Exam 3: Justice and Law

The voluntary breaking of established laws based on one's moral beliefs is called:

Procedural justice is evidenced most fully in:

In his noteworthy dissent for In re Troy Anthony Davis , Justice Scalia argued

The concept of justice is most closely related to:

What component of justice concerns itself with the steps taken to determine guilt?

_____________ punishment seeks to balance the victim's harm with the offender's pain.

Procedural justice is important because it always leads to substantive justice.

Philosophical support for rehabilitative treatment of criminals can be found in natural law.

The constitutionally mandated procedural steps designed to ensure fairness to the accused in any American criminal case are called ____________.

What may be distributed in distributive justice?

You are a senator who believes the biggest threat to democracy is the income disparity between CEOs and workers. Because Marxist theories of distribution have not traditionally gone over well on the floor of the U.S. Senate, you need to make an Aristotelian argument that focuses on utilitarianism. What will your speech say? Place it in the context of legislation that has already been passed in the United States, including Dodd-Frank, the New Deal, and Minimum Wage laws.

Rawls' idea that people will develop fair principles of distribution only if they are ignorant of their position in society is called the ____________ .

Key elements of community justice models include all of the following except which?

Procedural protections that are part of due process include all of the following except:

Imagine you work for the Innocence Project. You have determined, through the use of DNA evidence, that two men on death row are actually not guilty of the crime they are about to be executed for. The Supreme Court has refused to stay the verdict, and the Governor and President have refused a pardon. Describe two types of civil disobedience that you feel would be appropriate in this case, and why this situation would ethically merit civil disobedience.

____________ justice is concerned with the allocation of the goods and burdens of society.

Mary owns her own consulting business. Among her employees are: Sue-the receptionist and a single mother of three Joe-the web designer and marketing manager, single, has an MBA Alan-a married salesman who makes few sales and cares for an elderly parent Carla-an unmarried salesperson who makes the majority of the company's sales. Assume that Mary believes in distributive justice based on "desert." Which of the following would you expect?

Sam has been convicted of burglary, theft, possession of drug paraphernalia, and destruction of private property. This was the result of an incident where he broke into the Jones' home, causing damage to the sliding door in the process. He stole approximately $500 worth of items, and was caught trying to sell a stolen DVD player at a pawnshop. He explained that he was a heroin addict and was stealing in order to be able to buy drugs. Assume that the judge sentenced Sam to a straight jail term. She believes simply that Sam has caused harm and should be punished for it. This sentence is consistent with the idea of:

Marxist theories state that resources should be distributed according to what one deserves or has earned.

Fixating on a preconceived notion and ignoring information that points to other possibilities is known as ____________ .