JPS COURSE
OUTCOMES
Course: JUST 4222. Seminar: Ethics in Criminal Justice
Description: Ethical dilemmas and decisions in the criminal justice
system, with a focus on law enforcement problems. May be offered concurrently
with JUST 6222.
Expected Learning Outcomes:
We expect students completing this course to be able to:
- discuss and critically
analyze ethical concepts, philosophical and ethical theories.
- define ethics and provide
plausibilities to teaching ethics in criminal justice.
- support or refute the need
for a code of ethics for criminal justice agencies.
- discuss various techniques
employed by police which might have ethical concerns.
- discuss ethical
responsibilities of other criminal justice agencies, e.g. prosecutor,
courts corrections.
- present and discuss
proposed criminal justice policies designed to improve the ethical values
of various areas of the criminal justice system.
- be able to recognize
ethical issues from case studies and discuss ways to deal with those
issues.
- effectively present in
written format a criminal justice ethical issue.