Ethics has a central role in the choices we make or should make and what consequences will follow these choices (Williams & Arrigo, 2012).
Freedom is the ability to make choices freely; we choose and act as we chose (Williams & Arrigo, 2012).
Determinism in its simplest form is the position that for every event there exist conditions that could cause no other event (Williams & Arrigo, 2012).
Caylee (Kallie) Anthony was last seen alive on June 16, 2008 at the home of her grandparents as she was leaving with her mother Casey Anthony (Batagila, 2012). Thirty-one days later, Cindy Anthony, Caylee’s grandmother reported to police that Casey stole her vehicle and some money. Cindy would call police again to report Caylee had been missing for over thirty days (Anthony v. State, 2017). When officers arrived at Cindy Anthony’s home, Casey told police the story that she had last seen Caylee when she dropped her at the apartment of her nanny, Zenaida Fernandez-Gonzales on June 9 before going to work at her place of employment, Universal Studios. Casey gave police the apartment name and number where Gonzalez lived (Anthony v. State, 2017). Casey rode with the officer to the apartment and then gave her written statement describing in detail the nanny and what Caylee was wearing the day she left her along with her actions looking for her daughter and (Anthony v. State, 2017). Casey’s statement detailed how she knew the nanny and what she had been doing for the past four weeks since Caylee disappeared. Casey stated she had not called the police or told her family out of fear (Anthony v. State, 2017). Casey exercised her freedom by giving false information to the police. No one made her or caused her to give the false information. Ethically Casey’s freedom of choice was incorrect and her actions determined the consequences that would follow as she was charged. When police began the investigation into Caylee’s disappearance, Detective Melich found the information in Casey’s statement to be false (Anthony v. State, 2017). This could be noted to be the freewill exercised by Casey to tell the police correct or incorrect information. Her statements would determine what actions the police would chose in the case. The charges that Casey received during the early investigation, of child neglect and interference with the investigation of her daughter’s disappearance according to determinism would be the outcome of her actions (Pafundi, 2012). Two months after Casey was charged with first degree murder, Caylee’s body was found within a mile of the Anthony home (Pafundi, 2012). These consequences of her freedom of ethical choice determined the conditions that would cause the eventual event of her being charged with child neglect and interference with the investigation as well as first degree murder. During the trial, it would be brought to light that …show more content…
There were also allegations that Casey’s father, George Anthony had sexually abused her when she was a child. Mr. Anthony denied these allegations during the trial. After Casey found Caylee drowned, Casey had the freedom to report to police that an accident had occurred, but she choose not to instead she used her freedom to compile a false story. If Mr. Anthony did abuse Casey when she was young, this too was a freedom of choice on his part that we could say according to determinism would be the natural outcome of having it brought out in the trial and possibly a determinism usage of why Casey had not reported the accidental drowning of Caylee. Every choice we make has an impact on ourselves and others for our entire lives (Williams & Arrigo, …show more content…
State. (2017). FindLaw. Retrieved October 5, 2017 from: http://caselaw.findlaw. com/fl-district-court-of-appeal/1621490.html Battaglia, N. (2012). The Casey Anthony trial and wrongful exonerations: How “Trial by media” cases diminish public confidence in the criminal justice system. Albany Law
Review, 75(3), 1579-1611.
Casey Anthony trial. (2017). Crime Museum, LLC. Retrieved October 4, 2017 from: https://www.crimemuseum.org/crime-library/justice-system/casey-anthony-trial/ Pafundi, B. (2010). Public access to criminal discovery records: A look behind the curtain of the criminal justice system. University of Florida journal of law & public policy, 21(2), 27-271.
Williams, C. & Arrigo, B. (2012). Ethics, crime, and criminal justice (2nd ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson. Retrieved from: https://www.betheluniversityonline.net/ mscj/default.aspx?
Freedom is the ability to make choices freely; we choose and act as we chose (Williams & Arrigo, 2012).
Determinism in its simplest form is the position that for every event there exist conditions that could cause no other event (Williams & Arrigo, 2012).
Caylee (Kallie) Anthony was last seen alive on June 16, 2008 at the home of her grandparents as she was leaving with her mother Casey Anthony (Batagila, 2012). Thirty-one days later, Cindy Anthony, Caylee’s grandmother reported to police that Casey stole her vehicle and some money. Cindy would call police again to report Caylee had been missing for over thirty days (Anthony v. State, 2017). When officers arrived at Cindy Anthony’s home, Casey told police the story that she had last seen Caylee when she dropped her at the apartment of her nanny, Zenaida Fernandez-Gonzales on June 9 before going to work at her place of employment, Universal Studios. Casey gave police the apartment name and number where Gonzalez lived (Anthony v. State, 2017). Casey rode with the officer to the apartment and then gave her written statement describing in detail the nanny and what Caylee was wearing the day she left her along with her actions looking for her daughter and (Anthony v. State, 2017). Casey’s statement detailed how she knew the nanny and what she had been doing for the past four weeks since Caylee disappeared. Casey stated she had not called the police or told her family out of fear (Anthony v. State, 2017). Casey exercised her freedom by giving false information to the police. No one made her or caused her to give the false information. Ethically Casey’s freedom of choice was incorrect and her actions determined the consequences that would follow as she was charged. When police began the investigation into Caylee’s disappearance, Detective Melich found the information in Casey’s statement to be false (Anthony v. State, 2017). This could be noted to be the freewill exercised by Casey to tell the police correct or incorrect information. Her statements would determine what actions the police would chose in the case. The charges that Casey received during the early investigation, of child neglect and interference with the investigation of her daughter’s disappearance according to determinism would be the outcome of her actions (Pafundi, 2012). Two months after Casey was charged with first degree murder, Caylee’s body was found within a mile of the Anthony home (Pafundi, 2012). These consequences of her freedom of ethical choice determined the conditions that would cause the eventual event of her being charged with child neglect and interference with the investigation as well as first degree murder. During the trial, it would be brought to light that …show more content…
There were also allegations that Casey’s father, George Anthony had sexually abused her when she was a child. Mr. Anthony denied these allegations during the trial. After Casey found Caylee drowned, Casey had the freedom to report to police that an accident had occurred, but she choose not to instead she used her freedom to compile a false story. If Mr. Anthony did abuse Casey when she was young, this too was a freedom of choice on his part that we could say according to determinism would be the natural outcome of having it brought out in the trial and possibly a determinism usage of why Casey had not reported the accidental drowning of Caylee. Every choice we make has an impact on ourselves and others for our entire lives (Williams & Arrigo, …show more content…
State. (2017). FindLaw. Retrieved October 5, 2017 from: http://caselaw.findlaw. com/fl-district-court-of-appeal/1621490.html Battaglia, N. (2012). The Casey Anthony trial and wrongful exonerations: How “Trial by media” cases diminish public confidence in the criminal justice system. Albany Law
Review, 75(3), 1579-1611.
Casey Anthony trial. (2017). Crime Museum, LLC. Retrieved October 4, 2017 from: https://www.crimemuseum.org/crime-library/justice-system/casey-anthony-trial/ Pafundi, B. (2010). Public access to criminal discovery records: A look behind the curtain of the criminal justice system. University of Florida journal of law & public policy, 21(2), 27-271.
Williams, C. & Arrigo, B. (2012). Ethics, crime, and criminal justice (2nd ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson. Retrieved from: https://www.betheluniversityonline.net/ mscj/default.aspx?