PAPER ON THE TOPIC THE PHILOSOPHY OF DISTRUBUTIVE JUSTICE AND ITS RELEVANCE UNDER INDIAN CONSTITUTION The jurisprudence of distributive justice‚ according to juristic cynics‚ is an essay in illusion. The basic social system is built on gross inequalities and the power to lobby and mould State policy‚ even judicial policy‚ is heavily in the hands of the proprietariat. Being social realists and meliorists we have to work with the materials that we have and try to read the constitutional provisions
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I have aspired to be a police officer my whole life and found it only fitting to interview a Police Officer from the Northern Virginia area. The officer told me of his own aspirations to become a cop and it only furthered my motivation. He said his goal as a police officer was/is to make positive influential changes for his peers by protecting and serving his community to his fullest potential. Before returning back to patrol the streets‚ the officer was a Student Resource Officer (SRO) at Herndon
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The purpose of this essay is to critically evaluate both the welfare principals and punitive principals that are paramount to the youth justice system‚ firstly by looking at what is meant by welfare approaches and how they have been used in adapting the Children’s Hearing System that is used in Scotland today when dealing with young offenders. Then looking at punitive approaches‚ how they are also used in dealing with young offenders and how they appear to be re-emerging back into the system in the
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their own hands not thinking twice about the consequences. Crime is not a joke‚ especially when it involves innocent civilians who can end up hurt‚ with no protection of their own. This is why criminal justice is so important‚ it is their for the people. It is their to protect and get justice. It is there for knowledge and for people who dont necessarily feel the need to know about the law and how important it is to understand its meaning. In the first few chapters‚ I learned that there
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Seven Essential Interview Skills Kathy Thomas Criminal Justice Communications September 28‚ 2012 You are a probation officer who was conducting a home visit for probationer Bobby Jean. You walk up to the door‚ she answers‚ and you notice a bag of marijuana sitting on the kitchen table. She promises that it is not hers. You provide her with a urine screen and it is clean. Based on the above scenario‚ please respond to the following questions: * What would you do? * Would this scenario
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29 January If you can’t do the time‚ don’t do the crime. In recent discussion of Juvenile Justice‚ a controversial issue has been whether juveniles should be tried as adults in adult courts for heinous crimes they have committed. On one hand‚ some argue that they should not be tried as adults and do not deserve harsh sentences but as children seeking help. On the other hand‚ however‚ others argue that those who commit such heinous
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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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Criminal Justice System Introduction Criminal justice system is a phrase used to express the interdependent components of the courts‚ police‚ and correctional facilities in the government. The term also describes the criminal justice agencies found within states in a federal government. As a whole the criminal justice system is thus made up of the three aforementioned interdependent components. Law-making has often been added by some as the forth criminal justice component‚ since all legitimate
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Criminal Justice Process John Wright CRJ100 Richard L. Foy Ph.D. Strayer University In the United States there is a process that protects the accused of a crime against abuse of investigatory and prosecution powers (Carp 2011 pg. 217). This process is known as the criminal justice process. Before a suspect can be convicted of a crime‚ the justice process must take place
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The Plausibility of Thrasymachus’ Argument on Justice It is my objective in this paper‚ to illustrate the claims made by Thrasymachus‚ in The Republic‚ as argument to Socrates’ views on what justice is. I will then evaluate the claims‚ "justice is nothing other than the advantage of the stronger" (338c)‚ and that "a just man always gets less than an unjust one" (343d)‚ in an effort to see how Thrasymachus uses these statements to provoke an argument. Despite the contradictory nature of these statements
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