CJ V49 — Ethics for the Criminal Justice System Professional
This course addresses ethical issues in the three components of the Criminal Justice System; law enforcement, judicial, and corrections. It explores ethical dilemmas, value definitions, and their application to decision making; by police, court, probation, parole, corrections, and private security personnel. Remediation strategies relating to unethical behavior by individuals and groups will also be addressed. It provides the student with ethical standards and guidelines as well as philosophical and theoretical issues relating to frequent ethical violations throughout the criminal justice system. It is designed to provide basic coverage of morality, ethics, and human behavior. Topics covered include the key elements of ethical guidelines, individual aspects of ethical codes, courtroom testimony and admissibility issues, and ethical standards for all written reports, and procedural and substantive law issues. Additionally, the course considers how character and personal values influence the training, supervision, management, and leadership of successful criminal justice system organizations.