A Theory of Justice

Events such as The Compact Theory, Hartford convention were extremely important in contributing to today’s government laws. The Compact Theory was a law set among states towards the federation in which there will exist a government for common defense of every state. There will be regulation of commerce between the states, and to work out matters of disputes between state governments. The compact theory gives states the rights to alter the constitution. The compact theory was an example on…

When youth become involved with the Criminal Justice System (CJS), the steps taken by authorities are very important and can have lifelong impacts on the young offender. To ensure that the rights of young offenders are clearly outlined and protected, members of the CJS abide by the Youth Criminal Justice Act (YCJA). The YCJA outlines important individual rights of young offenders, one of which is the right to keep their name confidential. When dealing with young offenders that become involved in…

Justice is a complex theory to ponder on; many people have different definitions for what is justice. When it comes to justice it is not clear, people get judged different for being white, black or Hispanic. I feel our judicial system tends to treat people sentencing like a game of dice. They just roll the dice and give you the amount of years the dice land on. For example we did research and found 6 people who committed the same crime but was of different racist. What would be the percentage of…

Packer spent a lot of time conducting his theory and wanted to know the exact ways people can be punished and what will the punishment accomplish: The contribution Professor Packer makes is to abstract and formulate criteria for determining what kinds of conduct will warrant criminal punishment. These include the following: The conduct is viewed, without significant social dissent, as immoral, Subjecting it to the criminal sanction is not inconsistent with the goals of…

correct. Today, we are going to focus in the Deontology theory and the two Consequentialism theories; called Act-Utilitarianism and Rule-Utilitarianism, which share the same base consequentialist philosophy. This Consequentialism theory establishes that our "Fundamental moral duty is to make the world the best place it can be.” (2014 The Fundaments of Ethics p.126) This claim states that an action is…

The Equity theory in particular is centered around how individuals feel when compared to others in the workplace. If one worker feels they are working harder than another and then finds out that the first worker receives a higher salary, the worker is likely to lose motivation to work as hard for a lesser salary. It is important to note that this theory is about fairness, not equality, and specifically to understanding reactions to…

Further, the laws are applied unfairly by the criminal justice system. According to Gorden (1991), the greedy ruling class manipulates the working class with the capitalistic values through coercive control. The control is considered as coercive because the working class’s deviance from capitalistic values is criminalized as a crime in the penal law. If the values of the ruling class are breached, the law protects the ruling class interest. Thus, the working class who tend to come into conflict…

was not until 1928 the United States formulated a code of ethics for Police Officers (Kleining 1996).???? In order to have a reliable and competent understanding of ethics and how they should be employed by criminal justice professionals and to the effective working of the criminal justice system, police officers must be trained. Ethics fall under three branches of study; metaethics, normative ethics and applied ethics. Police officers are usually guided by normative ethics which is concerned…

There are vast benefits to Criminal Justice professionals in the study of Psychological Theories. One of the most prominent and basic reasons is to deter crime. It also gives an explanation as to why certain people commit certain crimes. It also helps to debunk the stigmatism associated with certain crimes and the people who commit them. (Bohm & Vogel, 2011). It was believed that criminals were of little intelligence in the 1800 and early 1900's. (Bohm & Vogel, 2011). H. H. Goddard conducted…

On June 25, 2013, the Supreme Court ruled by a 5-4 vote in Shelby County v. Holder to strike down two main provisions of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (VRA). The first, Section 4(b), contained the coverage formula that determined which jurisdictions are subject to preclearance based on their histories of discrimination in voting. Section 5, which was rendered invalid by proxy, was the actual provision that required certain states and local governments to obtain federal preclearance before…