This textbook looks at the main ethical questions that confront the criminal justice system - legislature, law
enforcement, courts, and corrections - and those who work within that system, especially police officers, prosecutors,
defence lawyers, judges, juries, and prison officers. John Kleinig sets the issues in the context of a liberal
democratic society and its ethical and legislative underpinnings, and illustrates them with a wide and international
range of real-life case studies. Topics covered include discretion, capital punishment, terrorism, restorative
justice, and re-entry. Kleinig's discussion is both philosophically acute and grounded in institutional realities,
and will enable students to engage productively with the ethical questions which they encounter both now and in
the future - whether as criminal justice professionals or as reflective citizens.