Robert Jackall est un sociologue et professeur reconnu pour son travail de terrain approfondi auprès des détectives et des procureurs de New York, ce qui lui a valu le surnom de « Le Professeur ». Ses recherches explorent les dynamiques complexes de l'application de la loi et du système judiciaire, en se concentrant sur les considérations éthiques, les processus de prise de décision et les interactions sociales inhérents à ces professions exigeantes. Le travail de Jackall offre une perspective unique pour comprendre le fonctionnement de la justice et la nature humaine sous pression.
This updated edition of a classic study of ethics in business presents an eye-opening account of how corporate managers think the world works, and how big organizations shape moral consciousness. Robert Jackall takes the reader inside a topsy-turvy world where hard work does not necessarily lead to success, but sharp talk, self-promotion, powerful patrons, and sheer luck might. This edition includes a new foreword linking the themes of Moral Mazes to the financial tsunami that engulfed the world economy in 2008.
Detectives work the streets—an arena of action, vice, lust, greed, aggression, and violence—to gather shards of information about who did what to whom. They also work the cumbersome machinery of the justice system—semi-military police hierarchies with their endless jockeying for prestige, procedure-driven district attorney offices, and backlogged courts—transforming hard-won street knowledge into public narratives of responsibility for crime. Street Stories, based on years of fieldwork with the New York City Police Department and the District Attorney of New York, examines the moral ambiguities of the detectives’ world as they shuttle between the streets and a bureaucratic behemoth.In piecing together street stories to solve intriguing puzzles of agency and motive, detectives crisscross the checkerboard of urban life. Their interactions in social strata high and low foster cosmopolitan habits of mind and easy conversational skills. And they become incomparable storytellers. This book brims with the truth-is-stranger-than-fiction violence of the underworld and tells about a justice apparatus that splinters knowledge, reduces life-and-death issues to arcane hair-splitting, and makes rationality a bedfellow of absurdity.Detectives’ stories lay bare their occupational consciousness—the cunning and trickery of their investigative craft, their self-images, moral rules-in-use, and judgments about the players in their world—as well as their personal ambitions, sensibilities, resentments, hopes, and fears. When detectives do make cases, they take satisfaction in removing predators from the streets and helping to ensure public safety. But their stories also illuminate dark corners of a troubled social order.
