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Leadership and Ethical Practice in Criminal Justice Agencies
According to Wright (1999), leadership is an essential part of a criminal justice agency, and the key to that leadership is ethics. Without proper ethical standards on a personal level, an individual would not be a good choice for criminal justice. When that person is put into a leadership role, he or she then has to focus on not only personal ethical standards, but standards of ethics that are fitting to the entire department or agency. These standards may not be identical to what would be seen personally, but they must be adhered to regardless. Additionally, when a person is focused on being an ethical leader, he or she holds others to that same ethical standard, and that can keep employees on the right path in any organization. This is especially vital for criminal justice agencies, because they are expected to be highly ethical in nature and avoid anything that could be questionable (Wright, 1999). If they fail to address proper ethics, they open the door to risks and problems that should...
When an agency allows ethics to slide, it is essentially indicating to others that it does not take its responsibilities to the public seriously (Wright, 1999). In order to protect and serve, and in order to take care of the people who trust in and rely on the agency to keep them safe from harm, all criminal justice agencies have to uphold ethical standards that are higher than what would be seen in the rest of society. The leaders of those agencies are the ones who will be looked to when determining whether those standards are being upheld and how important they are, which is what makes the leaders so vitally significant in the agencies they are required to lead (Wright, 1999).
Other studies and articles have provided similar information when it comes to ethical leadership in criminal justice agencies and its significance. Bottoms & Tankebe (2012),…
References
Bottoms, A. & Tankebe, J. (2012). Beyond procedural justice: A dialogic approach to legitimacy in criminal justice. Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology, 102(1): 119-170.
Wright, K.N. (1999). Leadership is the key to ethical practice in criminal justice agencies. Criminal Justice Ethics, 18(2): 2-69.
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