CRJS 3007 Lecture 5: Lecture five Professional Ethics February 10th 2016
10 Mar 2017
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The advocates of this model would rationalize or excuse police actions saying that. Public servants: are professionals who are paid by the public and whose jobs entail pursuing the public good: purpose of our law enforcement is not to control crime, but to maintain order. Packers (1968) due process model: there is a possibility of error, finality is not a priority, there is insistence on prevention and elimination of mistakes, efficiency is rejected if it involves shortcuts. Protection of process is as important as protection of innocents: the coercive power of the state is always subject to abuse. The concept developed by hobbes, rousseau, and locke in which the state of nature is a war of all against all and, thus, individuals give up their liberty to aggress against others in return for safety. The contract is between society, which promises protection, and the individual, who promises to abide by laws.
