Ethics in Criminal Justice
For your Unit 1 Complete assignment, write a narrative essay (minimum 1500 words) in which you address and discuss the questions and statements listed below.
Use at least four scholarly sources and remember to demonstrate a thorough understanding of the READ and Attend sections in your essay. Cite your sources in APA format.
1. Discuss the importance of ethics in the criminal justice system. Explain how laws can conflict with ethical standards.
2. Describe the difference between an ethical dilemma and an ethical issue.
3. Before the twentieth century in this country, police, in general, operated with few legal and ethical controls.
4. Describe the differences in ethical and legal controls that modern police must uphold since the beginning of the twentieth century
5. Using the steps outlined in the chapter, how would you respond to the following scenario?
A probation officer is in the common area of the office. As she approaches the office secretary to ask about a court date, she sees case files open and being edited on the secretary’s computer.
She saw on the news that morning that a probationer was arrested for a violent offense.
She knows that it is against office policy for anyone other than the probation officer to edit case files.
She also knows that it will not be be long before people start asking questions about the quality of probation supervision that allowed the probationer to commit such a heinous offense.
