Assignment: Concepts of Criminal Justice
Background: Views on justice impact many areas of criminal justice, including the concepts of fairness, equality, and impartiality, and influence the ethical standards you apply in various situations in the field. Your views on justice and how you act in situations will affect the opinions others have of you in the communities you serve. Views on justice also impact actions taken and decisions made that affect the wider population.
Write a 1,150 to 1,400 words paper describing the origins of the concept of justice and how you believe they are defined today.
Include the following:
1. Explain Aristotle's ethical ideas of distributive and procedural justice.
2. Compare substantive justice and procedural justice, including how procedural justice impacts wrongful convictions and moral perceptions of racial discrimination, such as the Central Park Five and the story of Brian Banks, a former football star.
3. Explain how you understand justice as defined by today's modern criminal justice agencies. Include reasoning and examples in your explanation to support your opinion.
Format your assignment according to the give formatting requirements:
1. The answer must be double spaced, typed, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides.
2. The response also includes a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the course title, the student's name, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
3. Also include a reference page. The references and Citations should follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.