Exam 3: Ethics and Corrections

Approximately 60 percent of people in state prison for drug offenses are ______.

Discuss any three (3) of the practices that prevent unethical behavior.

Which ethical framework best describes your feelings about ethics? Why?

According to Bentham, people weigh the potential pleasure and pain of an action in the ______.

A correctional officer decides to look the other way when a normally cooperative inmate clearly possesses contraband. What is that officer using when she makes the decision whether or not to discipline the inmate

The ______ perspective on ethics is both deontological and teleological.

Ethics is the ability to make choices and to act or not act on those choices.

Deportations for drug possession offenses have decreased over the past twenty years.

Overall, the war on drugs has ______.

A 25-year old male offender was deported for a drug law violation in 2013. What was he most likely charged with?

In the course of an investigation of correctional officer wrongdoing, one officer lies to an investigator and claims never to have seen any violations. This is an example of ______.

A child who is ______ is most likely to have a parent who is incarcerated.

Recent statistics suggest that approximately ______ people are arrested yearly in the United States for nonviolent drug offenses.

Which statement would a person following a teleological ethical system most likely make?

You are a new correctional officer and you notice that a fellow officer is physically abusive to inmates. How are you going to deal with this situation and which ethical framework is reflected in your approach?

What is utilitarianism? Provide an example of this ethical framework in action.

People who commit serious ethical violations should ______.

Employers should develop an ethics code with ______.

One effect of the war on drugs has been to ______.

Compare and contrast an ethics of care framework and an egoism framework.