Ethical Dilemmas In The Criminal Justice System

As a director of a criminal justice academy, when questioning the agency’s ethical behavior and decision-making process, most employees feel threatened because they think we are trying to expose corruption in the system, instead of trying to prevent it. With this, our department does not require a mandatory training program that is solely based on how one should execute the most upright behavior when given any type of situation that they may, in the future, be inclined to. For this reason, I made it my obligation to develop an updated training program articulated around ethical dilemmas, that would not only strengthen our system, but would also reassure the community’s trust in the system. While gathering ideas on how this program would be …show more content…
Alone, this requirement to make current employees attend the training program will allow the students to see that these leaders model such humane standards that are set in the Code of Ethics and the students are more likely to follow. I would teach this by gathering a team of leaders to visit our program and demonstrating to the students how they took the strategies that they gained from the course, and applied it to real-world situations in the criminal justice system. Another dilemma that I see in the system are employees wanting to progress on the leadership totem pole and sometimes, in order to gain such incentives, their decision-making process may become unethical in order to meet the needed standards. I want to ensure the students that this is not how our system operates by explaining to them that we do examine reviews on our employees and encourage them to report any unethical behavior that they may witness in the …show more content…
This makes it difficult to maintain the most righteous, and ethical criminal justice system because employees may feel as though their voice does not matter. Especially if one who is just starting out in the system reports corruption on another officer who has been in the system a lot longer than them. I think it is important to illustrate to the students that we do, in fact, address unethical behaviors and refuse to let them slip beneath the cracks. I plan to educate them on this matter by providing them with unethical dilemmas performed by employees, how they would react to the situation if they were aware of it, and what they would choose to do if they were ever faced with such