Ralph Waldo Emerson once wrote "One man’s justice is another’s injustice." This statement quite adequately describes the relation between definitions of justice presented by Polemarchus and Thrasymachus in Book I of the Republic. Polemarchus initially asserts that justice is "to give to each what is owed" (Republic 331d)‚ a definition he picked up from Simonides. Then‚ through the unrelenting questioning of Socrates‚ Polemarchus’ definition evolves into "doing good to friends and harm to enemies"
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Causey Upton (2015) discusses the concept of occupational justice and its prevalence in the nursing home‚ or long-term care settings. The researcher indicated that occupational justice is a principle that compliments and extends social justice ideologies. Differences in access to resources and opportunities amongst a group of people constitutes a form of social injustice. This researcher explored the importance of engaging in valued leisure occupations that reflect previous interests for residents
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Environmental Justice for the Kikuyu Tribe SCI/362 26 MAY 2010 Environmental Justice for the Kikuyu Tribe Colney and Pitts is a California based pharmaceutical company. Colney and Pitts is planning to set up a manufacturing plant near the Aberdares mountain range in the eastern highlands of Kenya to produce medicines for prostate disease. The Kikuyu tribe is the largest tribe in the country and occupies the Aberdares mountain range. An extensive ethno botanical survey on the use
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they will get out of it with a plea bargain or they might not even step foot in the court room because someone else is already getting prosecuted for it. Courts and plea bargains go hand in hand these days. To me‚ I think plea bargains are not true justice‚ its laziness. According to BGA‚ there were 85 wrongful convictions in Illinois. 81 out of the 85 cases involving wrongful convictions were involving government misconduct or errors.The investigation’s findings are based on the cases of 83 men and
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System • Downsizing • Redesign • Abolition EFFECTIVE JUVENILE JUSTICE PROGRAMS: What the research Says • Focus limited resources on the highest risk youths • Resources applied to low-risk cases will have small effect and is not cost-effective • Programs that take a therapeutic approach to changing behavior by focusing on constructive personal development yield the best results. 1. Goals o an effective Juvenile Justice Intervention • Rehabilitation-Reintegration-Sustainability 2. Principles
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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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Chief Joseph was a member of the Nez Perce Indians. The Nez Perce Tribe lived between the Blue Mountains and the Snake River in the Wallowa Valley. He was given the name Hin-mah-too-yah-lat-kekt‚ or Thunder Rolling Down the Mountain‚ but was widely known as Joseph‚ or Joseph the Younger‚ because his father had taken the name Joseph from the Christian religion. Joseph one of the first members of his tribe to convert to Christianity. In 1855 he helped Washington’s territorial governor set up a Nez
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Name: English 101-11 Instructor: Response paper on “The Last Stop” Date: 1-18-2012 “The Last Stop” is a profile essay written by Brian Cable when he was in his first year of college. The main idea of this profile was to portrait the funeral home Goodbody Mortuary. It is a good‚ valid example of a well written profile. I think cable does a good job overall by following all the basic features of this writing genre. He has done an extensive job by collecting interviews and background information
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A Story of Corrupt Justice: The Perpetuation of the Abominable Salem Witch Trials Salem‚ Massachusetts‚ a place of beginnings in the New World‚ shows that the Puritans’ “self-denial‚ their purposefulness‚ their suspicion of all vain pursuits‚ their hard-handed justice were altogether perfect instruments for the conquest of this space so antagonistic to man” (Miller 6). The Crucible‚ by Arthur Miller‚ describes the Salem witch trials during the seventeenth century. Numerous people were hung and jailed
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Business. (2009). Writing workshops as alternative literacy education for incarcerated women. Retrieved from http://www.allbusiness .com/crime-law-enforcement-corrections/corrections-prisons/12268677-1.html Bamberg‚ S.‚ Ajzen‚ I.‚ & Schmidt‚ P Bureau of Justice Statistics Special Report. (1987). Recidivism of prisoners released in 1983. Retrieved from http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/pubalp2.htm#recidivism‚ 1-13. Collins‚ D.‚ & O ’Neil‚ D Delcour‚ J. (2005). Children of misfortune: 7 million have jailed parents
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