Ethics in Criminal Justice

Executive Summary

Ethics is the central component of making decisions in the administration and profession of criminal justice. The use of authority, the relationship between personal and professional interest, human right issues, media reporting of crime and public policies are common concepts for the understanding of criminal justice system. The people take decisions that challenge them on ethical grounds because of poor analytical skills and lack of abilities to jusge the reasonings. In this manner a proper training is required to gauge them and enable them to be expert and proficient in their field of criminal justice. Defendant, judge, prosecutor, witnesses and other degrees are the main actors in the administration of criminal justice in the organization. It is necessary to discuss the framework to follow in the criminal justice.

The professionalism and legal proceedings are major instrument of creating coherent practices in the organization. They will help to develop standards, rules and procedures to execute ethical considerations in a criminal justice system.

Highly specialized rules, goals and norms are included in the bureaucratic criminal justice system. An organization with the dynamic environment can comply with organizational behavior to create harmony with the code of conduct.

This paper is the orientation of professional values and standards related to the criminal justice in an ethical climate of the organization. Ethics and law are determinant of each other. There is a persecution of law in the regulation of legal practices. There is a divergent relationship between personal and professional interest to the administration of criminal justice. The Principle of Understanding is foremost professional value in the organization. It infers to promote ethical standard in understanding the complexities of legal proceeding and criminal cases. This standard follows The Principle of Tolerance based on ethical absolutism. It helps to understand varying employee behaviors in the organization. The crime of genocide is regarded as crime against humanity. Organizations must identify such areas where employee can maintain the professional standard of The Principle of Standing Up Against Evil. It is necessary to discuss that organizations working across the cultures must develop an approach for the administration of such issues. Hinman's (2012) argues that there is a complete understanding of cultural and corporate context for a particular case to resolve conflicts.

Introduction

Ethical standards are the central elements of making decisions in the administration and profession of criminal justice. These standards are codified for educating and directing ...