CRIM 1447 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Professional Ethics, Principle Of Double Effect, Equal Protection Clause

• School: University of Iowa
• Department: Sociology
• Course: CRIM 1447
• Professor: Michaela Ruppert

Document Summary

Awareness of the ethical issues (large and small) Develop an ability to think critical about the how and why of the cjs. Appreciation for the complexity of the cjs. Often overlooked, but it is the driving force that guides policies, practices, operations, and procedures of the criminal justice system. Morality = the standards of rightness and goodness by which we judge human behavior. The standards for behavior (what is legal) for the general public vary from the standards of behavior within the cjs. There is an important distinction in the moral standard applied to those operating on behalf of the criminal justice system. The type of ethics where there are only two sides - good or bad, black or white. The gray area of ethics that is not so clear-cut, such as releasing a serious offender in order to use him later as an informant. When one commits an act to achieve a good end and an.