Ethics in the CJUS system - Exam 3

Mission of probation/parole

Monitor and provide services to offenders to protect community from new crime

Intensive supervision

No privacy, supervision fees
Popular acceptance by workers

Balance issue with corrections

Client needs vs Enforcing the law

Privatization

Reduces costs

US vs. Comstock

If an individual is still deemed a dangerous sexual offender even after their sentence has finished, we can still detain them

Unique issues of women

Pregnancy in prison

Restorative justice goal

Restore justice

Peacemaking virtues

sense of humor, courage, and kindness

Ethical concerns in restorative justice

Restorative justice is not effective with all crimes (especially violent)

Types of restorative justice

Family/group counseling, victim/offender reconciliation, sentencing circle, victim/offender boards, reparative boards

Discretionary misconduct

Nonfeasance, Misfeasance, Malfeasance

Prison rape elimination act

Protect inmates from rape and sexual assault in any custodial settings

prison corruption

Isolated from public view

8th amendment ethical issue

Protection against cruel and unusual punishment, when does punishment become cruel and unusual?

Van de Haag

Advocated increase of work for inmates

Privatization of prisons

More efficient and less expensive

Pains of imprisonment

Loss if heterosexual relationships, autonomy, desirable goods and services, liberty

Chain gangs

Cruel and unusual - throwback to slavery (reconstruction era)

elderly inmates

Mandatory longer prison sentences, too expensive

Faith-based programs in prison

Mixed results on if it worked, depends on the person

Categorical imperative of corrections

Treat others as subjects, not objects. Always do the right thing