Judiciary

a Latin term and describes an activity or decision that recognizes the most important things and aims to serve the good of all instead of a special interest group. This is an important concept in criminal justice as it is essential to effective judiciary policy to serve the greatest good instead of the special interests of specific groups or demographics (Wiltshire, 1972). Many schools of thought recognize summum bonum as a core concept, including the Stoics, Christians, and Utilitarians. All…

Canada was the first nation in the world that adopted the concept of multiculturalism as an official policy. By doing so, the country acknowledged the importance in the value and dignity of all Canadian citizens regardless of their racial or ethnic background, their language or religious views (Canadian Multiculturalism and Inclusive Citizenship, 2012). With that being said, staffing appointments and recruitment performed in the federal public service needs to be based on the standard principle…

government. To avoid the creation of a monarchy, they devised the separated of powers. The separation is made so that each branch can check on the others and ensure that no one branch is getting out of hand. “The accumulation of all powers, legislative, judiciary, in the hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed,…

The system of state courts is quite diverse; virtually no two states have identical judiciaries. In general, however, the states, like the federal government, have a hierarchically organized system of general courts along with a group of special courts. The lowest level of state courts, often known generically as the inferior courts, may include any of the following: magistrate court, municipal court, justice of the peace court, police court, traffic court, and county court. Such tribunals,…

Students at The University of Alabama weigh in on the House Judiciary Committee’s decision to send the bill that would end judicial override to the House floor on Wednesday. The committee voted 10-2 on the bill that would no longer allow judges to rule on the death penalty, shifting the responsibility to the jury instead. “It would appear that having 12 people on a jury making the decision would be more valid because there are more opinions,” said Carter Helm a freshman majoring in…

Judicial oversight of prisons and jails is a very important part of the criminal justice system as it protects the rights of prisoners and ensures they are treated in a humane way. Some recent decisions have backed up this statement. A federal court in Massachusetts ruled in 1995 that a group of inmates had their constitutional rights violated because being a fire hazard, infested with insects and other creatures, and lack of toilets (Rights of inmates, 2016). A federal court in the District…

Although during certain periods, the term Supreme Court “Justice” may be seen as an oxymoron, the judiciary branch has helped pave the way for tangible change for various disenfranchised peoples. This essay argues that raising cases in US courts has held a pivotal role in the attainment of increased rights for different social groups, as exemplified by the cases raised by African American, and Asian American groups. The success of such cases is contingent upon a suitable political climate.…

Therefore, without the ability to enact immediate legislative change, I am of the strong conviction that the previous lack of application of the statute to our own judicial system is, in itself, enough to substantiate an innocent verdict. If we, as the judiciary, are able to wilfully condemn an individual to the death penalty, without facing the penalties associated with it, then so should life-or-death situations have the ability to fall under this implied exception. Furthermore, the action of…

Parts of my argument is coming from the article titled Rape and Denial written By Alice Vachss in 1993. The author discusses a federal non solution, writing about documented failures of the state and local governments to investigate, penalize and prosecute sexual assaults. She also discusses how violence against women seem to be ignored about being built around civil right provisions. She has spent ten years as a sex crime prosecutor in New York, and during this time frame she has seen rapist…

In many countries such as Canada and the United States, the hegemony has been divided between the executive branch, the judiciary courts and the legislative branch. “Generally, the amount of power for each member of these institutions is to be uniformly divided; conversely, the fairly recent transformation has increasingly concentrated the majority of power towards the hearts of the government” ("Is the Canadian Prime Minister too Powerful?,"2010). In recent years, many political scientist have…