Exam 6: Concepts of Justice

Discrimination, in society or in the criminal justice system, based on race, gender, social class, sexual orientation, or other factors is a violation of:

It is possible to conceptualize utilitarian justice as a metaphor, instead of adding up actual numbers.

While two witnesses to the same criminal event might report seeing very different things, each swears that his or her testimony is "how it really happened." From the perspective of postmodern justice:

When a robbery occurs, the victim suffers financial losses,the fabric of the community is harmed becauseresidents might subsequently fear or distrust others, leading to a decline in social interactions, and the offender is harmed by separation from the rest of the community. This is the perspective of crime taken by:

It is not possible to measure utilitarian justice in a purely mathematical fashion.

Restorative justice holds that, when a crime occurs, it causes harm to the victim only.

In ideological justice, the ideology comes first, as a collection of beliefs that are assumed to produce justice as a result.

Justice is a concept so highly valued that societies are willing to engage in life-and-death struggles about it.

The quest for justice has virtually no impact on society.

The participatory model achieves distributive justice through collaboration.

When a person convicted of a crime is excused from legal consequences, this is referred to as:

Talk About: -Just World

In the authoritarian model, outcomes are more important than process.

Talk About: -Authoritarian Aggression

A world where individuals receive what they deserve is a just world.

Talk About: -Participatory Model

Talk About: -Modernism

Talk About: -Libertarian

Talk About: -Gideon v. Wainwright

Rawls believed that, while in an original position, individuals would agree on principles that are fundamentally fair, because they are unable to act in a manner of self-interest that would be fair to some, but not to others.