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38This volume explores at length the contours of an important and troubling virtue -- its cognates, contrasts, and perversions; its strengths and weaknesses; its awkward relations with universal morality; its oppositional form and limits; as well as the ways in which it functions invarious associative connections, such as friendship and familial relations, organizations and professions.
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19Three. Organismic lifeIn [Book review] valuing life, Princeton University Press. pp. 46-69. 1993.
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15Compulsory schoolingJournal of Philosophy of Education 15 (2). 1981.John Kleinig; Compulsory Schooling, Journal of Philosophy of Education, Volume 15, Issue 2, 30 May 2006, Pages 191–203, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9752.1981.
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119Legitimate and Illegitimate Uses of Police ForceCriminal Justice Ethics 33 (2): 83-103. 2014.Utilizing a contractualist framework for understanding the basis and limits for the use of force by police, this article offers five limiting principles—respect for status as moral agents, proportionality, minimum force necessary, ends likely to be accomplished, and appropriate motivation—and then discusses uses of force that violate or risk violating those principles. These include, but are not limited to, unseemly invasions, strip searches, perp walks, handcuffing practices, post-chase apprehe…Read more
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107The Ethics of Policing (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 1996.This book is the most systematic, comprehensive and philosophically sophisticated discussion of police ethics yet published. It offers an in-depth analysis of the ethical values that police, as servants of the community, should uphold as they go about their task. The book considers the foundations and purpose of police authority in broad terms but also tackles specific problems such as accountability, the use of force, deceptive stratagems used to gain information or trap the criminally intentio…Read more
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24Handled with Discretion: Ethical Issues in Police Decision Making (edited book)Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. 1996.Criticisms of how police exercise their authority are neither new nor uncommon. Police officers have considerable power, and they often must draw on that power in complex and pressing circumstances. This collection of essays by fifteen leading specialists in ethics and criminal justice examines the nature of police discretion and its many varieties. The essays explore the kinds of judgment calls police officers frequently must make: When should they get involved? Whom should they watch? What con…Read more
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79The Ethical Perils of Knowledge AcquisitionCriminal Justice Ethics 28 (2): 201-222. 2009.At first blush, there would seem to be few ethical problems with knowledge acquisition in a law enforcement context. For that context is one of public safety and criminal justice, both worthy ends,...
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18IntroductionCriminal Justice Ethics 28 (1): 25-26. 2009.For what kinds of conduct may we impose on people the condemnatory sanction of legal punishment? Or, what may be viewed as its echo, what kinds of behavior may we legitimately criminalize? For it m...
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1Postscript 1Journal of Philosophy of Education 7 (2): 177-178. 1973.John Kleinig; Postscript 1, Journal of Philosophy of Education, Volume 7, Issue 2, 30 May 2006, Pages 177–178, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9752.1973.tb00479.
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27Private and Public Corruption (edited book)Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. 2004.The book roots corruption in the idea of a departure from conventional standards, and thus offers an account not only of its corrosiveness but also of its malleability and controversiality. In the course of a broadranging exploration, it examines various links between private and public corruption, connecting the latter with other social and political structures.
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8Ethical challenges for intervening in drug use: policy, research and treatment issues (edited book)OICJ. 2006.This volume was initiated to meet the challenges of the increasing contemporary trend to "treat" substance users (in the broadest sense of this concept), whether in institutional settings, ambulatory programs, or even controlled environments such as prisons. Although several essays concentrate more particularly on some of the ethico-moral problems encountered by juridico-moral interventions--problems relating to criminalization, decriminalization, legalization, and interdiction--the main focus i…Read more
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1MURDOCH, Iris: The Sovereignty of Good (review)Australasian Journal of Philosophy 49 (n/a): 112. 1971.
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The foundations of bioethics H. Tristram Engelhardt, jr (review)Journal of Applied Philosophy 4 (2): 250. 1987.
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2Torture and political moralityIn Igor Primoratz (ed.), Politics and morality, Palgrave-macmillan. 2007.
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8Rights and Discretionary Power (review)International Journal of Applied Philosophy 3 (1): 93-100. 1986.
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5Eight. Some applicationsIn [Book review] valuing life, Princeton University Press. pp. 190-228. 1993.
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14The Possibility of Altruism (review)Philosophical Studies (Dublin) 20 (n/a): 372-373. 1971.It is the old philosophical desire to provide compelling arguments for any man which lies at the heart of this book. It is the difficulty of satisfying this desire which has led in recent years to the resurrection of Kantian transcendentalism. In ethics this approach has received urgent impetus in the articles of A Phillips Griffiths. Nagel, apparently independently, follows somewhat similar lines, coming to somewhat similar conclusions.
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John Jay College of Criminal Justice (CUNY)Retired faculty
New York City, New York, United States of America
Areas of Specialization
Value Theory |
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Applied Ethics |
Normative Ethics |
Social and Political Philosophy |
Philosophy of Law |
Meta-Ethics |
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