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    how the concept of justice was formed. Justice is looking for a form of rule, or for a social organization that would embrace and satisfy the interests of all members of a society. Justice is the most important virtue in life, and many subcagorties fall under justice. Social justice is the resect and equl rights given to us when we are born. The most popular of the justice system, the court, attempts to apply the law in a fair way to distrubute punishment or rewards for justice. The final virtue

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    Social Justice Documentary Review: The Hard Stop The documentary I picked for this assignment is The Hard Stop directed by George Amposh in 2015. This documentary focuses on the shooting of an unarmed black male Mark Duggan in Tottenham, London in 2011. It raises issues of racism, discrimination, prejudice, injustice in society, and humanity of a victim. In my opinion, this documentary was powerful, insightful, and balanced when explaining the issue, as well as, is extremely prominent today. Plot

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    In this book, justice and injustice are major themes. They are shown throughout the book, in subtle and obvious ways. All of the characters react to justice and injustice in different ways, some being good, and some being troubling. Casy reacts in a way that is for the good of man, and in the ideas of helping others. As Casy understands justice throughout the book, he helps other people understand the meaning, and helps to be one of the most significant voices in the book for it. Casy has an understanding

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    Social justice is a movement working towards the equality of basic human rights for all people within a society. It is based on the concept of human rights and equality making outside factors that categorize people irrelevant. Regardless of your race, gender, ethnicity, religion or any identifiable factor, everyone should have an equal distribution of opportunities and privileges within a society. Social justice is important because it promotes a society that encourages diversity which is beneficial

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    One wonders if justice is a product of rational thinking or is it merely an evolved primal mode of survival of our ancestors reflecting in their use of discriminating judgment as they moved from place to place, facing the challenges of their times? His desires, needs, and ambitions, being limited, he was content in flowing with the moment; moral rightness was natural to him.The prehistoric man hunted when he was hungry, sought shelter when he felt the need to rest or save himself from the onslaught

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    Justice is a word weighed by its many definitions, the meaning of which is relative to who you ask. There are different forms of justice such as: criminal, social and economic. The former administers justice as punishment for people who break the laws which govern society. The common moral universe of good versus evil can be applied to criminal justice to separate criminals into “bad guys” and the justice system into “good guys”. With this classification of people, it is easier to understand justice

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    Justice can be described as the fairness, equity, evenhandedness, neutrality, honesty, righteousness, and morality given to the people by the governments, as well as other people. Justice should be given all around the world, but it is not always given. From the past to this day, there has been a lot of justice, and the society along with the governments have come a long way to reach the justice we have today. A person who played a major role in giving us the justice we see today is Martin Luther

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    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

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    In the search for justice people tend to do insane things because they feel as if it’s their responsibility to find and fix the wrong doings society places in front of us. For example, in the Hunger Games trilogy, Katniss has to march against the Capitol and shoot the new leader Coin to acquire justice and equality for her nation. Likewise, in the novel Where Things Come Back by John Corey Whaley, Cabot Searcy’s sense of and search for justice after Benton dies leads to a complex obsession, and

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    New Criminal Justice

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    New Criminal Justice The “New Criminal Justice” is a model of cooperation and collaborative problem solving that bears only limited resemblance to the system depicted by the 1967 President’s Commission (From New Criminal Justice: American Communities and the Changing World of Crime Control, p 3-16, 2010). The New Criminal Justice focuses on the systematic collection of information and collaboration with other agencies and community groups. It is also based on evidence, practice oriented, and theoretically

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