One of the biggest issues concerning the criminal justice system is corruption. This corruption can lead the corrupted to personal gain at great expense to others and sometimes can be directly or indirectly, eventually causing harm to others as well. Corruption can be defined as “the exploit the powers of law enforcement in return for considering of private-regarding benefit and that violate formal standards governing his or her conduct” (William & Arrigo, 2012, p. 96). Furthermore, police officers have been put in situations where particular leverage can be easily generated through unethical and illegal means. The idea of corruption pertains to the film, “The Departed”, which involves a two police detectives, one who commits crimes to penetrate
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The initial question becomes what about free will and moral responsibility does it play in the criminal justice system. Williams and Arrigo (2012) wrote, “each illustrates the way in which morality and our evaluations of moral responsibility and rest upon our ideas about the extent to which people are free to make the choices they make” (p. 45). People can know what’s right and wrong and consciously know these things. But there can be situations where people can be influenced or possibly be forced to do actions beyond their control. In relation to the “The Departed”, Sullivan was introduced to the Boston Mob when Costello approached him as a child and ever since, he decided to be apart of the Boston Special Unit. That’s where Sullivan was also introduced to organized crime. Sullivan became a corrupted officer when he would provide information for Costello and his mob in order to evade capture. Even throughout the film, Sullivan and Costigan both make choices freely and they are usually motivated by these choices. When people make choices, they feel like they have freely chosen and when they make that choice, then they feel confident about making it freely. People have reasons or motivation to freely choose in order to take advantage of others. Those reasons can be unacceptable but people have the freewill to choose otherwise and they choose to make …show more content…
Throughout history, people share certain standards, beliefs and norms and sometimes all people share those certain standards as well, but not necessarily. In fact, the values and practices that we feel to be morally gratifying, however, may contradict extremely from those that other people believe to be acceptable. There are certain values and standards of behavior that are normal within a certain culture during their time period and does not really mean that those values or standards are necessarily right. The concept of relativism indicates whether morality is relative to distinct cultures and the time period within the culture. We understand that morality differs from culture to culture and there is no unbiased understanding of moral right and wrong. People like to judge other cultures and their values and relativism says we shouldn't because relativism likes to consider there is no moral values, belief, or even right and wrong
The initial question becomes what about free will and moral responsibility does it play in the criminal justice system. Williams and Arrigo (2012) wrote, “each illustrates the way in which morality and our evaluations of moral responsibility and rest upon our ideas about the extent to which people are free to make the choices they make” (p. 45). People can know what’s right and wrong and consciously know these things. But there can be situations where people can be influenced or possibly be forced to do actions beyond their control. In relation to the “The Departed”, Sullivan was introduced to the Boston Mob when Costello approached him as a child and ever since, he decided to be apart of the Boston Special Unit. That’s where Sullivan was also introduced to organized crime. Sullivan became a corrupted officer when he would provide information for Costello and his mob in order to evade capture. Even throughout the film, Sullivan and Costigan both make choices freely and they are usually motivated by these choices. When people make choices, they feel like they have freely chosen and when they make that choice, then they feel confident about making it freely. People have reasons or motivation to freely choose in order to take advantage of others. Those reasons can be unacceptable but people have the freewill to choose otherwise and they choose to make …show more content…
Throughout history, people share certain standards, beliefs and norms and sometimes all people share those certain standards as well, but not necessarily. In fact, the values and practices that we feel to be morally gratifying, however, may contradict extremely from those that other people believe to be acceptable. There are certain values and standards of behavior that are normal within a certain culture during their time period and does not really mean that those values or standards are necessarily right. The concept of relativism indicates whether morality is relative to distinct cultures and the time period within the culture. We understand that morality differs from culture to culture and there is no unbiased understanding of moral right and wrong. People like to judge other cultures and their values and relativism says we shouldn't because relativism likes to consider there is no moral values, belief, or even right and wrong