You are a member of the training division at your law enforcement agency. The sergeant of the unit has asked that you create an informative paper that explains the normative and applied prevailing criminal justice models of ethical reasoning. This paper will be played at all roll calls and shift briefing trainings for your department. The instruction set delivered to you indicates that (at a minimum) the paragraphs in this paper should address the history, tenets, and applications of each of the theories. The paper will assume the normative judgment model, which emphasizes the three moral judgment imperatives (the human act, free will, effect upon others). A suggested outline for the paper is listed below.
(ALL IN DIFFERENT PARAGRAPHS WITH BULLET POINTS)
-The Ethics of Virtue (title)
-History of the Ethics of Virtue
-Tenets of the Ethics of virtue
-Provide a criminal-justice-based, “real-world” example of the ethics of virtue.
-Ethical Formalism (Deontological Ethics) (title)
-History of Ethical Formalism
-Model of Ethical Formalism
-Provide a criminal-justice-based, “real-world” application of deontological ethics.
-Consequentialism (Teleological Ethics) (title)
-History of Consequentialism
-Model of Consequentialism
-Provide a criminal-justice-based, “real-world” example of utilitarianism.
-Ethics of Care (Restorative Justice) (title)
-History of the Ethics of Care
-Tenets of the Ethics of Care
-Provide a criminal-justice-based, “real-world” example of the ethics of care.
-What is “noble cause corruption,” and where does it fit within the ethical models?
