Issues in US Criminal Justice System Where Reform is Needed
Part One: List three issues in US criminal justice system where some reform is needed for a more fair and just system. Use the materials in from this week's reading. Explain what the ethical issue is in each selection. Explain what the reform should be, and with each, explain which past ethical theory [Kant, Utilitarianism, Virtue Ethics or a combination] to this situation that you feel is best. You may add to or alter these theories but explain how you are doing so).
Part Two: Choose from the Week 12 materials on censorship OR on journalists being targeted. Both are in the Week 12 materials. Choose an issue (identifying/examples of censorship) or a specific journalist who has been persecuted. Explain why your choice has an ethical issue.
Committee to Protect Journalists: Database on Journalists who have been killed
UNESCO on journalists killed around the world
Reporters without Borders on journalists who have been detained and prosecuted
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Criminal Justice / Censorship Reform
Part One
The US criminal justice system experiences numerous uses that hinder its effectiveness in fairly serving Americans. This criminal justice system currently experiences issues: police retention and recruitment, lack of resource parity between the prosecution and public defenders, and the system's public perception. In police retention and recruitment, reform is necessary to ensure officers are satisfied with their jobs and reduce turnovers (Wilson et al., 2010). Through reforms, agencies can retain and attract future workers through fostering compensation. Police recruitment and retention is ethical because police since the quality of services they offer is related to the quality of personnel they hire, recruit, and retain. Hence, failing to hire, recruit, and retain qualified people can impact the agency's capacity to serve society. The Kantian theory can apply to this problem since it aims to provide civic freedom and discuss the duties of virtuous citizens within