IP 41 Law and Justice 1 Course Development

Unit 12: Ethics

Unit Details

• Course Weight: 4%

• Hours of Instruction: 6+/-

• Course Assessment Questions: 4

• Standard: The Learner will be able to understand ethics in law and justice (RBT: B2)

Indicators

• Identify unethical and illegal actions in police work.

• Discuss the law enforcement officers’ code of ethics

• Explore the various reasons for police corruption.

• Appraise the forms of police misconduct other than corruption.

• Identify the effects of police corruption and brutality.

My Lesson

• Feel free to use my plans as a guide. My course is based on 52 minute class periods.

• My students in the first year course are 9th or 10th graders.

• These materials may need updating. Be sure to check web links.

• Ethics can be brutally boring. I try to apply the concepts to student challenges to integrity.

• This is the last unit - and also when the students are presenting their research projects - as well as finals.

• I use still use an old Rodney King video - but there are so many events since then you can use for this unit.

• I like teaching ethics at the end of the course as the students are more educated on police work.

Daily Outline

• Notes

• Comparison assignment

• Notes

• Media: The Rodney King Incident

• Media: The Rodney King Incident

• Review, discussion

• Test

My Dropbox

All the files I used in the this unit can be viewed and downloaded. To print, be sure to download first. Click Here.

Additional Resources

CTE Online**

Offers free online content for teachers. Registration required.

• None for this unit

TEA CTE

Texas Education Agency has online teacher materials for Texas courses.

LE I

• Unit 2: Ethics Click Here

Others

• Community Oriented Policing Services (DOJ) Ethics and Integrity Click Here

• Law Enforcement Code of Ethics for Aberdeen, NC Click Here

• Law Enforcement Oath of Honor media