The Ethical Dilemma of a Police Officer Professions are guided by codes of ethics to aid them in performance of their duties and to ensure maintenance of high standards of conduct. Police officers are faced with a maze of obligations in the performance of their official duties. The “Law Enforcement Code of Ethics” and “Canons of Police Ethics” were created to make explicit the conduct considered appropriate for police officers and to guide them in the performance of their duties. Although police
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well as utilitarian benefits‚ and the religious junction principles. While already touching on long-term self-interest and government requirements there are still a few ethical principles relevant to your proposal of the current situation of Retrograde. Firing a full-time employee solely to decrease costs will go against the ethical practice of utilitarian benefits. Author Chuck Williams defines the principle as stating “you should never take an action that does not result in greater good for society”
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Ethical Dilemma Executive Summary Any officer who joins a new department has to be faced with the ethical dilemma of what is right and wrong. An officer‚ who witnesses another officer accepting a bribe‚ is left with the burden of deliberating if they should report what they witnessed. The rules and regulations for any department come into question when an officer is faced with such situation. Criminal justice personnel are projected to up hold the code of ethics no matter what‚ but can often
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Abstract This paper explores the ethical dilemma of a licensed professional counselor who is practicing out of a church setting. Most of the counselors’ clients are clients who are overall stable and well-functioning. Due to the status of the clients he sees he does not feel that it is necessary to keep records of the clients he sees therefore he does not keep any records at all. He feels that in a different situation where his clients were not stable he would then need to consider record keeping
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As a social worker you are faced with many different ethical dilemmas or problems in your profession. Advising the different ethical dilemmas or problems‚ there are guidelines social workers should follow‚ such as the Code of Ethics. After reading this vignette‚ I realized there was an ethical dilemma. With my responsibility as a social worker after recognizing this problem‚ I know I have to respect the well being of my client. The problem I recognized in this case is that the daughters of Ling do
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Zhenzhen Xu BUSN290 Professor Craig Johnson Oct. 2‚ 2013 In chapter 1‚ I get to know five widely used ethical methods that are Utilitarianism‚ Kant’s Categorical Imperative‚ Rawls’s Justice as Fairness‚ Confucianism and Altruism. I choose Utilitarianism to compare with Confucianism. Utilitarianism is what we should consider both short- and long-term consequences when we make some ethical choices. The goal of Utilitarianism is to expand profits as possible as they can. In other words‚ it is a
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Ethical Issues Paper Rhonda Hammer NUR/578 Victor Gibb The professional nurse is faced with ethical dilemmas as technological advancements improve and increase of cultural diversity. The increase of ethical dilemmas in health care systems has changed the nursing professions view toward ethics and shifted nursing toward a modern day nursing of respect to autonomy‚ maintaining patient dignity‚ and control over ones environment. Emergency room nurses often confronted with ethical dilemmas when
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Ethical decisions on rules of clinical trials are required because it entails a great level of risk‚ which is required to enhance medical knowledge. In regard to ethical reasoning and decisions arises ethical dilemmas. Truth vs Loyalty‚ Individual vs. Community‚ Short-term vs. Long-Term‚ and Justice vs. Mercy are all ethical dilemmas we read in the article written in the New York times about the two cousins diagnosed with melanoma. Understanding the existence of ethical dilemmas will allow us
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of these trials since they are the adults and the ones who understand?‚ where is the line drawn when it comes to children being part of clinical trials?‚ there are so many complicated questions and sometimes the answers are just as complex. Ethical Dilemma Pediatric clinical trials have not been heard of until 1955‚ when Hepatitis studies were performed at Willowbrook School in New York. This school housed hundreds of mentally challenged children‚ the physician of this school and his staff deliberately
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The main ethical problem facing Abraham is his willingness to kill his son‚ Isaac. This problem results from the lack of insight about Abrahams emotions. Kierkegaard addresses this problem by comparing him to a tragic hero and a murderer. Although he does not fit either category completely‚ his actions fall into both categories. According to Kierkegaard a tragic hero “gives up the certain for still more certain and the eye of the beholder rests upon him confidently.” Unlike the tragic hero‚ Abraham
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