Discuss the ethical implications in decision-making
What will be an ideal response?
• Procedural and administrative decisions are made as a matter of daily business in criminal justice organizations. However, that decision making is far less than perfect and administrators must consider fairness and equity.
• A number of factors contribute to imperfect decision making such as limits on information and lack of objective decision making methods. Time is also scarce as criminal justice practitioners face a steady stream of work under rigid time constraints.
• Decisions are also framed by conflicting internal and external preferences of constituents manifested by power struggles referred to as organizational politics. Personal biases of individual decision makers also lessen the likelihood of consistently good decisions.
• While the system continues to try and improve its decision making process, decision making will ultimately be in the hands of individual who are subject to system and personal flaws that will always limit objective and rational decision making.
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Indicate whether the statement is true or false.
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b. for perimeter surveillance. c. to locate fugitives and for search and rescue. d. all of these choices
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a. systemic abuse. b. "trickledown" abuse. c. informal misconduct. d. negligent abuse.