Social Justice And Procedural Justice

The Social Justice section in Chapter 21 drew my attention. As in the modern day social reform or laws are usually always due to the pressure of public opinion. A Facebook rant after a major disaster can gain major momenta and sway law makers over night. Women (Christian women) had such a huge play in the social reform and gave rights to all Christians either a child, woman, or one of the many ethnic groups. The awareness the National Child Labor Committee was able to bring to the public of the conditions and wages of children in the work force through their, “decade-long pictorial campaign to educate American on the plight of children working in factories.”

Throughout years in the criminal justice system, women being incarcerated has increased drastically. Since the amount of women offenders increased above male offenders, equality is sought out. There is an expand amount of gender disparities in federal cases. With women seeking equality through justice over the decades, changes should be made within the justice system to provide impartiality, acknowledge the gender difference and it’s importance.

Good job this week Kyle, as you know legitimacy leads to connectivity through both public value and procedural justice. The public value portion is no more than the tolerance level that the public will allow you to get away with, which all leads to legitimacy. It’s a simple leadership practice that is very basic and taught by most executive level leaders, legitimacy in law enforcement is equivalent to what you should do and procedural justice in law enforcement is equivalent to what you can do.

Many of the most important aspects of and decisions about social organization hinge on an individual or society’s conception of justice. Because this conception of justice has tremendous influence over the way societies are structured, political theorists interested in understanding and improving society place great importance on understanding and articulating the nature of justice. While most of the political theorists we have read in class have proposed definitions of justice, none of them sufficiently incorporate the many dimensions of justice while remaining specific enough to allow for relatively consistent distinctions between the just and unjust. To balance these competing demands, I propose that justice is the impartial ordering of

The criminal justice system views any crime as a crime committed against the state and places much emphasis on retribution and paying back to the community, through time, fines or community work. Historically punishment has been a very public affair, which was once a key aspect of the punishment process, through the use of the stocks, dunking chair, pillory, and hangman’s noose, although in today’s society punishment has become a lot more private (Newburn, 2007). However it has been argued that although the debt against the state has been paid, the victim of the crime has been left with no legal input to seek adequate retribution from the offender, leaving the victim perhaps feeling unsatisfied with the criminal justice process.

social injustice was played out in Topeka with the case of Brown vs. the Topeka

Objectives: (1) To investigate whether distributive justice has a positive association with organizational citizenship behaviours among correctional staff. (2). To investigate whether procedural justice also has a positive association with organizational citizenship behaviours among correctional staff

Though the concept of social injustice is universal in nature, the experience varies with each person. Factors like a person’ race, or gender can further influence the severity of the injustice; victims caught in the overlap between discriminations often go unrecognized by the law and society. Many people recognize the names Michael Brown, Eric Garner, and Tamir Rice as African Americans who were murdered by local police. But names like Michelle Cusseaux, Tanish Anderson, and Meagan Hockaday often receive less feedback even though they are also murdered African Americans. The only distinction between the sets of names is gender. Even within racial injustice, discrimination is present between genders as some cases get national

I think an example of a procedural justice implications related to pay policies would be a performance evaluation. Although our textbook said the procedural justice examines with how outcomes are allocated. Nowadays, the CEO wages is raising even higher, a ratio of eight times than 1950s. I believe the regular lower level employees do follow the procedural justice principles outlined in the textbook. Sometime they are given the chances in decisions making and influence the result. However, when it comes to higher executive performance evaluation, it does not follow the principles since they are making ridiculously amount of money and it does not depend on the outcomes of their

The second social justice principle that Caritas uses for this issue is: Justice requires a preferential option for the poor. Caritas are expressing this social justice principle when they are help those in the rural and underprivileged provinces of Cambodia (in Mondulkiri and Ratanakiri) to improve their living situation or to improve their production of crops. The people living in these villages are living amongst the forest and are exposed to the elements and so are considered poor because they do not have any disposable income and cannot afford many things that people living in cities may be able to afford. By helping those people in these rural areas to build modern farming and living technology they will be able to develop their skills

In The Republic, the great philosopher Plato attempts to reveal through the character and dialogues of Socrates that justice is better when it is the good for which men must strive for, regardless of whether they could be unjust and still be rewarded. His method is to use dialectic, the asking and answering of questions. This method leads the audience from one point to another, supposedly with indisputable logic by obtaining agreement to each point before going on to the next, therefore, building an argument.

The notion of justice is existence of proper balance of rights and its access under the laws of land. It refers to not depriving any person from availing privileges, opportunities etc. John Rawls writes, "Each person possesses an inviolability founded on justice that even the welfare of society as a whole cannot override"It means that the interaction in a society must be free from any sort of discrimination such as religion, race, color, caste or sex. It ensures fair distribution of assets and equal opportunity. José P. Laurel defines Social Justice as “Social justice is neither communism, nor despotism, nor atomism, nor anarchy, but the humanization of laws and the equalization of social and economic forces by the state so that justice in its rational and objectively secular conception may at least be approximated.”

As social workers, we have the responsibility to recognize and challenge social and economic injustices that too often affect the client system well-being. Even Today, the proposal to repeal The Affordable Health Care Act has captivated the attention of many as the changes could potentially negatively affect the poor. As a social worker, I am concerned because many of my clients parallel to Ms. Buttercup situation could develop a heighten level of stress because they fear the loss of health care coverage.

Over the decades, the concept of justice has been continually evolving. This is occurring based upon different moral or legal interpretations. Evidence of this can be seen with observations from Burke (2011) who said, "Few things are of more importance to a society than its concept of justice. This is because it is justice that provides criterion for the legitimate use of force. In the name of justice people are detained, arrested, handcuffed, put on trial and punished. This concept is used to provide every society with some kind of social order. Over the last 200 years, a revolution has taken place with these principles. Our idea of it is what we employ, when dealing with ordinary individuals in daily life including: making agreements, paying bills, resolving disputes and putting criminals in jail. This is a concept that is as old as recorded history and it is familiar to people everywhere. What makes it so unique is that these ideas are constantly changing which focuses on society as a whole and how people are interacting with each other. " (Burke)

Social justice is mutually a practice and a goal. The goal of social justice is complete and equal contribution by all people in a society that is equally designed to meet their needs. Social justice allows for all members of society to be physically and psychologically safe and secure. It is a set of values that allow us to understand what is right and wrong in our world regardless of race, culture and economic status. That we take care of those in need of help, so that they can take care of themselves. Social justice allows equal rights and opportunities to everyone in society.