Essays on Justice

Inequality & Injustice All around the world, political and law making institutions play a significant role when the question of justice and peace arises. These institutions are more than just symbols of the political and federal structure of the country, rather they are the “backbones”…

In the play Death and The Maiden, written by Ariel Dorfman presents a story that has two sides. On one side, horrifying crimes that have offended people’s human rights were pledged and one victim, in particular, Paulina, is still suffering because of her past. She…

Introduction Alternative dispute resolution mechanism refers to settlement of conflicts without referring the matter to the long and costly court processes. There are several ways of settling disputes that have greatly been embraced in Kenya. They include but are not limited to mediation, conciliation, arbitration,…

Introduction In the 1970s Harvard University political scientist John Rawls (1999, p. 4) argued that a society is well-ordered when it is effectively regulated by a public conception of justice in which “(1) everyone accepts and knows that the others accept the same principles of…

Justice is to be fair and reasonable, it is a legal and philosophical theory. No doubt justice is a prominent theme in the play, “A View from the Bridge”. Alfieri even says in his opening monologue “justice is very important here”. Since the narrator of…

Justice is the proper human life. One of the reoccurring topics discussed between philosophers throughout history was the topic of justice. Many philosophers have had their fair share of debates and definitions for the justice, and today I will be explaining Socrates’ definition of justice….

Revenge is a wild card that can be extremely favorable or insanely harmful that serves its own justice in the hand of the holder. The joker can be representative of who you are by being the person holding the card or being the character in…

Coming from the latin word justus or justitia, the Old English definition of justice – or iustice back then – was the “administration of the law.” This, combined with “just,” formed the word justice. As defined by the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, this word specifically is “the…

Justice to a criminal should not be by a dragged out death by injection of drugs or an electric chair, but by a mental suffering of not knowing what will happen next. The death penalty isn’t worth the money put into it. Killing off a…

INTRODUCTION The law and criminality are enlaced each other because they have the purpose to oppose each other. The law is a system with the purpose to prevent the crime while the crime occurs if someone is against the Government´s system. Criminal law involves a…