Justice or is It A In-JUSTICE?

Essay writing
Wednesday, June 01, 2005
Rose H.

Although we pay dearly for our legal system, we do not always get justice because we cannot define justice with one word. Since our country consists of many different levels of governments and was built by people with strong ethnic connections from all over the world, the word justice has taken on many different meanings.
For instance the upholding of what is just for one person does not mean that it will be the same for another person, especially when it comes to fair treatment if the injustice was based on a person’s capabilities, skin color or gender.
The current justice system is not flexible enough to encompass the different ways people have of saying what has happened to them during their interaction with justice issues. Victims or witnesses of this system usually do not have enough time to tell the whole impact of what has happened to them, or what they witnessed. To get conformity to truth, fact, or sound reason from a person’s response in one sentence or word is almost impossible. Getting victims’ to repeat their answers, in a verbatim style response is just as challenging. Some times if a victim or a witness has to recite an event, in a verbatim style, their story will begin to change unintentionally as time goes on.
To deliver fairness to all is a challenge, especially when you are dealing with young people, people with disabilities, or people of a different race. For instance when you are dealing with a school incident the teacher will usually ask who started the incident. A witness might come forward and start telling the truth as to how they saw things. Then, somewhere during this action the truth changes, and the witness ends the story with a reflection of the teacher’s impatience, or the perpetrator’s threatening vibes. The end results could become detrimental for all parties involved, especially if a transformation of the witness happens. These people could very easily change, from being a witness role, to a victim’s role through their desires to accommodate the time restriction imposed on them.
Finding a justice system that encompasses all races and ethnic back grounds means that our law makers must create a new justice system, by rewriting the current one and making it more flexible to encompass everyone, or they must reinforce a justice system that is currently excluding people.
The challenge of creating a legal system that would encompass the beliefs and laws of everyone who partakes directly or indirectly within the main stream justice system, has been an in surmountable obstacle for our law makers, many of whom, come from the old colonization education system that does not work in today’s changing world.