Simple Justice Racism The way this book began was profound and saddening. It didn’t begin in the early to mid 1800’s but in the 1950’s. A time of prosperity in America during the baby boom‚ manufacturing jobs and at a time when families could prosper; but not if you were black in South Carolina. Summerton‚ South Carolina in the 1950’s was no larger than 30‚000 plus people and was a majority black population. But that majority didn’t help the black people in this community. The chapters focus
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1. The first dilemma is whether or not to attempt to influence Chief Justice George Albright to take this particular case or not. 2. As the law clerk I would have several options‚ first to be honest and explain the situation: the judge and ask him for his recommendation. The possible outcome may or may not be successful but according to the Justice Albrights sentencing record it may be a viable request‚ with a successful outcome. A second option would be to contact whomever assigns the docket cases
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the reader: a) an understanding of the different definitions that reparative justice can adopt; and b) the functioning of the reparatory regime in the International Criminal Court (ICC) as established in the legal instruments which is based on. Reparative justice: theoretical definitions In order to create a wider scope of what reparations are or should be like and their ultimate finality‚ different reparative justice perspectives are exposed . These viewpoints comprehend various authors stemming
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Justice? What Justice? You’re walking down a dark alley and you feel a little scared‚ right? That’s normal‚ so don’t worry. Well how many of you feel that same way while standing next to a government agent or a security guard? I can’t name many‚ but the number is rising. American women working in Iraq and Afghanistan continue to be sexually assaulted while their assailants go free. The very same men that travel hundreds of miles to “protect us” are the ones who are committing some of the most heinous
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© Kamla-Raj 2011 J Soc Sci‚ 29(2): 183-192 (2011) The Nature of Justice Uwaezuoke Precious Obioha Department of Philosophy‚ Faculty of Arts‚ Olabisi Onabanjo University‚ P.M.B. 2002‚ Ago-Iwoye‚ Ogun State‚ Nigeria Telephone: +234-803-3950-443‚ E-mail: unclepees@yahoo.com KEYWORDS Rights. Distributive. Equality. Fairness. Difference Principle. Commutative ABSTRACT Since the Renaissance period in history initiated the act of free thinking and independent thought‚ there have existed and still
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Order of the President-in-Cabinet: P.M.MADUNA‚ Minister of the Cabinet Page 4 - GG No. 20627 : 15 November 1999 GOVERNMENT NOTICE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE No. R. 1361‚ 15 November 1999 MAINTENANCE ACT 99 OF 1998 No. 20627 - Vol. 413 - 15 November 1999 - (Regulation Gazette No. 6675) Page 2 of 84 REGULATIONS RELATING TO MAINTENANCE The Minister of Justice has‚ under section 44 of the Maintenance Act‚ 1998 (Act No. 99 of 1998)‚ made the regulations in the Schedule. SCHEDULE Definitions 1. In these
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Distributive justice is the concern for fair treatment towards stakeholders.8 Retributive is the concern that punishment is justified by the offence.9 Corrective is the procedure that stakeholders are compensated appropriately for wrongs that are suffered.10 Procedural is the involvement of impartial application of rules or procedures.11 In this case‚ the distributive property of ethical justice has been violated‚ as Monsanto does not show concern
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The concept of justice has been the focus of normative political theory over the past 50 years‚ and John Rawls’ A Theory of Justice (1971) is widely seen as the most important attempt during that period to articulate a set of institutions and distributional outcomes that rational individuals would see as legitimate. Rawls’ seminal work has spawned a veritable critical industry since its publication (Miller‚ 1999). His elaboration of his project and restatement of his theory of “justice as fairness”
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The conventional accounts of Justice normally begin by stating a fundamental rule of Aristotle – Justice is to treat equals equally and unequals unequally‚ and that unequal treatment should be in proportion to the inequality. In everyday life though‚ justice is seen as an attribute of law‚ while all laws are not necessarily just. Many great socio- political movements of the world have focused from time to time on unjust laws eg Apartheid laws in South Africa and Caste laws in India. Impartiality
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Nichomachean Ethics‚ Aristotle discusses the concept of justice in Book V. Justice is used with its many different connotations. However‚ in order to explain the statement that justice can only be found in the laws established by the state I would like to point out the last two types of justice and the notion of equity Aristotle refers to in his book. The first is natural justice‚ true for everyone‚ and next to that there is conventional justice which can differ in different societies and there is the
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