CRJ 230 - Ethics for Criminal Justice (3)

Prerequisite: None
spring

Lecture: 3 hours of lecture/discussion per week.

This course will examine the criminal justice system through an ethics perspective. Topics will include: a discussion of terminology; development of moral and ethical behavior, issues of justice, laws, punishment, and social control; corruption and “codes”; and, ethics for practitioners within the criminal justice system. Class discussions of moral dilemmas are essential to the application of theory.

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PCS: 1.2