The concept of justice rests on the fundamental principle that punishment should fit the crime, a cornerstone of legal systems across the world. This principle underscores the idea that the severity of punishment should be proportional to the gravity of the offense committed. As societies...
Since criminal behavior directly impacts the victims, offender and community, restorative justice is an alternative “peacemaking” approach to law-enforced punitive punishment. Punitive punishment, often, perpetuates more criminal behavior by the offender because of the stigma once arrested and convicted. Depending on the crime, the victims...
Introduction A 2016 IDB report entitled the IDB Series on Crime and Violence in the Caribbean, has confirmed what the Bahamian public has long known, that the consistent rise of the crime rate in The Bahamas is alarming and a cause for concern. The abstract...
Retributive justice and restorative justice are two completely different ways of looking at the prison system and dealing with offenders. Both have their pros and cons about each other, but is there one form of justice that may be more effective to use in the...
The term justice is defined as that quality of possessing righteousness, fairness and moral correctness. In most cases, this term is confused with, besides being used interchangeably with the word fairness. In several situations, there is the desire to be treated fairly irrespective of the...
Accountability is owning up to our own mistakes. Acknowledging our wrongs, rather they are self-harm or harm to others, has a huge effect on the healing process. A simple apology goes a long way. This is something that we have learned since childhood, yet adults...
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...
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....
Criminologists seek to understand not only why people commit crimes, but also criminals’ activities that occur more in certain areas. Chicago is an area most commonly used to study, primarily to “highlight the demographic and neighborhoods sources of variation in tolerance of deviance (including violence)...
The quotation, “the best feeling in the world is watching things fall into place after watching them fall apart for so long” (Glassman), best describes the effects of restorative justice on Shannon Moroney’s life in the memoir Through the Glass. She finds out she is...
