Vigilante Justice
Tentative Title: Vigilante Justice: Blurred lines between law and justice
Keywords:
Justice: There is no true definition of justice as some believe that this subjective term is something that exists outside of the law while other thinkers believe that it something that is achieved through law. For Derrida, a given act or judicial decision cannot be considered just or unjust since no such decision exists rather it is an application of a rule (Derrida, 2002,p. 243).
Revenge: Any action that responds to perceived harm by another individual, institution or party that has intended to inflict injury or punishment on the person or group judged responsible (Tripp, Bies & Aquino, 2007, p. 20).
Vigilante justice: A desire to balance the scale …show more content…
Key to the current essay is that Bourdieu recognizes that those who take part within the legal sphere are engaged with the outside world as a whole. The linguistic strategies enacted by the sphere, established its own legitimacy within the public sphere. Bourdieu claims can be applied to the notion and conceptualization of justice within the legal sphere as possibly something that exist within the law rather than an idea that exists outside of it. His ideas have been present as an influence in current writings of the absence of justice in the criminal …show more content…
Although the future essay would exclude events such as cases of marital abuse or vigilantism as a result of a political injustice in many developing countries, the essay would shed some light on the motives of revenge killings and assaults enacted upon released sex offenders. The idea of justice goes back to the current conceptions of punishment within our society as either something that restores the judicial balance or a legally authorized form of revenge. Punitive criminal sanctions follow two different models in the Western world, deterrence and retributive models. Within the idea of revenge killings, is the retributive model that supports harsher criminal sanctions rooted in moral concerns. In addition, the individual or party will try to seek their own form of justice through punishments that they believe fit the crime (Sidanius, Mitchell, Haley & Navarrete, 2006). Since there may be no clear definition of justice within the western criminal justice system, many can argue that motivations of punitive decisions and severe punishments may be influenced by vengeance rather than the idea of true justice (Murray, Thomson, Cooke & Charles, 2013, p.3). Many can argue that if the interpretation of punishment is that of paying for the crime committed, why have so many individuals proceeded in seeking justice in killing or hurting released
Keywords:
Justice: There is no true definition of justice as some believe that this subjective term is something that exists outside of the law while other thinkers believe that it something that is achieved through law. For Derrida, a given act or judicial decision cannot be considered just or unjust since no such decision exists rather it is an application of a rule (Derrida, 2002,p. 243).
Revenge: Any action that responds to perceived harm by another individual, institution or party that has intended to inflict injury or punishment on the person or group judged responsible (Tripp, Bies & Aquino, 2007, p. 20).
Vigilante justice: A desire to balance the scale …show more content…
Key to the current essay is that Bourdieu recognizes that those who take part within the legal sphere are engaged with the outside world as a whole. The linguistic strategies enacted by the sphere, established its own legitimacy within the public sphere. Bourdieu claims can be applied to the notion and conceptualization of justice within the legal sphere as possibly something that exist within the law rather than an idea that exists outside of it. His ideas have been present as an influence in current writings of the absence of justice in the criminal …show more content…
Although the future essay would exclude events such as cases of marital abuse or vigilantism as a result of a political injustice in many developing countries, the essay would shed some light on the motives of revenge killings and assaults enacted upon released sex offenders. The idea of justice goes back to the current conceptions of punishment within our society as either something that restores the judicial balance or a legally authorized form of revenge. Punitive criminal sanctions follow two different models in the Western world, deterrence and retributive models. Within the idea of revenge killings, is the retributive model that supports harsher criminal sanctions rooted in moral concerns. In addition, the individual or party will try to seek their own form of justice through punishments that they believe fit the crime (Sidanius, Mitchell, Haley & Navarrete, 2006). Since there may be no clear definition of justice within the western criminal justice system, many can argue that motivations of punitive decisions and severe punishments may be influenced by vengeance rather than the idea of true justice (Murray, Thomson, Cooke & Charles, 2013, p.3). Many can argue that if the interpretation of punishment is that of paying for the crime committed, why have so many individuals proceeded in seeking justice in killing or hurting released