Explain the Psychology of Morality Flashcards

Crim 310 final study guide 

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Morality according to _______ arises from the fact that humans, as rational beings, impose laws and structures of behavior upon themselves.
Emmanuel Kant
Kohlberg's moral stages include all o the following
-pre coventional
-conventional
- post conventional
A concept in which values and moral beliefs come from those one admires and aspires to identify with is:
Modeling
______ can be defined as the responsibilities that are attached to a specific role.
Duties
What are values
Measures of worth or priority
Ethical dilemmas are situations in which:
People must make a decision about something
What ethical system woould best describe why an officer is maintains the code of silence in reference to other officers?
Egoism/ ethics of care?
_______is a necessary element in law enforcement, but its need also leads to a greater dependence on individual ethical codes in place of rules and laws.
Discretion
What is communtative justice
Fairness of contracts and business relations
How many police vslues are there?
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If a police officer tries to convenice a store owner not to press charges a against a poor elderly man shoplifting cartons of milk, the officer is practicing:
Street justice
According to the text, the main reason for the blue curtain of secrecy in law enforcement is ______ to other officers.
Loyalty
Who exerts the strongest influence on the ethical climate of an agency?
The one in charge
If one views the police ss (a) _______ presumptions follow: that criminals are the enemey and different from good people; that police are the army that fights the enemy using any means necessaryto control, capture and punish them.
Crime control force
______ ethics are an even more specific of applied ethics relating to the behavior of certain professions or groups.
Professional