The Reflective Journal 2: Ethics of Means and Ends

Ethics of Means and Ends
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Ethics of Means and Ends
Ethics contributes largely to how the public addresses all aspects of the justice department. Ethical principles are essential for all professionals in the criminal justice system such as police officers, judges and lawyers. Transformation into an ethical being is a process which requires a person to assess his/her values and morals and also tackle daily choices that will have effects on the citizens, co-workers and offenders.
Ethics as a word raises people’s sympathies, precisely when it encompasses the activities of professionals operating in the criminal justice section. Security officers should use normative ethics since it entails being concerned with canons of conduct and techniques of behaving. Ethics provide police officers with the most appropriate way to make the correct moral choices when they a...