Criminal Justice: Ethics and Integrity

Ethics in Criminal Justice Administration Analysis Perla M. Flores CJA/484 Criminal Justice Administration Capstone March 10, 2014 Fran Hart Ethics in Criminal Justice Administration Analysis Ethics in criminal justice administration is a very important aspect because professionals within the criminal justice system make important decisions every day that involves critical thinking, and the choices they make will have an impact in society;

oath that you took for your entire career. Your personal ethics very much fall in aligning with your institutional ethics. However, your life takes a turn for the worst, your diagnosed with a serious medical condition. After several months of treatment your doctor recommends that you use marijuana to help your condition. After 20 years of enforcing institutional ethics, you are faced with a moral dilemma. Your personal and professional ethics are now in conflict. Law enforcement is an honorable profession

The Ethical Dilemma of a Police Officer Professions are guided by codes of ethics to aid them in performance of their duties and to ensure maintenance of high standards of conduct. Police officers are faced with a maze of obligations in the performance of their official duties. The “Law Enforcement Code of Ethics” and “Canons of Police Ethics” were created to make explicit the conduct considered appropriate for police officers and to guide them in the performance of their duties. Although police

The Law enforcement system is one of the major components within the Criminal Justice System. According to the National Center for Victims of Crime (2008), The Law enforcement system plays a critical key role within the Criminal Justice system, since “Law enforcement officers take reports for crimes that happen in the area, then the officers investigate crimes and both gather and protect evidence, officers may arrest offenders, give testimony during the court process, and conduct follow up investigations

compass, our ethics. Personal ethics are applied to every aspect of life from daily interactions with others, to the work force, in every profession. This paper will define the use of ethics in the criminal justice system. As well as the difference between ethics in life and law, why the need for equal treatment of all people in the criminal justice system, and what safeguards are provided by the criminal procedure to ensure there are ethics in the criminal justice system. The term ethics has a more

crimes such as gambling are condoned in some communities and treated lightly by those courts. Officers also can see their efforts marginalized by other agents in the criminal justice system and society. Authors Meier and Close (2003) explain it this way: "Constant exposure to public immorality and the failure of the criminal justice system frequently create within police officers a cynical attitude toward their work and the general public. In the limitless encounters where the officer 's discretion

1. Explain how police sub-cultures can undermine an agencies code of ethics. Analyze strategies to improve the ethical environment and maintain high standards for all of police department personnel Police are looked at as a distinct subgroup (Herbert , 1998). Police sub-cultures is basically a rule between law enforcement and police officers saying that they have to be loyal to each other. It is not a real rule it is just something that they do. It is like the code of silence. When police officers

Ethics in Criminal Justice Administration Analysis Ethics in the criminal justice system is customary when the administration measures are sometime virtuous and imperfect, attractive and unattractive and the ideas of production values are perceptive that this may be right and wrong. Working in the criminal justice system, every decision and results must meet the needs of the citizens and the law enforcement in regards to the balancing concern. The concerns are from prosecuting the guilty and respecting

Erazo Criminal Justice April 15, 2013 Prompt: Give an account of the role of ethics and its significance to the functions of the criminal justice system in America, and describe its impact on crime and social control. The Necessity of Ethics in Criminal Justice The role of ethics is important to the criminal justice system as well as the government because it helps maintains social control and crime control. Over time the role of ethics has adapted in every aspect of the criminal justice system

Code of Ethics Juvenile Probation Officers and Parole Agents require much patience as well as the ability to follow certain orderly conduct. Officers are given a group of individuals to monitor on a daily basis that are also known as caseloads. Each caseload is different for every officer. The juvenile(s) involved have unique behavioral patterns and backgrounds that construct the outcome of how each case may proceed. Therefore, it is required that all officers follow the code of ethics as a guide