LEADERSHIP THEORIES

Compare and Contrast Various Ethical and Leadership Theories

Abstract

The paper discusses the ethical leadership in criminal justice, and this paper also discusses the different theories of leadership which are applicable in the criminal justice. Further, this research paper describes the development and importance of ethics,proffesional codes of conduct and leaderhsip in criminal justice organizations; -indentify values and culture in organizations, and indentifies values and culture in organizations and how they relate to ethical issues in criminal justice

Table of Contents

Current Issues in criminal justice3

Police Ethics3

Correctional Ethics4

Analyzing Ethical Dilemmas4

Leadership as Personality5

Importance of ethics in criminal justice6

Identify values and culture in organization6

Values and culture in criminal justice8

Concerns with Cognitive Moral Development Theory9

Ethics of criminal justice11

Findings12

References14

Compare and contrast various ethical and leadership theories

Current Issues in criminal justice

In criminal justice system, the application of ethical norms has come to be recognized as a crucial part of the process of doing justice. Whether an action is performed by law enforcement, corrections, judges, lawyers, or justice policymakers, we expect that decision making will be ethical, and when it is not, we anticipate that those who violate ethical norms will be held accountable. The field of normative ethics sets standards of conduct to assist in determining how to act, and it draws on such sources as religions, natural law, and written law in shaping ethical standards. Applied ethics is concerned with resolving issue that raise questions about what is right or wrong and what is good or bad. Criminal Justice professionals, who often possess the right to control others through the application of force and coercion, must understand how to act in situations in which ethical dilemmas arise, if they are to avoid accusations of abuse of their powers. Ethical theories about how to act and the rightness or wrongness of acts provide a foundation from which to analyze ethical dilemmas and arrive at a correct conclusion or resolution(Douglas, 2001).

Police Ethics

Of all the elements in criminal justice system, policing is the most likely to provoke ethical dilemmas. In the early days of law enforcement in the United States, the police relied unhesitatingly on physical force and coercion to maintain control of the streets and paid little attention to ethical standards. An institutional culture comprising the values, attitudes, and norms of law enforcement developed within policing and this culture has encouraged and condoned corruption and the use of force, including lethal force, within the community. Research studies of policing and developed models of the crime fighter, the emergency operator, the social enforcer, and the social peacekeeper. Police developed the notion that the cause of crime fighting was noble, and therefore sometimes justified unethical conduct. Police culture supported corruption, the excessive use of force, a cynical and suspicious approach to the community, and the notion that police were themselves victims. Codes of ethics were devised, published and promoted but were often flouted in favor of the noble cause (Douglas, 2001).

Correctional Ethics

Over the last two decades, criminal justice policies focusing on crime control including so-called zero-tolerance practices ...