Police/Correctional Ethics

Catalog description

This course introduces students to the fundamentals of law enforcement ethics and practice, doctrines, controversies, and rules of moral judgment. Students will examine cases of moral judgment and the ways and means of making judgments in the field. Some difficult judgments would include whether to arrest, use of deadly force, to prosecute, to participate in plea bargaining, to impose penalties or fines, to adhere to police standards of ethics and policy, and to cooperate with supervisors on questions of ethics.