Chapter 4: Ethics and Corrections

Test Bank

Multiple Choice

1. The study of right and wrong is called ______.

a. teleology

b. deontology

c. philosophy

d. ethics

Learning Objective: 4-1: Explain the differences between ethics and morality.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Defining Ethics: What Is Right (and Wrong)?

Difficulty Level: Easy

2. Which of the following is key to preventing ethical abuses?

a. preserving a culture of secrecy

b. professionalization of staff

c. nonroutine policies and procedures

d. minimizing legal rights of those in custody

Learning Objective: 4-4: Identify why corrections workers might be prone to ethics violations and how they might be prevented.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Defining Ethics: What Is Right (and Wrong)?

Difficulty Level: Easy

3. Which of the following was not found by Kirkham (2013)?

a. Staff reported fights and assaults to avoid scrutiny and the possible loss of contracts.

b. Staff abused youth in the facilities by hitting and choking them, sometimes to the point of fracturing bones.

c. Turnover of staff was high.

d. Food was restricted, prepared incorrectly or in an unsanitary manner, and youth were encouraged to gamble with others to win their food portions.

Learning Objective: 4-4: Identify why corrections workers might be prone to ethics violations and how they might be prevented.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Defining Ethics: What Is Right (and Wrong)?

Difficulty Level: Easy

4. Youth Services International (YSI) reported what percentage of cases that indicated excessive force and injured youth in Florida?

a. 9%

b. 15%

c. 19%

d. 24%

Learning Objective: 4-4: Identify why corrections workers might be prone to ethics violations and how they might be prevented.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Defining Ethics: What Is Right (and Wrong)?

Difficulty Level: Easy

5. How many correctional workers at Rikers Island jails have been prosecuted for assaults on inmates since 2009?

a. 5

b. 10

c. 15

d. 20

Learning Objective: 4-4: Identify why corrections workers might be prone to ethics violations and how they might be prevented.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Mentally Ill Inmate Dies at Rikers

Difficulty Level: Easy

6. Kirkham (2013) found which of the following to be true of Youth Services International?

a. Turnover of staff was low.

b. Staff overreported the number of fights and assaults.

c. Food was prepared correctly and in a sanitary manner.

d. Turnover of staff was high.

Learning Objective: 4-4: Identify why corrections workers might be prone to ethics violations and how they might be prevented.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Defining Ethics: What Is Right (and Wrong)?

Difficulty Level: Easy

7. A teleological ethical system focuses on ______.

a. a moral commitment to make the world a better place

b. an act itself

c. the middle ground between perspectives

d. the consequences of an action

Learning Objective: 4-2: Describe the different ethical frameworks.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Ethical Foundation for Professional Practice

Difficulty Level: Easy

8. A deontological ethical system focuses on ______.

a. a moral commitment to make the world a better place

b. an act itself

c. the middle ground between perspectives

d. the consequences of an action

Learning Objective: 4-2: Describe the different ethical frameworks.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Ethical Foundation for Professional Practice

Difficulty Level: Easy

9. ______ is concerned with an act itself, whereas ______ is focused on the consequences of the act.

a. A noble ethical system; an egoistic ethical system

b. An egoistic ethical system; a noble ethical system

c. A deontological ethical system; a teleological ethical system

d. A teleological ethical system; a deontological ethical system

Learning Objective: 4-2: Describe the different ethical frameworks.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Ethical Foundation for Professional Practice

Difficulty Level: Medium

10. Ethical formalism is associated with the work of ______.

a. Jeremy Bentham

b. Immanuel Kant

c. Cesare Beccaria

d. Marvin Wolfgang

Learning Objective: 4-2: Describe the different ethical frameworks.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Ethical Foundation for Professional Practice

Difficulty Level: Easy

11. The categorical imperative was introduced by ______.

a. Jeremy Bentham

b. Immanuel Kant

c. Cesare Beccaria

d. Marvin Wolfgang

Learning Objective: 4-2: Describe the different ethical frameworks.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Ethical Foundation for Professional Practice

Difficulty Level: Easy

12. Utilitarianism holds that behavior should be aimed at ______.

a. benefiting the individual actor

b. conforming to the ethical teachings of religion

c. resulting in the greatest good for the most people

d. finding a middle ground between positions

Learning Objective: 4-2: Describe the different ethical frameworks.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Ethical Foundation for Professional Practice

Difficulty Level: Easy

13. Utilitarianism is associated with ______.

a. Jeremy Bentham

b. Immanuel Kant

c. Cesare Beccaria

d. Marvin Wolfgang

Learning Objective: 4-2: Describe the different ethical frameworks.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Ethical Foundation for Professional Practice

Difficulty Level: Easy

14. The natural law framework ______.

a. meets the needs of those concerned

b. conforms to the middle ground between competing positions

c. is based on the needs of the individual actor

d. is concerned with universally understood ideas of right and wrong

Learning Objective: 4-2: Describe the different ethical frameworks.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Ethical Foundation for Professional Practice

Difficulty Level: Easy

15. The ethics of virtue position holds that what is good ______.

a. meets the needs of those concerned

b. conforms to the middle ground between competing positions

c. is based on the needs of the individual actor

d. is concerned with universally understood ideas of right and wrong

Learning Objective: 4-2: Describe the different ethical frameworks.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Ethical Foundation for Professional Practice

Difficulty Level: Easy

16. According to the ethical framework of egoism, good behavior ______.

a. meets the needs of those concerned

b. conforms to the middle ground between competing positions

c. is based on the needs of the individual actor

d. is concerned with universally understood ideas of right and wrong

Learning Objective: 4-2: Describe the different ethical frameworks.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Ethical Foundation for Professional Practice

Difficulty Level: Easy

17. According to the ethics of care framework, good behavior ______.

a. meets the needs of those concerned

b. conforms to the middle ground between competing positions

c. is based on the needs of the individual actor

d. is concerned with universally understood ideas of right and wrong

Learning Objective: 4-2: Describe the different ethical frameworks.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Ethical Foundation for Professional Practice

Difficulty Level: Easy

18. Which system is concerned with whether an act itself is good?

a. teleological ethical system

b. deontological ethical system

c. ethical formalism

d. utilitarianism

Learning Objective: 4-2: Describe the different ethical frameworks.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Ethical Foundation for Professional Practice

Difficulty Level: Easy

19. ______ is known as what is right or wrong.

a. Ethics

b. Morality

c. Utilitarianism

d. Humility

Learning Objective: 4-2: Describe the different ethical frameworks.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Ethical Foundation for Professional Practice

Difficulty Level: Easy

20. ______ is a philosophical touchstone that is referenced as a guide to human decision making.

a. Ethical formalism

b. Synchronicity

c. Unnatural law

d. Hypocrisy

Learning Objective: 4-2: Describe the different ethical frameworks.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Ethical Foundation for Professional Practice

Difficulty Level: Easy

21. Which of the following is NOT a philosophical touchstone that is referenced as a guide to human decision making?

a. ethical formalism

b. religion

c. subculture

d. ethics of virtue

Learning Objective: 4-2: Describe the different ethical frameworks.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Ethical Foundation for Professional Practice

Difficulty Level: Easy

22. “What is good is that which is natural” is ______.

a. religious perspective

b. natural law

c. ethics of care

d. ethical formalism

Learning Objective: 4-2: Describe the different ethical frameworks

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Ethical Foundation for Professional Practice

Difficulty Level: Easy

23. ______ is a framework centered on good acts.

a. Religious perspective

b. Natural law

c. Ethics of care

d. Egoism

Learning Objective: 4-2: Describe the different ethical frameworks.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Ethical Foundation for Professional Practice

Difficulty Level: Easy

24. Which framework is based on the belief that the needs of self are most important?

a. ethics of care

b. religious perspective

c. natural law

d. egoism

Learning Objective: 4-2: Describe the different ethical frameworks.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Ethical Foundation for Professional Practice

Difficulty Level: Easy

25. Ethical formalism falls under a ______ system, as the focus is on the act and its rightness (or wrongness) rather than on the consequences of the act.

a. deontological

b. utilitarianism

c. teleological

d. legalistic

Learning Objective: 4-2: Describe the different ethical frameworks.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Ethical Foundation for Professional Practice

Difficulty Level: Medium

26. Which philosopher believed that individuals participated in utilitarian calculus when making a decision?

a. Aristotle

b. Bentham

c. Plato

d. Pollock

Learning Objective: 4-2: Describe the different ethical frameworks.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Ethical Foundation for Professional Practice

Difficulty Level: Easy

27. Utilitarian calculus weighs the ______.

a. possible pleasure of a decision

b. possible pain of a decision

c. possible pleasure and pain of a decision

d. right and wrong of a decision

Learning Objective: 4-2: Describe the different ethical frameworks.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Ethical Foundation for Professional Practice

Difficulty Level: Easy

28. Utilitarianism falls under which system?

a. religious perspective

b. natural law

c. deontological system

d. teleological system

Learning Objective: 4-2: Describe the different ethical frameworks.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Ethical Foundation for Professional Practice

Difficulty Level: Medium

29. Ethics of virtue focuses on where a person is ______.

a. right

b. wrong

c. good

d. bad

And: C

Learning Objective: 4-2: Describe the different ethical frameworks.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Ethical Foundation for Professional Practice

Difficulty Level: Easy

30. On which framework is the ethics of care system based?

a. deontological system

b. teleological system

c. religious perspective

d. natural law

Learning Objective: 4-2: Describe the different ethical frameworks.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Ethical Foundation for Professional Practice

Difficulty Level: Medium

31. According to your text, the most obvious reason people behave unethically is ______.

a. peer pressure

b. mental health problems

c. personal gain

d. uncertainty about rules

Learning Objective: 4-3: Analyze why people are motivated to commit ethical violations.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Why People Behave Unethically

Difficulty Level: Easy

32. Acting in a way that benefits one’s organization but violates the law is called ______.

a. white-collar crime

b. official deviance

c. status offenses

d. noble misconduct

Learning Objective: 4-3: Analyze why people are motivated to commit ethical violations.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Why People Behave Unethically

Difficulty Level: Easy

33. The moral commitment to make the world a better place is called ______.

a. discretion

b. utility

c. noble cause

d. higher calling

Learning Objective: 4-3: Analyze why people are motivated to commit ethical violations.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Why People Behave Unethically

Difficulty Level: Easy

34. The ability to make choices and act or not act on those choices is called ______.

a. egoism

b. morality

c. anomie

d. discretion

Learning Objective: 4-3: Analyze why people are motivated to commit ethical violations.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Why People Behave Unethically

Difficulty Level: Easy

35. A smaller part of a larger culture, with its own norms, values, and beliefs, is called ______.

a. a subculture

b. a microculture

c. a counterculture

d. an autoculture

Learning Objective: 4-3: Analyze why people are motivated to commit ethical violations.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Why People Behave Unethically

Difficulty Level: Easy

36. ______ is the ability to make choices and act or not act on them.

a. Discretion

b. Subculture

c. Official deviance

d. Noble cause

Learning Objective: 4-3: Analyze why people are motivated to commit ethical violations.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Why People Behave Unethically

Difficulty Level: Easy

37. ______ is a subset of a larger culture, with its own norms, values, beliefs, traditions, and history of a group of people.

a. Discretion

b. Subculture

c. Noble cause

d. Official deviance

Learning Objective: 4-3: Analyze why people are motivated to commit ethical violations.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Why People Behave Unethically

Difficulty Level: Easy

38. Actions taken by officials that violate the law and/or the formal rules of an organization, but that are clearly oriented toward the needs and goals of the organization, as perceived by the official, and thus fulfill certain informal rules of the organization are known as ______.

a. noble cause

b. official deviance

c. personal gain

d. ethical practice

Learning Objective: 4-3: Analyze why people are motivated to commit ethical violations.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Why People Behave Unethically

Difficulty Level: Easy

39. Which of the following is a barrier to ethical practice?

a. Do not be sympathetic toward clients.

b. Hire people who are less likely to be motivated by personal gains.

c. Pay people a professional wage.

d. Encourage the professional development of employees.

Learning Objective: 4-3: Analyze why people are motivated to commit ethical violations.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Why People Behave Unethically

Difficulty Level: Easy

40. Which of the following subcultural values was identified by probation and parole managers in 1994 and 1995?

a. Always aid your coworker.

b. Be sympathetic toward clients.

c. Never cover for a coworker in front of clients.

d. Always support the decision of a client over that of a coworker.

Learning Objective: 4-3: Analyze why people are motivated to commit ethical violations.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Why People Behave Unethically

Difficulty Level: Easy

41. “Always support the decision of a coworker regarding a client” is ______ ethical practice.

a. an objective of

b. a rule in

c. a barrier to

d. a goal of

Learning Objective: 4-3: Analyze why people are motivated to commit ethical violations.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Why People Behave Unethically

Difficulty Level: Easy

42. Which of the following is NOT a behavior that promotes ethical behavior?

a. encourage involvement of outsider review and professional engagement

b. encourage whistle-blowing

c. promote ethical behavior

d. All of these are behaviors that promote ethical behavior.

Learning Objective: 4-3: Analyze why people are motivated to commit ethical violations.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Why People Behave Unethically

Difficulty Level: Easy

43. Which of the following is a reason that individuals may behave unethically?

a. personal gain

b. selflessness

c. humility

d. morality

Learning Objective: 4-3: Analyze why people are motivated to commit ethical violations.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Why People Behave Unethically

Difficulty Level: Easy

44. ______ is a noble cause theme that may explain police officer behavior.

a. Official deviance

b. The tower

c. Personal gain

d. Selfishness

Learning Objective: 4-3: Analyze why people are motivated to commit ethical violations.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Why People Behave Unethically

Difficulty Level: Easy

45. In March 2016, the Florida American Civil Liberties Union found that 23% of the inmates ______ were being kept in solitary confinement.

a. convicted of a drug offense

b. with felony convictions

c. with a mental illness

d. who had filed complaints against the staff

Learning Objective: 4-4: Identify why corrections workers might be prone to ethics violations and how they might be prevented.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: How to Prevent Unethical Behavior and Promote Ethical Work Practices

Difficulty Level: Medium

46. The war on drugs was first mentioned by ______.

a. President Nixon

b. President Kennedy

c. President Reagan

d. President Carter

Learning Objective: 4-3: Analyze why people are motivated to commit ethical violations.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: How to Prevent Unethical Behavior and Promote Ethical Work Practices

Difficulty Level: Medium

47. The United States spends approximately ______ a year on the war on drugs.

a. $10 billion

b. $25 billion

c. $50 billion

d. $100 billion

Learning Objective: 4-3: Analyze why people are motivated to commit ethical violations.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: How to Prevent Unethical Behavior and Promote Ethical Work Practices

Difficulty Level: Medium

48. How many people were arrested for a nonviolent drug offense in 2014?

a. 100,000

b. .5 million

c. 1.56 million

d. 3.1 million

Learning Objective: 4-3: Analyze why people are motivated to commit ethical violations.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: How to Prevent Unethical Behavior and Promote Ethical Work Practices

Difficulty Level: Medium

49. What percentage of Americans were incarcerated in 2014?

a. 1 in every 60

b. 1 in ever 4,500

c. 1 in every 1,010

d. 1 in every 111

Learning Objective: 4-3: Analyze why people are motivated to commit ethical violations.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: How to Prevent Unethical Behavior and Promote Ethical Work Practices

Difficulty Level: Medium

50. How many students have lost federal financial aid eligibility because of a drug conviction?

a. 200,000+

b. 300,000+

c. 400,000+

d. 500,000+

Learning Objective: 4-3: Analyze why people are motivated to commit ethical violations.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: How to Prevent Unethical Behavior and Promote Ethical Work Practices

Difficulty Level: Medium

True/False

1. A majority of correctional workers are ethical in their work practices.

Learning Objective: 4-4: Identify why corrections workers might be prone to ethics violations and how they might be prevented.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Defining Ethics: What Is Right (and Wrong)?

Difficulty Level: Easy

2. Organizations and agencies do not have strategies to reduce unethical practices.

Learning Objective: 4-4: Identify why corrections workers might be prone to ethics violations and how they might be prevented.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Defining Ethics: What Is Right (and Wrong)?

Difficulty Level: Easy

3. Youth Services International supported the political campaigns of Florida’s and other states’ politicians with hefty donations.

Learning Objective: 4-4: Identify why corrections workers might be prone to ethics violations and how they might be prevented.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Defining Ethics: What Is Right (and Wrong)?

Difficulty Level: Easy

4. Ethics is the study of what is right and wrong.

Learning Objective: 4-1: Explain the differences between ethics and morality.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Defining Ethics: What Is Right (and Wrong)?

Difficulty Level: Easy

5. Morality is concerned with what is right or wrong in the professional sphere.

Learning Objective: 4-1: Explain the differences between ethics and morality.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Defining Ethics: What Is Right (and Wrong)?

Difficulty Level: Easy

6. Youth Services International operates 18% of the juvenile facilities in Florida.

Learning Objective: 4-4: Identify why corrections workers might be prone to ethics violations and how they might be prevented.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Defining Ethics: What Is Right (and Wrong)?

Difficulty Level: Easy

7. Ten jail complexes make up Riker’s Island in New York City.

Learning Objective: 4-4: Identify why corrections workers might be prone to ethics violations and how they might be prevented.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Defining Ethics: What Is Right (and Wrong)?

Difficulty Level: Easy

8. Systems focused on the consequences of an act are known as ethical formalism.

Learning Objective: 4-2: Describe the different ethical frameworks.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Ethical Foundation for Professional Practice

Difficulty Level: Easy

9. The religious perspective weighs what is right or wrong based on one’s religion and covers all facets of living and relationships with others.

Learning Objective: 4-1: Explain the differences between ethics and morality.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Ethical Foundation for Professional Practice

Difficulty Level: Easy

10. Pollock defined egoism as “what is good is that which conforms to the categorical imperative.”

Learning Objective: 4-2: Describe the different ethical frameworks.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Ethical Foundation for Professional Practice

Difficulty Level: Easy

11. Moral behavior is shaped by both deontological and teleological ethical systems.

Learning Objective: 4-2: Describe the different ethical frameworks.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Ethical Foundation for Professional Practice

Difficulty Level: Easy

12. Teleological ethical systems are focused on the consequences of an act.

Learning Objective: 4-2: Describe the different ethical frameworks.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Ethical Foundation for Professional Practice

Difficulty Level: Easy

13. Under the ethical formalism system, there is a belief that there is a universal law that includes clear rights and wrongs.

Learning Objective: 4-2: Describe the different ethical frameworks.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Ethical Foundation for Professional Practice

Difficulty Level: Easy

14. Most religions include a universal set of rights and wrongs.

Learning Objective: 4-2: Describe the different ethical frameworks.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Ethical Foundation for Professional Practice

Difficulty Level: Easy

15. In a religious perspective, rights and wrongs are just, clear, and knowable through reason.

Learning Objective: 4-2: Describe the different ethical frameworks.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Ethical Foundation for Professional Practice

Difficulty Level: Easy

16. Natural laws about what is right or wrong are relative to time and place.

Learning Objective: 4-2: Describe the different ethical frameworks.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Ethical Foundation for Professional Practice

Difficulty Level: Easy

17. Women are more likely to be concerned about the care of others as guiding how they behave.

Learning Objective: 4-2: Describe the different ethical frameworks.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Ethical Foundation for Professional Practice

Difficulty Level: Easy

18. Utilitarianism holds that actions that are good conform to the categorical imperative.

Learning Objective: 4-2: Describe the different ethical frameworks.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Ethical Foundation for Professional Practice

Difficulty Level: Easy

19. The idea of the categorical imperative was introduced by Immanuel Kant.

Learning Objective: 4-2: Describe the different ethical frameworks.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Ethical Foundation for Professional Practice

Difficulty Level: Easy

20. Ethics of virtue seeks that which conforms to the middle ground between positions.

Learning Objective: 4-2: Describe the different ethical frameworks.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Ethical Foundation for Professional Practice

Difficulty Level: Easy

21. The noble cause position holds that ethical behavior is based on religious teachings.

Learning Objective: 4-3: Analyze why people are motivated to commit ethical violations.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Ethical Foundation for Professional Practice

Difficulty Level: Easy

22. Negative subculture is a key feature of correctional environments that would make staff and management more prone to unethical behavior.

Learning Objective: 4-3: Analyze why people are motivated to commit ethical violations.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Why People Behave Unethically

Difficulty Level: Easy

23. Openness is more likely to reduce unethical behavior and defuse the power of negative subcultures.

Learning Objective: 4-3: Analyze why people are motivated to commit ethical violations.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Why People Behave Unethically

Difficulty Level: Easy

24. The United States has the second highest incarceration rate in the world.

Learning Objective: 4-3: Analyze why people are motivated to commit ethical violations

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: How to Prevent Unethical Behavior and Promote Ethical Work Practices

Difficulty Level: Easy

25. The war on drugs was introduced by President Nixon.

Learning Objective: 4-3: Analyze why people are motivated to commit ethical violations.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: How to Prevent Unethical Behavior and Promote Ethical Work Practices

Difficulty Level: Easy

Essay

1. Explain the difference between ethics and morality.

Learning Objective: 4-1: Explain the differences between ethics and morality.

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Defining Ethics: What Is Right (and Wrong)?

Difficulty Level: Easy

2. Explain the difference between a deontological ethical system and a teleological ethical system.

Learning Objective: 4-2: Describe the different ethical frameworks.

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Ethical Foundation for Professional Practice

Difficulty Level: Medium

3. How do the ideas of Immanuel Kant relate to ethical formalism?

Learning Objective: 4-2: Describe the different ethical frameworks.

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Ethical Foundation for Professional Practice

Difficulty Level: Medium

4. Compare and contrast an ethics of care framework and an egoism framework.

Learning Objective: 4-2: Describe the different ethical frameworks.

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Ethical Foundation for Professional Practice

Difficulty Level: Medium

5. Explain the framework of egoism. Provide an example of action based on this framework.

Learning Objective: 4-2: Describe the different ethical frameworks.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Ethical Foundation for Professional Practice

Difficulty Level: Easy

6. What is utilitarianism? Provide an example of this ethical framework in action.

Learning Objective: 4-2: Describe the different ethical frameworks.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Ethical Foundation for Professional Practice

Difficulty Level: Easy

7. What is a subculture? Discuss how a subculture can play a role in unethical behavior.

Learning Objective: 4-3: Analyze why people are motivated to commit ethical violations.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Why People Behave Unethically

Difficulty Level: Easy

8. What is noble cause corruption? Provide a hypothetical example of this phenomenon.

Learning Objective: 4-3: Analyze why people are motivated to commit ethical violations.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Why People Behave Unethically

Difficulty Level: Easy

9. What is official deviance? Provide a hypothetical example.

Learning Objective: 4-3: Analyze why people are motivated to commit ethical violations.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Why People Behave Unethically

Difficulty Level: Easy

10. Identify and explain three of the explanations for unethical behavior discussed in the text.

Learning Objective: 4-3: Analyze why people are motivated to commit ethical violations.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Why People Behave Unethically

Difficulty Level: Easy

11. Discuss any five of the practices that prevent unethical behavior, according to the textbook. Which practices do you believe are most useful?

Learning Objective: 4-3: Analyze why people are motivated to commit ethical violations.

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Why People Behave Unethically

Difficulty Level: Medium

12. What is the difference between ethical formalism and utilitarianism?

Learning Objective: 4-2: Describe the different ethical frameworks.

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Ethical Foundation for Professional Practice

Difficulty Level: Medium

13. Does the war on drugs create ethical problems? Justify your position with specific information from the textbook.

Learning Objective: 4-3: Analyze why people are motivated to commit ethical violations.

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Why People Behave Unethically

Difficulty Level: Medium

14. You are a new correctional officer and you notice that a fellow officer is physically abusive to suspects. How are you going to deal with this situation and which ethical framework is reflected in your approach?

Learning Objective: 4-2: Describe the different ethical frameworks.

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Entire chapter

Difficulty Level: Medium

15. How would you correct the problems at Florida’s Youth Services International juvenile prisons?

Learning Objective: 4-2: Describe the different ethical frameworks.

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Entire chapter

Difficulty Level: Medium