Ethics for the Public Service Professional (2nd Edition) – eBook

Headlines of public service corruption scandals are painful reminders of the need for continuing education in ethics and integrity. Public service professionals employed as government officials, forensic scientists, investigators, first responders, and those within the legal and justice systems, face daily decisions that can mean the difference between life or death and freedom or imprisonment. Sometimes, such decisions can present ethical dilemmas even to the most seasoned of professionals.

Building on the first edition’s success, Ethics for the Public Service Professional, Second Edition (PDF) serves as a single-source resource for ethics and ethical decision-making related to government service. While incorporating an examination of the history of ethics, codes, and legislation, the book exposes the reader to the challenges faced by today’s public service professionals and administrators in incorporating ethics within daily decisions, procedures, and duties.
Key features include:

• Ripped from the Headlines, current event examples demonstrate scenarios involving the issues discussed in every chapter.
• Important new mechanisms of accountability, including use-of-force reporting, citizen complaint procedures, and open government
• Chapter pedagogy, including key terms, learning objectives, end-of-chapter questions, a variety of boxed ethical case examples, and references
• Current controversies in police, forensic, and other public service sectors including: racial profiling, disaster response, evidence tampering, and audits
• Contemporary news stories throughout the ebook introduce the reader to a broad range of ethical issues facing leaders within the public service workplace

This in-depth textbook will be essential for the foundational development and explanation of protocols used within a successful organization. As such, Ethics for the Public Service Professional, 2nd Edition will help introduce ethics and ethical decision-making to those new to forensic science, criminal justice, and emergency services and those already working in the field.

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NOTE: This sale only includes the eBook Ethics for the Public Service Professional 2E in PDF. No access codes are included.