Learning Outcomes

The Importance of Ethical Behaviour

Ethics and the Pursuit of a Law Enforcement Career

As Employees in Law Enforcement Agencies

Lesson Summary

This module discusses ethical behaviour, the importance of ethical behaviour, ethics in pursuit of a career in law enforcement, and law enforcement agencies ethics.

Major Ethical Systems

Utilitarian Ethics

Deontology

Virtue Ethics

Ethics of Care and Egoism

Religion or Divine Command Theory

Natural Law & Social Contract Theory

Rawls’ Theory of Justice & Moral Relativism

This module details what an ethical system is, and explains several of the major ethical theories/systems, such as utilitarian ethics, deontology, and egoism.

Ethical Dilemmas & Values

Solving Ethical Dilemmas

This module discusses ethical dilemmas what they are, lists values that are part of ethics and discusses solving ethical dilemmas.

The Ethics of Power and Authority

The Milgram Experiment

Person, Gender, and Cultural Differences in Conformity

Ethical Issues during an Investigation

This module discusses the key ethical issues within law enforcement, such as the ethical use or power and authority of officers, the differences in conformity, officers conditioning investigations, and the ethical issues behind the Milgram experiment.

Autonomy and Accountability

Investigation Models & Offices

This module discusses the accountability of law enforcement officers, for the action and decisions they make and how they are investigated when reported for unlawful or unethical behaviour.

Noble Cause Corruption

Policing Public Demonstrations and Crowd Control

Sex Offender Notification Laws

Ethics of Private Policing

This topic discusses ethical issues that arise for policing, from having a noble cause, corrupted, policing public demonstrations and crowd control, the ethical issues for the community and the offender with sex offender notification laws and the ethics of private police forces.

The Ethics Surrounding Discretion

Discretion and Supervision

Loyalty

Ethical Leadership

Transactional and Transformational Leadership

This module discusses the ethics sounding the polices power of discretion, and the ethics of supervision and how it can affect police officers discretion, the ethical issues with the loyalty in the police force, and transactional and transformational leadership.

Police Subculture

Socialization of Police

Skepticism and Cynicism

Moral Culpability versus Legal Culpability

This module discusses the culture within law enforcement agencies/departments, what the police subculture is, the socialization of new recruits into the subculture and the place of skepticism and cynicism ethical in law enforcement. Lastly the module explains the difference between moral culpability and legal culpability, how what might be legally permissible may not be moral or ethical.

Ethics in Law Enforcement - Assessment

Learn about moral and ethical issues at play in law enforcement regarding criminal justice with this free online course.

Ethics in Law Enforcement

This free online ethical law enforcement training course teaches you about the key ethical issues of law enforcement, such as the ethical use or power and authority of officers, the differences in conformity, officers' conditioning investigations, and the ethical issues behind the Milgram experiment. You will also look into the accountability of law enforcement officers, the culture within law enforcement agencies/departments, and more.

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