o Which examples generated disagreement?
o Discuss what the disagreement reflects in terms of personal value systems.
· Consider the following values: Friendship, Power, Altruism, Health, Recognition,
Independence, Honesty, Religion, Beauty, Justice, Success, Wealth, Creativity, Knowledge,
Wisdom, Family, Duty, Love, Loyalty, Inner Peace, Pleasure, Challenge, Safety, Risk, and
Patriotism.
· Select three values that you value the most, and select three values that are least important
to you.
· Compare your individual selections and agree on the three values most important to your
team. Identify the three values that are least important.
· Identify as a team the value that the person committing the act (actor) appears to consider
most important for each example included in your scrapbook.
· Identify the value that the actor appears to consider the least important.
· Compare each of the actor’s value systems with your individual and team value systems. In
what way are they similar? In what way are they different?
· Discuss and answer the following questions as team:
o Should all jurisdictions have a Good Samaritan law requiring an individual to help another if
they are able? Explain why. What have you done that would be considered acting as a Good
Samaritan? Have you ever failed to act when an individual needed help?
o Should vigilantism be permitted when the criminal justice system fails? Explain why. Under
what circumstances might you violate the law to enforce the law?
o Historically, in your opinion, has civil disobedience been effective in changing the law?
Explain why. What laws do you disagree with or would consider violating to change? Explain.
o What conditions exist in the various professions, other than criminal justice professions, that
contribute to the commission of unethical behavior? Consider the business and corporate
sectors, medical professions, religious authorities, retail establishments, construction industry,
insurance industry, banking, education, professional sports, research, pharmaceutical
companies, and politics. Do you believe that American society as a whole is predisposed to
ethical or unethical behavior? What may be done to reduce ethical violations among
professionals?