The criminal justice system can be examined using political, legal, organizational, or sociological approaches. In this course, we shift the lens somewhat and look at the system from an ethics perspective. Asking whether something is legal, for instance, is not necessarily the same as asking whether something is right.
Ethical issues are broad social questions, often concerning the government’s social control mechanisms and the impact on those governed. These issues can be subject to legal analysis and/or ethical analysis since the two are related but not the same.
While ethical issues are broad social questions or policy decisions, ethical dilemmas are situations in which one person must decide what to do. Ethical discussions in criminal justice focus on issues or dilemmas.
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