Justice

There are a number of different quantitative strategies that give individuals the ability to break down criminal justice trends in order to understand what is happening in the world today. Many focus on cumulative distribution figures, and these provide the theoretical basis for empirical distribution figures. When one considers the...

The perspective of criminal justice that this paper will discuss is the restorative aspect. The restorative justice perspective is impactful because it ensures retribution for the offences committed and provides an opportunity for the offenders to commence a process of readmission into the community after serving respective sentences. According to...

The moral dilemma presented asks whether or not Mr. Allen was morally right in stealing a car in order to get his seriously injured son to the hospital. Although Mr. Allen asked the individual if he could borrow his car, the individual’s inability to comply with these demands directly influenced...

The traditional justice system can be distinguished in three categories: law enforcement, courts, and corrections. Law enforcement is the “boots on the ground” and serves to ensure law and order in all aspects of American jurisdiction. Courts determine one’s crime and allow for habeus corpus and one’s legal defense. Finally,...

The society is governed by laws that regulate individual’s behavior and protect their rights. When a person goes against the set rules, they are considered to have committed a crime. It is the work of the judiciary to administer justice by ensuring that those who commit crimes are punished as...

The concept of modern social justice is a complex one, as well as one that has become highly politicized over the past several years. While the original concept of social justice had been one of fighting for class equality and subsequently for gender and racial equality in society, as well...

There are a myriad of social justice issues that are fervently debated in the world today. In many cases, the debate over healthcare access in the United States can be very contentious. The health of all people is of great importance. Acquiring healthcare is often extremely burdensome, or in many...

This essay discusses the American judicial system, it’s funds, costs, and effectiveness in creating a just society for all. It starts off with a simple analysis of what justice truly is, and how law enforcement manipulates people’s moral compasses. It then develops into a question of whether or not America...

Based on its definition and expected benefits, restorative justice is more effective for rehabilitating offenders, reintegrating them into society and generally reducing offending. Restorative justice is a new way of responding to criminal behavior. Rather than mere punitive responses, restorative justice takes the interest and needs of the offender, victims,...

Restorative justice is based on an approach to crime that is more expansive than the traditional. That model typically goes to strict processes of apprehending offenders, determining guilt, and setting the appropriate punishment. With the restorative, crime is immediately addressed in a more comprehensive way. There is, for example, an...

Justice echoes as a term from ages past, when the earliest philosophers thought about their human community. Plato’s Republic centered on what it means to be just in the city, what a community looks like when founded on justice. Since then, or even before that, justice has deserved a central...

Any time justice is at stake it is important to think of ways to support it on a personal level. Occupational justice is just one branch of justice as a whole. Every form of justice involves protecting right from the insidious evil of wrong. Occupational justice specifically protects a person’s...

Thomas Hobbes: Hobbes defines justice in terms in term of a social contract in which a covenant is established without which any authentic judicial system is impossible. What Thomas Hobbes is actually questioning in his landmark work of literature titled “Leviathan” is whether it is possible such a covenant can...

Justice is presently defined by many people as the moral rightness and the act of administering the correct punishment for those who deserve it. Many people argue that justice is an act of being fair especially when solving conflicts or issues. They believe that justice prevails when the wrongdoer get...

Up to this moment, globalization as a social science discipline remains to be a contested concept in the cultural and social science theories. Despite, the triumphant analysis regarding the spread of capital and technology around the globe to the exploration of the inequalities that the new world seems to promote,...

Advocacy in nursing is the tendency by an individual nurse or a group of nurses to influence decisions within economic, political or social systems as well as institutions (Paquin, 2011). The core objective of advocacy is to initiate changes in the nursing world to make their day to day operations...

Throughout the history of the criminal justice system, the defenses of people who have allegedly committed crimes have included many traditional arguments as well as extremely creative attempts to defend then. In two recent cases, defense attorneys used an updated version of a traditional self-defense argument, and another case involved...

Legal theories help law practitioners to understand the various laws and how they are applied in real life. After studying the theories, they get to practice and test the theories in an actual environment. They opt to understand the various behaviours and how they can be used to enact justice...

There are several reasons for jury nullification, which can be divided into conventional and non-conventional explanations. Under conventional nullification, the jury nullifies a verdict by misapplying or disregarding the law (Fougère, 2018). The argument for the practice is that strict application of the law may lead to societal injustice. The...

Under normal circumstances, juries are expected to hear cases and determine the guilt or innocence of defendants. When one is confirmed guilty, the jury's role is to convict for the crimes. However, there are instances when juries find one guilty but acquit them. Even though the jury's power to acquit...