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I just did, I loved it! I love the kid's look of "was that really him? Jul 21 , PM 9. Join Date Sep Posts 1. Justice is about restoration; punishment is about exacting revenge and has nothing to do with justice. Jul 21 , PM Join Date Jan Posts 6, Originally Posted by Heyesey.
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Justice is a measure. The college degree, by itself, did not guarantee better officer performance or a change in the organization. Figure 1 shows an organizational culture as having an inner and outer core.
The inner core is defensive not wanting to change , even if it is dysfunctional. Information obtained during the basic academy, field training, in-service training and college might result in changes in the outer core, but to have an impact on the inner core, education and commitment to change have to exist at all levels of the organization.
Many in the criminal justice and higher education professions have recognized the need to better educate officers and improve the criminal justice organizations. There is debate on which topics should be presented to the officers firearms training, first aid, driving skills, report writing, and so forth.
A study was conducted on the issues upon which officers felt higher education should focus. Most criminal justice textbooks provided one chapter on the topic. A survey was conducted with U. Seven professors completed the survey. When the criminal justice professors were asked if one class on cultural diversity was sufficient to change the beliefs and behaviors in criminal justice, all responded that it was not. A review of the 30 U. For example, Eastern Kentucky University has developed an entire degree program to focus on social justice.
This trend is more of an individual effort than institutional effort. Due to the low response rate to the survey, it would be difficult to provide a pattern for comparison.
Information obtained provided a limited view, but it was consistent with informal surveys during presentations. While the colleges and universities did provide courses on cultural diversity, reviews of the course description were not performed. Research needs to focus on the effectiveness of the offered cultural diversity courses and its impact on the students and organizations.
For higher education to fulfill its role in improving the criminal justice system, more research is needed to better address the philosophy and beliefs of the officers, organizations, and society. The philosophy of punishment is a part of the criminal justice culture and society.
Many people have strong views on punishment, which influence the behaviors and decision of criminal administrators, politicians, and officers. Since the early 20th century, basic education of criminal justice personnel has primarily focused on developing the skills necessary to be effective in the field. Over the years, most academic institutions have established at least one class on cultural diversity at each degree level associate, bachelor, masters, doctorate. Cultural conflict between the criminal justice organization and the community has existed for many years.
Higher education, departments, law enforcement agencies, and the community have to work together to achieve fairness and justice. Seiter, Corrections: An Introduction , 3rd Ed. Boston, MA: Pearson Education, , — Delaney et al. Northouse, Leadership: Theory and Practice , 2nd ed. Corley, Mahesh K. Nalla, and Vincent J. Bierema and David M. Potential Areas of Cultural Conflict Philosophy of Punishment Different philosophies toward punishment coexist in the criminal justice system.
Individual versus Offender Criminal justice personnel have been taught to consider the individual as an inmate, suspect, or offender. The results? Portugal now has close to the lowest rate of drug-induced deaths in Europe — three overdose deaths a year per million people. In addition, HIV infections have declined in Portugal, unlike, for example, in the rural United States, where a heroin epidemic has the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention worried about the potential for soaring infection rates.
What about crimes like theft or assault, where the victims are other people? That was before I met Rachel Herzing , a community organizer who worked for the national prison-abolition group Critical Resistance for 15 years. I invited her to my classes to listen to my students talk about crime, policing and punishment.
She then asked them to imagine the impossible — other methods besides locking people up that a community could use to restore itself to wholeness. This is the approach taken by the international movement for restorative justice. When victims, offenders, and community members meet to decide how to do that, the results can be transformational. From to , South Africa operated under the official policy of apartheid , the legal separation of South Africans into four different racial categories with four different levels of rights.
The South African government employed all the usual tools of state terrorism — murder, torture, beatings, incarceration and daily repression — to keep the oppressed majority out of power. Eventually, international sanctions and internal resistance, followed by an extraordinary negotiation between the African National Congress leader Nelson Mandela and the then president, FW De Klerk , brought a peaceful end to apartheid.
Behind that process was a recognition that there could be no peaceable future without a public acknowledgment of the harm that had been done by those who had done it. In South Africa, even torturers and murderers under the apartheid system were granted amnesties for their crimes as part of a social healing process, but only after they had publicly admitted their actions and genuinely asked for forgiveness.
It was not punishment but the acknowledgment of wrongdoing that marked the beginning of justice in that country, and it seemed to work for many of those who had suffered grievously under apartheid.
A similar approach might work in the United States. Indeed, it already happens all the time on a small scale around the country, through community mediation services. These organizations help neighbors settle disputes that might otherwise result in a trip to civil courts or the pressing of criminal charges. An important aspect of the process is listening to and acknowledging the harm others have experienced.
It might be possible to expand this kind of mediation to address more serious instances of harm to individuals or a community, and to work out means of restitution that did not involve prison time. There are other alternatives to punishment as well. They argued that when the police enforced laws and informal rules against nuisance behavior in neighborhoods, reductions in more serious crimes followed.
But hundreds of thousands of people, mostly young African American and Latino men, lived with the expectation that, at any time, the police might stop them on the street in a humiliating display of power.
In my state, California, there were , arrests for misdemeanors in alone. The largest single category, however, was driving under the influence, or DUI, with , arrests. Add to that the 58, people arrested for petty theft, imagine similar figures across the country, and you can see how the jails might begin to fill with record-setting numbers of prisoners.
And spending time in jail can cost you your job, your children, even your home. So the next time you find yourself thinking idly that there oughta be a law — against not giving up your seat on a bus to someone who needs it more, or playing loud music in a public place, or panhandling — stop for a moment and think again.
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