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Discretion, Community, and Correctional Ethics, Paperback / softback Book

Discretion, Community, and Correctional Ethics Paperback / softback

Edited by John Kleinig, Margaret Leland Smith

Paperback / softback

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Some two million Americans are in jail or in prison.

Except for the occasional exposé, what happens to them is hidden from the rest of us.

Is it possible to develop and instill a professional ethic for prison personnel that, in partnership with formal regulatory constraints, will mediate relations among officers, staff, and inmates, or are the failures of imprisonment as an ethically-constrained institution so deeply etched into its structure that no professional ethic is possible?

The contributors to this volume struggle with this central question and its broader and narrower ramifications.

Some argue that despite the problems facing the practice of incarceration as punishment, a professional ethic for prison officers and staff can be constructed and implemented.

Others, however, despair of imprisonment and even punishment, and reach instead for alternative ways of healing the personal and communal breaches constituted by crime.

The result is a provocative contribution to practical and professional ethics.

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