Discretion, Community, and Correctional Ethics

Discretion, Community, and Correctional Ethics
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Country
United States
Published
28 October 2001
Pages
272
ISBN
9780742501836

Discretion, Community, and Correctional Ethics

Some two million Americans are in jail or in prison. Except for the occasional expose, what happens to them is hidden from the rest of us. Is it possible to develop and instil a professional ethic for prison personnel that, in partnership with formal regulatory constraints, will mediate relations among officers, staff and inmates, or are the failures of imprisonment as an ethically-constrained institution so deeply etched into its structure that no professional ethic is possible? The contributors to this volume struggle with this central question and it’s broader and narrower ramifications. Some argue that despite the problems facing the practice of incarceration as a punishment, a professional ethic for prison officers and staff can be constructed and implemented. Others, however, despair of imprisonment and even punishment, and reach instead for alternative ways of healing the personal and communal breaches constituted by crime. The result is a provocative contribution to practical and professional ethics.

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