| CODE | CRM1009 | ||||||
| TITLE | Criminal Justice, Ethics and Human Rights | ||||||
| UM LEVEL | 01 - Year 1 in Modular Undergraduate Course | ||||||
| MQF LEVEL | 5 | ||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 4 | ||||||
| DEPARTMENT | Criminology | ||||||
| DESCRIPTION | This study-unit introduces students to the concepts of ethics and human rights in the Criminal Justice context. The sessions are divided under 3 main categories: Ethics in Policing, Ethics in Court and Ethics in Corrections. Since the police are considered as "the gateway to the criminal justice system, since they exercise considerable discretion 鈥� and ... since many more people encounter the police than a jury or a magistrate" (Grieve, Harfield and MacVean, 2007) considerable lecture time is dedicated to the police and related ethical issues. Study-unit Aims: To familiarise students with the concepts of ethics and human rights in policing and the court process. Learning Outcomes: 1. Knowledge & Understanding: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - compare various ethical theories and approaches to dealing with ethical dilemmas; - describe how these ethical theories give rise to different resolutions to these dilemmas; - List at least 8 of the articles found in Part I of the European Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, 1950. - Describe the main ethical issues encountered by police officers - Describe the main virtues necessary in policing. 2. Skills: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - Discuss the ethical issues encountered by criminal justice personnel. - Identify ethical issues within the criminal justice context. - Analyze ethical dilemmas and reach well-informed and justifiable conclusions. Main Text/s and any supplementary readings: - Birzer, M.L. and C. Roberson (2007). Policing Today and Tomorrow. Pearson and Prentice Hall: USA. - Crank, John P. and Michael A. Caldero (2010). Police ethics: the corruption of noble cause, 3rd ed. New Providence, NJ: Matthew Bender & Company. - Delattre, Edwin J. (2011). Character and Cops: Ethics in Policing, 6th ed. AEI Press: Washington, DC. - Dempsey, J.S. and Forst, L.S. (2010). An Introduction to Policing (5th Ed.). Delmar Cengage Learning: UK. - Gardner, Molly and Michael Weber (eds) (2018). The Ethics of Policing and Imprisonment. Palgrave Studies in Ethics and Public Policy, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan. - Grieve, J., C. Harfield and A. MacVean (2007). Policing. Sage: UK. - Miller, S., J. Blackler and A. Alexandra (2006). Police Ethics, 2nd ed. Allen and Unwin: Australia. - Miller, Seumas (2016). Corruption and Anti-Corruption in Policing 鈥� Philosophical and Ethical Issues. Springer: Switzerland. - Miller, Seumas and Ian A. Gordon (2014). Investigative Ethics - Ethics for Police Detectives and Criminal Investigators. Wiley: UK. - Nathan, Christopher (2022). The Ethics of Undercover Policing. Routledge: UK. - Palmiotto, M.J. and N.B. Unnithan (2011). Policing and Society: A Global Approach. Delmar Cengage Learning: UK. - European Convention on Human Rights (1950). https://www.echr.coe.int/documents/d/echr/Convention_ENG (on vle). - Jim Murdoch, Ralph Roche, The European Convention On Human Rights And Policing: A handbook for police officers and other law enforcement officials, Council of Europe Publishing, 2013. (on vle). - The European Convention Act, Chap. 319 Laws of Malta (on vle). - Commission for the Administration of Justice, Code of Ethics for Members of the Judiciary, 2008. https://judiciary.mt/en/code-of-ethics/ (on vle). - https://restorativejustice.org/ (on vle). - European Commission, Child-friendly justice. https://commission.europa.eu/strategy-and-policy/policies/justice-and-fundamental-rights/rights-child/child-friendly-justice_en (on vle). - Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe, Guidelines of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe on child-friendly justice, 17 November 2010. (on vle). - Child friendly justice: https://www.coe.int/en/web/children/child-friendly-justice. (on vle). |
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| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Lecture | ||||||
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| LECTURER/S | Raymond Zammit |
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