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Justice


Every action or decision we make is either justifiable or unjustifiable.
Justice is usually decided by society or the "norm." The "norm" changes from
one society to another. However, there are always laws that can be broken,
consequences that must follow, and punishment that must be imparted. Justice
can be seen in two different ways, social and criminal. Justice is in the eye
of the beholder because we all have different attitudes about right and wrong.
Criminal justice is a term that refers to the area of social laws which
a group of people deem valuable in order for the day-to-day mechanics of society
to function. When these laws are broken, the infrastructure of a society breaks
down, and this deviance from the "norm" must be corrected. Personal feelings,
morality, religious beliefs, and inflammatory, biased feelings towards certain
laws cannot supersede the concrete social laws. This type of high emotion was
apparent when dealing with the facts in the murder of......

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