The starting point for this study was the theory that criminal justice functionaries' penal decisions are a function of their value orientations. The results of the data analyses indicate a statistically significant association between the level of moral judgment and penal decisions. The functionaries' penal orientations are not influenced by their identifications with professionalism and bureaucratism. Occupation variables have a high statistical association in explaining the variance of functionaries' penal orientation. Functionaries' value orientation does not appear to be significant individually. However, when combined in a regression model that includes demographic characteristics, the model accounts for 45 percent of variance in explaining the criminal justice functionaries' penal orientation. Figures, tables, notes, references