Discrimination in legal justice system

it is the presence of Justice” (*****). In layman terms, the concept of justice is really the concept of balance and the glue that holds society together (****2). It is the idea of people getting what is right, fair, and appropriate based on their actions. It drives proper behaviors by upholding the righteous and punishing what is wrong and evil. Justice holds all men accountable to one another to perform their social and legal obligations to the community. Without justice, people would be able…

this paper is to express my motivations for becoming a human services worker focussing on the educational and academic levels within the juvenile justice system. While simultaneously advocating for the LGBT community within the juvenile justice system and the wider community. Therefore, I have decided to complete a dual degree in human services and justice. I am the youngest of five, my three eldest siblings having come from relationships previously, two from my mother and one from my father.…

been many discriminations and unfair treatments. African americans were getting lynched, females aren’t getting equal rights. In the 1930’s nine scottsboro boys were accused of raping 2 white girls and were immediately sentenced death by an all white jury. During the 1930’s there was a lot of discrimination. The significance of the 1930’s is that many groups/ethnicities were discriminated. Although much has changed in the United States over the past 60 years, this country’s legal system has…

The report by the Sentencing Advisory Council (2015) argues that the rehabilitation of juveniles on the grounds of the welfare approach endorses the community’s abiding interests in potential positive behaviour reconstruction. In Webster (A Pseudonym) v The Queen [2016] VSCA 66 case, it was raised research regarding the developmental process and maturity of children deemed as a medium for providing access to rehabilitation, which, therefore, contributed to the minimisation of the risk of…

the United States. She points out the legal discrimination felons are subject to, hence a second class citizen. Alexander sees the problem of the majority of the prison population are African American males. She states that the War On Drugs helped spike this mass incarceration, and had the intent to discriminate against African American males. Hence the name of “The New Jim Crow”, she found this to be the modern day Jim Crow laws which the criminal justice system is responsible for. Mass…

In the song, No Justice, Ty Dolla $ign is delineating his brother’s incarceration. He uses his voice to speak up against injustice and further spread his response to the police killings. “They say that we’re all created equal,” sings Ty. “But ain’t nothing about us equal / You know that there could never be justice when killing us is legal.” TC, who has been imprisoned for more than a decade for a crime he asserts he didn’t commit. We live in a society that claims to embrace justice and…

the Law” is a key term when studying both the legal justice system and the injustice done in this system. This “Official Version of the Law”, also known as the OVL, was first suggested by a law professor, Ngaire Naffine. Naffine created the term to describe how the law sees itself; unbiased, just and righteous to each of its subjects (Comack, Balfour, 2004). The professor’s official definition for the term Official Version of the Law was “what the legal world would have us believe about…

discuss the concepts of disparity and discrimination. First let us define their meaning. Disparity is some sort of difference. For example if there is a job opening and they require a masters and a Caucasian applies with a masters they will automatically be a greater possibility to hire over a black lady with a bachelors. This is not based on race but just job requirements. Discrimination on the other hand is if you were…

The United States has come a long way regarding race relations. Slavery has been abolished, discrimination on race has been prohibited, and the mass slaughter of minorities has subsided. However, a new form of racial tensions has emerged in American society. The mass slaughter of minorities may not have completely subsided, it has just taken a different form. Many races besides caucasian, or people of other religions, are being persecuted in the same way, but African Americans have dealt with it…

civil rights movement has assisted African Americans’ in no longer being suppressed in society— another obstacle of suppression is alive, and runs through the criminal justice system. In this paper you will see how and why drug laws were created and its effects, how law, and inequality is supported by racial discrimination; criminal justice policies and its leading to the rise of incarceration rates, the promotion of the Rockefeller drug law by African Americans’, and Clinton’s reaction to the…