Essays on Justice

As human beings, we employ acts of justice in our daily lives, like when you allow the elderly man to take your seat on the bus, or punish your son for misbehaving. Yet, when asked to define the term “justice”, it is challenging. The course...

Introduction What is torture? It is punishment inflicted through means of severe methods meant to cause severe pain in exchange for valuable information or a sadistic action taken by others to exert power. What are war crimes? It is an act carried out during war...

Rapid Response, Neighborhood Watch, and Reactive Policing are three criminal justice policies or practices that I think will continue to be used massively in our society. I say this for a handful of reasons; The issue with rapid response is typically mixed, however there was...

Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came...

Michael J. Sandel discusses how there are three different approaches to justice: welfare, virtue, and freedom. The theme of the book is on how and what is considered moral. He introduces several perspectives on morality and we as readers are given insight into what people...

Definitions Justice is the maintenance or administration of what is just especially by the impartial adjustment of conflicting claims or the assignment of merited rewards or punishments (Sandel, 2008). It can also be defined as the legal or philosophical theory by which fairness is administered....

Law, Justice and Judicial Power – Justice Bhagwati’s Approach Prafullachandra Natwarlal Bhagwati, is a name that has found it’s place engraved in the judicial realm, above and beyond being the 17th name on the List of Chief Justices of India. He is the man behind...

One of the major themes of Dostoevsky’s novel The Brothers Karamazov is the concept of justice, both earthly and divine. Dostoevsky investigates the differences between the two forms and examines several aspects of justice. The novel introduces several different philosophies on justice and shows what...

Gov. Ralph Northam used his first speech to the General Assembly to seek common ground with Republicans on workforce training, education and economic development, but he also forcefully called for expansion of the state’s Medicaid program as “a matter of basic economic justice” and challenged...

More often than not, human is required to look after each other in times of crisis. However, this role changes at an individual level where some feel that this should not be termed as a responsibility but an act of will. This brings about the...

Introduction On this paper I will mainly focus and Restorative and Punitive justice by comparing and contrasting them, which of them the bible advocates for, Nature of Kenya’s justice system as well as giving examples from the scripture/bible and which of the two I think...

There are numerous ways one is able to assess the changes in man’s use of corrections from ancient Greece, to our present day. Jim Finckenauer, a professor at the Rutgers School of Criminal Justice, shared his observation for how the history of the United States...

In this short essay, I shall articulate why former Justice Horace Gray holds a particular interest to me. I shall begin by giving a brief biographical sketch of his judicial career for contextual purposes. Next, I shall explain why his opinion on the landmark case...

he criminal justice system process for an arrest is pretty much the same for every state, with just a few exceptions. Depending on the state that an individual is in will determine the process of their arrest and the crimes they are charged with. Suspects...

Creating a desire to respect the law is a vital step to building a civilised community. In order for the laws created by the government to be respectable, they must be aligned with our natural laws. St. Thomas Aquinas’ theory of natural law is that...

“Insufficient facts always invite danger” declared Spock to Captain Kirk as the U.S.S. Enterprise was on deep alert after discovering a sleeper cell in space with seventy-two unconscious super-humans inside (Coon, 1967). His tone cautionary, Spock expressed through this quote the necessity to base theories...

In the Plato’s “Republic” the foundation for Polemarchus’ definition of Justice mostly is following in his father’s footsteps with the concept of helping friends and harming enemies, changing from the individual to the collective good. In this paper, I will argue that Polemarchus’ definition of...

The central theme seen in Plato’s Republic is to define different virtues and ideas that are seen to be important in society and life, namely justice in Book I. In the Republic, Plato attempts to answer the question of “what is justice?” All of these...