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 Professional ethics
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◈ Professional ethics encompass the personal

and corporate standards of behavior expected
by professionals.
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◈ The word professionalism originally applied to
vows of a religious order. By at least the year
1675, the term had seen secular application
and was applied to the three learned
professions:
◈ 1.Divinity
◈ 2.Law
◈ 3.Medicine
4 ◈ The term professionalism was also used for the
military profession around this same time.
Professionals and those working in
acknowledged professions exercise specialist
knowledge and skill. How the use of this
knowledge should be governed when
providing a service to the public can be
considered a moral issue and is termed
professional ethics.
 Professional Codes of Ethics
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◈ General rule is to ethically act in accordance
with approved standards of conduct and
responsibility or according to the respective
ethical code of behavior.
 Importance of Professional Codes of Ethics
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◈ Many ethical dilemmas in criminal justice
◈ Complicated relationships in the field
◈ Requirement of professionalism
 Areas of Ethical Concern for Decision Making
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◈ The three areas below are not “static”. They, at
times overlap, at times are manually exclusive,
and numerous varieties in between.
 Making Ethical Decisions: Process
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◈ Ethical decision-making refers to the process
of evaluating and choosing among alternatives
in a manner consistent with ethical principles.
In making ethical decisions, it is necessary to
perceive and eliminate unethical options and
select the best ethical alternative.
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The process of making ethical decisions requires:
◈ 1. Commitment: The desire to do the right thing
regardless of the cost
◈ 2. Consciousness: The awareness to act consistently
and apply moral convictions to daily behavior.
◈ 3. Competency: The ability to collect and evaluate
information, develop alternative, and foresee
potential consequences and risks.
 Good decisions are both ethical and effective:
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◈ Ethical decisions – generate and sustain trust;
demonstrate respect, responsibility, fairness
and caring; and are consistent with good
citizenship. These behaviors provide a
foundation for making better decisions by
setting the ground rules for our behavior.
11 ◈ Effective decisions – are effectively if they
accomplish what we want accomplished and if
they advance our purposes. A choice that produces
unintended and undesirable results is ineffective.
The key to making effective decisions is to think
about choices in terms of their ability to
accomplish our most important goals. This means
we have to understand the difference between
immediate and short-term goals and longer-range
goals.
THANK YOU
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MALE FEMALE
Jayson T. Doce Cyren Duran
Jeson Dumagpi Shaira F. Duno
Eljohn Dizon
Kenneth Duron
Johnrey Dollete
Jovy I. diva
Lacky S. Distor

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