Achieving justice

All justice systems can be selfish and do things that are not morally right. Judges make personal bargains to benefit their own life, and benefits their career while leaving a case unjustified. They do not take into consideration the moral thing to do. They make actions based off of their own personal feelings, and make it the law whether justice is truly and morally served or not. In the movie “Law Abiding Citizens”, Clyde Shelton’s family was murdered by a man named Darby, and the justice system

High standards and ethics are essential to many positions in the criminal justice system (CJS). Often coupled together, ethics and standards ensure that officers and other criminal justice (CJ) practitioners adhere to regulations and law, including moral codes of behavior and conduct (Fagin, 2017). This document will explore the impact of ethics and standards on the roles of a police officer, prison guard, and probation officer. The influence of a particular court case on a practitioner in court

The six core values are Service, Social Justice, Dignity of worth of the person, Importance of the Human Relationship, Integrity, and Competence. Service is helping someone with nothing to gain. For example a lawyer doing a pro bono case. Social justice is basically fair and just the relationship between the individual and society. Its a political concept that all people should have equal rights to wealth, health, well-being, justice and opportunity. Let's say for example, Nj Family Health is for

What does justice mean to you? Many interpret justice in various types of ways. The dictionary definition for justice is, “just behavior or treatment.” The dictionary definition doesn’t capture the true layers of injustice or moral relationship with justice. This meaning is very vague because what exactly is just behavior or treatment? Justice is much more than providing fair treatment. In order to obtain justice or to have any idea of what it looks like, the labels must be stripped from everyone

Rules are created to protect our safety and to ensure our rights as citizens. In the book “The Giver” they have created a community based on rules to ensure a utopian society. The creators and leaders of the community have made too many laws and restrictions to the citizens. The citizens have no freedom or any choices because of all the rules put into their community. The community is peaceful and safe but is to restricted and really is more like a dystopian society. A rule that is strongly

Some people believe that justice and forgiveness can go hand and hand. The are identified as two different things. I believe that forgiveness and justice do not go hand and hand. One reason for that is, forgiveness is more of one person's choice. Forgiveness is usually up to one person whether the want to forgive or apologize. Another reason is, justice considers both parties coming together. Not necessarily apologizing to one another, but more of coming together without apologizing. Last reason

References Pollock, J. M. (2018). Ethical Dilemmas and Decisions in Criminal Justice. Retrieved from https://www.betheluniversityonline.net/cps/default.aspx?SectionID=6730&tabid=154#1 Scrandis, D. A. (2015). Maritain's theory of natural law. National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly, 15(4), 649-655. An ethical pyramid consists of an ethical system for the base, moral rules for the center, and moral judgment for the top. The definition of an ethical system is a set of principles that determines what

Justice is a harmonious binding of these three parts of the soul to become one. Plato points out that since our just person is ruled by truth, he will not be enslaved by lust, greed, or desire for honor. Because of this, Plato claims, we can rest assured that he will never betray the city, violate an oath or agreement, or commit any acts considered unjust. Then he explicitly defines injustice as an internal civil war. When one part of the soul either spirit or appetitive tries to rule inappropriately

reason. It comes down to the question “Does everything happen for a reason?”. The idea of justice is primarily rational thinking. Determining a punishment for a wrongdoing. Ideas all come down to reasoning, we think of an idea due to the consistent fact of reason. There's a reason behind every single idea. Plato’s Simile of the Line shows the difference between the intelligible world and the visible world. Justice would categorize under the intelligible world, that’s how Plato would analyze it. However

Environmental Justice refers to those cultural norms and values, rules, regulations, behaviors, policies, and decisions to support sustainability, where all people can hold with confidence that their community and natural environment is safe and productive. Environmental Justice is realized when all people can realize their highest potential, without interruption by environmental racism or inequity. A local example of Environmental Injustice in the Pensacola, Florida area is happening with the Rolling