Changing Viewsmay Impact Ethical Jus455 Snhu Ethi

1) In a paragraph, state which scenario you will use for your project. Explain your reasons for choosing this scenario. Identify what you think will be most difficult for you with this project.

Specifically, the following critical elements must be addressed:

I. Ethics and Society Overview
a. Describe the impact society has on ethical behavior in law enforcement. Use specific examples to support your claim.

b. Determine why it is important that society has a say on ethical expectations

within law enforcement. Why is it important for law enforcement to
listen?

c. Explain the relationship between society and the development of law. Defend your response with specific examples.

d. Assess the importance of society’s role in the development of law. Why is it important for lawmakers to listen?

e. Analyze the relationship between morality and ethics within American law enforcement.

f. Explain how society’s changing viewsmay impact ethical guidelines within American law enforcement. Defend your response

Scenario #1

Joe is a corrections officer in a juvenile detention center and works on a unit housing 15 offenders, many of whom suffer from mental health problems. Joe has
worked there for about two months. He feels comfortable with his job and has been accepted by the other staff members. He has not had any significant
problems with the juveniles and is generally enjoying his work.
It is lunchtime on Monday, and Joe is in the dining room supervising the juveniles as they eat. At one table sit six juveniles, one of whom is a 17-year-old named
Brian, whom Joe thinks has a mental disability. Brian is displaying offensive behavior that is so bad that Joe cannot eat his own meal. Brian keeps adding ketchup
in vast quantities to every dish, then slurping it from the plate. Brian uses his hands instead of a fork. Brian talks with his mouth full, causing him to spit his food
across the table in front of the other juveniles. Joe can see that the other juveniles are repulsed by Brian’s behavior and are getting upset by his actions.
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Joe is surprised to see his coworker and mentor Darren suddenly get up from where he is seated, go over to Brian, grab him by his shirt, and move him away
from the table. Darren takes Brian off to the kitchen and returns with a large mixing bowl. In front of everyone, Darren tells Brian to scrape out what is left of his
meal into the large bowl. Darren then takes Brian to the center of the dining room floor, puts the bowl of food on the floor, and tells him to eat. Darren tells
Brian that he has disgusting manners, and if he is going to act like an animal while eating, he may as well get down on the floor like a dog and eat from his bowl.
Darren tells Brian to stay on the floor and lick his bowl clean, like the animal that he is. The other juveniles are visibly upset at what Darren has done.
Joe does not do or say anything to Darren while this is going on, though he is taken aback by his coworker’s actions. Later, Darren explains to Joe and other staff
who were present that the reason he acted this way was to shock Brian into understanding that his table manners were inappropriate. Darren thought if he used
“tough love” on Brian that he would be less likely to act that way in the future.