ACR67010/ACR6701 - Criminal Justice Ethics, Values and Diversity in Post-911 America

(3 units)

Provides an understanding of ethics applicable to the criminal justice arena specifically as well as situated within a larger framework of values and day-to-day existence. Explores the interplay of ethics, values and diversity and the influence of social evolution and significant events. The eternal struggle between civil liberties and public safety, peacekeeping strategies in multicultural communities, racial profiling and interment, recent events concerning the monitoring of Americans, and Court decisions on DNA collection are discussed.