The Cause And Effect OfLaw Abiding Citizen?

The basis of criminal justice in the United States is one founded on both the rights of the individual and the democratic order of the people. Evinced through the myriad forms whereby liberty and equity marry into the mores of society to form the ethos of a people. However, these two systems of justice are rife with conflicts too. With the challenges of determining prevailing worth in public order and individual rights coming down to the best service of justice for society. Bearing a perpetual eye to their manifestations by the truth of how "the trade-off between freedom and security, so often proposed so seductively, very often leads to the loss of both" (Hitchens, 2003, para. 5).

As John Locke asserts in his Second Treatise of Government (1689), in the “state of nature”, men are quite alone in protecting and preserving their property. Each man judges matters for himself, and the security of a common authority is a mere fantasy. There is no larger power that is able to assist a man if he and his property are threatened. Men willingly leave their state of nature in order to enjoy the benefits and protection that the larger and more common power of government can offer them. The laws of the government act as a common restraint over all citizens of a country. Although we use the word “restraint,” in this case it implies liberation.

Since spending the night on Booker’s couch, he’d barely had a chance to utter two words to the enigmatic officer. But the note changed all that, Booker had asked him out on a date, and even though he had no idea what that actually entailed, his mind, body, and spirit were filled with a restless anticipation. He glanced up at the clock, his lip curling in annoyance when he registered the time. With less than an hour to finish his report, drive home, shower, and change, he doubted he would be ready by seven o’clock. His gaze returned to the typewriter, the Arrest Report mocking his conscience with its lack of completion. It would take him at least forty-five minutes to type up his statement in his usual, meticulous manner, leaving him a mere fifteen minutes to drive home. Not an impossible task, but only if he broke the law and drove above the speed limit. It was a Catch 22 situation, either way, his moral compass would be spinning on its axis. In a nutshell, if he wanted to make it home on time, he needed to compromise his ethics. He had a choice to make, forgo the report, or risk a speeding

In such a habitate, the need of law to become a force is beyond the individual to control. Once the accusation had been passed and the trials started, any attempt to suspect the process will lead to punishment. Miller’s simple theme is fundamental to American literature. The United States has a league based on individualism.

He can either go to trial or receive the verdict or he can accept the predetermined plea. Rodriguez does not want to accept the plea because he is innocent but he is also aware of how the jury will judge him based on his outer appearance. It is the officer’s words against a delinquent Chicano so he ideally has no choice. Rodrigues accepts the plea- bargain because he knows that his skin color makes him guilty of all charges. In this situation Rodrigues represent not only himself but also other Chicano youth tin East L.A. they are automatically depicted as criminals and gangsters who destroy the community. The youth have directed anger towards on another instead of at the elite who control the society they live in.

Does culture change the law, or does the law change culture? Many historians have tried to answer this question but none can agree on the answer. In response to this question I will be using historical evidence to support both questions because both can be right. In 1933 Adolf Hitler and his Nazi Party seized power in Germany. Soon afterward, the Nazi Party began to make laws against Jews. Slowly, laws and propaganda made people show resentment toward the Jewish people. This is an example of the law changing culture because laws and propaganda made people believe that Jews were evil. In a 1954 case titled, Brown vs. Board of education of Topeka, It was ruled that separate but equal education of blacks and white students was unconstitutional.

There are many issues within the prison system today. For example, the high incarceration rate and unjust laws. Over the year, there have been few changes that have been made to repair these problems in our prison system. There are several things we can do to fix these issues.

Consistently, state and government jails are filled to limit with peaceful crooks. This puts weight on parole sheets to discharge lawbreakers who under typical circumstances would not be discharged because of the way of their violations. Each State 's Department of Corrections needs to spend a greater amount of citizens ' cash each year for jail upkeep, prison guards and jail social insurance. The issue of jail over populace can without much of a stretch be put under control with the execution of the new advancements as of now accessible for remote observing what 's more, radio recurrence finding frameworks. Electronic observing and house capture has turned into a reasonable different option for imprisonment, probation, and parole

People always say that justice is slow,but it always comes. What happens if justice is so slow that one decides to take it in his own hands? When one loses what he loves the most, the most precious thing in his life, and he knows who are those who are guilty for that he starts living his life in order to make revenge. But, sometimes, like in this movie, one can blame the whole justice system and try to revenge to all people included in it. Law Abiding Citizen is the movie about a man whose developed sociopathic tendencies drove him into killing while targeting not only his family’s killer but also the all criminal justice system.

Grotius reasons that human beings seek peace and order because they have a natural inclination to be a part of a society or to have a social life that is peaceful. He argues that the inclination to do good to others appears in the early years of children because they want to belong to a society. Ultimately, by seeking peace and order, humans are serving their self-interests. Out of this process comes the concept of laws. We are bound to these laws by mutual consent or agreement. The reason states wish to belong to a society bound by law is for self-preservation. If a state were to cut themselves off from being a part of such a society, they would no longer receive the benefits of being connected to other states. A state will need other states

The U.S. Senate recently passed a bill requiring high school students to pass a citizenship test in order to graduate and I think the test is unnecessary. Although the test only requires an thirty-five out of fifty questions (80%) to pass, it still causes stress among students. The test adds to the burden of the other various tests students are already required to take. The citizenship test is new and is not a part of the curriculum, so teachers typically don't spend a lot of time discussing and educating their students about it. If the students feel unprepared their stress level is likely to increase which could in turn affect their other school work. Yes, it is important that the people living in this country are educated and understand how

Rodell, Jessica B. and Judge, Timothy A., (2009) The authors combined affective events theory (H. M. Weiss & Cropanzano, 1996) and the transactional stress model (R. S. Lazarus & Folkman, 1984) to build and test a model specifying the dynamic, emotion-based relationships among challenge and hindrance stressors and citizenship and counterproductive behaviors. The study employed an experience sampling methodology. Results showed that challenge stressors had offsetting indirect links with citizenship behaviors through attentiveness and anxiety and a positive indirect effect on counterproductive behaviors through anxiety. Hindrance stressors had a negative indirect effect on citizenship behaviors through anxiety and a positive indirect effect

Three things apply to citizens from a government perspective: rights, rules/laws, and responsibilities. Citizens, both native and naturalized, possess many responsibilities that come from living under a governmental power, and the rights that proceed from it.

My choice is that the government is “a group of people who have the power to make and enforce laws.” This is because they are a group of people who make and enforce the laws on the public people. The government might propose a law that the people may not need or what the people want may not meet the governments beliefs that the people actually need them. They may propose the laws and decisions to the people in order to get their opinion on it. By doing this the people are able to vote ‘yes’ or ‘no.’

The movie Law Abiding Citizen was directed by F. Gary Gray in 2009. The story follows Clyde Shelton, a man whose wife and young daughter were brutally murdered in the midst of a home invasion in Philadelphia. The criminals were Rupert Ames and Clarence Darby. Ames was more focused on robbing the place while Clarence murdered the two without Ames’ consent. Nick Rice, a prosecutor with a 96% conviction rate, does not want to lower his conviction rate so instead of taking the risk of bringing both Ames and Darby to justice, he makes a deal with Darby. Darby ends up pleading guilty to third-degree murder while testifying against Ames. Ames is sentenced to death even though he did not kill anyone. Shelton feels betrayed by Rice and feels as though justice had not been served; although, Rice claims they would have lost anyway due to forensic evidence being dismissed via the exclusionary rule. Ten years later, Ames is in the process of being executed via lethal injection when something goes wrong. This is the first in a series of brutal murders committed by Shelton in an attempt to bring justice to his deceased family and to the injustice served. Throughout the film, Rice and Shelton, who represents himself, make a series of plea negotiations in an attempt on Rice’s part to save lives. The movie ends when Shelton sets up a bomb to explode under the mayor’s meeting but Rice finds it in time and puts it under his jail bed, blowing Shelton up (Gray, Law Abiding Citizen).