Criminal Justice Ethics
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Natural law | A body of unchanging moral principles regarded as a basis for all human contact If we follow natural law we dont need criminal law |
| Positivist Law | Laws written and created by society for society |
| Criminal Law | A system of law concerned with the punishment of those who commit crimes |
| Nix vs. Whitehouse | Right to an attorney Attorney resisted, he wouldn't let client commit perjury Not in the realm of there duties |
| Just War Arguments | To uphold good of the community Unjust injuries are inflicted on others Protect state Positivist law Benefits outweigh negatives |
| Souryal Corruption Typology | Arbitrary use of power Oppression and failure to demonstrate compassion/caring Abusing authority for personal gain |
| Corruptions of Correction Officers | Accepting gratuities Mistreatment/harassment Mismanagement Miscellaneous abuse |
| Prison Litigation Act 1996 | Designed to unclog the court system Overcrowding and poor treatment in prisons |
| Negative Retribution | One who is not guilty must not be punished for a crime |
| Retribution | A rationale for punishment that states that punishment is an end in itself and should be balanced to the harm caused to an individual Punished because they deserve it |
| Mackie's Types of Retribution | Negative retribution dictates that one who is not guilty must not be punished for a crime Positive retribution demands that one who is guilty ought to be punished Permissive retribution allows that one who is quilty may be punished |
| Prosecutor Misconduct | Major lapses of ethical rules Hiding evidence Planting evidence |
| Renditions | CIA kidnapped individuals in those countries (Italy, Germany, Ireland) and subjected them to torture to discover what they knew about terrorist activities |
| Terrorism | The deliberate, negligent, or reckless use of force against non-combats by state or non-state actors for ideological ends and in absence of a substantively just legal process |
| Crime Control Approach | The law enforcement concept that uses means end or utilitarian thinking to determine good by the result |
| Torture | the deliberate infliction of violence, and through violence severe mental/physical suffering |
| Law Passed due to 9/11 | Patriot Act |
| Patriot Act | This contraversial 2001 law allows anti-terrorism authorities to monitor e-mail and Internet traffic in order to prevent terrorist attacks. The government argues that cyberspace is public domain and that no warrants should be needed to access information. |
| Confidentiality Law for Defense Attorney | Must respect there clients privacy rights and cant not tell a third party what they have been told |
| Terrorists in Germany 1970s | Badder-Meinhof gang |
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