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Discretion, community, and correctional ethics / edited by John Kleinig and Margaret Leland Smith.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Corrections--Moral and ethical aspects--United States--Congresses.
- Corrections.
- Correctional personnel--Professional ethics--United States--Congresses.
- Correctional personnel.
- Prison administration--Moral and ethical aspects--United States--Congresses.
- Prison administration.
- Imprisonment--Moral and ethical aspects--United States--Congresses.
- Imprisonment.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (274 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, MD : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2001.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Is it possible to develop and instill a professional ethic for prison personnel that, in partnership with formal regulatory constraints, will mediate relations among officers, staff, and inmates, or are the failures of imprisonment as an ethically-constrained institution so deeply etched into its structure that no professional ethic is possible? The contributors to this volume struggle with this central question and its broader and narrower ramifications.
- Contents:
- Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Foreword; Preface; 1: Professionalizing Incarceration; Response: The Shimmer of Reform: Prospects for a Correctional Ethic; 2: The Possibility of a Correctional Ethic; Response: The Case for Abolition and the Reality of Race; 3: Prison Abuse: Prisoner-Staff Relations; Response: Correctional Ethics and the Courts; 4: Health Care in the Corrections Setting: An Ethical Analysis; Responses: First, Do No Harm; Brokering Correctional Health Care
- 5: Ideology into Practice/Practice into Ideology: Staff-Offender Relationships in Institutional and Community Corrections in an Era of RetributionResponses: Moral Reckoning and the Social Order of the Prison; The Path of Least Resistance: Sexual Exploitation of Female Offenders as an Unethical Corollary to Retributive Ideology and Correctional Practice; 6: Management-Staff Relations: Issues in Leadership, Ethics, and Values; Response: The Ethical Dilemmas of Corrections Managers: Confronting Practical and Political Complexity; Additional Resources; Index of Names; Index of Subjects
- About the Contributors
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 979-82-16-34440-7
- 1-299-45330-9
- 0-7425-7713-9
- OCLC:
- 855502982
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