Greater Legal Rights Essay

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Greater legal rights, this is a method that helps have better laws for victims. It helps by views problems from the past and preventing them in the future. Also, educating society about the problems (crimes) and how these can affect them. The only con that see about this course of action it's more active than proactive way of justice. This is a slow process of justice and it can take a long time. It's not an individual focus, but a group (Community) which can be bad because it is at risk to be ignorance by the community.
Retaliatory justice, This is a course action that many victims and potential victims rely upon is armed self-defense. Using self-defense and vigilantism, victims solve their matters with their own hands. This can allow victims who feel injustice to take action themselves. However, “bystanders can also can get swept up by the contagious urge to meet out on-the-spot retaliatory justice and transform in an instant from good Samaritans to “ bad Samaritans” (pg. 471)”. On other hands, the victims transform onto offenders and the offenders onto victims.
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This involves non-violent ways such as meditation, restitution, reconciliation, etc. It allows to resolve the crimes by not having to get the police involved. However, this is a nice way to solve problem, but it doesn't protect victims.
Honestly, I would it go with either greater legal rights and restorative justice. Greater legal rights because it is the most promising and exercise my granted rights. Even though, Restorative justice would not protect me, I think this is one of the best ways a victim can heal. I'm not a violence person and I don't think that taking matters on my own hands with solve anything. Also, it won't make me feel any

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