Ethical Dilemma Issues Criminal Justice

The following word count and source requirements are applicable. A minimum of 1,200 words (total assignment) and three scholarly sources. References do not count towards the word count.

1. Utilizing the dilemma below, follow the steps of analyzing a dilemma. What are the facts? What are relevant concepts? What is the major dilemma?

2. You are taking an essay exam in a college classroom. The test is closed-book and closed-notes, yet you look up and see that the person sitting next to you has hidden under his blue book a piece of paper filled with notes, which he is using to answer some questions. What is the right thing to do?

3. Find an example of an ethical issue and an example of an ethical dilemma in the newspaper. Explain your selection.

4. Use the ethical pyramid and identify an ethical system for the base, the moral rules that come from the system and an ethical judgment that is consistent with the moral rules for one of the dilemmas at the back of the chapter. Redo the pyramid using a different ethical system to determine if the judgment changes.

5. Ask a friend or relative their response to one of the dilemmas in the back of the chapter and then ask them why they decided the way they did. (Or show a video clip of someone talking about why they did something.) Now try and identify their reasoning: was it egoism, ethical formalism, utilitarian, ethics of care, religion, or some other ethical system.