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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 text 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.

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.

Religious traditions can be sources of values and attitudes supporting the liberal polity in ways that political theorizing and conceptions of public reason often fail to recognize. moreover, religious traditions can give support through the ways reason is crucial to their self-understanding. one understanding of Judaism is examined as an example. Also, the particularism of traditions can encourage commitment to universally valid values and ideals. reason's role in Judaism and other religious traditions makes possible constructive interaction between those traditions and between religious and secular thought. exclusion of religiously grounded considerations from the discourse and deliberations of liberal polities can be counterproductively illiberal.