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"This book offers an introduction to the philosophical issues of criminal justice ethics in a way suitable for students of criminology and criminal justice. It links philosophical concepts with empirical research in criminology and introduces criminal justice ethics, in the context of political and legal order"--

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Notes -- Chapter 1 Rules, Norms, and Values -- 1.1 Some Background to the Issues -- 1.2 The Pervasiveness of Rules and Norms -- 1.3 The Space of Reasons, the Causal Nexus, and Norms -- Notes -- Chapter 2 Norms and the Rule of Law -- 2.1 Actions, Reasons, and the Normativity of the Legal Order -- 2.2 Political Culture and the Rule of Law -- 2.3 Moral Intelligibility and the Rule of Law -- Notes -- Chapter 3 Hume's Moral Philosophy and His Contested Legacy -- 3.1 Some of the Philosophical Contours of the Issues -- 3.2 Some Relevant Metaethics -- 3.3 Hume's Naturalistic Morality -- 3.4 Hume and Prescriptivity -- 3.5 Normativity and Naturalism -- Notes -- Chapter 4 Relativism and the Study of Morality -- 4.1 Why is Anyone a Relativist? -- 4.2 Relativism and Moral Explanation -- 4.3 Relative to What? -- Notes -- Chapter 5 Some Illustrations -- 5.1 Some General Considerations About Norms -- 5.2 Investigating Moral Life Through the Study of Prisons and Prisoners -- 5.3 Desistance, Character, and Agency -- Notes -- Chapter 6 The Multiple Layers of Normativity -- 6.1 Identifying Layers of Normativity -- 6.2 The Liberal State and Responsibility for Criminal Justice -- 6.3 Discrimination and Criminal Justice -- 6.4 A Restorative Approach to Integrating the Layers of Normativity? -- 6.5 What Does Experience Show? -- Notes -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Appendix I -- Index.

"This book offers an introduction to the philosophical issues of criminal justice ethics in a way suitable for students of criminology and criminal justice. It links philosophical concepts with empirical research in criminology and introduces criminal justice ethics, in the context of political and legal order"--

"Current forms of incarceration in the U.S. and U.K. are morally problematic in ways that are antithetical to the values and principles of liberal democracy. While indicating those morally problematic features the book defends the basic political and legal culture of the U.S. and U.K. A significant remaking of the political order is not needed for the required reforms of incarceration to be made. Greater faithfulness to the values and principles of liberal democracy could be adequate for such reforms. It is crucial to make those reforms because of the ways prisoners are currently being harmed, rendering many of them incapable of reintegrating successfully into civil society. The liberal order makes a dynamic, pluralistic civil society possible, and participating in civil society gives people a reason to value the liberal order. That relation is weakened by penal practices that diminish the agential capacities of offenders, and fail to respect them as members of society. The book explores the relation between criminal justice and justice more comprehensively understood, highlighting the distinctive elements of criminal justice. It explains the role of desert in criminal justice and why criminal justice needs to be distinguished from distributive justice. Criminal justice includes a retributivist conception of punishment, one in which desert, proportionality, and parsimony are centrally important. A retributivist conception of punishment most effectively respects the voluntariness and accountability of agents in ways well suited to a liberal political order. The account examines misinterpretations of retributivism and highlights weaknesses of consequentialist approaches to sanction"--

Jonathan Jacobs, Class of 2016, was the leadoff presenter on Jan. 28 in the Spring 2015 Student Scholar Series, offering an overview of how quickly the use of facial recognition technology is spreading. He concluded that current Fourth Amendment protections are outmoded and inadequate to shield citizens' privacy. Jacobs suggested the creation of a central new Federal Facial Recognition Database that would be responsive to legislation specially designed to put parameters on its use, with certain exceptions. "The time to get ahead of this issue is now. Criminally and constitutionally, we need to make sure privacy is preserved," said Jacobs. A summary of the event is available here.