Discretion, Community, and Correctional Ethics

by Derek R. Brookes and John Kleinig

Book Overview

Some two million Americans are in jail or in prison. Except for the occasional expos , 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0742501841
• ISBN13: 9780742501843
• Release Date: August 2001
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.3"