Nov 22, 2024
OHIO University Undergraduate Catalog 2024-25
LET 1050 - Ethics and Legal Issues
Provides a fundamental base of knowledge concerning contemporary law enforcement ethical and legal issues such as use of force, corruption, professional behavior, code of ethics, ethical dilemmas, and historical cases of ethical misconduct.
Credit Hours: 3
OHIO BRICKS: Bridge: Ethics and Reasoning
General Education Code (students who entered prior to Fall 2021-22): 2SS
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
College Credit Plus: Level 1
Learning Outcomes:
- Students will be able to analyze contemporary case studies of ethical and legal issues relative to police, courts, and corrections; and the war on terrorism.
- Students will be able to define the components of the criminal justice system and contexts for understanding justice, crime, and ethics.
- Students will be able to describe utilitarian and deontological approaches to ethical formulation within the criminal justice system.
- Students will be able to evaluate formulation of ethical issues in the workplace.
- Students will be able to examine the ethics of deceptive interrogation.
- Students will be able to articulate their own ethical core beliefs in relation to ethical theories and describe their preferred criminal justice ethic.
- Students will be able to use theoretical foundations to solve ethical dilemmas encountered in a contemporary criminal justice organization.
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