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Tag: Justice System

  • Indicium Difficile Part I

    Indicium Difficile Part I

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    Judgement is difficult. The final part of the Hippocratic quote I’ve been riffing on to write this series of essays. I can easily see in the word ‘indicium’ the root of our English word ‘indict’ which isn’t pronounced anything like it looks. Definition of indict transitive verb 1:  to charge with a fault or offense…

  • Where did Ferguson come from?

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    As the events in Ferguson, MO, unfold, I have been watching for some time. Every couple of days in the Criminal Justice class I’m taking, we have talked about it, and yesterday we had a lengthy discussion as the rioting was still spinning out of control. I see it continues today, with the total at…

  • Justice, Part 2

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    Continuing with my look at the Herbert Packer paper, Two Models of the Criminal Process, which I started yesterday. There are many problematic areas of the Justice System as it stands now. The pure Due Process model is ideal, but as I pointed out yesterday, reality is closer to a blend of the Crime Control…