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This textbook was developed from an idiom shared by the authors and
contributors alike: ethics and ethical challenges are generally
black and white - not gray. They are akin to the pregnant woman or
the gunshot victim; one cannot be a little pregnant or a little
shot. Consequently, professional conduct is either ethical or it is
not. Unafraid to be the harbingers, Turvey and Crowder set forth
the parameters of key ethical issues across the five pillars of the
criminal justice system: law enforcement, corrections, courts,
forensic science, and academia. It demonstrates how each pillar is
dependent upon its professional membership, and also upon the
supporting efforts of the other pillars - with respect to both
character and culture. With contributions from case-working experts
across the CJ spectrum, this text reveals hard-earned insights into
issues that are often absent from textbooks born out of just theory
and research. Part 1 examines ethic issues in academia, with
chapters on ethics for CJ students, CJ educators, and ethics in CJ
research. Part 2 examines ethical issues in law enforcement, with
separate chapters on law enforcement administration and criminal
investigations. Part 3 examines ethical issues in the forensic
services, considering the separate roles of crime lab
administration and evidence examination. Part 4 examines ethical
issues in the courts, with chapters discussing the prosecution, the
defense, and the judiciary. Part 5 examines ethical issues in
corrections, separately considering corrections staff and treatment
staff in a forensic setting. The text concludes with Part 6, which
examines ethical issues in a broad professional sense with respect
to professional organizations and whistleblowers. Ethical Justice:
Applied Issues for Criminal Justice Students and Professionals is
intended for use as a textbook at the college and university, by
undergraduate students enrolled in a program related to any of the
CJ professions. It is intended to guide them through the real-world
issues that they will encounter in both the classroom and in the
professional community. However, it can also serve as an important
reference manual for the CJ professional that may work in a
community that lacks ethical mentoring or leadership.
Cosmopolitan Sex Workers is a groundbreaking work that examines the
phenomenon of non-trafficked women who migrate from one global city
to another to perform paid sexual labor in Southeast Asia.
Christine Chin offers an innovative theoretical framework that she
terms "3C" (city, creativity and cosmopolitanism) in order to show
how factors at the local, state, transnational and individual
levels work together to shape women's ability to migrate to perform
sex work. Chin's book will show that as neoliberal economic
restructuring processes create pathways connecting major cities
throughout the world, competition and collaboration between cities
creates new avenues for the movement of people, services and goods
(the "city" portion of the argument). Loosely organized networks of
migrant labor grow in tandem with professional-managerial classes,
and sex workers migrate to different parts of cities, depending on
the location of the clientele to which they cater. But while global
cities create economic opportunities for migrants (and survive on
the labor they provide), states also react to the presence of
migrants with new forms of securitization and surveillance.
Migrants therefore need to negotiate between appropriating and
subverting the ideas that inform global economic restructuring to
maintain agency (the "creativity"). Chin suggests that migration
allows women to develop intercultural skills that help them to make
these negotiations (the "cosmopolitanism"). Chin's book stands
apart from other literature on migrant sex labor not only in that
she focuses on non-trafficked women, but also in that she
demonstrates the co-dependence between global economic processes,
sex work, and women's economic agency. Through original
ethnographic research with sex workers in Kuala Lumpur, she shows
that migrant sex work can provide women with the means of earning
income for families, for education, and even for their own
businesses. It also allows women the means to travel the world - a
form of cosmopolitanism "from below."
While street prostitutes comprise only a small minority of sex
workers, they have the highest rates of physical and sexual abuse,
arrest and incarceration, drug addiction, and stigmatization, which
stem from both their public visibility and their dangerous work
settings. Exiting the trade can be a daunting task for street
prostitutes; despite this, many do try at some point to leave sex
work behind. Focusing on four different organizations based in
Chicago, Minneapolis, Los Angeles, and Hartford that help
prostitutes get off the streets, Sharon S. Oselin's Leaving
Prostitution explores the difficulties, rewards, and public
responses to female street prostitutes' transition out of sex
work.
Through in-depth interviews and field research with street-level
sex workers, Oselin illuminates their pathways into the trade and
their experiences while in it, and the host of organizational,
social, and individual factors that influence whether they are able
to stop working as prostitutes altogether. She also speaks to staff
at organizations that aid street prostitutes, and assesses the
techniques they use to help these women develop self-esteem,
healthy relationships with family and community, and workplace
skills. Oselin paints a full picture of the difficulties these
women face in moving away from sex work and the approaches that do
and do not work to help them transform their lives. Further, she
offers recommendations to help improve the quality of life for
these women. A powerful ethnographic account, Leaving Prostitution
provides an essential understanding of getting out and staying out
of sex work.
A volume in Ethics in Practice Series Editors Robert A. Giacalone,
Temple University and Carole L. Jurkiewicz, Louisiana State
University The daily process of public service provision and
administration is filled with value judgments and value trade-offs,
and the safeguarding of just and fair processes is key to the
public's trust in governing institutions. In crises, public
decision-makers face complex ethical judgments under great
uncertainty, timepressure, and heightened public scrutiny. A lack
of attention to the ethical dimensions of crises has lead
decision-makers to long-shadow crises that never reach closure.
Furthermore, crises triggered by unethical conduct by public
officials steadily feed people's cynicism about politicians and
bureaucracy. The fact that decision-makers often are judged on how
they dealt with ethical issues in crises further underlines the
importance of this topic. Little scholarly attention had been paid
to how ethics play into and are dealt with in situations when they
matters most - in crises. In order to improve government
performance we need to analyze the ethical dilemmas and normative
challenges that face practitioners in crises. This book meets this
challenge by presenting a public policy framework for analyzing the
ethical dilemmas in crises and introduces ten empirical chapters
written by prominent public administration and crisis management
scholars. The cases reviewed include Abu Ghraib, the 9/11
Commission, the 2008 Financial Crisis and the Memorial Hospital
Tragedy during Hurricane Katrina. Building off the empirical focus
on inherent ethical challenges in crises and actor ethics in
evaluation and judgment, the concluding chapter outlines important
lessons about criteria for crisis decision-making and strategies,
the poisoned apple of bureaucratic discretion, and the nature of
post-crisis evaluations. The book is geared toward students,
scholars, and practitioners concerned with public management,
public sector ethics, public policy, crisis management, and the
implication of these factors on business and corporate crisis
management.
A powerful claim for the virtues of a more thoughtful and
collegiate approach to the academy today. This book offers a
response to the culture of metrics, mass digitisation, and
accountability (as opposed to responsibility, or citizenship) that
has developed in higher education world wide, as exemplified by the
UK's Research Excellence Framework exercise (REF), and the
increasing bureaucracy that limits the time available for teaching,
research, and even conversation and collaboration. Ironically,
these are problems that will be solved only by academicsfinding the
time to talk and to work together. The essays collected here both
critique the culture of speed in the neoliberal university and
provide examples of what can be achieved by slowing down, by
reclaiming research and research priorities, and by working
collaboratively across the disciplines to improve conditions. They
are informed both by recent research in medieval studies and by the
problematic culture of twenty-first century higher education. The
contributions offer very personal approaches to the academic
culture of the present moment. Some tackle issues of academic
freedom head-on; others more obliquely; but they all have been
written as declarations of theacademic freedom that comes with slow
thinking, slow reading, slow writing and slow looking and the
demonstrations of its benefits. CATHERINE E. KARKOV is Professor
and Chair of Art History at the University of Leeds. Contributors:
Lara Eggleton, Karen Jolly, Chris Jones, James Paz, Andrew
Prescott, Heather Pulliam
This edited collection is intended as a primer for core concepts
and principles in research ethics and as an in-depth exploration of
the contextualization of these principles in practice across key
disciplines. The material is nested so that readers can engage with
it at different levels and depths. It is unique in that it combines
an analysis of complex ethical debates about the nature of research
and its governance with the best of case-based and
discipline-specific approaches.
It deals with the following topics in depth: in the natural
sciences, it explores the scientific integrity of the researcher
and the research process, human cloning as a test case for the
limits to research, and the emerging ethical issues in
nanotechnology; in the health sciences, it takes up the question of
consent, assent and proxies, research with vulnerable groups and
the ethics of clinical trials; in the social sciences, it explores
the issues that arise in qualitative research, interviews and
ethnography; and in the humanities, it examines contested
archaeologies and research in divided societies.
Overview of Research Ethics Principles Full text papers from
experienced researchers across many disciplines Dialogue with
ethicists
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Catalan-language publishers were under constant threat during the
dictatorship of Francisco Franco (1939-1975). Both the Catalan
language and the introduction of foreign ideas were banned by the
regime, preoccupied as it was with creating a "one, great and free
Spain." Books against Tyranny examines the period through its
censorship laws and censors' accounts by means of intertextuality,
an approach that aims to shed light on the evolution of Francoism's
ideological thought. The documents examined here includes firsthand
witness accounts, correspondence, memoirs, censorship files,
newspapers, original interviews, and unpublished material housed in
various Spanish archives. As such, the book opens up the field and
serves as an informative tool for scholars of Franco's Spain,
Catalan social movements, or censorship more generally.
Sponsored by the Communication, Information Technologies, and Media
Sociology section of the American Sociological Association
(CITAMS), this book explores the complex construction of democratic
public dialogue in developing countries. Case studies examine
national environments defined not only by state censorship and
commercial pressure, but also language differences, international
influence, social divisions, and distinct value systems. With fresh
portraits of new and traditional media throughout Africa, Latin
America and Asia, authors delve into the essential role of the
media in developing countries. Case studies illuminate the
relationship between the State and the media in Russia, as well as
the challenges faced by journalists working in Kurdistan. Further
cases reveal bureaucratic censorship of books in Brazil, regulatory
dilemmas in Australia, state policies in post-colonial Malawi, and
the potential of oral culture for the strengthening of democratic
conversation. Media, Development and Democracy brings the liberal
democratic media model into new terrains where some of its core
assumptions do not hold. In doing so, the authors' collective
voices illuminate pressing issues facing our current global
dialogue and our liberal and democratic expectations concerning
communications and the media. This essential volume works as a
magnifying glass for our current times, forcing us to question what
kind of media we want today
In addition to common forms of spatial units such as satellite
imagery and street views, emerging automatic identification
technologies are exploring the use of microchip implants in order
to further track an individual's personal data, identity, location,
and condition in real time. Uberveillance and the Social
Implications of Microchip Implants: Emerging Technologies presents
case studies, literature reviews, ethnographies, and frameworks
supporting the emerging technologies of RFID implants while also
highlighting the current and predicted social implications of
human-centric technologies. This book is essential for
professionals and researchers engaged in the development of these
technologies as well as providing insight and support to the
inquiries with embedded micro technologies.
To what extent should parents be allowed to use reproductive
technologies to determine the characteristics of their future
children? And is there something morally wrong with parents who
wish to do this? Choosing Tomorrow's Children provides answers to
these (and related) questions. In particular, the book looks at
issues raised by selective reproduction, the practice of choosing
between different possible future persons by selecting or
deselecting (for example) embryos, eggs, and sperm.
Wilkinson offers answers to questions including the following. Do
children have a 'right to an open future' and, if they do, what
moral constraints does this place upon selective reproduction?
Should parents be allowed to choose their future children's sex?
Should we 'screen out' as much disease and disability as possible
before birth, or would that be an objectionable form of eugenics?
Is it acceptable to create or select a future person in order to
provide lifesaving tissue for an existing relative? Is there a
moral difference between selecting to avoid disease and selecting
to produce an 'enhanced' child? Should we allow deaf parents to use
reproductive technologies to ensure that they have a deaf child?
This revealing volume explores recent historical perspectives on
the modern euthanasia and assisted-suicide debate and the political
arenas in which it has unfolded. Emotional public responses to
widely publicized right-to-die and euthanasia cases, such as those
revolving around Dr. Jack Kevorkian and Terri Schiavo, highlight
their volatile mix of medical, ethical, religious, legal, and
public policy issues. The Euthanasia/Assisted-Suicide Debate
explores how this debate has evolved over the past 100 years as
judicial approaches, legislative responses, and prosecutorial
practices have shifted as a result of changes in medical technology
and consumer sophistication. Emphasizing the period from the 1950s
forward, the book offers an unbiased examination of the origins of
the modern medical euthanasia and assisted-suicide debates, the
involvement of physicians, the history and significance of medical
technology and practice, and the role of patients and their
families in the ongoing controversy. This illuminating exploration
of concepts, issues, and players will help readers understand both
sides of the debate as viewed by participants. Case studies explain
contemporary legal techniques in the handling of euthanasia and
assisted-suicide prosecutions, including those involving doctors,
nurses, and family members A chronology shows political events and
major cases of medical euthanasia and assisted suicide over the
past 100 years A glossary explains key terms, such as "causation,"
"intent," "palliative care," and "double effect" An
interdisciplinary bibliography cites significant materials from the
fields of history, law, and sociology, as well as major medical
journal articles
For some legal philosophers, if a law is procedurally correct,
enacted in ways constitutionally recognised and agreed upon, then
the content is of no significance. It is a "good" law, no matter
what it does or justifies. The question of one's consent or
opposition to any particular law is extraneous to the legality and
is regarded merely as a political matter. The assumption is that a
certain procedure and logic in law creation has taken place, and
the law can be altered by a change in political leaders in a
subsequent political election. However, this view and assumption
obscure an uncomfortable fact. Some laws can be "bad" or "immoral."
Critical legal theory suggests that there are often two (or more)
sets of laws, and it makes no difference if Lady Justice is
blindfolded or not. Laws change in the process of history, in part,
because societal norms change. As common understandings of morality
evolve, law adapts itself to the new moral environment. Norms can
change slowly or rapidly, even within a lifetime. This book
examines both social and legal norms and theories of how they are
both created. Christine M. Hassenstab investigates how laws on
sterilization, birth control and abortion were created, by focusing
on the act of legislation; how the law was driven by scientific and
social norms during the first and closing decades of the 20th
century in the USA (especially in the state of Indiana) and Norway.
The primary focus of Body Law and the Body of Law is the sociology
of law and how and why the law changes. The author develops the
notion "body law" for reproductive policies and uses sociological
theories to untie the various strands of social history and legal
history and looks at two cases of legislation. The book is divided
in to two main sections. The first examines eugenic laws in the USA
state of Indiana and Norway during the first decades of 20th
century. The second part is about the birth control and abortion
debate in both countries throughout the late 1960s and 1970s.
Christine M. Hassenstab is a lawyer and sociologist. She served as
a criminal defense attorney for 15 years (1987-2001) in Seattle,
Washington. Currently, she is an adviser in the EU Grants Office at
the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim,
Norway.
Nanotechnology manipulates matter at the atomic level. It leads to
innovative processes and products that are revolutionizing many
areas of modern life. Huge amounts of public funds are being
invested in the science, yet the public has little understanding of
the technology or its ethical implications. Indeed, the ethical,
social and political dimensions of nanotechnology are only
beginning to receive the attention they require outside of science
fiction contexts. Surveillance devices may become so small that
they are practically invisible to the naked eye, raising concerns
about privacy. Nanomedicine may lead to the development of new
diagnostic and therapeutic devices, yet anxieties have been raised
about the impact of nanobots circulating in our bodies. Military
applications, or misuses, of nanotechnology raise other concerns.
This book explores in an accessible and informative way how
nanotechnology is likely to impact the lives of ordinary people in
the coming years and why ethical reflection on nanotechnology is
needed now. Articulate, provocative and stimulating, this timely
book will make a significant contribution to one of the most
important debates of our time.
Fake News in Digital Cultures presents a new approach to
understanding disinformation and misinformation in contemporary
digital communication, arguing that fake news is not an alien
phenomenon undertaken by bad actors, but a logical outcome of
contemporary digital and popular culture, conceptual changes
meaning and truth, and shifts in the social practice of trust,
attitude and creativity. Looking not to the problems of the present
era but towards the continuing development of a future digital
media ecology, the authors explore the emergence of practices of
deliberate disinformation. This includes the circulation of
misleading content or misinformation, the development of new
technological applications such as the deepfake, and how they
intersect with conspiracy theories, populism, global crises,
popular disenfranchisement, and new practices of regulating
misleading content and promoting new media and digital literacies.
An up-close look at how porn permeates our culture Pictures of
half-naked girls and women can seem to litter almost every screen,
billboard, and advertisement in America. Pole-dancing studios keep
women fit. Men airdrop their dick pics to female passengers on
planes and trains. To top it off, the last American President has
bragged about grabbing women "by the pussy." This pornification of
our society is what Bernadette Barton calls "raunch culture."
Barton explores what raunch culture is, why it matters, and how it
is ruining America. She exposes how internet porn drives trends in
programming, advertising, and social media, and makes its way onto
our phones, into our fashion choices, and into our sex lives. From
twerking and breast implants, to fake nails and push-up bras, she
explores just how much we encounter raunch culture on a daily
basis-porn is the new normal. Drawing on interviews, television
shows, movies, and social media, Barton argues that raunch culture
matters not because it is sexy, but because it is sexist. She shows
how young women are encouraged to be sexy like porn stars, and to
be grateful for getting cat-called or receiving unsolicited dick
pics. As politicians vote to restrict women's access to birth
control and abortion, The Pornification of America exposes the
double standard we attach to women's sexuality.
There have been many heroes and victims in the battle to abolish
the death penalty, and Marie Deans fits into both of those
categories. A South Carolina native who yearned to be a fiction
writer, Marie was thrust by a combination of
circumstances-including the murder of her beloved
mother-in-law-into a world much stranger than fiction, a world in
which minorities and the poor were selected to be sacrificed to
what Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun called the ""machinery of
death."" Marie found herself fighting to bring justice to the legal
process and to bring humanity not only to prisoners on death row
but to the guards and wardens as well. During Marie's time as a
death penalty opponent in South Carolina and Virginia, she
experienced the highs of helping exonerate the innocent and the
lows of standing death watch in the death house with thirty-four
condemned men.
In a stinging dissent to a 1961 Supreme Court decision that allowed
the Illinois state bar to deny admission to prospective lawyers if
they refused to answer political questions, Justice Hugo Black
closed with the memorable line, "We must not be afraid to be free."
Black saw the First Amendment as the foundation of American
freedom--the guarantor of all other Constitutional rights. Yet
since free speech is by nature unruly, people fear it. The impulse
to curb or limit it has been a constant danger throughout American
history.
In We Must Not Be Afraid to Be Free, Ron Collins and Sam Chaltain,
two noted free speech scholars and activists, provide authoritative
and vivid portraits of free speech in modern America. The authors
offer a series of engaging accounts of landmark First Amendment
cases, including bitterly contested cases concerning loyalty oaths,
hate speech, flag burning, student anti-war protests, and
McCarthy-era prosecutions. The book also describes the colorful
people involved in each case--the judges, attorneys, and
defendants--and the issues at stake. Tracing the development of
free speech rights from a more restrictive era--the early twentieth
century--through the Warren Court revolution of the 1960s and
beyond, Collins and Chaltain not only cover the history of a
cherished ideal, but also explain in accessible language how the
law surrounding this ideal has changed over time.
Essential for anyone interested in this most fundamental of our
rights, We Must Not Be Afraid to Be Free provides a definitive and
lively account of our First Amendment and the price courageous
Americans have paid to secure them.
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