CRIM 4

• Ethics


  The science of the morality of human acts and rational human behavior
• Four Levels of Ethics


  • Personal Morality
  • Professional Ethics
  • Organizational Ethics
  • Social Ethics
• Personal Morality


  A person's basic concept of right and wrong, which is dependent on several factors such as parental influences, religious beliefs, cultural and social mores, and past personal experiences
• Professional Ethics


  A set of professional norm and rules or guiding principles that obligate professionals to act in certain professional ways
• Ethics


  The science of the morality of human acts and rational human behavior
• Ethics


  The capacity to determine the right conduct and the knowledge of what is right from wrong
• Ethics


  A system of moral principles or moral standards which govern one's conduct
• Ethics


  A system of principles and rules concerning the duty of a person set by society or culture
• Ethics


  A system of rules and practice applied to a single class of human actions
• Ethics


  The study and philosophy of human conduct, which emphasizes on a person's ability to determine right from wrong. It encompasses the set character standards expected of a person in a race of nation
• Four Levels of Ethics


  • Personal Morality
  • Professional Ethics
  • Organizational Ethics
  • Social Ethics
• Personal Morality


  A person's basic concept of right and wrong, which is dependent on several factors such as parental influences, religious beliefs, cultural and social mores, and past personal experiences
• Professional Ethics


  A set of professional norms and rules or guiding principles that obligate professionals to act in certain professional ways. Such guidelines are codified by professional associations and enforced by law
• Organizational Ethics


  Also known as business ethics, composed of values, principles, and standards that guide the behavior of a person or a group of individuals in an organization. Every organization has an environment or culture that includes both formal and informal rules of ethical conduct
• Social Ethics


  Oblige members of a given society to act in ways that both protect individuals and further the progress of the groups as a whole. Social ethics are formal to the extent that they can be found in the laws of a given society, informal to the extent that they are part of an individual's social conscience
• Morals


  The duties of police officer under the Code of Ethics deal primarily with principles or rules about what is "right from what is wrong"
• Moralist


  A person who values or follows good conduct, even in the absence of religion
• Difference between Ethics and Morals


  Both refer to the type of customary behavior because of the approval or practices of the group and are thus essentially synonymous. Ethics ordinarily suggests the study of moral conduct or the principles underlying the desirable types of human conduct, whereas morals simply refer to the human conduct itself
• Virtue


  The habit that inclines the person to act in a way that harmonizes with his or her nature. It is the habit of doing good, the opposite of vice and the habit of doing bad
• Four Moral or Cardinal Virtues


  • Prudence
  • Temperance
  • Fortitude
  • Justice
• Prudence


  The virtue that attracts the intellect to choose the most effective means for accomplishing what is morally good and avoiding what is evil
• Temperance


  The virtue that regulates the carnal appetite for sensual or material pleasures, which allows the individual to avoid the extremes of self-indulgence and bodily pleasure
• Fortitude


  Also known as courage, the individual's ability to face danger in order to fight for what is right or just. This virtue refers to the firmness of the mind which is not clouded by fear. Relative to this virtue are patience, perseverance, and endurance
• Justice


  The virtue that inclines the individual to judge rightly and do what is right. Being just means being fair in all transactions with all individuals
• Values


  The foundation of society, referring to a set of standard behavior that "has a normative obligatory character and presupposes the liberty of possible decision". It also refers to the priorities that an individual gives to the elements in his life and career based on his or her ethics, morality, and integrity
• Six Core Moral Values


  • Love of God
  • Respect of Authority
  • Selfless Love of People
  • Chastity
  • Responsible Dominion over Material Things
  • Truthfulness
• Six Core Work Values


  • Industriousness
  • Sense of Responsibility
  • Order (Sense of Time)
  • Collaboration
  • Determination
  • Service
• Ethics is an essential knowledge. Without ethical perception, man is only an animal. Without values, man, as a rational being, is a failure. Ethics is too essential to be dismissed, as the individual is bestowed with the innate ability to understand and discern between right and wrong
• Moral values are the true measure of what the an individual should be. The most powerful king, or the most successful professional, is nothing unless he is morally upright
• Moral values are the foundation of every human society. When the moral foundations of a nation are threatened, it also threatens the society
• Confucius' golden rule


  "Do not do to others what you would not have them do to you" - spoke of the principle of reciprocity
• Confucius' golden rule can also lead to corruption and nepotism when family members are favored over the others who are more qualified
• Confucius' golden rule is aligned to Jesus Christ's teaching that "In everything, do to others as you would have them do to you"
• Professional ethics


  The branch of moral science which treats obligation which a member of a profession owes to the public, to his profession, to his brethren, and to his clients
• Professional ethics


  Commonly known as "ethical business practices," which refer to the standards or codes of conduct set in a specific profession
• Professionals who do not condone to these rules are called out or sanctioned
• The Code of Ethics guides the actuation of a professional where the law is silent or inadequate
• Examples of professional ethics


  • Legal Ethics
  • Medical Ethics
  • Nursing Ethics
  • Police Ethics
• Ethically ideal police system

  • Integrity and not riddled with corruption or misconduct
  • No us-against-them and disrespect for the limits of the law or how it's enforced
  • All actions done in private and public are in accordance to the law and ethics
• Ethically ideal police system


  • Mistakes or errors are minimized because of probity, propriety, restraint, reasonableness, and caution
  • Mistakes are treated as learning opportunities and areas of improvement