ABSTRACT
Since before the time of Plato, society has struggled with the issues of ethics and morality. The terms “ethics and morality” are often used interchangeably, with neither having a precise definition. Attempts by scholars to distinguish the two normally result in further confusion as to the precise meaning of each term. In a formal sense, the study of ethics is a specialized branch of philosophy. Unlike
• Meat-eaters
• Morality
• Normative system
• Occupational deviance
• Personal values
• Physical abuse
• Police code of conduct
• Police crime
• Police sexual violence
• Psychological abuse
• Quota systems
• Sexual harassment
• Social norms
• Stacking-up charges
• Utilitarianism
• Values
psychology or sociology, ethics is not an attempt to understand the “why” of human behavior but rather an attempt to evaluate behavior in terms of ethical or moral principles. In doing so, one is immediately presented with a number of nearly insurmountable difficulties. How is the term “ethics” to be defined? Should the definition be based on moral concepts and, if so, whose morals are to be considered ethical? Should society be more concerned with the ethics of process or the ethics of result?
