Key Features
* First book to comprehensively address ethics in forensics beyond the laboratory
* Real-life cases presented involving unethical behavior to illustrate concepts
* Discusses ethical considerations while delineating opinion from fact in testimony
* Places forensic ethics within the canons of the legal and medical systems
Description
This work will draw upon the expertise of the editors as authors and various contributors in order to present several different perspectives with the goal of approaching and understanding when ethical lines are crossed. In order to achieve this goal, comparisons of various canons of ethics from related fields such as medicine, law, the military, science and politics will be examined and applied. Case studies will be presented throughout to illustrate ethical dilemmas and challenge the reader with the goal of greater understanding.
Ethics in Forensic Science, 1st Edition
1. A Brief History of Ethics
Jennifer Downs
2. The Forensic Practitioner’s Quest for Truth
Fr. William Willoughby, III, Sister Elena Thompson, and J.C. Upshaw Downs
3. General Forensic Ethical Dilemmas
Jay A. Siegel
4. Codes of Ethics in Forensic Science Societies: The Organizational Parameters of Morality and Conduct
Kenneth E. Melson
5. Ethical Foundations for SANE Practice
Linda E. Ledray and Susan Chasson
6. Ethics Codes in Other Organizations: Structures and Enforcement
J.C. Upshaw Downs and Anjali Ranadive Swienton
7. Teaching Ethics
Max M. Houck and Robin T. Bowen
8. Ethics in Law Enforcement; Defining the Thin Blue Line
Fred E. Stephens
9. Criminal Investigational Ethics
James Markey
10. Ethics in the Crime Laboratory and in Crime Scene Investigations
Barry A.J. Fisher
11. Ethics for Child Abuse Prosecutors - A Call to Leadership
Rachelle L. Carnesale
12. Ethical Duties of Attorneys and Experts in Cases Involving Forensic Evidence, from the Perspective of the Defense
Andrea Roth
13. Ethics in Testimony
Joseph P. Bono, Anjali Ranadive Swienton and J.C. Upshaw Downs
14. Judicial Ethics
Haskell M. Pitluck
15. The Post-Conviction Process - From the Perspective of the Convicted
Anjali Ranadive Swienton and J.C. Upshaw Downs
16. Whistle Blowers
J.C. Upshaw Downs
17. Ethics in Media
Anjali Ranadive Swienton and J.C. Upshaw Downs
