issues
morals
meta-ethics
values
professional ethics
In class - Discussion

In a group discussion students in class are to engage this other students in answering the following question.

What do medical studies indicate regarding whether or not it is necessary or the best medical alternative for certain patients? 


What do critics argue in their opposition to the medical use laws? 

If you or a loved one were suffering and someone told you that marijuana could ease your pain, would you violate the law or not? Why?

(Assignment in Etudes) Lecture 2/12/14
Why Ethics? Discretion, Power to make decisions that will determine the future of an individual. 
Do you agree or disagree with Professor Reid that, "Just because you make one mistake" at a younger age; your dreams of a career can be over.  Is that fair and should it matter? Explain your answer.

Group presentation-

Be prepared to discuss the topic highlighted in blue.
These are just a sample of some criminal justice issues that have ethical implications:
Decriminalization of soft drugs or drug courts for first-time offenders
Megan's law and other sex-offender registration statutes
The death penalty
Three- strikes legislation
Racial profiling
Immigration law reform
 

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