Criminal Justice Ethics

Cyndi Banks is Associate Vice President of Student Success at Capilano University in Canada.  She spent 16 years as a professor of criminology and criminal justice and Dean of University College at Northern Arizona University. She has more than 24 years’ experience of research and project implementation in developing countries in the fields of juvenile justice, probation, justice policy, and child rights. She has worked as a criminologist in Papua New Guinea, Bangladesh, Iraq, Kurdistan, Timor Leste, Sudan, and Myanmar. She is the author of numerous articles and books, including Criminal Justice Ethics; Youth, Crime and Justice; Developing Cultural Criminology: Theory and Practice in Papua New Guinea; Alaska Native Juveniles in Detention; Comparative, International, and Global Justice: Perspectives From Criminology and Criminal Justice; and most recently, Prisons in the United States.

Preface
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Part I: The Interaction Between Ethics and The Criminal Justice System
Chapter 1: The Importance of Ethics in Criminal Justice
Chapter 2: Police Ethics: The Nature of Policing and Police Corruption
Chapter 3: Police Ethics: Use of Force, Investigations, Interrogations, and Lying
Chapter 4: Racial Discrimination in the Criminal Justice System
Chapter 5: Judges, Lawyers, and Ethics
Chapter 6: The Purpose of Criminal Punishment
Chapter 7: Ethics in Corrections: The Nature of Corrections
Chapter 8: Ethics in Corrections: Guarding Ethically
Chapter 9: The Ethics of Criminal Justice Policy Making
Chapter 10: Ethics and the “War on Terrorism”
Chapter 11: Media Ethics and Criminal Justice
Part II: The Application of Ethical Theories to The Criminal Justice System
Chapter 12: Duty and Principle
Chapter 13: Considering the Consequences
Chapter 14: The Importance of Character
Chapter 15: Egoism, Pleasure, and Indifference
Chapter 16: A Sense of Justice
Chapter 17: Caring for Others
References
Index