Please answer these four questions.
What is your biggest take-away from this course?
What one item in the course has changed your view of the public safety profession or policing ethics?
What ethical theory surprised you the most and why?
Is there anything in this course that you would like to see more or less of?
Learning Outcomes
Compare the major schools of ethical thought and moral reasoning.
Apply ethical models to define strategies to resolve unethical conduct.
Describe the ethical challenges that law enforcement officials face in carrying out obligations and duties.
Analyze ethical scenarios in law enforcement to determine the outcomes of unethical conduct.
Apply ethical theories to analyze situations that involve informed consent, whistleblowing, and conflicts of interest.
Analyze the use of police discretion within crime prevention.
Explain the problems related to misconduct, oversight, recruiting, training and education.
Course Descriiption
This course introduces students to ethical issues that arise in the criminal justice system. Students examine various theoretical perspectives that explore the social and organizational processes that lead to ethical dilemmas, corruption, systemic discrimination, and other forms of morally questionable behaviour within the criminal justice system. A historical perspective of ethical dilemmas and how ethical theories are directly applied to decision-making within the criminal justice system are discussed.
Choose from the different ethical subjects that are available online and make up stuff for the personal side of the questions
