Exam 1: An Overview of Ethics

One who meets certain intellectual and volitional conditions, especially the condition of being rational, would be considered:

Ethics provides justifications for why behavior proscribed by morality should be proscribed.

One interest among moral psychologists is with determining whether morality is grounded in a distinctly male-centered (patriarchal) view of the world.

One debate among moral psychologists is over how men and women experience reality.

A key value of the crime control model includes:

The moral career of the criminal justice practitioner includes which of the following?

Morality describes an all-encompassing code of conduct applicable to all who are rational, understand the rules, and are willing to abide by them.

_________ argues that the potential consequences of behavior for the actor should be the determining consideration for whether the behavior is ethical.

Distinguish morality from ethics. How are the two related? How do they differ?

Normative morality describes codes of conduct developed and put forth by a group (e.g., Judaism) or codes accepted by an individual as binding on her behavior (e.g., a Hasidic Jew).

Deontological ethics rejects consequences as the determining consideration for whether behavior is ethical or not.

The values-learned perspective suggests:

Identify and briefly discuss the core instrumental and terminal values found in the crime control and due process models of the criminal justice process.

__________ focuses on the potential outcomes of behavior, be they good or bad, to determine the ethics of behavior

The occupational career of a criminal justice practitioner involves a process during which he or she is selected, trained, and socialized, that ultimately results in him or her reorganizing his or her identity as no longer that of a "citizen" but, for example, a "police officer" or "correctional officer."

______________ is a subarea in applied ethics that concerns itself with developing standards or codes of conduct for those involved in the practice of law and/or medicine.

An example of a topic in normative ethics is whether morality exists

Which of the following would be an example of an ascribed status?

Applied ethics:

Which of the following describes codes of conduct relevant only under specific conditions (e.g., a time of war) and would likely be agreed upon by most rational people?