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    Community Justice

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    Is Community Justice a Factor in Traditional Correctional Functions? LaShawn McNair Professor Herbeck Criminal Justice and the Community April 15‚ 2012 When we hear the word corrections‚ most of us tend to think of a jail or prison. It is popularly believed that the function of corrections is merely to lock criminals up. Most of us don’t associate corrections with the community. The objective of my essay is to show the correlation between traditional correctional functions and community

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    Distributive Justice

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    Distributive Justice In every nation‚ there are all sorts of issues within the society that can sometimes be resolved more easily or quickly than others. However‚ an issue like immigration is somewhat challenging and complex to many rich or more developed countries worldwide. As for the United States‚ the issue of undocumented immigrants has been one of the major problems that leaves the society with significant questions of justice: from whether the U.S. government immigration laws are just

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    new perspectives‚ and the opinions of others greatly affect these beliefs. New perspectives will almost always influence a person’s beliefs and values‚ as they give new information previously unknown‚ as shown in the feature-length film Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers. In the Fangorn Forest‚ we see an Ent known as Treebeard decide definitively that the Ent’s would not go to war‚ but a new perspective was revealed‚ changing the belief of the Ents in regards to the necessity of war. Something similar

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    Natural Justice

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    Natural Justice - Rule Of Fair Hearing INTRODUCTION. In India‚ there is no particular statute‚ laying down the minimum standard‚ which the administrative bodies must follow while exercising their decision making powers. There is‚ therefore‚ a bewildering variety of administrative procedure. In some cases‚ the administrative procedure is controlled by the statute under which they exercise their powers1. But in some cases‚ the administrative agencies are left free to device their own procedure2. But

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    Justice Is Not Blind

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    Dougherty ENG101 Argument essay “Justice” in America Every day people are convicted of crimes they did not commit. It has been a long time since the trials of the Scottsboro Boys or George Whitmore‚ but our justice system has not changed. People of foreign race and lower social status receive different treatment in the justice system. These victims are often wrongfully accused‚ or even abused by the ones paid to protect them. The United States justice system gives unfair treatment and trials

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    Sometimes they’re obvious and other times they’re masked though they are without a doubt the most familiar battles occurring on earth. In J.R.R. Tolkien’s Fellowship of the Ring‚ the struggle for power over Middle-Earth and the formation and battle of opposing forces of good and evil is the primary focus in The Lord of the Rings trilogy. The main conflicts seen and foreshadowed in FoTR are man versus man‚ and man versus nature. What is considered good and evil is often subjective in today’s society

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    Environmental Justice

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    1. You should have a basic understanding of the terms ‘valid’ and ‘sound’ and be able to identify valid and sound arguments. 2. In the trial of Dudley and Stephens‚ how did the defense argue that Dudley and Stephens were innocent? Why does the prosecution reject this argument? How would a utilitarian judge the case? * They were argued to be innocent because it was out of necessity to kill the boy * Had they not killed and eaten the boy‚ they could have died * The boy was already

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    Justice In The Eumenides

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    the trial indicates that justice does not always have to arise from the rules of systematic court. Based on the will of Apollo‚ Orestes is ordered to avenge his father and thus‚ Orestes’ actions are justified because he will suffer if he opposes the gods. However‚ even though the conclusion to free Orestes is just‚ there is no evidence provided for Apollo’s claims nor any validity in Athena’s decision. In other words‚ the lack of proof and validity shows that the justice does not arise from the laws

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    Views on Justice

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    Lady Justice The picture above best symbolizes my views on justice for the common good. In general the courts are expected to be impartial and fair institutions in a system of good governance‚ it should through this method be a system that can uphold the rule of law and protect human rights. Justice is symbolized through lady justice‚ blindfolded‚ holding a pair of scales and wielding a double edged sword. The blindfold represents justice being blind to all outside sources like money‚ power or

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    Plato on Justice

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    Plato’s interpretation of justice as seen in ‘The Republic’ is a vastly different one when compared to what we and even the philosophers of his own time are accustomed to. Plato would say justice is the act of carrying out one’s duties as he is fitted with. Moreover‚ if one’s duties require one to lie or commit something else that is not traditionally viewed along with justice; that too is considered just by Plato’s accounts in ‘The Republic.’ I believe Plato’s account of justice‚ and his likely defense

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