Morality, Ethics and Human Behavior
When it is difficult or challenging for an individual to make a decision either because the right course of action is not clear or easy.
What is an ethical dilemma.
Aristotle categorized citizens into three categories, what are they?
What are leaders, soldiers, and everyone else.
The three explanations are offered for how people develop personal moral systems.
What are biological factors, learning theory and Kohlberg's moral stage theory.
The mission of the police.
What are crime fighters and public servants?
The attitudes or stereotypes that affect our understanding, actions, and decisions in an unconscious way.
What is implicit bias?
Broad social or policy questions that often include the government and include controversy over the “right” thing to do.
What is an ethical issue?
Name one of the six pillars of character.
What are trustworthiness, respect, responsibility, fairness, caring, and citizenship.
Pursuant to the learning theory, how do people learn behavior?
What is modeling and reinforcement.
The role of police officers believe all people are the same and they are peacekeepers.
What are public servants?
Policies and practices that exist throughout a whole society or organization, and that result in and support a continued unfair advantage to some people and unfair or harmful treatment of others based on race.
What is systemic racism?
Those actions that an individual must perform in order to be considered moral.
What are duties?
This ethical system stems from a willful and rational God.
Ethics of Religion.
The three levels in Kohlberg's Moral Stage Theory.
What are the pre-conventional level, conventional level, and post-conventional level?
This model saw the formation of SWAT and use of no-knock warrants.
What is the Warrior model?
When a police officer makes a stop for a minor infraction based entirely on race or ethnicity.
What is racial profiling?
Decisions that can be judged as ethical or unethical involve four elements: an act, affecting others, an only human act, and this?
What is free will?
This ethical system is concerned with the inherent nature of the act being judged, the intent of the actor.
What is ethical formalism?
My favorite NFL football team.
What are the Seattle Seahawks.
What is legalistic, watchman and caretaker?
This allows a police officer to stop an individual walking down the street, if that officer has a reasonable suspicion that a crime has been, is being, or is about to be committed.
What is a Terry Stop or Stop-and-Frisk?
Elements of desirability, worth, or importance are this.
What are values?
This ethical system focuses on the greatest good for the greatest number of people.
What is utilitariansim?
The biggest criticism to Kohlberg's Theory.
What was the interviewees were all male.
Most police code of ethics address four categories. Name one of them?
What are justice/fairness, the importance of the law, service and personal conduct?
The use of undercover agents/officers is a form of this type of investigation.
What is a proactive investigation?