Shifting the Focus to Ethical Issues

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Shifting the Focus to Ethical Issues

• Welfare, Surveillance and Human Security

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Ethical Issues//Ethical Dilemmas
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Why a Focus on Human Welfare in Criminal Justice?
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Criminal Justice and Human Welfare

• Criminal Justice Process Unintentionally
  Generates Need for Human Welfare
• Working with Diverse Populations
• Penal Values Have Invaded Social Services and
  Educational Fields
• Criminal Justice System has become the Safety Net
  
• Criminal Endeavors and Human Needs

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How Have We Dealt With Poverty?
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Assistance to Poor As Old as Human Civilization

• The Beginning of Policing Services in Urban
  Industrializing Cities
• Charitable Organizations as a Continuous Force in
  Many Societies
• Great Depression and Federal Governmental
  Intervention
• From Reagan to Clinton Demonizing Welfare
  Recipients, Workfare, and Fraud

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Any Basic Shared Values

• Need to Respond
• Responding Effectively
• Right to Life, Liberty and Pursuit of Happiness
• The Work Ethic

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What Causes Poverty
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What are the Causes of Poverty

• Weston, the Relativist
• Motivation and Health Problems
• Motivation and Skills
• Mass Imprisonment
• Poor Compensation
• Infrastructure
• Discrimination
• Disempowerment

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Framing and Overseers of the Poor A Visual
Account
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Poverty and Appalachia
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Welfare Clients and Needs
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Welfare Surveillance
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Surveillance A Working Definition

• Watching, usually without invitation, from a
  position of power and with the intent of
  exercising power over those who are being watched
  

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Poverty and the Law
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Welfare Resistance
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Revolt of the Guard
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Ethic of Care and Human Security