Overview

The third edition of this best-selling text continues to provide law enforcement students with the information they will need to become critical thinkers, and potential officers with an awareness of and sensitivity to important contemporary ethical issues. The material covered in the new edition continues to match the learning outcomes of the one-semester ethical reasoning course offered in Police Foundations, Law and Security, and Corrections programs.

TopFeatures

• Includes Chapter Objectives that identify the key points in each section
• Exercises, discussion and multiple-choice questions that challenge students to apply the information learned in each chapter
• Student-friendly descriptions of ethical theory, such as normative ethics and meta-ethics
• Features Chapter Summaries that review the important concepts in each chapter and lead into the following chapters
• Includes discussion of professional codes of ethics, such as the Canadian Medical Association Code of Ethics
• Instructor’s Resources
  • Includes an Instructor’s Guide with answer key, test bank, and PowerPoint presentations

TopNew to the Third Edition

• Presents new and updated case analyses, scenarios, review questions, and references
• Includes the complete Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police Ethical Framework, the British Columbia Police Code of Ethics, and statutory codes of conduct for the RCMP
• Includes codes of ethics for the Canadian Medical Association and the Canadian Judicial Council
• Offers student-friendly excerpts from ethics codes
• Examines the pros and cons of CACPEF, BCPCE, and other ethics codes, and integrates useful aspects into the authors’ generic ethical decision-making framework
• Provides expanded coverage of applications of ethical reasoning, with new material on pornography, sexism, abortion, euthanasia, the death penalty, and war
• Streamlines the discussion of corruption of authority, and expands the coverage of applicable codes of discipline for various policing issues

TopContent Summary

• Chapter 1: Critical Thinking and Ethical Reasoning
• Chapter 2: Approaches to Ethical Decision Making
• Chapter 3: Professional Codes of Ethics
• Chapter 4: Police, Corrections, and Security Codes of Ethics
• Chapter 5: A Framework for Ethical Decision Making

Part II: Applications of Ethical Reasoning

• Chapter 6: Contemporary issues in Canadian society: Abortion, Pornography, and Sexism
• Chapter 7: Contemporary Issues in Canadian Society: Euthanasia, the Death Penalty, and War
• Chapter 8: Contemporary Issues in Policing, Corrections, and Security: the Officer’s Role — Professional and Private

TopAbout the Authors

David Evans is professor emeritus at the University of Western Ontario, and adjunct professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Victoria. He has 30 years of experience as a professor of Clinical Psychology.

Craig MacMillan has 20 years of experience in various areas of the Canadian legal system, including a number of policing postings: uniform patrol, major crime, informatics, operations policy, hate crime, training, and commercial crime.