Define ethics and provide examples of what is meant by relative as well as absolute ethics (including noble cause corruption).
What will be an ideal response?
Ethics involves doing what is right or correct and is generally used to refer to how people should behave in a professional capacity. Absolute ethics issues have only two sides; something is either good or bad, black or white. Bribery is an example of absolute ethics. Planting evidence is an evidence of relative ethics. Noble cause corruption carries with it a different way of thinking about the police relationship with the law; officers operate on a standard that places personal morality above the law. It holds that when an act is committed to achieve a good end (such as an illegal search) and an inevitable but intended effect is negative (the person who is searched eventually goes to prison), then the act might still be justified.
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A. God demands it B. if we don't we go to jail C. it provides the greatest common good D. reason requires it of us
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Indicate whether the statement is true or false
White collar crime has been an especially dynamic area of law since:
a. the 1970s b. the 1980s c. the 1990s d. the Enron scandal
______ is the idea that in order to understand the social experience of someone, you have to consider the ways in which he or she experiences race, class, gender, age, and physical ability.
a. False consciousness b. Intersectionality c. Feminism d. Peacemaking