what is the importance of having a justice system?
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A judicial system is mandatory for a society to function well.\n\nIn the past, in times where there wasnt a justice system, people solved their problems with the Eye for an Eye method.This created chaos.\n\nJustice came as a way to establish harmony and peace in peoples lives.\n\nImagine a world without a judicial system, there will be no rules, People could just take your stuff and you wouldnt be able to complain, we would have no rights.\nThere will be fear and chaos.
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I define justice as when someone is caught and convicted of the crimes in which they commited to society.
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No morals or virtue or ethics or you will go crazy.\n\nYou have to be hard, and love to control the destiny of others, and not care when they all go to jail, and take their money when they can't afford it and have to borrow it.\n\nYou have to love to see your fellow man destroyed by the system, with your help. You have to learn to feed off of other people's problems and learn to suck blood like a parasite.\n\nYou have to learn how to skew the law in your favor, no matter who or what principle is right. You have to love to win, and win no matter the cost.\n\nIf you would not like being a social worker, being around the lowest dregs of our society, you would not like being a lawyer.\n\nYou have to love being in charge, around others in control, like judges. You have to be power hungry.\n\nYou absolutely must like BMW's.\n\nBy the way, I think the BAR Association should be abolished and all attorneys hanged.
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The criminal justice system is designed to pick on the economy weak. So if you are poor and have done something wrong or are accused of having done something wrong  chances are you will either retain a badly overworked attorney  or a lawyer on the way up or out. Because the DA wants to prove how tough she or he is to the voters your the one they will try hardest to convict because your an easier to do so. If you do have some money there is a good chance you can retain legal power that actually has time to work on your case and has friends in high places that he or she has helped put in office. As a result, you'll usually either get off or a lesser sentence.
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Judiciary of Germany \nThe judiciary's independence and extensive responsibilities reflect the importance of the rule of law in the German system of government. A core concept is that of the Rechtsstaat, a government based on law, in which citizens are guaranteed equality and in which government decisions may be challenged in court. Federal law delineates the structure of the judiciary, but the administration of most courts is regulated by Land law. The Länder (see States of Germany) are responsible for the lower levels of the court system; the highest appellate courts alone operate at the federal level. This federal-Land division of labour allows the federation to ensure that laws are enforced equally throughout the country, whereas the central role of the Länder in administering the courts safeguards the independence of the judicial system from the federal government.\n\nPrinciples of Roman law form the basis of the German judicial system and define a system of justice that differs fundamentally from the common law system, in which courts rely on precedents from prior cases. In Germany, courts look to a comprehensive system of legal codes. The codes delineate somewhat abstract legal principles, and judges must decide specific cases on the basis of those standards. Given the importance of complex legal codes, judges must be particularly well trained. Indeed, judges are not chosen from the field of practising lawyers. Rather, they follow a distinct career path. At the end of their legal education at university, all law students must pass a state examination before they can continue on to an apprenticeship that provides them with broad training in the legal profession over two years. They then must pass a second state examination that qualifies them to practice law. At that point, the individual can choose either to be a lawyer or to enter the judiciary. Judicial candidates start working at courts immediately, however they are subjected to a probationary period of up to four years before being appointed as judges for lifetime.\n\n\nThe Court System\nThe judicial system comprises three types of courts. Ordinary courts, dealing with criminal and most civil cases, are the most numerous by far. Specialized courts hear cases related to administrative, labour, social, fiscal, and patent law. Constitutional courts focus on judicial review and constitutional interpretation. The Federal Constitutional Court (Bundesverfassungsgericht) is the highest court and has played a vital role through its interpretative rulings on the Basic Law. Currently there are 828 ordinary courts (687 local, 116 regional, 24 appellate, 1 federal), 142 labour courts (122 local, 19 appellate, 1 federal), 69 administrative courts (52 local, 16 higher, 1 federal), 20 tax courts (19 local, 1 federal), 86 social courts (69 local, 16 appellate, 1 federal) and 16 constitutional courts (15 State Constitutional Courts, 1 Federal Constitutional Court).\n\n\nOrdinary Courts\nThe ordinary courts are organized in four tiers, each of increasing importance. At the lowest level are the local courts (Amtsgerichte ; sing., Amtsgericht ), which hear cases involving minor criminal offences or small civil suits. These courts also carry out routine legal functions, such as maintaining the company register. Most cases in the local courts are decided by a single judge. However, in criminal cases in which the sentence is expected to exceed two years the professional judge is assisted by two lay judges with equal rights as the professional judge (Schöffengericht). Above the local courts are the regional courts (Landgerichte ; sing., Landgericht ), which are divided into two sections, one for major civil cases and the other for criminal cases. The regional courts are organized in chambers of three judges, however for reasons of efficiency most cases are heard by single judges. Only factually or legally complicated cases may be transferred to the chamber as a whole. Regional courts
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Todays social system is running on the base of power & threat.  People remain civilised so long they have the fear of being penalised for their wrongs.  But a best and ideal society will be where people will do the right thing without the fear of any penalties.\n         Yes governance is necessary, but a good governance is what gives it's citizens trust and responsibility which they can perform voluntarily and not by compulsion.\n................the story can be an unending one.
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Treat others with love and respect.\nStrive for justice and peace.
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Trial by a jury of your peers is still the best justice system in the world, and we should definitely keep it.  Any system of laws is really just a tool.  It's a means to an end, and that end is Justice.  Now I think everyone would agree that Justice is an Ideal... it's a perfect concept, in theory.  But being humans, we are incapible of creating anything perfectly.  Therefore, the tool we have created as the means to reach that perfect ideal of Justice will, by necessity, be flawed.  So, our legal system will never be perfect, and consequently injustices will always come out of it from time to time.  But over the many years since it's inception, we continue to fine tune our legal system, with new legislation, with the appealate court process, with new amendements to the constitution, etc.  The law is constantly changing because, like technology, morality, and every other aspect of human culture, the law is a work in progress.  It will never be perfect, because we are never perfect.  But the trial system the best system humanity has ever devised to pursue the ideal of Justice.\n\n     But the trial by jury is the last line of defense between the people of our great nation remaining free, and the people of our once-great nation falling into a facist state.  It's that right to a trial by a jury of our peers that protects us from unjust laws, from the power which we vote to hand over to our elected public servants corrupting them and allowing them to turn us into the servants, instead.  The jury of your peers is what stands between the people and tyranny.\n\n    People in this country (unlike many others) are still innocent until PROVEN guilty beyond any reasonable doubt.  That "reasonable doubt" standard is very high.  We aren't innocent until it appears we're "probably" guilty, or even "more likely than not guilty."  That jury has to be pretty damn sure we're guilty, and they have to agree on it.  Sometimes in criminal trials someone's very life is on the line.  If it's your life, you have the right to cross-examine witness brought against you.  You have the right to question evidence brought against you.  You have the right to bring witnesses on your behalf, and to bring evidence of your innocence.  In other words, you have the right to plead your case and to try to convince that jury that you didn't do it.  \n\n     Never, ever, let anyone make you believe for a second that this great Republic of ours could pursue our ideal of Justice without the trial system.
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"The Adversarial System:  Benefits of this system include the clear division of labour among the participants such as the prosecutor, defense lawyer, and judge.  Also, that as much evidence as possible is looked at in each case and thirdly, the legitimacy of the program is promoted through the appearance of fairness of the system and neutrality of the judge.  Limits of this system are that the adversarial principles can be ignored or negotiated during the daily activities of the court,  time can become a factor since each side is trying to present enough evidence to win their case and delays can occur at each step.  Our system is not a pure adversarial system.  The court’s higher duty of seeing that justice is done is reflected in the fact that the Crown has an obligation to disclose all relevant evidence even after the trial has begun."
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This statement makes the assumption that there is a judicial section within the government just as in the US government.  The independend judiciary refers to the fact that the court system is used to enforce the law of the land as well as provide a balance against the misuse of power by the other sectors within the government, like the executive branch of government.
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The Criminal Justice System is designed to prevent such crimes by providing stiff penalties for those who commit them. The penalties, among other things act as a deterant for those people who would otherwise commit the crime. Other than that, no steps are taken to prevent the specific crime you are asking about.
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The American Court System is an offshoot of Englands. However, we made some important changes. For example in England there were two differant sets of rules and law for those who were Aristocrates and those who were not. We saw this as inherently unfair. We changed it to make everybody equal under the law. Well we are trying to do this. \n\nWe also made laws which resulted in the Miranda Rights. To be free of arrest without basis or warrent, to be allowed an attorney, to be allowed to not incriminate ourselves, to be allowed an attorney, to be free from abusive and undully long interogation, etc. We are read these rights when arrested and if they are not read what we say can not be held against us and usually result in cases getting thrown out of court. The police are very carefull to read individuals these rights.\n\nI will not go into how these can be abused as well. Any Justice System will not be perfect. For example: While we are provided an attorney if we can not afford one, that attorney probably does not have the ability to give as good a defense as one we pay for ourselves. This is due to how overworked public defenders are, The fact they are paid from the same source as the prosocution, and have much more limited resources to defend us with.\n\nThere is a much higher rate of the poor going to jail than those who are more financial able to attain the best defense possibe.\n\nDid you know that an innocent person can be bankrupt durring a trail? That if found innocent or not guilty they do not receive a refund of their attorney costs? I find this wrong. I understand it would be difficult to refund every persons attorney fees if not found quilty. But if it was a requirment then less hasty arrests would occurr as police made double sure they had a good case. It would benifit our justice system if this were a requirement as less arrests without real probable cause would occurr and people who were innocent would not unfairly lose all their money just defending against wrongfully brought charges. We would also be much more inclined to get back to the belief of "innocent untill proven guilty" instead of the current trend of "guily untill proven innocent".\n\nWhile in theory we are considered innocent untill proven guilty, those who get arrested are really assummed to be guilty or they would not have been arrested in the first place. While this is simply untrue, basically this is what society and the press believes now.\n\nI kind of got off track here, sorry. I really do belive our justice system is better than most in the world. Like I said earlier, no justice system can be perfect.\n\nWe took much of our justice system from the "common law" of England. From there we "improved" upon it, untill we are where we are today. Hope this helps in some small way.
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No, I think that the majority of the population is good and obeys the law.  The minority needs to be punished.  If prosecution didn't exist, it would be the majority that the country would be alienating.
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Many criminals are capable of reform, just not under our current system which does not emphasize it.  Our current system is a punishment system, and we care not enough about rehabilitating them.  In our current system, the crooks go in with a mild understanding of their crime, but come out with master's degrees in being a more effective criminal.
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In the US, the one designed by and for the benefit of the attorneys who work it, has virtually NOTHING to do with justice.\n\nIt would be the same if we allowed used car sales men to develop an elaborate, contorted, "system" which you had to proceed through because it was the only way you could buy a car.  Besides taking ten years so they could justify their commission, your car would cost 100 times more than neccessary.\n\nIf I were a lawyer I would go back to bed and when I awoke from my nightmare, hopefully I would be engaged in an occupation that provided even a slight bit of dignity - sucking the d*cks of strangers in a New York City bus terminal bathroom for $0.25 donations would be a quantum leap in the right direction. \n\nLawyers are the scourge of the earth and lower than whale sh*t on the characterlogical evolutionary scale. They would represent a man who they personally caught raping their own daughter if they thought his check had at least a 50-50 chance of clearing the bank. \n\nJust ask:\n\nthe 50 self-serving pariahs that worked on OJ's behalf.\n\nthe scum who represent organized crime\n\nthe low lifes representing the tobaco industry\n\nthe seemingly 75 million bottom feeders who have accident injury "helplines"\n\nthe 100's of leeches who make up congress, 75% of which are attorneys\n\nor the truly elite of the entire pile of crap system, the ones who come up with an endless parade of specious arguments to keep murderers with arrest records longer than the Nile River alive, permitting them to live on death row for decades after their victims, who were raped, tortured, and/or butchered are long forgotten about. \n\nAs an annology - \n\nImagine walking through the most remote jungle on the planet.  You come across a village and in a corner of the village is a man in a cage.  Upon asking the chief of the village why the man was in the cage, the chief replied we think he committed a murder 20 years ago and we are still in the process of spending millions (yes millions) of dollars trying to determine if he is guilty.  You would be hard pressed not to think of them as the most ignorant, backward, incompetent, savages on the planet.\n\nReplace the cage with a prison in America and poof - you have the American criminal justice system.  Not caring about justice but about protracting cases to generate fees. \n\nWill one of you pompous, glorified, f*cking english majors, especially those who incorporate "Esquire" into your lame ass names, please enlighten the rest of us as to how that analogy is significantly different from the US "legal" system.\n\nThink about it - A trial attorney's primary responsibility is to keep his client out of court, but if he did that, he would go broke and end up stocking shelves at Walmart.\n\nDoes the US Supreme Court really have to waste their time and our tax dollars (as they are doing RIGHT NOW) deciding  on the inane concept and legal head scratcher of whether or not giving a shot as a part of administering lethal injection really constitute cruel and unusual punishment - GIVE ME A F*CKING BREAK. \n\nHow about if we dare to use just a little LOGIC and say, if the inmate EVER agreed to and received an injection for medical or dental care - the point is mute.  It was fine with him then, it must be fine now.  Pull back the f*cking plunger on the syringe and get it over with.\n\nThe entire system is an insult to the intelligence of the American people and a crimminal offence against victims and their families.
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innocent to be locked up.  if someone has a propensity for criminal behavior, there is a chance they will meet justice eventually.
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In our society we believe that all should have basic rights. Criminals have more access to these not because they have more rights, but because they no longer have access to the outside world. They cannot go out and earn money for things like doctors and dentists. As for visitation, they can lose those rights. To be punished there must first be something to punish with. Since criminals have already lost so much, the system manufactures new ways to punish these people. So they allow visitation and other things in order to reward or punish the criminal. It is simple conditioning. What else would they have to behave for if these things weren't available.\nI agree sometimes though that it seems that they "have it made." Most of us cannot go see a dentist when we need one. Why don't we just let them suffer? Unfortunatly this country believes in human treatment of its prisoners. Need a tooth filled? steal a car!\ndoesn't seem quite fair that they get stuff when there are innocent people starving and dying on the streets.