justice

Question 1

natural law theory

Answer 1

• from Aristotle
• rules of right and wrong are inherent in people and they’re not created by society or judges
• people who are the most deserving should receive the greater share of resources as it’s unfair to allocate resources to people who don’t work hard

Question 2

marxism theory

Answer 2

justice should be provided for all and distributed equally regardless of class gender race
-bourgeoisie oppress the proletariat so the laws are only for the wealthy

Question 3

disadvantage of natural law theory

Answer 3

-many people have different ideas as to what is right and wrong so this is subjective when law should be applied equally to everyone

Question 4

disadvantage of marxism

Answer 4

prosecutions for corporate crime can occur eg white collar crime and not all capitalist societies have high levels of crime eg japan

Question 5

distributive justice definition and example

Answer 5

justice should be distributed equally regardless of class age gender etc
-national minimum age act redistributed income from more wealthy to less

Question 6

procedure justice definition and example

Answer 6

making an implementing laws and decisions according to a fair process
-jury’s make decision and are allowed to be sympathetic to facts eg R v Ponting but can be seen as not just due to them being influenced by media in a high profile case

Question 7

corrective justice definition and example

Answer 7

justice focuses on the law providing a fair remedy

-one example is the appeals procedure