The Collins Dictionary describes the judiciary as "the branch of Government concerned with justice and the legal system". ... The major stakeholders in the judiciary are those people with direct contact with the judges. ... They have to punish the convicted, made an example of them to others, ensure they will not commit any more crimes whilst satisfying the community and protecting the community and victims from the offender. ... Although this may not fix the real problems with the judiciary. ... (ed) 1995, Collins Australian School Dictionary, HarperCollins Publishers, Sydney. ...

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According to Collins English Dictionary, the death penalty, also known as capital punishment, is defined as a punishment by death for a crime (Capital, Collins English Dictionary). ... For example, in California an offender must commit first-degree murder with special circumstances such as sabotage, treason or fatal assault by a prisoner serving a life sentence. ... When all the problems are boiled down there are four key problems with having the death penalty as a punishment. ... With that being said my mission is to prove how the death penalty corrupts the system and how our system would b...

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Webster's Dictionary defines justice as the quality of being just; conformity to the principles of righteousness and rectitude in all things; strict performance of moral obligations; practical conformity to human or divine law; integrity in the dealings of men with each other; rectitude; equity; uprightness. ... The example he gives I that the government makes up laws to help itself and declares just for their people. ... In modern day we can take Robin Hood for example, he helps himself and his people by stealing from the rich and giving to the pour. ... With all the money I have I ...

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Webster's Dictionary defines justice as the quality of being just; conformity to the principles of righteousness and rectitude in all things; strict performance of moral obligations; practical conformity to human or divine law; integrity in the dealings of men with each other; rectitude; equity; uprightness. ... The example he gives I that the government makes up laws to help itself and declares just for their people. ... In modern day we can take Robin Hood for example, he helps himself and his people by stealing from the rich and giving to the pour. ... With all the money I have I ...

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According to Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary, discrimination is defined as the act, practice, or an instance of distinguishing categorically rather than individually. ... Let us not confuse this with racism, which is, according to Dictionary.com, the belief that one race is superior to the others. ... Ascribed characteristics are features that one is born with. ... Hardwick (1986), one man was convicted of participating in sexual acts with another man. ... It isn't something that people are just born with. ...

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According to the dictionary, crime is defined as "an action or omission that constitutes an offense that may be prosecuted by the state and is punishable by law.... This all has to do with media and how they portray those being accused. ... " This is according to the dictionary "the standard of evidence required to validate a criminal conviction in most adversarial legal systems. ... Probable cause like beyond a reasonable doubt has to do with standard of proof. ... For example, is being charged with first degree murder, is innocent, but thinks the evidence is strong enough to...

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For example, marijuana use has become the hot seat of much debates, concerning whether it should be legal. ... It can be argued that the user base for marijuana might increase significantly if marijuana is legalized, but with seventy million people already having tried marijuana and another twenty million people having smoked it in the last year alone; one has to wonder, what kind of change would legalization bring? ... Well on a dictionary outlook it means " A habit-forming substance whose use may lead to the abuse of drugs that are more addictive or more dangerous"; or more simply put a sub...

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Of course I looked "justice" up in the dictionary before I started to write this paper and I did not find anything of interest except of course a common word in every definition, that implies being "fair". This implies that justice would have something to do with being fair. ... I could cite several examples where I thought a judge's or jury's ruling was not fair, but I won't cause frankly, we've all seen those. ... Is life in jail, say 25 years, going to be enough punishment for the parents charged with brutally murdering their daughter Farah Khan? ...

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Of course I looked "justice" up in the dictionary before I started to write this paper and I did not find anything of interest except of course a common word in every definition, that implies being "fair". This implies that justice would have something to do with being fair. ... I could cite several examples where I thought a judge's or jury's ruling was not fair, but I won't cause frankly, we've all seen those. ... Is life in jail, say 25 years, going to be enough punishment for the parents charged with brutally murdering their daughter Farah Khan? ...

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When dealing with the questions, "Antigone knowingly and willfully disobeyed Creon's edict. ... According to Webster's Dictionary there are two separate definitions for the word citizen. ... Antigone, was a free woman when she buried her brother, and the right to burying him was taken away by Creon to set an example. ... It all comes down to the fact that the religious law that was upheld by the state conflicted with the state law made by Creon. ...

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The Legal and Political Importance of Due Process The dictionary defines due process of law as The regular, customary, and fair administration of justice; a right guaranteed to people in the United States by the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments to the Constitution and by state constitutions. ... The Constitution contains numerous limitations on the power of government to interfere with individual rights (i.e., Bill of Rights). ... Examples of this would be marriage, procreation, abortion, interstate travel etc. ... For example the were allowed to have council or someone...

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But first, the actual definition of a vigilante is someone who takes law enforcement into one's own hands or a member in a vigilance committee (Dictionary). ... He was unhappy with the government and was angered by the events at Waco, Texas. ... Another example of a vigilance committee was in the early to mid twentieth century with the rise of the Italian Mafia in New York and other large cities. ... This issue is a perfect example of where situational ethics is used. ... Someone who is a vigilante supporter agrees with it in every situation. ...

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But first, the actual definition of a vigilante is someone who takes law enforcement into one's own hands or a member in a vigilance committee (Dictionary). ... He was unhappy with the government and was angered by the events at Waco, Texas. ... Another example of a vigilance committee was in the early to mid twentieth century with the rise of the Italian Mafia in New York and other large cities. ... This issue is a perfect example of where situational ethics is used. ... Someone who is a vigilante supporter agrees with it in every situation. ...

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This defines criminality as the behaviour associated with a crime and the crime is the by-product of that behaviour. This definition of a behaviour type has been stamped onto and associated with the generalised behaviour of Indigenous Australians past and present. ... These tools used by the British were technology, the introduction of diseases and culture with a specific emphasis on language (Kennedy, 2014). It was the ability of the British to use written and oral communication with other western countries, such as Europe that disadvantaged Indigenous Australians as they were not familiar wi...

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First let us begin with PS. ... Political philosopher AV Dicey has similar views, which are apparent with the definition in his book4. ... Next we move on to the RoL, which is defined in Jowitts legal dictionary as governance in accordance with the law and not arbitrarily5. ... Professor Raz further clarifies that this must not be confused with other ideas such as democracy, justice equality or human rights9. ... For example following the Constitutional Reform Act 2005, and creation of the Supreme Court, the post of Lord Chancellor was abolished which was a step to avoid the possible overlappi...

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The Canadian Oxford Dictionary defines a crime as, "an offence punishable by law illegal acts as a whole... Black's Law Dictionary purports a crime to be, " social harm that the law makes punishable; the breach of a legal duty treated as the subject matter of a criminal proceeding" and criminal law as, "the branch or division of the law which treats of crimes and their punishments." ... For example, to a certain degree, many legal systems have moved away from the harsh practices of public torture, mutilation, banishment, and public hangings to more humane treatment. ... The Clotworth...

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