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Who SHOULD justice serve?

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This is a political theory discussion, but I am looking towards practical application. Mods move if you see fit.

Who should justice serve: the victim, society, or the unjust (criminal if you will)? When I ask this question I am thinking about who deserves the most justice if someone commits a crime with a victim? There is discussion about how rehabilitation is important. But in a case such as rape, or murder, how important is it that the Victim sees that justice is carried out? And how far does justice for the victim go? What about justice for society? And what about justice for the criminal? How far do you see these goings?

And in our system do you think we serve them? How far for each?
 
This is a political theory discussion, but I am looking towards practical application. Mods move if you see fit.

Who should justice serve: the victim, society, or the unjust (criminal if you will)? When I ask this question I am thinking about who deserves the most justice if someone commits a crime with a victim? There is discussion about how rehabilitation is important. But in a case such as rape, or murder, how important is it that the Victim sees that justice is carried out? And how far does justice for the victim go? What about justice for society? And what about justice for the criminal? How far do you see these goings?

And in our system do you think we serve them? How far for each?

I think justice should serve all. I would not be as concerned about the criminal though as the victim or society as a whole.
Might be easier to add more if you had some examples or circumstances to start with
 
This is a political theory discussion, but I am looking towards practical application. Mods move if you see fit.

Who should justice serve: the victim, society, or the unjust (criminal if you will)? When I ask this question I am thinking about who deserves the most justice if someone commits a crime with a victim? There is discussion about how rehabilitation is important. But in a case such as rape, or murder, how important is it that the Victim sees that justice is carried out? And how far does justice for the victim go? What about justice for society? And what about justice for the criminal? How far do you see these goings?

And in our system do you think we serve them? How far for each?

In the event a crime with a victim occurs, neither party deserves more justice than the other. True justice is impartial, dealing equally with all parties involved. The criminal's justice is the ability to face his accuser(s), the right to a fair trial, and innocence until proven guilty beyond the shadow of a doubt. In some cases, rehabilitation may be helpful, such as in cases of drug abuse (although I feel all narcotics should be legal), however, in cases of premeditated murder and rape, there is no argument for rehabilitation. These are people who should be confined from interacting with society. Justice for the victim varies case by case.

I feel our system does a fair job. Although, I haven't had any personal experience on either end, thankfully. All in all, excepting the fact that laws are sometimes weighted a little too much in the woman's favor in divorce cases and the like, our system does a good job of providing fair trials and such for the people.
 
This is a political theory discussion, but I am looking towards practical application. Mods move if you see fit.

Who should justice serve: the victim, society, or the unjust (criminal if you will)? When I ask this question I am thinking about who deserves the most justice if someone commits a crime with a victim? There is discussion about how rehabilitation is important. But in a case such as rape, or murder, how important is it that the Victim sees that justice is carried out? And how far does justice for the victim go? What about justice for society? And what about justice for the criminal? How far do you see these goings?

And in our system do you think we serve them? How far for each?

Justice is simply giving to all their due. This justice doesn't serve anyone more than anyone else.

Particular types of legal proceedings are designed to justice to specific classes of people. Criminal proceedings are primarily designed to do justice to the criminal, civil proceedings are primarily designed to do justice to the victim, though with things like punitive civil damages, or criminal restitution, these lines are somewhat blurred.

Note that people don't necessarily want justice done to them. Murderers generally dislike their noose, for example.
 
This is a political theory discussion, but I am looking towards practical application. Mods move if you see fit.

Who should justice serve: the victim, society, or the unjust (criminal if you will)? When I ask this question I am thinking about who deserves the most justice if someone commits a crime with a victim? There is discussion about how rehabilitation is important. But in a case such as rape, or murder, how important is it that the Victim sees that justice is carried out? And how far does justice for the victim go? What about justice for society? And what about justice for the criminal? How far do you see these goings?

And in our system do you think we serve them? How far for each?

Justice serves itself, if you must use the term "serve". Or, our elected representatives are supposed to "serve" justice, though a better word would be "seek" justice, pursue justice.

Or, to borrow from Berger v. US 295US78, "The US Attorney is the representative not of an ordinary party to a controversy, but of a sovereignty whose obligation to govern impartially is as compelling as its obligation to govern at all; and whose interest, therefore, in a criminal prosecution is not that it shall win a case, but that JUSTICE shall be done."
 
This is a political theory discussion, but I am looking towards practical application. Mods move if you see fit.

Who should justice serve: the victim, society, or the unjust (criminal if you will)? When I ask this question I am thinking about who deserves the most justice if someone commits a crime with a victim? There is discussion about how rehabilitation is important. But in a case such as rape, or murder, how important is it that the Victim sees that justice is carried out? And how far does justice for the victim go? What about justice for society? And what about justice for the criminal? How far do you see these goings?

And in our system do you think we serve them? How far for each?

Denying someone's freedom is the punishment and we all know most career criminals will NEVER be rehabilitated . But in most prisons justice is served by other cons as needed .
 
This is a political theory discussion, but I am looking towards practical application. Mods move if you see fit.

Who should justice serve: the victim, society, or the unjust (criminal if you will)? When I ask this question I am thinking about who deserves the most justice if someone commits a crime with a victim? There is discussion about how rehabilitation is important. But in a case such as rape, or murder, how important is it that the Victim sees that justice is carried out? And how far does justice for the victim go? What about justice for society? And what about justice for the criminal? How far do you see these goings?

And in our system do you think we serve them? How far for each?

justice must serve every party equally

revenge and justice are not the same thing

when revenge occurs it displaces justice and misaligns everything creating another victim(s)
 
In the event a crime with a victim occurs, neither party deserves more justice than the other. True justice is impartial, dealing equally with all parties involved. The criminal's justice is the ability to face his accuser(s), the right to a fair trial, and innocence until proven guilty beyond the shadow of a doubt. In some cases, rehabilitation may be helpful, such as in cases of drug abuse (although I feel all narcotics should be legal), however, in cases of premeditated murder and rape, there is no argument for rehabilitation. These are people who should be confined from interacting with society. Justice for the victim varies case by case.

I feel our system does a fair job. Although, I haven't had any personal experience on either end, thankfully. All in all, excepting the fact that laws are sometimes weighted a little too much in the woman's favor in divorce cases and the like, our system does a good job of providing fair trials and such for the people.
Sorry if I seem nit-picky, but "shadow of a doubt" isn't the standard.

REASONABLE DOUBT is the standard. One might think that they are the same, they are not.

Just a pet peeve of mine.
 
Sorry if I seem nit-picky, but "shadow of a doubt" isn't the standard.

REASONABLE DOUBT is the standard. One might think that they are the same, they are not.

Just a pet peeve of mine.

Apologies, you're are correct.
 
What is a victimless crime?
Justice must serve all. When you do wrong, it is justice that you are to be punished.
 
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