Case Study 9.1
Code of Ethics and Security Case Study
For people new to the career of criminal justice, they can often feel an overwhelming sense of uncertainty in the performance of their new duties. Placing new persons into the care of seasoned veterans who can demonstrate the organizations values and ethical conduct is a common practice in all criminal justice agencies. By practicing this procedure, the organization expects the veteran officer to pass on pertinent job information, establish proper procedure compliance, and reflect positive ethical and moral decision-making skills to the new officer. The sole responsibility is not completely placed on the veteran, management has a vital role to play as well; however, the veteran is the key factor in introducing and establishing a positive ethical code of conduct.
Ethical Relativism
Ethical Relativism is defined as the way things are, without suggesting a way things ought to be. Ethical relativism seeks only to the point that individuals frequently disagree over what is the most ‘moral’ course of action. In other terms “the descriptive view is that different groups of people have different moral standards for evaluating others or themselves acts as to right and wrong” (Ethical Relativism, 2001). For example, even though different groups of people may have in terms the same basic moral principles, they just apply these moral principles in a radically different situation. According to the case study Joe who is a correction officer in a juvenile detention center working on a unit that houses juveniles whom suffer from mental health problems. While working over the lunch hour supervising the juveniles, Joe notices a juvenile named Brian who is believed to have developmental disabilities. Brian was displaying offensive table manners, which was repulsing to other juveniles. A coworker named Daren rose from the table he was sitting at, grabbed Brian by the collar of his shirt, took him away from the table, took him to the kitchen,
For people new to the career of criminal justice, they can often feel an overwhelming sense of uncertainty in the performance of their new duties. Placing new persons into the care of seasoned veterans who can demonstrate the organizations values and ethical conduct is a common practice in all criminal justice agencies. By practicing this procedure, the organization expects the veteran officer to pass on pertinent job information, establish proper procedure compliance, and reflect positive ethical and moral decision-making skills to the new officer. The sole responsibility is not completely placed on the veteran, management has a vital role to play as well; however, the veteran is the key factor in introducing and establishing a positive ethical code of conduct.
Ethical Relativism
Ethical Relativism is defined as the way things are, without suggesting a way things ought to be. Ethical relativism seeks only to the point that individuals frequently disagree over what is the most ‘moral’ course of action. In other terms “the descriptive view is that different groups of people have different moral standards for evaluating others or themselves acts as to right and wrong” (Ethical Relativism, 2001). For example, even though different groups of people may have in terms the same basic moral principles, they just apply these moral principles in a radically different situation. According to the case study Joe who is a correction officer in a juvenile detention center working on a unit that houses juveniles whom suffer from mental health problems. While working over the lunch hour supervising the juveniles, Joe notices a juvenile named Brian who is believed to have developmental disabilities. Brian was displaying offensive table manners, which was repulsing to other juveniles. A coworker named Daren rose from the table he was sitting at, grabbed Brian by the collar of his shirt, took him away from the table, took him to the kitchen,