The end result of the criminal justice system is the punishment handed down to a convicted criminal. Ethics are an important part of the decision making process for those parties involved in prosecuting and punishing suspected criminals. The aforementioned parties include agencies such as local police, federal law enforcement agencies, district attorneys’ offices, and judges.
Local police and federal agents need to use ethical decision making skills when evaluating whether or not to pursue a case, or in what way to pursue it. They might take into consideration, for example, whether a suspect has a family and what his incarceration would do to the family; the suspect’s economic situation, as it might affect his family; and the suspect’s prior criminal history. Once the law enforcement offi
The party that must use the most ethics in the criminal justice system is the judge. The judge must act in an impartial manner when presiding of a case, and when making a verdict if the verdict is not coming from a jury. No personal feelings of the judge should be affecting the case, but if in some instance it does, then the judge should use ethical discretion and request to be removed from hearing that individual case. However, being that the judge has no problem presiding over the case, he will way all factors when it comes time to make a decision as to what the punishment will be. In many instances he might just impose probation, or dependent upon the crime he might even have to contemplate, just as the prosecutor did, whether to hand down a sentence of the death penalty. In any case, once t
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