A Changing System Looking into criminal justice procedure‚ many administrations are at work. Starting with the police‚ to the courts and concluding in corrections. Though all these sectors have different tasks‚ their combined focus is processing the law. Regardless what the process is called criminal justice will continue to serve with discretion‚ conviction‚ and correction. When first presented with the question whether criminal justice is a system‚ non-system‚ and network I leaned toward a network
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Rehabilitation vs. Punishment‚ which one is more effective in Juvenile Matters? It has long been debated which method of deterrence works best within the criminal justice system‚ rehabilitation or punishment. In the past‚ the two mechanisms have been used together and separately in both adult and juvenile courts. Both rehabilitation and punishment are similar in their goals and purposes. However‚ the debate between which method is more successful continues year after year. The consensus of
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person * With the fat man variant‚ push the fat man off a bridge to stop the train from hitting the 3 people with the train 4. I said that consequentialism is a two-step process. What are those two steps a consequentialist takes to arrive at her theory? * Identify the good/valuable * Bring that about * Utilitarianism * Value = happiness 5. Define utilitarianism * The proper course of action is the one that maximizes utility specifically defined as maximizing happiness
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constitutional theory‚ has historically been judicial review-centered. Constitutional scholarship has often seemed “strong on positions and weak on analysis”‚ based on “foundationalist”/organic theories of judicial review‚ trying to justify or to reject the practice in toto and dictating its parameters. Behind such strong positions‚ and behind the search for “first-best principles” of legitimacy‚ one can see a series of latent and intractable tensions‚ inherent in traditional constitutional theories of
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Harvard philosopher John Rawls (1921-2002 ) developed a conception of justice as fairness in his now classic work A Theory of Justice . Using elements of both Kantian and utilitarian philosophy‚ he has described a method for the moral evaluation of social and political institutions. Imagine that you have set for yourself the task of developing a totally new social contract for today’s society. How could you do so fairly? Although you could never actually eliminate all of your personal biases and
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other recreational habits and was often absent from the organized programs that he was registered in. An investigation began around 10:30 pm‚ Monday February 11th 2013. A young 17-year-old‚ whose name cannot be revealed under the Youth Criminal Justice Act‚ was arrested along with two others who were charged with breach of recognizance. It was said that the victim and the shooter knew one another and had been friends since elementary school. The shooter was distraught by the event. Detective Mike
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In the United States we have two parallel systems that deal with individuals that commit crimes and or offenses against society. First we have the criminal justice system‚ a court which deals with adults who commit various crimes. Secondly‚ we have the juvenile justice system‚ a court designed especially for minors and is generally thought to help rehabilitate the offender. The salient difference between these two systems‚ as Mitcheal Ritter puts it‚ “is the use of distinct terminology to refer to
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IS JUSTICE FOR SALE IN TEXAS? When lawyers of the multibillion Pennzoil-Texaco cases came to trial‚ they were not in any means in a strange place. The lawyers had previously made big donations towards the campaigns of justices officiating the trials. Funding justices ’ campaigns in Texas is not uncommon‚ neither is it illegal. Of the nine states where judges are chosen through partisan elections‚ Texas is the only state that chooses all members of the bench through elections and additionally‚
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21April2014 Social Justice What is social justice? Social Justice can mean something different depending on who you are talking to. The most common definition of social justice is a policy-making theory that tries to ensure that all members of society are treated fairly and that all have the same opportunities to partake of and share in the benefits of society. This could mean the end of discrimination based on sex‚ race‚ creed‚ ethnicity‚ or income. Another form of social justice could be equality
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Distributive justice concerns the proper and equal distribution of goods and attention‚ mostly from a monetary basis such as taxes‚ compensation and re-imbursement. This distribution is most often based on the needs and merits of individuals and organizations. The difficulty lies in deciding how and to whom allocations are dispersed as well as fairness of disbursement of funds based on individual and organizational entitlements. It mainly deals with what is fair monetary compensation for labor
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