Question

In this activity, you answer a discussion question based upon the various models of ethical decision-making. Criminal justice professionals are constantly being faced with decisions: ethical, tactical, procedural, legal, etc. In this instance, you discuss the nature of an ethical decision as the rationale for a specific action(s). You will need to fully comprehend the materials in order to satisfactorily participate in this discussion.

Discussion Question

Based upon the assigned reading, do you think criminal justice professionals base the majority of their decisions on the deontological or teleological model of ethics, specifically, the categorical imperative versus the utilitarianism approaches? Explain your answer in full and give examples to support your position.

Answer 1

Criminal justice professionals neither fully based on the deontological models nor they go fully on teleologicals models. It actually depends on the flexibilities of the law and order system that a person related to criminal justice will bound to take decisions on that regard. In the countries of third worlds it often happens that person related to criminal justice fails to take the right decision due to lack of proofs. Thus they bound to take decisions which are very much deontogical but are wrong in nature.Despite of laws and orders of a country human beings have ethical values follwed by some code of ethics which are tough to overcome. So from the innr self a person try to works with his teleological models but without lack of prooving the facts court fails to redress the facts .