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Yes, the criminal justice system is not designed to make justice it is designed to be fair, although it isn't always. It's run by humans you know. The criminal justice system has three elements, legislators to make the laws; police and prosecutors to collect evidence and present at court; and the court process set up to make a decision. These are tools, justice in this system is up to the willingness and abilities of these people (humans).
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∙ 14y ago
Wiki User
∙ 13y agoWhat law? Laws written in books? Laws written in people's hearts?
You need to define both terms, "law" and "justice."
There are many examples of unjust laws; that is, laws that most people would consider unfair. For example, the Old Testament law that someone who plants two different crops in the same field should be killed by stoning. To our modern sensibilities this law is grossly unfair, but in Old Testament times it was just what people did. The Taliban have similarly unjust laws, like the one against laughing in public or flying a kite. To you and me, that's crazy talk. To the Taliban, it's What Allah Wants. End of discussion.
On the other hand, say someone rapes and kills a child. A jury of the rapist's-killer's peers lets him go because they like him and the child has the wrong parents. The rapist/killer is found dead in the creek the next day with his hands bound and two in the back of the skull.
Some might consider that to be "justice." But there's a problem with that.
If we, as a society, condone vigilante justice, we're saying that there is no law, and justice is whatever a mob thinks feels good at the moment. It would be like an official statement that there is no law, and you guys can do whatever you think is right. Try not to go too far, OK?
One cornerstone principle of modern Western law is that the system must play out. The wheels of justice grind slow, but they also grind exceedingly fine. The system must preserve itself, in all its bureaucratic ignominy and inefficiency. If we decide to grease the wheels to get faster, more satisfying results, what comes out of the mill is not flour but bone meal.
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