Chpt 3 List Flashcards
1
Q
The good that one might possess include
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- Economic goods (income or property)
- Opportunities for development (education or citizenship)
- Recognition (honor or status)
2
Q
Rawls believes that any inequalities of society should be to the benefit of those who were least advantaged
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- Each person is to have an equal right to the most extensive total system of basic liberties compatible with a similar system of liberty for all
- Social and economical inequalities are to be arranged so that they are both reasonably expected to be to everyone’s advantage and attached to positions and offices open to all
3
Q
The point of mercy as follows
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- It is an autonomous moral virtue (separate from justice)
- It is a virtue the tempers or “seasons” justice- something that one adds to justice
- It is never allowed to anyone as a right or a matter of desert or justice
- As a moral virtue it drives its value at least in part because it flows from love or compassion while not losing sight of the importance of justice
- It requires a generally retributive outlook on punishment and responsibility
4
Q
Procedural protections may include
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- Notice of charges
- neutral hearing body
- Right of across examination
- Right to present evidence
- Representation by counsel
- Statement of findings
- Appeal
5
Q
Reasons for false convictions
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- Mistaken eyewitness testimony
- pre-jury by informants
- Police and prosecutorial misconduct
- False confessions
- Junk science
- Ineffective assistance of counsel
- Racial bias
- Confirmatory bias
6
Q
The proposition of the movement are as follows
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- Justice requires restoring victims offenders and communities who have been injured by crime
- Victims offenders and communities should have the opportunity to be fully active part of the justice process
- Government should restore order but the community should establish peace
7
Q
Boss has described unjust laws as having the following characteristics
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- They are degrading to humans
- They are discriminatory against certain groups
- They are in acted by and unrepresentative authorities
- they are unjustly applied
