Category: Justice

The laws exist to be black and white, to discover a problem and remove it. In the novel To Kill A Mockingbird a book set in the southern era in a town named Maycomb in Alabama Harper Lee illustrates that the law is a set of rules to be followed by the preceded town or…

When addressing the concern about the United States being able to provide fair access to health services there are two popular theories that most people agree with. The two contrasting theories are market justice and social justice and in this paper, the theory of social justice is discussed. Social justice believes healthcare should be on…

In this essay I am going to address female poverty, focusing on gender inequality of pay and how this leads women into poverty. I am going to look at this issue through a Social Democratic lens. I will analyze: the impacts of poverty on women, local, national, and global policies on the pay gap, and…

This paper will identify how and why mentally ill individuals have come to be overrepresented in the criminal justice system and highlight the remarkable challenges this has become for police, corrections, and courts. Mentally ill individuals are characterized incorrectly in all aspects of the justice system, from being apprehended to incarcerated. It’s been discovered that…

We have discussed in class that Social justice is the premise that everyone deserves equal economic, political, Social rights and Opportunities. Minorities in all places have been facing several types of discrimination and inequality. Precisely similar to what happened to Mr. Walter McMillian. Mr. Walter McMillian was under arrest and kept on murder row for…

If I have to give my personal definition of the word justice, I would say that justice means equality, fairness, and entitlement to our rights. That means, whenever we make a decision or do something, the result has to equal and be enjoyable for both agents and receivers. Moreover, in the political sector, the government…

Economic and Human rights laws address two spheres of social life that being the economy and human rights/politics. It also addresses two irreconcilable areas of government policy. There was a constant attempt at separating the two although this led to some disastrous results. Economic policies place a focus on the market with this usually results…

Vengeance is a significant problem in societies around the world. According to the US Department of Justice, 20% of the homicides in the United States are seemingly vengeance-related. Cases from schools to workplaces, friends, and families are emerging year after year with the sole motivation of revenge. It is highly challenging to understand the complex…

In this narrative, I will attempt to explain the Apology, by Socrates. He proclaimed his innocence of charges that he had suborned the youth men Of Athens and he would attempt to plead his case in front of several Athenian Council members (Alan De Botton, The Consolations of Philosophy, (New York, Vintage Books, 2000),28-29. He…

Hating segregation, Martin Luther King Jr. didnt fight against discrimination of blacks alone, he fought depravity without prejudice. He was solid, a brilliant gem who was willing to sacrifice himself for freedom. His phrase Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality; tied in a single…