Criminal Justice Ethics

Law and justice have an ancient connection. A failure of law is reasonably understood as a miscarriage of justice. Laws that violate requirements of justice, as, for example, the legally sanctioned though arguably unjust segregation laws of the southern United States, ought to be revised or removed from the statutes. This connection between law and justice is often extended to include the practice as well as the making of law. According to some criminal justice scholars, one of the principal means for justice to be obtained within a given society is to ensure not only that its laws are ...