Discretion, Community, and Correctional Ethics

John Kleinig is professor of philosophy, and director of the Institute for Criminal Justice Ethics, at Jon Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY. Margaret Leland Smith is adjunct professor, and senior researcher at the Institute for Criminal Justice Ethics, at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY.

In this book, John Kleinig and Margaret Leland Smith, two well-known and insightful thinkers in the criminal justice ethics field, offer readers an exciting look at cutting-edge issues in correctional ethics. Contributions to this edited volume are first-rate and highlight the moral dilemmas faced by society, correctional personnel at all levels, and by those who are sentenced under American criminal law today. This excellent book misses nothing; with topics ranging from a discussion of whether a workable correctional ethics is even possible, to a consideration of moral issues involving gender and race.

• Part 1 ForewordPart 2 PrefaceChapter 3 1 Professionalizing IncarcerationPart 4 Response: The Shimmer of Reform: Prospects for a Correctional EthicChapter 5 2 The Possibility of a Correctional EthicPart 6 Response: The Case for Abolition and the Reality of RaceChapter 7 3 Prison Abuse: Prisoner-Staff RelationsPart 8 Response: Correctional Ethics and the CourtsChapter 9 4 Health Care in the Corrections Setting: An Ethical AnalysisPart 10 Response: First, Do No HarmPart 11 Response: Brokering Correctional Health CareChapter 12 5 Ideology into Practice/Practice into Ideology: Staff-Offender Relationships in Institiutional and Community Corrections in an Era of RetributionPart 13 Response: Moral Reckoning and the Social Order of the PrisonPart 14 Response: The Path of Least Resistance: Sexual Exploitation of Female Offenders as an Unethical Corollary to Retributive Ideology and Correctional PracticeChapter 15 6 Management-Staff Relations: Issues in Leadership, Ethics, and ValuesPart 16 Response: The Ethical Dilemmas of Corrections Managers: Confronting Practical and Political ComplexityPart 17 Additional ResourcesPart 18 IndexesPart 19 About Contributors