Criminal Justice Ethics
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I. Basic Journal Info

Country

United Kingdom

Journal ISSN: 0731129X, 19375948

Publisher: Taylor and Francis Ltd.

History: 1982-2021

Journal Hompage: Link

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Scope/Description:

Criminal Justice Ethics addresses ethical issues arising in all of the contexts of criminal justice exploring their conceptual normative and empirical aspects and the relations between them. Ethical issues concerning criminal justice require multidisciplinary study and study that integrates theoretical empirical and practical concerns. One of the journals purposes is to enlarge and deepen the study of those ethical issues publishing work that advances the discussions and arguments concerning both the formulation of the issues and the ways they are addressed.The cost complexity and importance of ethical issues concerning criminal justice are receiving heightened public attention and the attention of legislators and government overall. The journal is uniquely well placed to participate in and contribute to the examination of questions concerning sentencing criminalization and decriminalization police practices prosecutorial discretion the collateral consequences of incarceration the aims and justification of legal punishment and alternatives to it and a host of related issues not just in the U.S. and the U.K. but globally. Criminal Justice Ethics is a forum for important comparative studies as well as indepth studies of the issues in the context of one or another particular country.Criminal Justice Ethics is aimed at reaching a wide readership including philosophers criminologists in many different fields sociologists professors of law political theorists and others.