Ethics in Criminal Justice Administration Analysis

Ethics in Criminal Justice Administration Analysis

Introduction

Ethics is considered as a moral philosophy, which is a branch of philosophy regarding the overall study of some of the queries of do's and don'ts, rights and wrongs in the society living. Ethics come out with the moral judgments of the deeds which an individual as a citizen has to follow and this concept bring about differentiation about the good and bad, wrong and right. The wrong and right deeds and qualities ultimately assign moral judgments to the actions and behavior of an individual (Wolfgang, 1982).

The concept of ethics revolves around three main branches, which are Meta-Ethics: that is concerned about the processes and procedures, logical structures, language and the ways of thinking utilized in the understanding of ethical terminologies, for instance; what actually the known term “ good” entails, the second one is Normative Ethics: that is concerned with the processes that sets the standards of conducting and behaving of individuals, and the last one is Applied Ethics: which deals with the solution of moral and practical issues which come out as an outcome of certain situations, it mostly happens in the professional settings for instance law and medicine(Roberts, 2005). This paper will be considering ethics in criminal justice system of United States.

Discussion

From the ancient times, citizens are having contact with the justice and the judiciary was involved in contact with the people only when people were caught being involved in a process of doing something against defined rules and declared regulations. In that sense, the judiciary was considered as an inaccessible to some extent to the common people, as it has remained cloistered in offices, inaccessible that so far have turned out for public scrutiny, have often been seen as real "palaces" paradoxically called justice. But now the situation has changed or is changing. The modifications in the justice system are emerging out from both from civil society and internally in their own judiciaries; various movements have required institutional democratization, which, with some tact, has been launched by various judicial authorities in certain regions (Arthur, 2009). It should be noted that this requirement has not been formulated democratization only to the judicial apparatus, but has led change to the entire public sector. Whether motivated by actual cases of corruption or suspicion of those have been given various social sectors have demanded transparency to the entire state and it has had to react by implementing accountability policies. Also, the domestic public sector has also been a move towards the opening of institutions, ensuring the commitment of citizens in the management of public affairs, i.e. bringing it closer to its rationale are users (Christopher, 2008).

Relationship between Ethics and Professional Behavior in the Administration of Criminal Justice

There is very strong relationship between ethics and professional behavior in the administration criminal justice. Because ethics is the only element that serves as a path for selecting moral choices in certain situations when an individual do not actually sort out the ...