John (Hrsg.) Kleinig

Discretion, Community, and Correctional Ethics

Buch

Some two million Americans are in jail or in prison. Except for the occasional exposé, what happens to them is hidden from the rest of us. Is it possible to develop and instill a professional ethic for prison personnel that, in partnership with formal regulatory constraints, will mediate relations among officers, staff, and inmates, or are the failures of imprisonment as an ethically-constrained institution so deeply etched into its structure that no professional ethic is possible? The contributors to this volume struggle with this central question and its broader and narrower ramifications. Some argue that despite the problems facing the pra… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Smith, Margaret Leland (Hrsg.)

ISBN: 978-0-7425-0184-3
EAN: 9780742501843
Produktnummer: 1704076
Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2001
Seitenangabe: 274 S.
Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D1.6 cm 425 g
Abbildungen: Paperback
Gewicht: 425

Über den Autor

John Kleinig is professor of philosophy, and director of the Institute for Criminal Justice Ethics, at Jon Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY. Margaret Leland Smith is adjunct professor, and senior researcher at the Institute for Criminal Justice Ethics, at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY.