terms of responding to child sexual assault and abuse is to decriminalise the occurrence of child sexual assault and abuse and this aims to achieve more equality‚ understanding‚ fairness‚ justice and reconciliation within the society. This can be achieved through the application and utilisation of Restorative Justice (RJ). In terms of the stakeholders‚ the survivors‚ their families‚ the community and the government organisations would benefit from the reparative and restorative aspect of RJ as they
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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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Criminological Theory Summaries Theory Classical Main Points Theorists/Researchers Beccaria Crime occurs when the benefits outweigh the costs—when people pursue self-interest in the absence of effective punishments. Crime is a freewilled choice. See also deterrence‚ rational choice. Cric if reinforced. When criminal subcultures exist‚ then many individuals can learn to commit crime in one location and crime rates—including violence— may become very high. The gap between the American Dream’s goal
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In today’s criminal justice system‚ jails and prisons are becoming more overcrowded due to the recent increase in crime rates. Many criminal justice agencies have recently found a new method of punishment that can be used deter people from committing criminal actions and further prevent overcrowding the prisons. This new method of punishment is known as restorative justice. This new method of punishment focuses on having the offender restore the losses of both their victim and their community in
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