CJA 324 All DQs

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CJA 324 All DQs
CJA 324 All DQs
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Year: 2015
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Week 1 DQ 1

If you had to choose one ethical system, deontological or utilitarian, which one most closely conforms to your own beliefs? Describe each system and explain your answer.

 

Week 1 DQ 2

Should police officers be required to secure a certain number of hours of ethics training each year? Explain why or why not. If such training is needed, what components should it include? What about lawyers, judges, and correctional officers?

 

Week 1 DQ 3

Should a police officer be sanctioned for drinking to excess in public and making a spectacle of himself or herself in a bar? Should a police officer be sanctioned for posing naked in a magazine, but identified as a police officer using pictures of the uniform as props? What private behavior of police, if any, should be subject to sanction? Explain your answer.

 

Week 1 DQ 4

Should a criminal defense attorney be sanctioned for developing a sexual relationship with a current client? What if the attorney-client relationship is over? What about a prosecutor and a victim from one of his or her cases? How about a prosecutor and a police officer who are both assigned to the same pending case? What about a probation officer and probationer or a correctional officer and inmate? Explain your answer.

 

Week 2 DQ 1

If a young boy, upset over a lost bicycle, approaches two police officers during their dinner, what is the ethical thing to do? Should they immediately interrupt their dinner and search for the missing bicycle? Should they take a report to make the boy feel better, knowing they will not or cannot do anything about it? Should they tell the boy to go away because they have had a hard night and are looking forward to a hot meal? Does it make a difference if police officers are not paid for their dinner hour?

 

Week 2 DQ 2

If police encounter travelers who have been robbed during their passage through the city, should they leave the victims on the street to fend for themselves? Should the police take the travelers to a shelter? Should the police take up a collection to help them on their way?

 

Week 2 DQ 3

Evaluate the statement that police departments enforce the law in a discriminatory manner. What evidence supports such a statement? What evidence contradicts the statement?

 

Week 2 DQ 4

Identify how the police code of ethics clashes with the values of the police subculture.

 

Week 3 DQ 1

What is the difference between the role of a lawyer as a legal advocate and a lawyer as a moral agent? Provide examples of both. Which would you prefer if you were a client? Which would you prefer if you were a victim? Are the two mutually exclusive? Explain.

 

Week 3 DQ 2

Using ethical criteria, evaluate recent courtroom practices including the use of videotaped testimony, allowing television cameras into the courtroom and jury room, and victim statements during sentencing.

Week 3 DQ 3

Identify areas of discretion that judges have, provide examples of their discretion, and discuss unethical and ethical criteria for the use of their discretion.

 

Week 3 DQ 4

What ethical problems exist with expert witness testimony in criminal prosecutions?

 

Week 4 DQ 1

If you were being punished for a crime, would you rather receive a year in prison or 50 lashes? Why do we not use this type of corporal punishment for criminal offenders? Do you think we should? Explain your answer.

 

Week 4 DQ 2

Would you rather spend a year in prison or receive five years of probation with very severe restrictions? Could you envision a probationary sentence that was more severe than a custodial sentence?

 

Week 4 DQ 3

In what way does the deterrence rationale for sentencing impose a harsher sentence for the uncommitted crimes of others? Is this practice cruel and unusual? Is this practice ethical?

 

Week 4 DQ 4

How does the correctional subculture deter whistle blowing? How does the correctional subculture differ from the police subculture? How are they similar?

 

Week 5 DQ 1

If a police officer was told to pick up an individual on minor charges repeatedly as a form of harassment to get the individual to serve as an informant, should the officer do so or refuse?

 

Week 5 DQ 2

If a prosecutor was trying a case and the judge was obviously biased against the accused and allowed many errors to occur that resulted in a violation of due process, should the prosecutor accept an easy conviction, or should the prosecutor make a stand against the judge’s actions?

 

Week 5 DQ 3

Are there situations in criminal justice in which the ends might warrant or justify unethical means? Provide examples and explain your answer.

 

Week 5 DQ 4

What is victim precipitation? Should victim precipitation be considered in appropriate circumstances or always excluded? Explain your answer.