Part 1-
Compare your individual responses to the previous questions as a team:
- Which examples generated agreement between all team members?
- Which examples generated disagreement?
- Discuss what the disagreement reflects in terms of personal value systems.
Refer to your team's values as you discussand answer the following questions as team:
- Should all jurisdictions have a Good Samaritan law requiring an individual to help another individual if they are able? Explain why.
- Should vigilantism be permitted when the criminal justice system fails? Explain why or why not. Under what circumstances might you violate the law to enforce the law?
- Historically, in your opinion, has civil disobedience been effective in changing the law? Explain why or why not. What laws do you disagree with or would you consider violating to change? Explain.
- Consider the many professions that exist, including the business and corporate sectors, medical professions, religious authorities, retail establishments, construction industry, insurance industry, banking, education, professional sports, research, pharmaceutical companies, and politics. What conditions exist in a profession, excluding criminal justice professions, that contribute to unethical behavior? Provide two examples.
- Do you believe that American society as a whole is predisposed to ethical or unethical behavior? Explain your response.
- Identify ethical considerations for the future of criminal justice. What may be done to reduce ethical violations in the criminal justice profession?
Write a 1,500- to 2000-word paper that summarizes your individual and team responses to the previously listed questions.
Part 2-
Brittany Cloer (Stultz)
Also looking at the case of Gary Sellers and Robert Bell these men thought they were doing a justice of trying to run a man that had been convicted of the crime of having Child Pornography. These men thought by running Timothy Chandler out of their small community they were doing community justice. But Seller and Bell did not know when they set Chandler's home on fire that Mr. Chandler's wife would be trapped inside. The fact that the men thought they were doing the ethical thing turned into unethical due to the murder of an incent women.
- Identify ethical considerations for the future of criminal justice. What may be done to reduce ethical violations in the criminal justice profession?
It seems as Americans that there is little to no trust in the way our criminal justice systems works. There needs to be as a whole more education to the public so that if in when a decision is made for a person being released from a jail or prison there is not back lash from the community. Also like with the case about abortion there were revisions to the law so not only does it help protect the mother but also the baby. People need to understand that these laws are not just to help make sure that persons rights or protected but to protect the person the law affects.
Looking over the cases it seems that yes the criminal justice profession is held to a different standard than the rest of the Americans. Which in reality this needs to be done because they are people that are to be upholding the law. It seems that the people of the criminal justice profession need to have harsher consequences when ethical violations are made. The standard to keep these criminal justice professionals are to be set higher so the violations need to be convicted at a tougher standard.