Discretion, Community, and Correctional Ethics

Is it possible to develop and instill a professional ethic for prison personnel that, in partnership with formal regulatory constraints, will mediate relations among officers, staff, and inmates, or are the failures of imprisonment as an ethically-constrained institution so deeply etched into its structure that no professional ethic is possible? The contributors to this volume struggle with this central question and its broader and narrower ramifications.

Foreword

vii

Preface

xiii

Professionalizing Incarceration

1

(38)

John Kleinig

Response:

The Shimmer of Reform: Prospects for a Correctional Ethic

17

(22)

Margaret Leland Smith

The Possibility of a Correctional Ethic

39

(40)

Derek R. Brookes

Response:

The Case for Abolition and the Reality of Race

69

(10)

John P. Pittman

Prison Abuse: Prisoner-Staff Relations

79

(34)

Audrey J. Bomse

Response:

Correctional Ethics and the Courts

105

(8)

William C. Hefferman

Health Care in the Corrections Setting: An Ethical Analysis

113

(36)

Kenneth Kipnis

Responses:

First, Do No Harm

125

(16)

Heather Barr

Brokering Correctional Health Care

141

(8)

John Kleinig

Ideology into Practice/Practice into Ideology: Staff-Offender Relationships in Institutional and Community Corrections in an Era of Retribution

149

(54)

Joseph V. Williams

Responses:

Moral Reckoning and the Social Order of the Prison

179

(14)

Polly Ashton Smith

The Path of Least Resistance: Sexual Exploitation of Female Offenders as an Unethical Corollary to Retributive Ideology and Correctional Practice

193

(10)

Zelma Weston Henriques

Management-Staff Relations: Issues in Leadership, Ethics, and Values

203

(32)

Kevin N. Wright

Response:

The Ethical Dilemmas of Corrections Managers: Confronting Practical and Political Complexity

219

(16)

Michael Jacobson

Additional Resources

235

(2)

Index of Names

237

(6)

Index of Subjects

243

(10)

About the Contributors

253

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