ethics in Criminal Justice

ethics in Criminal Justice

Abstract

Ethics is a division of information that deals with moral values that are responsible for a person’s behavior or person undertaking. More often, ethics are related to multiple dilemmas like how to live a decent life, a person’s rights, and responsibilities, the language that defines right or wrong and moral, decisions in the determination of what is bad or good. In criminology, criminal justice practitioners are provided with a methodology to assess and make decisions on ethical dilemmas by workers of organizations. The core objectives of the practitioners are to rehabilitate offenders, prevention of crime from happening, and offering moral support to the victims.

Ethical analysis

Criminal justice practitioners are likely to encounter complex situations like workers taking advantage of addicts and assaulting sexually, emotionally or physically, substance abuse by the involved employees, lack of informed consent, infidelity and lack of confidentiality, and many more. In case a situation of employee assault is presented to justice practitioners, it is their responsibility to ensure that the victim of the assault fully benefits, and the employee is prosecuted in the court of law. For example, according to the beneficence code of ethics, counselors in the rehabilitation center are entitled to enhance and improve their client’s welfare positively and not negatively. In case of any discrimination, rehabilitation centers should be prosecuted in the court of law for the defilement of the rights of patients. The justice practitioners are entitled to ensure everyone, regardless of their status, have the right to justice and fairness.

In rehabilitation centers, for example, the patients have the right to informed consent; this means that the patients have the right to what treatment and procedures options are available. No matter how the patients need treatment, they should not be forced to accept any treatment without having been informed of the procedures and the possible side effects. Criminal justice practitioners in that facility are expected to offer the information to the beneficiaries and make sure they understand it in the simplest way possible.

Employees of an organization that deals with people’s private information are entitled to preserve their information so that it does not get to the public. In this regard, justice practitioners ensure that all employees sign a confidentiality adherence. Additionally, fidelity as code states that employees are required to adhere to the privacy of information. Once a patient signs the hospital forms, for example, it means that they have entered into a contract with the entity. Hence, the information is only confidential to that entity. It is also the responsibility of the criminal justice practitioners to ensure that such an employee who exposes private information to the public is sacked and prosecuted accordingly.