Exam 2: Utilitarian and Deontological Approaches to Criminal Justice Ethics

The utilitarian holds that we should not judge the morality of an action in terms of the consequences or results of that action.

When evaluating specific justice-related issues (such as how much power is given to police officers), which theory has a weakness of being too simplistic?

Factors relevant in calculating the amount of pleasure and pain produced by an action consist of these three things:

The use of force is a central criminal justice ethical issue unique to the profession.

Theories of justice address broad social issues, including human rights, equality, and distribution of wealth.

Utilitarianism is closely associated with deterrence theory.

Justice theories address broad social issues, including human rights, distribution of wealth, and:

____________ holds that the morality of an action is determined by the consequences produced by the action.

Interest in professional ethics has decreased steadily over the last 15 to 20 years.

Bentham holds that only actions that are done for the sake of duty have moral worth.

Deontologists would agree that justice involves the maximizing of pleasure for the majority, sometimes at the expense of the minority.

The most famous deontologist was ____________.

A normative ethical theorist tries to discover basic, fundamental principles of right and wrong

Mill's higher order of pleasures includes:

According to deontologists, the fundamental principle of morality is the "categorical imperative."

The utilitarian holds that we evaluate the ____________ of an action in terms of the results or outcomes of that action.

Deontologists have argued that human beings sometimes have to make right decisions based upon nothing more than:

Utilitarianism is classified as a consequentialist ethical theory.

____________ is one of the central ethical issues concerning criminal justice.

Mill (1979) considered pleasures such as drinking and playing video games to be superior to "lower order" pleasures such as poetry and reading.