...University of Phoenix Material Ethical Worksheet Sample Incident Review |What is the ethical issue or problem? Identify the issue succinctly. | |The moral agent is a criminal defense attorney. The attorney knows of another criminal defense attorney who is an alcoholic and | |ignores his client obligations. What should the moral agent do? | |What are the most important facts? Which facts have the most bearing on the ethical decision presented? Include any important | |potential economic, social, or political pressures, and exclude inconsequential facts. | |The attorney often appears in court intoxicated. He ignores his cases and does not file appropriate motions before deadlines | |expire. His clients, who are court-appointed, usually end up with convictions and heavy sentences due to his incompetence. In | |trial, he is unprepared and unprofessional. Defendants have complained. Defense attorneys, prosecutors, and judges are aware of his| |incompetence and have done nothing. The attorney’s disbarment would likely cause drastic economic consequences for the attorney. If| |the moral agent is responsible for his disbarment, the moral agent may face the social stigma and pressure of being labeled a | |snitch. With emphasis on stiffer penalties for defendants, there is political...
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...Criminal Justice and Society CRJ 201 Melissa King Corrections is most relevant to the Eighth Amendment of the . The Eight Amendment, which states, “Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.” This prohibiting the federal government from imposing excessive bail, excessive fines or cruel and unusual punishments, including torture. Laws should be applied to persons equally, without discrimination on prohibited grounds, such as gender, nationality, handicap, or age. In criminal cases, fair procedures help to ensure that an accused person will not be subjected to cruel and unusual punishment (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Eighth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution&oldid=634211903). One theory that is based on why crime occurs and how corrections use it is the social learning theory. This basically states we are a product of our environment and that crime is learned. For example, if a person grows up in a neighborhood of crime, where his/her parents have a criminal history, it is more than likely he or she will end up committing a crime as well. Going to jail or prison would probably not be an issue for them, because he/she only knows this sort of lifestyle, and probably expected this outcome in their future ( Smith, 2012). Another theory that is based on the cause of crime is conflict theory. This theory is based on the conflict of opposite groups. For example, the poor against...
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...http://hwminute.com/ Week One: Ethics and the Criminal Justice Practitioner Details Due Points Objectives 1.1 Explain the importance of ethics to the criminal justice practitioner.1.2 Distinguish between morality, ethics, duties, and values.1.3 Explain common theories related to ethics in criminal justice. 1.4 Analyze ethical decision-making processes. Reading Read the Week One Read Me First. Reading Read Ch. 1 of Justice, Crime, and Ethics. Reading Read Ch. 2 of Justice, Crime, and Ethics. Reading Read Ch. 3 of Justice, Crime, and Ethics. Reading Read this week’s Electronic Reserve Readings. Participation Participate in class discussion. 4 of 7 days 1 Discussion Questions Respond to weekly discussion questions. DQ1 due day 3DQ 2 due day 5 3 Learning Team InstructionsLearning Team Charter Select Learning Team members who work together throughout the course.Create the Learning Team Charter. Day 7 Learning Team InstructionsWeekly Team Review Review the Week One objectives and discuss insights and questions you may have. Learning Team InstructionsEthical Decision-Making Paper (Preparation) Begin working on the Ethical Decision-Making Paper due in Week Two. IndividualEthics Awareness Inventory Complete the Ethics Awareness Inventory (EAI), located on the student website, in preparation for the Week Two...
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...evaluator, and consultant. Each of these roles has different duties/ responsibilities and may assist in or concentrate in different areas/ environments within the legal system. As a psychologist, within the legal system you will examine many individuals from the police officer to the victim. Being a psychologist within the legal system has many ethical obligations or issues that can arise. With this in mind, I will discuss more in detail the roles a psychologist plays in each environment within the legal system and some of the ethical issues. Basic Scientist There are many environments a forensic psychologist may choose to take part in. These environments are law enforcement, corrections, court system, and academic. Even though a psychologist can play a role in many environments, not all environments need every role of the psychologist. ”A basic scientist pursues knowledge for its own sake and studies a phenomenon for the satisfaction of understanding it and contributing to scientific advances in the area” (Greene, & Hailbrun, 2010 p18). As a basic scientist, there are some opportunities for the psychologists, in law enforcement and corrections. The psychologist can do training in a specific area; if the psychologist has knowledge of the particular area. The basic scientist usually conducts work in the areas of academics and clinical researchers. In the academia environment, the psychologist teaches at a university. The psychologist conducts researches for personal knowledge and...
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...School” and Corrections Corporation of America By: Scott D. Malone Background Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) contracts with the state of Idaho to manage some of the state’s prisons. CCA, runs the largest prison in the state called Idaho Correction Center or (ICC). ICC according to an Associated Press (AP) report, has more incidents of violence than all of Idaho’s prisons combined1. The prison is so violent that inmates have nick-named it the “gladiator school”. Lawsuits filed against CCA, its employees and the state of Idaho have alleged issues from sexual assault, employee indifference or incitement of violence to officials at CCA turning the prison over to gangs and understaffing to save money2. Ethical and Legal Issues Whether some is a police officer, security officer or a prison guard there is an ethical and legal obligation to protect life and property in that order. When an individual is remanded to local, state or federal custody the custodian has an ethical and legal obligation to care for their health and well-being as they can no longer care for themselves. Private prisons such as CCA and others are exempt from public disclosure of records unlike their state and federally run counter-parts3. Citizen for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) recently released a report calling for private prisons to face the same requirement to disclose as public prisons4. With regard to legal issues, in this case they parallel ethical issues. Private...
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...Abstract This article highlights unethical violations and brutal prison abuse taken place in a California prison. This was an abuse of power when the guards and corrections officers used their position to justify their actions and try and cover up what was really going on in the prison. This literature examines why after this incident happened two corrections officers broke rank and became whistle blowers .This article will explain what whistle blowing is and how it affects public administration. The situation is at Corcoran prison there was prison guards exploiting racial tensions to stage fights between inmates for the entertainment of the prison guards needs revision (Holdings 1996). The men (who exactly) told of instances where rival gang members would be put together to fight. The guards would bet on who would win the fight. One of the inmates was shot and killed in a staged fight and two guards knew what happened. According to Rigg and Caruso, these guards discharged their weapons needlessly in order to stop the fights and sometimes hit the wrong inmate. After each shooting, the guards falsified reports in order to make the shooting seem justified (Arax 1996). This is unethical because the guards who had power over the inmates were abusing their power because they were using their positions to justify their actions needs rewording or further clarification. Caruso and Rigg believed that the officers who staged the fights...
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...the object of a person's ambition or effort, or an aim or desired result. The goal of correction is an effort to correct the problems and issues in societies; correct the behavior of criminals to reform back to society. There are four traditional fundamental rationals in operation when offenders were sentenced. The four are incapacitation, retribution, rehabilitation, and deterrence. In the past ten years, restorative justice has been added. Incapacitation, retribution, rehabilitation, and deterrence all share the same goal for correction, but the process is different. Incapacitation has the effect of protecting society from the individual. Incapacitation is the most straightforward justification for punishment, particularly for...
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...code of business conduct. When you are an employee of a business you have a responsibility as an employee to uphold the integrity of the business in a legal and ethical manner. All employees should be required to read the company’s code of business conduct where business ethics should be outlined along with their business standards. In most cases, such business documents are available to the employee at all times with requirements to review the documents annually. When these types of business documents are not provided to the employee it can cause the employee to feel lost when faced with making a decision on an ethical matter. For instance, an employee discovers that products made by the company could be defective and could harm or injure the consumers. Since the employee is unaware of the company’s ethical policies they are forced to act based on their personal ethics. The employee probably has many questions going through their head at this point wondering how to effectively address the potential problem and how to effectively address the problem with consumers without creating a bad reputation for the company or scaring the consumers. First of all, it is important for the employee to know and understand that there are federal laws regarding defective products and by not addressing the potential issue with management or the appropriate party to legal...
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...a correctional psychologist. The special roles played by the correctional psychologists such as providing environments that improve the safety of the staff and inmates, psychological services, inmate management, and conducting an evaluation of the inmate/prison population and its influence on inmates’ health necessitated the study into the topic. In addition, the fact that the correctional psychology has numerous ethical dilemmas and conflicts makes it wanting to study the topic. Introduction Today, corrections are a complex, high profile operation, which consumes a significant portion of the federal operating budget. This paper will concentrate on the duties of a correctional psychologist. The paper begins with an overview of legal issues pertinent to psychological concepts and legal rights of inmates. We then examine the practice of forensic psychology in the correctional environment. Legal issues This section describes the common legal issues facing psychologists working in correctional facilities. The issues have been organized around the principles of American Psychological Association (APA) ethics code. Correctional psychologists see the criminal as a customer. In whichever scenario, the level of confidentiality that a customer anticipates in a psychologist is smaller than that found in the community due to the safety and security risks in the correctional atmosphere. Confidentiality is an...
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...University of Phoenix Material Ethical Dilemma Worksheet Incident Review |What is the ethical issue or problem? Identify the issue succinctly. | |Moral agent is a Corrections Officer with the ethical dilemma of a recommendation for the husband who is convicted of a 3rd offense| |of DUI and a diagnosed medical condition of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. Should the Corrections Office base his recommendation | |taking into account husband's Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, or just base on a literal interpretation of the law? | |What are the most important facts? Which facts have the most bearing on the ethical decision presented? Include any important | |potential economic, social, or political pressures, and exclude inconsequential facts. | |The husband served to our country, he was POW, and this resulted in extreme traumatic. The fact of the third conviction cannot be | |ignored. Social and political pressures may force the judge to sentence the husband harshly , regardless of past trauma | | | | | | ...
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...Week 3 Assignment Deutsch, Tina M Walden University Steve Rigg and Richard Caruso were involved with making a significant impact within the prison system by becoming whistle blowers and crossing the “thin green line”. They witnessed brutality at the hands of their peers. Corrections officers were exploiting racial tensions to stage fights between rival gang inmates by placing them in the same small recreational area. The officers were using this tactic as a sport and calling it “gladiator days”, calling the fights like sports announcers. Once they had their fill of excitement, they would needlessly utilize the tower officers to shoot wooden blocks into the crowd to stop the fights. After each shooting, they would then make up or falsify reports of shootings to justify their actions. Other officers would step in to assist in the altering of the report to ensure there was no evidence of wrong doing. All the behavior mentioned are illegal and harmful actions being committed by officers who are expected to fulfill the mission of the California Department of Corrections and its three core values of integrity, justice and accountability(Dryburgh,2009). Rigg and Caruso made several attempts to correct the situation prior to becoming whistle blowers. Because there was confusion with when to engage in using weapons to stop fights, they set up classes to try to clarify the definition of “bodily harm” so that there could be more consistency and understanding of what imminent...
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...Criminal Justice System Nancy Donis CPSS/210 February 29, 2016 Stephen Gillespie Abstract In this week’s assignment I am to define crime and its relationship to the law. And the most common models of how society determines which act are criminal, describe the government structure as it applies to the criminal justice system, Identify choices theories and the assumptions regarding the crime, describe the components of the criminal justice system. Below I will explain all of the questions for this assignment. Criminal Justice System Define crime and its relationship to the law, and the most common models of how society determines which acts are criminal. Crime is when someone does an action that violates the criminal law of the state, county or city you are in. The crime someone that does a harmful act not only to an individual or individuals but also to the community, society or the state. It can be anything from murder, rape and theft. Society determines which acts are criminal by what the society considers to be safe and normal and it can be determined by how society interacts. What society determines or beliefs what is normal is differently judged in different countries and also the penalty of the crimes. For example the United Arab Emirates implemented capital punishment against all law offenders. In the Islamic Kingdom alcohol is considered illegal. Malaysia implements mandatory death penalty on seven ounces of marijuana. Describe the government structure as...
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...Prison Officer be imposed on a Community Corrections Officer managing an offender in the community? Defend your answer. * Is there a case for the re-introduction of Capital Punishment? Defend your answer. * Should Prison Officers have greater disciplinary powers to control prisoner Behaviour? Defend your answer * Should prisoner classification be based on categories of crime, or is placement by individual case merit more effective? Defend your stance by argument and example. * Is there a case for privately run prisons, or should the government re-claim those prisons currently in private hands. Analyze and defend your position. * Is there a case for the number of categories of offences eligible for a home detention sentence to be increased? Analyze and defend your answer. * Should prisoners be forced to pay for their time in custody? Should there be a sliding scale of repayment? Defend your answer. Reading List Attached is a sample of materials “out there.” I encourage you to look at the range of e-books now available though Sage publications and Blackwell’s which you can access through the Library for 2012 editions Criminal Justice Ethics: Theory and Practice. 2nd edition Cyndi Banks, Sage Publications, London 2008. Enforcing ethics: a scenario-based workbook for police and correctional recruits, officers and supervisors, 2nd edition. Debbie J. Goodman. Prentice Hall, NJ 2004. Key Issues in Criminal Justice. Australian Humanities...
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...Legal System Introduction A forensic psychologist has many roles to participate in within the legal system. This would include: the basic scientists, the applied scientists, policy evaluator, and the consultant. These roles have different responsibilities and they might even help in or give attention to different areas and environments within the legal system. Within the legal system, a psychologist can examine several personalities which includes the arresting police officer to the actual victim. There are actually many ethical responsibilities and matters that can ascend. And now I will elaborate on the roles that the psychologist plays in each environment. (Greene, & Heilbrun, 2013) Basic Scientist A basic scientist engages in knowledge, and this is for its own sake. The scientist analyses an occurrence for the fulfillment of comprehending it and providing a scientific enhancement. (Greene & Hailbrun, 2013) Law Enforcement and Corrections are two opportunities of the basic scientist. As long as the psychologist has a comprehension of a specific area, psychologists can participate in educating their self in this specific area. The basic scientist typically manages employment in the territories of academics and clinical researchers. With an academic ecosystem, most of the psychologists are professors at a college or university. The psychologist investigates different areas of law for his own personal understanding and then he may be considered an expert in that...
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...DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS OREGON AMBER L. SMITH BUS-PS 200A M. NELS JOHNSON WARNER PACIFIC COLLEGE JANRUARY 26, 2013 Abstract In this paper I will examine the structure and functionality of the Oregon Department of Corrections (ODOC). I will explain what ODOC is and what they do. We will also explore the pros and cons of some of the current policies and how those policies could be improved upon. NOTE TO INSTRUCTOR: I chose this government agency because it is of great interest to me. I simply chose this agency instead of an agency that has to do with my employment due to the fact that I am unemployed. Thank you. Keywords: DOC, Department of Corrections, corrections, agency, correctional institutions, governing agency, criminal justice policy, etc. DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS OREGON The Oregon Department of Corrections is a state agency that handles the states’ adult corrections affairs. The ODOC is responsible for the management and administration of all adult correctional institutions and other functions related to state programs for adult corrections. There are seven major divisions within the agency as well as a strong relationship with Oregon Corrections Enterprises, a semi-independent state agency. The department handles the custody of offenders that are sentenced to prison for more than twelve months. The offenders are housed in one of the fourteen state prisons. It is the mission of the ODOC to promote public safety by holding offenders accountable...
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