Criminal Justice

Authors: Bjerregaard, Beth E. ; Lord, Vivian B.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Journal of Criminal Justice Education
Abstract: This article presents an assessment of a semester-long course on criminal justice ethics and its effect on students' value orientations and their perceptions of ethical violations and likelihood of engaging in such behaviors. A pre ...
Year: 2003

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Authors: Connolly, Peggy ; Althaus, Ruth Ann ; Brinkman, Anthony ; Robert Ladenson ; Skipper, Robert Boyd
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: The Czech Republic is the only country in Europe that offers surgical castration to violent sex offenders. Though the Council of Europe's anti-torture committee has condemned the practice, some individuals who have opted for the su...
Year: 2010
URL: http://ethics.iit.edu/EEL/Cut%20to%20the%20Quick.pdf

Authors: Franks, George ; Wyatt-Nichol, Heather
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Public Integrity
Abstract: This article examines ethics training among police chiefs throughout the United States. The frequency of training, content, and instruction, as well as perceptions of the value of ethics training, are addressed. Results indicate tha...
Year: 2009
DOI: 10.2753/pin1099-9922120103

Authors: Pino, Nathan W. ; Brunson, Rod K. ; Stewart, Eric A.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Journal of Criminal Justice Education
Abstract: Ethics education in criminal justice programs has increased in popularity, but instructors sometimes struggle to teach ethics in such a way that students retain what they have learned and apply ethical principles in the criminal jus...
Year: 2009
DOI: 10.1080/10511250902754987

Authors: Althaus, Ruth Ann ; Bellon, Christina ; Skipper, Robert Boyd ; Connolly, Peggy ; Brinkman, Anthony
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: When two college students get convicted after they try to run out on a restaurant bill, one student who had the money to hire a good lawyer and to pay for extra privileges in jail, takes part in a pay-to-stay program that allows low...
Year: 2008
URL: http://ethics.iit.edu/EEL/Case%201.pdf

Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: This case looks at the a disciplinary technique used by prisons throughout the United States that has been challenged in court. The issue is a type of unsavory food called "Nutraloaf that is served to unruly prisoners instead of re...
Year: 2008
URL: http://ethics.iit.edu/EEL/Nutraloaf.pdf

Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: Following 9/11 fears of terrorism lead the Federal Bureau of Prisons to restrict prisoner access to religious books. Staff of the Bureau compiled a list of "noncontroversial" books and multimedia materials for each of the twenty m...
Year: 2009
URL: http://ethics.iit.edu/EEL/Dangerous%20Ideas.pdf

Authors: Carr, Edward ; Boxall, Susanna Flavia ; Dillard, Brenda ; Carr, Sarah ; England, Renee ; Funke, Rhiannon Dodds ; Elliott, Deni ; Potthast, Adam ; Diaz-Sprague, Raquel ; Price, Connie
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: Law enforcement has recently been using a new technique for locating and convicting criminals, surreptitious DNA gathering. This technique allows the police to gather and test the DNA of a person, for example from a discarded paper...
Year: 2008
URL: http://ethics.iit.edu/EEL/Surreptitious%20DNA%20Gathering.pdf

Authors: Skipper, Robert Boyd ; Bellon, Christina ; Leever, Martin ; Althaus, Ruth Ann ; Brinkman, Anthony ; Connolly, Peggy
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: When an Earth Liberation Front activist is arrested and held in prison while awaiting trial, he asks to receive a vegan diet while in the facility, claiming that the vegan diet is based on his strongly held beliefs, which is the sam...
Year: 9999
URL: http://ethics.iit.edu/EEL/Vegan%20Prisioner.pdf

Authors: Robert Ladenson
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: In 1999, a fight broke out in the stands during a football game at Eisenhower High School in Decatur, Illinois. The fight involved no weapons, and no one was seriously injured. As the fight was caught on videotape, six students wh...
Year: 2000
URL: http://ethics.iit.edu/EEL/Fairness%20in%20Punishment.pdf

Authors: Greer, Richard
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: For twenty years, gay hustlers have reported that a man they call the Handcuff Man, was drugging, handcuffing, and sometimes burning male prostitutes or men the thought to be prostitutes. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution newspaper ...
Year: 1991
URL: http://journalism.indiana.edu/resources/ethics/getting-the-story/newspaper-nabs-atlantas-dahmer/

Authors: Ostrow, Joanne
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: A grand jury’s investigation into allegations that KCNC-TV staged an illegal pit-bull fight for a special four-part series they were making resulted in indictments against three station employees....
Year: 1990
URL: http://journalism.indiana.edu/resources/ethics/getting-the-story/grand-jury-probe/

Authors: Kleinig, John
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Professional Ethics: A Multidisciplinary Journal
Abstract: The Janus-like character of loyalty is approached via the specific phenomenon of police loyalty, which manifests itself, on the one hand, in heroic support, and on the other, in the code of silence. The author argues that focusing o...
Year: 1996

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Authors: Coleman, Stephen
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Professional Ethics: A Multidisciplinary Journal
Abstract: The issue of police gratuities has long been a source of debate. The acceptance of gratuities has been expressly forbidden by many police codes of conduct, yet their acceptance is common practice among police on the street. Are the ...
Year: 1998

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Authors: Gillespie, John
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: A television news reporter is on the scene of a police chase when the suspect begins running towards him. In a split-second decision, he decides to help the police stop him. the entire incident is caught on tape. Following this, ...
Year: 1990
URL: http://journalism.indiana.edu/resources/ethics/aiding-law-enforcement/do-i-stop-him/

Authors: Howard, Lynn
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: An exclusive story can be yours. The catch is authorities want you to share your information from a key suspect....
Year: 1989
URL: http://journalism.indiana.edu/resources/ethics/aiding-law-enforcement/have-i-got-a-deal-for-you/

Authors: Reamer, Frederic G. ; Kelly, Michael J.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Abstract: Presents a case study and commentary on a rape suspect who has been advised by his attorney to discontinue taking antipsychotic medicine. Right of patient to refuse treatment; State's interest in resolving a criminal matter....
Year: 1990

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Authors: Dresser, Rebecca
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Hastings Center Report
Abstract: Analyzes whether the use of long-term contraceptives as a condition of probation for women convicted of harming their children can be justified on moral and policy grounds. Contraception as justified punishment; Coercion and disprop...
Year: 1995

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Authors: Keller, David R. ; Hinman, Lawrence ; Leever, Martin ; Robert Ladenson ; Cox-White, Becky ; Connolly, Peggy
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: Following the September 11, 2001 attacks, a number of U.S. government officials proposed relaxing a number of federal policies and guidlines precluding certain strategies that might strengthen U.S. efforts to combat terrorism. These...
Year: 2002
URL: http://ethics.iit.edu/EEL/Relaxing%20Federal%20Policies%20to%20Fight%20Terrorism.pdf

Authors: Hinman, Lawrence ; Englehardt, Elaine ; Leever, Martin ; Robert Ladenson ; Cox-White, Becky ; Connolly, Peggy
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: The events of September 11, are posing new tensions between civil liberties and national security. Across the country, local law enforcement agencies, in conjunction with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and conducting intervie...
Year: 2002
URL: http://ethics.iit.edu/EEL/Racial%20Profiling.pdf

Authors: Althaus, Ruth Ann ; Brinkman, Anthony ; Robert Ladenson ; Anestidou, Lida ; Connolly, Peggy ; Weigel, Christine ; Leever, Martin
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: In the name of civil disobedience, Nathaniel Heatwole planted box cutters, bleach, modeling clay and matches on two domestic airliners, and then emailed the Transportation Security Authority, identifying himself and giving exact det...
Year: 2005
URL: http://ethics.iit.edu/EEL/Civil%20Disobedience%20and%20the%20TSA.pdf

Authors: Connolly, Peggy ; Anestidou, Lida ; Leever, Martin ; Keller, David R. ; Cox-White, Becky ; Althaus, Ruth Ann
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: In August 2003, Patrick O'Neal Kennedy was sentenced to death by Louisiana Courts for the rape of his eight-year old stepdaughter. The last rape-related execution occurred in the United States in 1964. ...
Year: 2004
URL: http://ethics.iit.edu/EEL/Death%20Penalty%20for%20Rape%20Conviction.pdf

Authors: Anestidou, Lida ; Althaus, Ruth Ann ; Leever, Martin ; Connolly, Peggy ; Keller, David R. ; Cox-White, Becky
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: In April 2003, Congress enacted the PROTECT Act, a series of legislative mandates aimed to protect children against sex crimes and pornography. This bill also directly amended federal guidelines by limiting federal judges' discretio...
Year: 2004
URL: http://ethics.iit.edu/EEL/A%20Judge's%20Discression%20in%20Sentencing.pdf

Authors: Anestidou, Lida ; Keller, David R. ; Connolly, Peggy ; Cox-White, Becky
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: Nearly twenty-five states have enacted a "Three Strikes Law which requires that persons who have been previously convicted of two violent or serious crimes and who are subsequently convicted of a third such crime be convicted as hab...
Year: 2003
URL: http://ethics.iit.edu/EEL/Three%20Strikes%20Law.pdf

Authors: Keller, David R. ; Leever, Martin ; Cox-White, Becky ; Connolly, Peggy ; Anestidou, Lida ; Robert Ladenson
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: When Samar Kaukab headed back home after attending a conference, she was subjected to an embarrassing search security officers at O'Hare Airport in Chicago. According to a lawyer from the American Civil Liberties Union, Ms. Kaukab ...
Year: 2003
URL: http://ethics.iit.edu/EEL/Racial%20Profiling%20of%20Arabs%20and%20Arab-Americans.pdf