Critical Thinking in Criminal Justice
Police officers face a whole lot of issues each day of their life. Amidst all these, they are expected to have an open mind, unbiased, and with excellent communication skills as well as interpersonal skills. In criminal justice, police officers employ critical thinking skills when determining whether a law has been broken or not, the response and if an arrest is necessary. Similarly, detectives and investigators use critical thinking skills in collecting evidence, determining the suspects, and solving a criminal case (Albanese, 2006).
Ethics is correlated with criminal justice because it determines what is wrong and what is right. Open-mindedness and critical considerations when making decisions make one be at peace with him or herself. Therefore, ethics, critical thinking, and behavior are related to criminal justice when executing decisions in the three sections of criminal justice. Law enforcement, adjudication, and correctional programs should have ethical considerations and critical thinking skills to investigate, argue their cases, and set correctional measures in prisons and the criminal justice administration in general. Thus, ethics, critical thinking, and behavior have a relationship and impact on the criminal justice system (Albanese, 2008).
Response1
I agree with you that the criminal justice system requires ethics, critical thinking, and behavior to execute its processes. The three sectors of criminal justice, that is, law enforcement, adjudication, and correctional programs, are meant to detect, argue cases, and maintain order in the prisons and criminal justice in general. It is also true that the interrelationship between ethics, critical thinking, and behavior impacts criminal justice because they shape the mind, decision, and actions of police officers. For instance, if an office knows that he or she has gathered enough evidence to make a sound decision or ruling offer a given case, he or she will have peace of mind.
Response2
I agree with you that critical thinking should be a skill possessed but any individual working under the criminal justice administrative department. Law enforcers are required to think both critically and crucially during the challenging situations they undergo in their daily routine. More so, I agree with you that law enforcers foster safety, truth, and justice through their critical thinking capabilities, which has an impact on the decisions they make. Therefore, law enforcement, adjudication, and correctional sectors of the criminal justice system should abide by ethical requirements, which will enable their critical thoughts to make the right decisions, thus impacting their behavior in the long-run.
References
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Albanese, J. S. (2008). Criminal justice. Pearson/Allyn and Bacon.