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The first edition of this book was published in 1986, thus this 10th edition marks
over 30 years the book has been used in criminal justice and training classrooms.
When I first wrote the book, there were very few textbooks for a course covering
criminal justice ethics. Now there are probably a dozen, so I appreciate that readers
continue to find value in this one. Over the years, the book has been shaped by
current events, reviewers’ comments, and the many individuals who have provided
feedback. I want to thank every person who has contacted me through e-mail, let-
ters, or personally at conferences. I welcome and appreciate all feedback. Please con-
tinue to let me know what you think and help me make the book better and more
accurate.
Since the first edition, this text has provided the basic philosophical principles
necessary to analyze ethical dilemmas, and it has also included current news events to
show that these are not simply “ivory tower” discussions. Each edition has incorpo-
rated recent news, sometimes requiring updates even as the book goes to press. The
book also identifies themes that run through the entire system, such as discretion and
due process. In each edition, I have tried to improve the coverage and structure of the
book without changing the elements that work for instructors.
The last edition captured the rise of the “Black Lives Matter” movement, increasing
attention to wrongful convictions, and presidential commutations of drug offenders
sentenced under mandatory minimums. This edition has had major news to cover as
well. Our recent presidential election has led to changes within the Department of
Justice, “sanctuary city” resolutions, and the federal turnabout on the use of private
prisons, among other major events or policy changes that affect criminal justice
organizations. As with prior years, it is difficult not to devote more space to law
enforcement than courts or corrections, since the troubles there seem to receive greater
coverage by both the academic and popular press. In some areas, a discussion in the
last edition has been expanded and updated, such as prosecutorial misconduct, the
Rikers Island jail scandal, and halfway house scandals in New York City and Philadel-
phia. Systemic issues such as use-of-force training, mandatory minimums, the lack of
indigent defense, and mass imprisonment continue to be covered in this book as ethi-
cal issues, although legal and policy factors are covered as well.
This edition retains the basic structure of devoting three chapters each to police,
courts, and corrections with four introductory chapters. Instructors will find only
minor changes in the chapter learning objectives and study questions, making for an
easy transition in terms of adapting course material to the new edition. Several of the
Walking the Walk boxes have been changed, removing some to make way for individ-
uals involved in recent events. The focus of revisions has been, as always, on covering
new academic work and current news that is relevant to ethics. The changes are
described in more detail below.
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• Chapter 8: Law and Legal Professionals—The Walking the Walk box was removed
and replaced with one about former Attorney General Comey. The asset forfeiture
In the News box was removed since the topic was covered in Chapter 6. The discus-
sion on indigent defense was moved from Chapter 9 to this chapter. New In the
News boxes include one on laws criminalizing homelessness, and one on lawsuits
against states because of underfunding indigent defense programs. There is a new,
full discussion of the “criminalization of poverty” (bail, fines, fees, etc.). The discus-
sion on marijuana legalization has been updated. There is a new section on court-
room workgroups.
• Chapter 9: Discretion and Dilemmas in the Legal Profession—The section on
asset forfeiture was substantially reduced with much of the discussion, including
the key term and margin definition, moving to Chapter 6 where there is a fuller
discussion. The Ethical Dilemma box was removed to reduce chapter length. Sev-
eral dated In the News boxes were replaced with current news items, for example,
the ACLU defending an alt-right group, the Oakland jailhouse informant scandal,
and the Brock Turner sentencing. Other current news was included in relevant dis-
cussions, including an ethical complaint against the attorney for Jody Arias, updated
salary figures for prosecutors, and Justice Ginsburg’s comment about President
Trump as a potential conflict of interest issue. A section on jailhouse informants
was moved from Chapter 10 and consolidated with the existing discussion in this
chapter.
• Chapter 10: Ethical Misconduct in the Courts and Responses—The chapter
introduction was changed by reducing the Clarence Brandley section and adding
several additional summaries of wrongfully convicted individuals. New In the News
boxes were added, including one of a defense attorney accused of witness tamper-
ing, and the District Attorney Seth Williams’ indictment (Philadelphia). There was
a new study of prosecutorial misconduct added. The In the News box on prosecuto-
rial misconduct was changed, shortening the old story and adding a new one. New
In the News boxes were added on judicial misconduct including sexual exploitation
of defendants, and one on a California law making Brady violations a felon. Updated
court cases on prosecutorial immunity were added. The Walking the Walk box was
replaced with one on Kenneth Thompson, the late District Attorney from
Brooklyn.
• Chapter 11: The Ethics of Punishment and Corrections—The chapter introduc-
tion on the philosophy of punishment has been shortened. All statistics concerning
imprisonment and other correctional supervision have been updated. The informa-
tion on supermax prisons is no longer in its own section; the discussion has been
shortened to focus on supermax prisons as an example of a type of punishment.
The discussion of private corrections has been expanded and updated. The discus-
sion of capital punishment has been slightly shortened but new Supreme Court
cases were added. The In the News box on Riker’s Island jail has been updated. The
In the News box on President Obama’s commutations of drug offenders was
updated with the final numbers. New In the News boxes were added on raising the
age of responsibility in New York, adding monitors to review private prisons
in Michigan, and the conviction of the former head of corrections, Chris Epps, in
Mississippi.
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Features
There are several boxed features found in Ethical Dilemmas and Decisions in Crimi-
nal Justice, 10th Ed., which highlight and provide real-world examples of key con-
cepts and issues.
In the News This feature has been present since the earliest editions of this book.
Each chapter presents news items that relate to the discussion. In every edition, some
of the news stories are kept, but most are cycled out to make room for current events.
Examples in this edition include:
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Quote and Query Another longtime feature of the book, these boxes offer some
classic and current quotes meant to illustrate a point or issue from the chapter’s discus-
sion. There is a query following the quote that spurs the reader to think about the
quote in the context of the discussion.
Walking the Walk Introduced in the sixth edition, these boxes describe individu-
als who display ethical courage. This feature proved to be so popular that every chapter
now has one and this edition has replaced some of the older ones with new descrip-
tions of individuals faced with ethical dilemmas.
Ethical Issue Introduced in the ninth edition, these boxes present a current issue or
policy in policing, courts, or corrections, and like the Ethical Dilemma boxes, provide
an extended analysis of the issue under law, policy, and ethics. The addition of these
issues boxes in some chapters shows how issues can be analyzed in a similar way to
personal dilemmas.
Pedogogical Aids
In addition to the boxed features, Ethical Dilemmas and Decisions in Criminal Justice,
10th Ed., has several pedagogical aids designed to enhance student learning and
comprehension.
Key Terms Key terms are bolded and defined when they first appear in the text, and
are included at the end of the chapter for student review.
Chapter Review At the end of each chapter, the chapter objectives are presented
again, but there is also a short summary of content. These reviews summarize the key
content of the chapter for the reader.
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Ancillaries
A number of supplements are provided by Cengage Learning to help instructors use
Ethical Dilemmas and Decisions in Criminal Justice in their courses and to aid stu-
dents in preparing for exams. Supplements are available to qualified adopters. Please
consult your local sales representative for details.
Online Test Bank Each chapter of the test bank contains multiple-choice, true/
false, completion, and essay questions to challenge your students and assess their
learning. It is tagged to the learning objectives that appear in the main text, references
to the section in the main text where the answers can be found, and Bloom’s taxonomy.
Finally, each question in the test bank has been carefully reviewed by experienced
criminal justice instructors for quality, accuracy, and content coverage.
Online Lectures Helping you make your lectures more engaging while effectively
reaching your visually oriented students, these handy Microsoft PowerPoint® slides
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Acknowledgments
The staff members at Cengage have been integral to the development of this edition.
They are Carolyn Henderson Meier, Senior Product Manager; Katie Seibel, Content
Developer; and Mark Linton, Senior Marketing Manager. Thanks also to Pradhiba
Kannaiyan, Senior Project Manager at Lumina Datamatics, and Manish Kumar,
Senior Copy Editor.
I also wish to thank those individuals in the field who have e-mailed me with
questions and suggestions for the book and hope that they continue to do so. Most
importantly, I thank my husband, Eric Lund, for all that he does.
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Part I Ethics and the Criminal Justice System
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Learning Objectives
1. Explain the difference between ethical
issues and ethical dilemmas.
Ethics is the study of right and wrong. Cheating may be efficient for 2. Give examples of how discretion
the individual but it is judged as wrong and unethical. permeates every phase of the
E
criminal justice system and creates
thical judgments permeate our lives. You employ ethical ethical dilemmas for criminal justice
analysis when you decide to utter a white lie to get out of professionals.
doing something you don’t want to do or when you call in 3. Explain why the study of ethics
sick on a beautiful, sunny day. Being honest in your interactions is important for criminal justice
with others is a generally recognized duty; therefore, these deci- professionals.
sions can be judged as wrong. Small decisions about behavior 4. Define the terms morals, ethics, duties,
are often made without thinking of the ethical implications of supererogatories, and values.
these choices, but they form our character. 5. Describe what behaviors might be subject
In this text, we will explore ethical decision making. More to moral/ethical judgments.
specifically, we explore the ethical dilemmas and issues within the
criminal justice system. Every day one can pick up a newspaper or
read news from other media outlets that present ethical issues or describe individuals who have made choices
that are subject to ethical judgments. Some decisions affect very few people—as our decision to call in sick
when we don’t want to go to work. However, depending on the person and the decision, thousands or even
millions of people might be affected. The decisions of criminal justice professionals almost always affect others.
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Part I Ethics and the Criminal Justice System
The criminal justice system can be examined using political, legal, organizational,
or sociological approaches; however, in this book, we shift the lens somewhat and
look at the system from an ethics perspective. Asking whether something is legal, for
instance, is not necessarily the same as asking whether something is right.
ethical issues Ethical discussions in criminal justice focus on issues or dilemmas. Ethical issues
Difficult social or are broad social questions, often concerning the government’s social control mecha-
policy questions that nisms and the impact on those governed. These issues can be subject to legal analysis
include controversy
and/or ethical analysis since the two are related but not the same. The following is a
over the “right” thing
to do. list of a few current issues in the field of criminal justice that can be subject to ethical
analysis:
• Decriminalizing recreational marijuana
• Reversing mandatory minimum laws for drug crimes
• Abolishing the death penalty
• Using private prisons
• Requiring police officers to carry their own liability insurance
• Instituting civilian review boards to advise police departments
• Instituting deportation against “Dreamers” (“Deferred Action for Childhood
Arrivals” Act recipients)
• Cities adopting “Sanctuary City” resolutions
• Instituting conviction review task forces in prosecutors’ offices
• Requiring mandatory DNA collection for all misdemeanant arrestees.
The typical individual does not have much control over these issues. If one is a
political or organizational leader, it is possible that it is within that person’s discre-
tion to decide some ethical issues, but generally, these choices are decided by political
action or deliberation by many people.
ethical dilemmas While ethical issues are broad social questions or policy decisions, ethical
Situations in which dilemmas are situations in which one person must decide what to do. Either the choice
it is difficult for an is unclear or the right choice will be difficult because of the costs involved. Every one
individual to decide, of us has faced ethical dilemmas. Our dilemmas involve our jobs and our interactions
either because
the right course of
with others. Criminal justice professionals face dilemmas arising from the choices they
action is not clear are faced with during their employment. Dilemmas of criminal justice professionals
or because the right include the following:
course of action
carries some negative
• A police officer’s decision whether to ticket a traffic violator or not
consequences. • A police officer’s decision to tell a supervisor that her partner has an alcohol
problem
• A sheriff ’s decision how to advise a mayor and city council regarding budgetary
priorities
• A defense attorney’s decision to take a case or not
• A prosecutor’s decision on whether and what to charge
• A probation officer’s decision on whether to file a violation report on a probationer
At times, one’s belief regarding an ethical issue gives rise to an ethical dilemma.
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now be on Carthaginian soil that my services would be required.
Alas! for Rome untaken. Alas! alas! Comfort me, oh, my daughter!”
It was a terrible moment for Elissa, almost as terrible as for the
great warrior himself, for to both of them it was the moment when, no
matter what had been the untiring efforts of each in the country’s
cause—no matter what had been the successes, the end had come,
and that end, after long years of noble struggle, meant for both a
confession of utter failure—of bitter, terrible failure.
But let us draw a veil over that hour of bitter grief in the temple of
Juno Lacinia. Let us leave father and daughter alone in their sorrow
—alone in the darkening shades of night, with nought but the dull red
glow of the scarcely-burning sacrificial fire to cast a lowering gleam
of brightness through the thickening gloom around.
********
A fortnight later Hannibal had landed with all his troops, and they
were comparatively few, at Adrumentum, on the eastern coast of
what is now known as Tunisia, and upon arriving there he
determined to put into force, while waiting to collect an army, a
project that he had had in his head for some time past. This was no
less than the union by marriage of Elissa with Maharbal. Two
reasons had he for wishing to bring this about without delay. One
was that he considered that after many years of long and faithful
services, his noble lieutenant deserved the only reward that he could
give him; the other, that now that both his brethren were dead, he
wished to raise up posterity to himself in his own direct line.
Of Maharbal’s views he had no doubt, but he was by no means so
sure of Elissa. Upon his questioning her he found her distinctly
averse to the marriage. She would give no reason save that she did
not now wish to marry Maharbal. He had not come to espouse her
when he might have done so years before, and now her heart was
not what it was when a mere girl. She did not wish to marry him. At
length her father twitted her with loving Scipio. She confessed plainly
that she did love Scipio; but said that she did not, now that marriage
between them could be of no use to their country, wish to marry him
either. It was clearly impossible. Here she gave Hannibal an
opening.
“Marry for thy country’s sake, Elissa? Why, ’tis the very thing I
would have thee to do. By all the gods! Maharbal doth love thee
truly, and hath he not fought for thy country for all these years with
the sole hope of thee as his reward? And now that thou art here and
art unmarried, and far more beautiful even than thou wast as a
young girl, wilt thou deny him the reward which he hath well merited
at his country’s hands in the shape of Hannibal’s only daughter for
his bride?”
“My father,” replied Elissa, “since we have, by the ruling of the
great gods, come to live together again, ever have I been submissive
to thee. Yet wilt thou own that mine, as apart from thine own, hath
been an independent career, throughout which I have continually
striven to carry out the precepts which thou didst thyself instil into me
in early youth. Only once did I neglect to follow them, yet that neglect
didst thou thyself condone, while punishing me by depriving me of
this very Maharbal, who was then my lover.
“Since then, my father, have I learnt to look upon all as a matter of
policy. Policy it would indeed have been had I married Scipio, and,
would to all the gods of Carthage and of Rome combined, that, for
the sake alone of Carthage, I had been permitted to do so. But
putting this love of his for me apart, wherein lies the policy of my now
espousing Maharbal the Numidian? Noble he is, I vow, and much,
ay, very much in him do I admire, chiefly his great devotion to thyself,
which caused him to neglect me when I was younger and more
impressionable. But, father! wherein lies the policy?”
“The policy—’tis simple enough, child! ’tis because he is a
Numidian! Through him we may win back all the other Numidians, ay
even Massinissa and his crew, or certainly all the old followers of
Syphax may desert to us, and there are others. Notably, there is a
Numidian prince named Tychæus, who hath several thousand
horsemen, who might join us for the sake of Maharbal.”
Elissa pondered a moment, then answered:
“But will they not join thee without my marrying Maharbal? Is not
he sufficiently devoted to thee to ask their services on thy behalf
without claiming now from me the hand he did not care to seek years
ago when it was his without question? At least, so I gathered from
mine uncle Mago.”
Hannibal became impatient.
“Do as thou wilt, thou headstrong woman!” he cried. “Wouldst thou
have a man give me all and I give him nothing in return? Dost thou
call that either patriotism or devotion to thy father’s cause? And is it
not now thy father’s name and his alone that doth represent the
highest interests of thy country to all the rest of the world if not to
thee?” He turned angrily as if to leave her.
Elissa turned very pale, but gently laid a restraining hand upon her
father’s sleeve.
“Very well, my father, I agree, but upon the condition that our
marriage be kept quite secret.”
“Secret!” answered Hannibal testily; “wherefore secret?”
“Simply that Scipio may not know of it,” she answered sadly.
“ ’Twould but enrage him the more, and do no good. Thou mayest yet
some day, oh my father, have reason to desire the good offices of
Scipio, and,” she sighed deeply, “although, before the gods, I would
not willingly deceive him, through whom could those good offices be
so easily obtained as through me? Therefore, ’twould, methinks, be
perchance more politic to keep it secret should I marry Maharbal.
Then will I yield to thy wishes in this matter, and feel, moreover, that I
am not, in so yielding, doing unto my country any possible injury. The
country, thou knowest, oh my father, is above all. I have now no wish
for marriage; but if thou deem it for our country’s welfare, I obey.”
“Ay,” replied Hannibal, stooping down and kissing her, at the same
time stroking her hair caressingly, “thou hast said the truth, Elissa.
The country is to be considered before all, and secrecy is advisable.
It shall be kept a secret.”
On the following day Elissa became the wife of Maharbal. But
none knew that she was actually his legal wife save the priest who
united them in Hannibal’s presence alone. And Hannibal threatened
to cut out his tongue if ever he should breathe a word of the matter
to a living soul. So the priest’s silence was assured.
Thus did Maharbal obtain his heart’s desire, and thus did Elissa
once again do her duty to her father and her country. And having
now married Maharbal, she strove to make him happy.
When once more upon his native soil, Hannibal was not the man
to let the grass grow under his feet. He was not long in organising an
army from one source and another, and soon he had collected a
large force of infantry and a considerable number of elephants; he
only wanted cavalry to make up an army which, in Italy, would have
been irresistible.
CHAPTER VI.
A MOMENTOUS MEETING.
Although Elissa had seen the disposition of the troops, and even
been present on the field of battle during the earliest stages of the
combat, she had been spared the bitter humiliation of being an
actual witness of her father’s defeat.
For, with a view to possibly making use of his daughter later on in
the case of certain eventualities, no sooner had Hannibal witnessed
the disastrous stampede of the elephants than, determined at all
events to secure her safety, he had started her off with a small escort
of cavalry, with definite instructions to make all speed to
Adrumentum, and to remain there until his own arrival, or until he
should send for her to join him in Carthage itself. Alas! his own
arrival in Adrumentum almost coincided with her own; for when it
came to be a case of retreating, Hannibal retreated with as much
rapidity as he had been previously wont to advance. For well he
knew how quickly ill news can spread, and the absolute necessity of
thoroughly securing the town before the garrison had been given
sufficient time to become lukewarm or weak-hearted in his cause.
Once he had arrived upon the scene, he did not give anyone in the
place time to think, so actively did he keep everyone employed
working at the fortifications, drilling, bringing in provisions, and
preparing for a siege, or generally occupied in some capacity or
other which gave no time for treason or negligence.
Scipio, hearing soon of the state of security in which Hannibal had
placed Adrumentum, and that, moreover, he had a large fleet lying
off the place, determined not to invest that town. He marched to
Carthage instead, and sending for the Suffetes and the Council of
One Hundred, dictated to them the terms upon which alone he would
make peace. And that they were now ten times more crushing than
those which he had offered to Hannibal before the battle of Zama is
not a matter for surprise. The astute Scipio, however, had only made
such terribly onerous terms in order to be able, if necessary, to
modify them in some degree. Therefore, when the Hundred humbly
suggested that they would wish to send for Hannibal, to consult with
him before agreeing to the terms of the treaty to be forwarded to
Rome, the Roman General agreed at once. He sent word that
Hannibal should have a safe conduct to Carthage, and requested the
Senate to convey to him his wishes that his daughter should
accompany him. For now he was in a position to demand
compliance with his wishes, and he knew it.
Hannibal came from Adrumentum to Carthage by sea,
accompanied by several ships, and anchored in the gulf exactly
opposite the house on the Tœnia, whence he had started with his
father Hamilcar, when only a boy of nine, on his march along the
Mediterranean to the Pillars of Hercules.
The house on the Tœnia still belonged to him, and he
disembarked there with his daughter and Maharbal, bitterness in his
soul. No joyous demonstrations were there to welcome his return,
although an enormous throng of people crowded on the port to
obtain a sight of him. But he dismissed all those who would have
speech of him, and having entered the house, wherein every
passage and doorway was well known to him, he proceeded at once
to the verandah on the first floor and looked out.
There was everything just as it had been upon that memorable
occasion when his father Hamilcar had called him in upon the day of
Matho’s execution. Across the gulf the high hills of the Hermæan
Promontory were as dark and serrated as ever, the waters of the gulf
itself were just as green and flecked with white foam as they had
been then. The headland named Cape Carthage stood up as boldly
as in days gone by, while between him and it lay the whole expanse
of the city of Carthage, with its various temples to Moloch and Tanais
in the distance, and the Forum in the foreground, all absolutely
unchanged.
Hannibal moved round the balcony to the back of the house. Ay!
there was the very fig-tree in the garden, under which he had been
playing at war with his brothers Hasdrubal and Mago when his father
had called him. Ah! the place might not have changed, but the
people! What had become of them? His little brother Hasdrubal to
begin with. Had not his head, all bloody and disfigured, after being