Deck 5: A Framework for Analysis

Question 1

Moral ideals are the fullest expression of basic values or culturally prescribed notions of ultimate good.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

When determining the ethics of behavior, the moral issue describes the behavior that has raised a question of ethics.

Answer 2

False

Question 3

The Principle of Respect for Persons states that all people are worthy of sympathetic consideration.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

The Principle of Right Desire states that all persons can potentially be regarded as possessions.

Question 5

Consequences are the potential outcomes of our behavior, whether negative or positive.

Question 6

Systems of ethics, moral dilemmas, and moral reasoning constitute a framework for analysis to help guide us to reach a conclusion about the ethics of our behavior or the behavior of others.

Question 7

The Principle of the Double Effect notes that we ought to desire that which is really good for us and extends to including respect for other people.

Question 8

Facts are the pieces of information helping us to determine who, what, when where and why.

Question 9

Details are the truths associated with what occurred in case where a question of ethics has arisen.

Question 10

Scenarios are good ways in which to determine violations of ethics that come out of decision making.

Question 11

The framework for analysis described in the chapter consists of which of the following?

A) Moral reasoning
B) Systems of ethics
C) Moral dilemmas
D) All of the above

Question 12

In the template for analysis, these are used to identify what occurred; that is, the behavior that raised a question of ethics.

A) Facts
B) Details
C) Ethical Issues
D) Moral Ideals

Question 13

According to the template for analysis, these are particular pieces of information that help us identify who, what, when, where, and why, useful for assessing the ethics of the behavior that is being scrutinized.

A) Facts
B) Details
C) Ethical Issue
D) Moral Ideals

Question 14

In the template for analysis, what term describes the potential violation of ethics arising from the behavior under analysis?

A) Facts
B) Details
C) Ethical Issue
D) Moral Ideals

Question 15

These represent the fullest expression of basic values or culturally prescribed notions of ultimate "good":

A) Facts
B) Details
C) Ethical Issues
D) Moral Ideals

Question 16

These identify the optimal conditions under which choices are made concerning how we should behave or how a certain goal is achieved.

A) Substantive moral ideals
B) Procedural moral ideals
C) Prima facie duties
D) Procedural moral obligations

Question 17

In normative ethics, this principle holds that we ought to want that which is really good for us, including respect for other people.

A) Substantive moral ideals
B) Procedural moral ideals
C) Principle of Right Desire
D) Principle of Respect for Persons

Question 18

One important tenet of this principle is that all people are worthy of sympathetic consideration.

A) Principle of Justice
B) Principle of Noncontradiction
C) Principle of Right Desire
D) Principle of Respect for Persons

Question 19

This concept refers to the responsibilities we have to others based on the relationship we have with them.

A) Obligations
B) Fidelity obligations
C) Nonfidelity obligations
D) Consequences

Question 20

These constitute the responsibilities we have to others arising from promises made.

A) Obligations
B) Fidelity obligations
C) Nonfidelity obligations
D) Consequences

Question 21

What ethical issues do you believe are important in criminal justice, yet are under-discussed? Why do you think this is the case?

Question 22

What obligations do criminal justice practitioners have in their daily jobs for those that are going through the criminal justice system?

Question 23

Compare how any two systems of normative ethics include ideals and obligations within their framework.