Ethics and Criminal Justice

This textbook looks at the main ethical questions that confront the criminal justice system - legislature law enforcement courts and corrections - and those who work within that system especially police officers prosecutors defence lawyers judges juries and prison officers. John Kleinig sets the issues in the context of a liberal democratic society and its ethical and legislative underpinnings and illustrates them with a wide and international range of real-life case studies. Topics covered include discretion capital punishment terrorism restorative justice and re-entry. Kleinig's discussion is both philosophically acute and grounded in institutional realities and will enable students to engage productively with the ethical questions which they encounter both now and in the future - whether as criminal justice professionals or as reflective citizens.