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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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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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John Jay College of Criminal Justice (CUNY)Retired faculty
New York City, New York, United States of America
Areas of Specialization
Value Theory |
Areas of Interest
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Applied Ethics |
Normative Ethics |
Social and Political Philosophy |
Philosophy of Law |
Meta-Ethics |
Value Theory |