Fuller's Principle Of Criminal Justice

Lon L. Fuller was a scholar and a former professor at Carter of Jurisprudence at Harvard Law School, who lived from 1902 to 1978. (Fuller, 1965) Fuller 's books and articles have been converted into all the major languages and his works still broadly studied in law schools throughout the world. In the Morality of Law, “Even if a man is answerable only to his conscience, he will answer more responsibly if he is compelled to articulate principles on which he acts.” (Fuller, 1965) This essay will apply the Fuller 's Principle, as referred to above, and response to three genuine scenarios in regards to ethical decision making inside the field of criminal justice and policing.

In the first scenario, there is an office duty officer at a party, at

Additionally, he has participated in crime prevention meetings and he offers the officer a fruit basket and 30$ gift certificate as a token of appreciation. One of the most important characteristics of an officer is integrity, an officer shouldn’t engage in acts of corruption on bribery, including excepting gifts or presents. (Delattre 2011) The moral concern introduced in this scenario is the fact the owner is giving this fruit basket and gift certificate as an expression of appreciation, appreciation for what? The officer doing his job or is I something else the officer did to deserve it. This is a slippery slope because does the officer know if the owner excepts something in return for favors. Is this ethical, to except something free as a police officer; for just simply doing the job you get paid to do. Once an officer sets himself or herself on this path, it will inevitably lead to corruption. The critical thinking test can also be used to help an officer decide whether to procced with an action; is this action legal? will the desire result or outcome be good and if it is good will it violate an ethical principle? etc. (Roufa, 2016) In Fuller’s principles, you are responsible to answer too which the principles you act on, the set of principles an officer sets for himself with influence his decision making,

There are two officers who need to be on patrol, recently Officer Jones and Officer James Davis, became partners and unfortunately Officer Davis asked to be assigned to another partner because Officer Jones is a homosexual. The moral dilemma in this situation, is that Officer Davis wants to switch partners with Officer Jones based on sexually, not on the basis that his partner is a bad police officer. This is unethical and morally wrong, what if for instance a person switch with someone else based on the content of their skin? This would be a concern, like the scenario above it would be feeding into this notation that police officers are bias or unwelcoming to people from all walks of life. The supervising officer’s duty is to lead by example, to make his subordinates understand that people are people, and remaining unbiased is an important characteristic as officer. In this situation, it’s important to think about the backlash that this police department would receive for removing Officer Davis from being Officer Jones partner, it would make it seems as if it’s fine to discriminate based on sexual orientation. There are no laws that specifically state that you can’t or can remove some from a partner who is from the homosexually community. An officer in this