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Criminal Justice Research Paper

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Whenever the subject of justice arises in the mind, millions of questions flood the neurons of the brain. As one pauses to ponder over the birth of justice, often wonders what is really justice and why is it so important to us? What is the role of every individual in the matter of justice? Can anyone truly define it? Can a perfect justice be ever achieved? Whatever the dilemma, we know for sure, we cannot ignore this topic as long as we are living together as a human race! We, as individuals, and citizens certainly have some, if not all, important role to play in this battle of injustice versus justice. From fairytales to holy scriptures all over the world, expound the victory of good over evil. Surely, to achieve this, it has to do more than …show more content…

This also demands impartiality in some sense, such as detachment from one’s own vested interests. The end results of any action define whether the initial purpose was just or unjust. If there is unfair treatment of masses or dividing them into two or more groups with preferential treatment to only one group, existing chaos, torture, and other misdemeanors that lead to unhappiness, no economical or social progress of the masses, then certainly this cannot be a sign of something right. In the words of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., “An unjust law is a code that a numerical or power majority group compels a minority group to obey but does not make binding on itself. This is difference made legal. By the same token, a just law is a code that a majority compels a minority to follow and that it is willing to follow itself. This is sameness made legal (Web).” As the King raises the question in his letter from Birmingham jail,"How can you advocate breaking some laws and obeying others? The answer is found in the fact that there are two types of laws: there are just laws, and there are unjust laws... an unjust law is no law at all"(382). By following the unjust law, we are doing wrong openly, under the pretext of doing the right thing. To bear wrong quietly is as unjust as doing wrong to someone. Martin Luther King would not have fought white supremacy in ‘the land of the free and the home of the brave’, without their apparent injustices. He was not trying to achieve a perfectly just world but he did want to remove obvious injustices to the extent they

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