Criminal Procedure, Justice, Ethics, and Zeal

Criminal Justice Ethics

George Fletcher emerges in his writing, as in his life, as a colorful and highly individual figure. The last thing one expects of him is the surrender of individual identity to an anonymous submersion in the collective. Yet doctrinally he is a collectivist. In his recent writings, he has been seeking to collectivize just about everything: action, responsibility, guilt, liability, self-defense, ...

Criminal Justice Ethics

Suppose Alice hits Bert on the head. Prima facie, Alice has done something that she ought not to have done: in hitting Bert she has harmed him, or violated a right of his not to be hit on the head, or interfered with his ability to determine his own ends.2 And yet it may be that Alice should not be punished for hitting Bert, either because her action is justified, or because she is excused. It ...

Ethics of Imprisonment: Essays in Criminal Justice Ethics

Bülow, W., 2014. Ethics of Imprisonment: Essays in Criminal Justice Ethics. Theses in Philosophy from the Royal Institute of Technology 47. XII + 99 pp. Stockholm. ISBN: 978-917595-076-1 Abstract: This licentiate thesis consists of three essays which all concern the ethics of imprisonment and what constitutes an ethically defensible treatment of criminal offenders. This licentiate thesis consis...

Candor, zeal, and the substitution of judgement: ethics and the mentally ill criminal defendant.

Introduction.........................................................................................208 I. Candor, Zeal, and Confidentiality ............................................215 A. A Brief History of Candor ..................................................215 B. A Brief History of Zeal........................................................219 C. The Obligation to Protect Confidenc...

Dangerousness and Criminal Justice