Executive Director for Clinical Social Work Composition Team Extraordinaire Tyrone Hawkins Executive Director for Clinical Social Work November 13‚ 2013 With the continued increase in our population‚ Large City has been forced to re-evaluate and update our prison system since the three facilities that we currently have are outdated. As the Executive Director for Clinical Social Work‚ I want to effectively create a plan of action along with the guidance of the Large City Mayor‚ Attorney General
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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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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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BEHAVIOURAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCES DEPARTMENT OF BEHAVIOURAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCE Section A CJUS112: The Church and Preservation of Institutional Justice Assignment: Thought Paper By: Threshanna Dyce -32130304 To: Sharmaine Tapper Date: March 9‚ 2015 The Bible is of great significance to Christians as it dictates human life on matters of practices and beliefs. For us human to live a life that is dignified and meaningful‚ justice has to be implemented in a fair and just way. Justice is one of the
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Catholics have their own view on what social justice. Catholics define social justice as the understanding of how societies work and what values and moral values guide them. Charities such as Habitat for Humanity‚ promote Catholic social justice. Habitat for Humanity strongly believes in doing good for society by providing people with the roof over their head. One principle of Catholic social justice is the principle of rights and responsibilities. Rights are entitlements
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Challenges of a Criminal Justice Administrator Criminal Justice Administration Abstract A major dilemma of criminal justice in a democratic society is to process suspects and punish law violators in a humane and rational manner. Through the development of the "Get Tough on Crime" movement‚ political and social pressures have resulted in
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The Juvenile Justice Policy Jason Austin The juvenile justice system in dealing with juvenile offenders has cyclically gone from a rehabilitative approach to a punitive approach a number of times since its inception (Jenson & Howard‚ 1998). Research by Bernard (1992)‚ as cited in Jenson and Howard (1998)‚ examined the history of the juvenile justice system from 1820 and found that when juvenile crime is determined to be high‚ the justice system responds with severe punishments and few
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The Juvenile Justice System has become a major factor when it comes to dealing with juvenile offenders. The Juvenile Justice System was not always around and has not stayed the same. Many different rules and regulations have changed just like the Criminal Justice System; the Juvenile Justice System is made up of three categories: [Juvenile] Policing‚ [Juvenile] Courts‚ and [Juvenile] Corrections. Juveniles make up their own world when it comes to the Justice System. They have a narrow range of crime
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Homer portrays are justice and reciprocity. There is no linear justice system within this Greek poem. Thus characters act accordingly to xenia. The host is to properly treat the guest with care since the guest can be a god in disguise. Reciprocity plays a roll in The Odyssey‚ since characters are reward for displaying good xenia. Characters who don’t display xenia are the ones who have justice dealt to them where the punishment is usually severe. By giving a foresight of justice‚ before it is served
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What is Distributive Justice? Distributive justice is generally referred to as fairness regarding the pattern of distribution among individuals. In order for distributive justice to be met‚ it is necessary for goods to be distributed fairly or justly. Goods are anything that holds value to any person(s); if something does not have any value then it is not a good. Value is the main requirement for something to be considered a good; therefore‚ not only physical goods hold value. Thus‚ such things
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