Discretion, Community, and Correctional Ethics

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.

About the author

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.

Summary

Is it possible to instil a professional ethic for prison personnel that, in partnership with regulatory constraints, will mediate relations, or are the failures of imprisonment so deeply etched into its structure that no professional ethic is possible?

Product details

• Assisted by: John Kleinig (Editor), Kleinig John (Editor), Margaret Leland Smith (Editor), Smith Margaret Leland (Editor)
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.08.2001
• EAN: 9780742501836
• ISBN: 978-0-7425-0183-6
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 234 mm x 21 mm
• Weight: 467 g
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Law > Criminal law, criminal procedural law, criminology; USA, Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Penology, United States of America, USA, Penology and punishment, Penology & punishment