Ethics and Criminal Justice: An Introduction

by John Kleinig

Book Overview

This textbook looks at the main ethical questions that confront the criminal justice system - legislature, law enforcement, courts, and corrections - and those who work within that system, especially police officers, prosecutors, defence lawyers, judges, juries, and prison officers. John Kleinig sets the issues in the context of a liberal democratic society and its ethical and legislative underpinnings, and illustrates them with a wide and international...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521864208
• ISBN13: 9780521864206
• Release Date: March 2008
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 294 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.9" x 9.8"