PROFESSIONAL ETHICS IN CRIMINAL
JUSTICE BEING ETHICAL WHEN NO ONE IS
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QUESTIONS WITH VERIFIED ANSWERS
COMPLETE STUDY SHEET
●● The Oxford English dictionary definition of profession
Answer: The occupation which one professes to be skilled in and to
follow a vocation in which professed knowledge of some branch of
learning is used in its application to affairs of others or in the practice of
an art based upon it
Applied specifically to the three learn professions of Divinity, law, and
medicine also the military profession
●● Webster's new universal unabridged dictionary definition of
profession
Answer: Evocation or occupation requiring advanced training and some
liberal art or science and usually involving mental rather than manual
work as teaching engineer riding Eric especially medicine law or
Theology
●● A profession is a vocation that meets the following requirements
Answer: •The members possess a specialized body of knowledge Not
easily acquired accomplish through advanced education or training.
,•The members share a commitment to serving clients and or the public
•The members share a commitment to promoting the common good.
•The members share a professional creed or code of ethics that
effectively hold them selves and their colleagues to a higher standard of
behavior than is norm for other vocations
●● Characteristics of professionalism
Answer: -service to others
-assessment of client needs
-theoretical body of knowledge obtained through extended pre-service
education
-standards for entry, practice, and ethical conduct
-professional association to maintain standards
-continuing education & life long learning
●● Police legitimacy
Answer: People have trust and confidence in the police, accept police
authority and believe officers are fair.
●● Officers build public confidence by
Answer: •Treating people with dignity and respect.
•Making decisions fairly based on facts not a illegitimate factors such as
race.
, • giving people "voice" a chance to tell their side of the story
• Acting in a way that encourages community members to believe that
they will be treated with goodwill in the future
●● Procedural justice four pillars
Answer: 1. Fairness and consistency
2. Giving voice to all parties
3. Transparency
4. Impartiality
●● Procedural justice fairness and consistency
Answer: Perceptions of fairness are driven not only by outcomes but
also by the fairness and consistency of the processes used to reach those
outcomes the perception of fairness is not just about outcomes. People
consider both the outcome of a decision and the process by which the
decision was made when forming their opinion about whether a decision
was fair in short the process of decision making matters, the process of
having a respectful conversation with a community member matters, and
the process Through which an outcome is arrived at matters
●● Procedural justice giving voices to all parties
Answer: All people want to be heard and involving people or groups and
the decisions that affect them affects their assessment of given situation
everyone wants to feel as though they have a measure of control over
their face having voice in situations that may be somewhat out of their
JUSTICE BEING ETHICAL WHEN NO ONE IS
LOOKING FINAL PAPER TESTED
QUESTIONS WITH VERIFIED ANSWERS
COMPLETE STUDY SHEET
●● The Oxford English dictionary definition of profession
Answer: The occupation which one professes to be skilled in and to
follow a vocation in which professed knowledge of some branch of
learning is used in its application to affairs of others or in the practice of
an art based upon it
Applied specifically to the three learn professions of Divinity, law, and
medicine also the military profession
●● Webster's new universal unabridged dictionary definition of
profession
Answer: Evocation or occupation requiring advanced training and some
liberal art or science and usually involving mental rather than manual
work as teaching engineer riding Eric especially medicine law or
Theology
●● A profession is a vocation that meets the following requirements
Answer: •The members possess a specialized body of knowledge Not
easily acquired accomplish through advanced education or training.
,•The members share a commitment to serving clients and or the public
•The members share a commitment to promoting the common good.
•The members share a professional creed or code of ethics that
effectively hold them selves and their colleagues to a higher standard of
behavior than is norm for other vocations
●● Characteristics of professionalism
Answer: -service to others
-assessment of client needs
-theoretical body of knowledge obtained through extended pre-service
education
-standards for entry, practice, and ethical conduct
-professional association to maintain standards
-continuing education & life long learning
●● Police legitimacy
Answer: People have trust and confidence in the police, accept police
authority and believe officers are fair.
●● Officers build public confidence by
Answer: •Treating people with dignity and respect.
•Making decisions fairly based on facts not a illegitimate factors such as
race.
, • giving people "voice" a chance to tell their side of the story
• Acting in a way that encourages community members to believe that
they will be treated with goodwill in the future
●● Procedural justice four pillars
Answer: 1. Fairness and consistency
2. Giving voice to all parties
3. Transparency
4. Impartiality
●● Procedural justice fairness and consistency
Answer: Perceptions of fairness are driven not only by outcomes but
also by the fairness and consistency of the processes used to reach those
outcomes the perception of fairness is not just about outcomes. People
consider both the outcome of a decision and the process by which the
decision was made when forming their opinion about whether a decision
was fair in short the process of decision making matters, the process of
having a respectful conversation with a community member matters, and
the process Through which an outcome is arrived at matters
●● Procedural justice giving voices to all parties
Answer: All people want to be heard and involving people or groups and
the decisions that affect them affects their assessment of given situation
everyone wants to feel as though they have a measure of control over
their face having voice in situations that may be somewhat out of their
