A Theory of Justice

Crime is a subject that is the most difficult to deal with in the criminal justice system. According to Guenther the criminal justice system is “unfair, harsh, and biased”. There are many problems when it comes to the criminal justice system within the society. Many stereotypes are set in certain minority groups, which cause authorities to follow these stereotypes, that focus on race. There are many neighborhoods that have higher crime rates that are involved with robbery, drug dealing and…

It is imperative to note that critical perspectives will inevitably have faults as evident in labelling theory and that not all labels trigger further deviance. Furthermore, the benefit of capitalism in providing opportunities to all classes is often overlooked by Marxist criminology. The Marxist view is slightly more weakened by the idea that crime is a conflict…

In ethics there are hundreds of theories that try to define morality. Utilitarianism is one of these theories that seems to simply be that if one is being moral, their decisions will create the greatest amount of happiness for everyone (Clark & Poortenga, 2003). This theory has been defended by many, including Jeremey Bentham, who popularized quantitative utilitarianism, and John Stuart Mill, who believed that utilitarianism was actually qualitative (Wilkens, 2011). While utilitarianism as a…

metaphysics is the theory of categories, in which he asserts that the individual particulars are the starting point for substance, or being; the individual particular is always the subject, and never the predicate or property of something. This is in direct contrast with Plato’s metaphysics, because Plato argues that the starting point for being comes from universal objects of knowledge and we see these universals shared in individual particulars. In this paper I will explain Aristotle’s theory…

social justice and promotes education. Socialism, a general term for the political and economic theory, advocates a system of collective or government ownership and management of the means of production and distribution of goods.…

Assignment 5 The two major ethics theories that attempt to justify and specify moral principles and moral rules are Kantian deontological ethics and Utilitarian ethics. The Kantian deontological ethics takes a position that justifies the goodness of actions based on the action’s devotion to the set rules and principles (Wolff 158). It is a duty based ethics because the set rules bind individuals to their normal duties and as such the consequences do not matter but instead compliance is what…

Gottfredson and Hirschi also point out that people by nature are self-interested and that crime is a problem of individuals having low self-control. Criminal justice policy makers can use this theories perspective on criminality in order to implement rehabilitation programs in prison that tackle the issues of self-interest and self-control. Self-control theory provides an interesting perspective in rehabilitation policies when addressing self-control of prison inmates. For example a way to…

as one of the versions of intersectional theory differs with both Marx and Rawls’s ideologies” (Mitchell, 2015), For example, inclusion idea states that women are more prone to this form of socio-economic bias. This aspect of the inclusion model differs from views of Marx and Rawls as they believed that all genders are likely to encounter this type of discrimination and equality as the main objective to bind justice in the society. “The intersectional theory also varies from the beliefs of Marx…

The juvenile justice system has long been a topic of discussion. These discussions consisted of whether or not the system should exist at all and, after it was established, there was debate regarding what rights should and should not be granted to juveniles. The racial disparities that disproportionately affect African American and Latino youth soon became a large part of this discussion. This caused a number of questions to arise regarding the affect race has in juvenile justice decision making…

In the book Unwrapping Criminology, by John Krimmel, the history and development of crime, criminal justice, and criminology in the United States is explored. The book goes through the different eras of crime, and discusses all sorts of ideologies shared by criminologists throughout history. The book is filled with background information which gives the reader context for the plethora of crimes committed in the past, and for all the different opinions that theorists have had about criminology.…