Essays on Justice

In Letter From Birmingham Jail, Martin Luther King, Jr. speaks out against injustice, establishing that for justice to prevail, one must oppose injustice at every turn; even if that means landing in jail. King famously proclaims that “injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere,”…

Growing up as a First Nations woman in Canada, the flaws in the way officers administer and enforce the law have been obvious in my life since I was a young child. Witnessing the broken justice system at the Provincial Court of Vancouver was not…

Social justice is a notion of a society in which each man or woman is treated justly, with out discrimination in particular based totally on monetary status, race, gender, ethnicity, etc. Grace is a gift from God that we don’t deserve, which allows us pick…

Social justice refers to the effort put into ensuring that equity reaches all individuals regardless of circumstances. My understanding of social justice is that every individual should receive similar opportunities, without being impeded simply due to differences. Social Justice is a serious issue, one that…

The biggest problem with the concept, the word, and the terminology of social justice, is that it doesn’t mean what everyone seems to think it means. Imagine you had a friend who came to you with a broken calculator. You proceed to ask what seems…

Every human being is born to the world without any knowledge or life experience. New lives are described as a blank sheet of canvas waiting for the painter, which is life itself, to color it. Furthermore, different people experience life differently. Some people turn bad…

Patrick Langan, a federal government statistician, conducted a study and found that “Even if racism [in sentencing] exists, it might help explain only a small part of the gap between the 11 percent black representation in the United States adult population and the now nearly…

Novelist, William Styron, once told his son that life “is a search for justice.” The majority of individuals in today’s society can agree that there is always a right and wrong that exists in our world. This belief of good vs. evil can stem from…

Franz Kafka is renowned for his short stories, which have substantial themes. From the short story In the Penal Colony, Frank focuses on the military judicial system and its statutes regarding errant soldiers. The story highlights how unjust legal systems may be, especially when the culprit…

In a country or state, there consists of other parts which entail diversified individuals. For instance, Kenya, as a country, comprises different people who come from diverse regions, tribes, religions, and with distinct cultures. In these regions, there are individuals and families: Some who are…

             For past years, the criminal justice policy has followed quite a strict approach for awarding punishments to the convicts. However, these increased punitive measures failed to curb the criminal recidivism and rather generated a castigating system brunting the government…

Restorative justice (RJ) is the process of holding misbehaving individuals accountable for their transgressions, mediating conflicts between victims and offenders, arriving at collaborative solutions for resolving issues, and then reintegrating offenders into the community (Mayworm, Sharkey, Hunnicutt, & Schiedel, 2016). While this practice has its…

Today and in the past, justice was a tricky topic because “injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere” (Martin Luther King Jr). Today, injustice is everywhere around us. It also does not help that sometimes the good has to suffer for the bad as…

There would be many different answers contradicting each other if we polled a room and asked what the meaning of justice is and what people would perceive to be fair. It even happens when experts of the subject discuss the issue. In the world we…

For well over 50 years, quantitative definitions of unfair and fair were implemented in various fields like schooling, recruitment, and machine learning. We trace how the concept of fairness has been established in those fields over the previous half century, exploring the cultural and social…