Dee Goong An, more popularly known as Judge Dee, was a well known magistrate of the Tang Dynasty (618-907 AD). His popularity comes from his just perspective, which makes him a great magistrate. He addresses new cases with open ears and is determined to be fair at all times. He treats all people equally and relies only on hard proof to solve cases. With some help, he uncovers guilty criminals, using several techniques to find the truth. Going undercover and using torture to get people to confess, Judge Dee uses his persist approaches to make things right. He risks his job for the truth, and relies on his gut and experience to capture felons. Judge Dee's experience and righteous judgment to find the true criminals by proving them guilty, makes him an ideal magistrate of the time.
A magistrate is a judge who administrates the law and, in this case, uses Confucian and Legalist values, to enforce the combined principles. An effective magistrate is honest and fairly "decide[s] who is guilty and who is innocent (5)." A hard working judge, like Judge Dee, will find the criminal and continue to take cases on top
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This is to regulate the people and keep them from acting out. In both Confucian and Legalist values, punishment is used to discipline bad people for their crimes. For example, they use several forms of torture to keep the people in place. In one instance, Shao will not confess to Judge Dee and yells in protest against the witness. Judge Dee "ordered two constables to take the thin rattan and to beat Shao all over his body with full force as he was lying there in the screws (136)." Legalist values believed that the people should be punished for their wrongdoings. Torturing was a way to be punished, along with public shaming. The murders convicted are publicly executed at the end of the book, for publicity of the punishments. This may be used to shame and show people what might happen if they commit a
Judge Dee, during the Tang Dynasty, was a well-known statesman and a magistrate to a town called Chang-Ping. He was known to be a famous detective, in which he could solve all crimes. In the Celebrated Cases of Judge Dee, he is faced with three murders, which develop throughout the book. First of the three murders was the murder of the two silk merchants. Second was the sudden death of a young husband, and thirdly was the poisoning of a bride in her nuptial chamber.
The narrator uses intense diction to describe Judge Pyncheon’s character as near perfection. He reflects traits such as “purity,” “faithfulness,” “devotedness,” “zeal,” “unimpeachable integrity” and “cleanliness.” This shows that he works very hard to keep a respectable public opinion. It is as if the judge does what the public thinks he ought to do. The narrator’s complement diction gives the judge a near to perfect appearance to onlookers. This respect...
In George Orwell’s essay, “A Hanging,” and Michael Lake’s article, “Michael Lake Describes What The Executioner Actually Faces,” a hardened truth about capital punishment is exposed through influence drawn from both authors’ firsthand encounters with government- supported execution. After witnessing the execution of Walter James Bolton, Lake describes leaving with a lingering, “sense of loss and corruption that [he has] never quite shed” (Lake. Paragraph 16). Lake’s use of this line as a conclusion to his article solidifies the article’s tone regarding the mental turmoil that capital execution can have on those involved. Likewise, Orwell describes a disturbed state of mind present even in the moments leading up to the execution, where the thought, “oh, kill him quickly, get it over, stop that abominable noise!” crossed his mind (Orwell.
Facts: Chet is basically Gene's only real competition in school for valedictorian but Chet doesn't really notice it as competition because his love of learning is so sincere. Also, he is amazing as tennis and playing the trumpet, and was even asked by Finny to play at their winter get together when the band can't come.
There are certain standards that the courts use to determine competency. In order to find the accused competent, a court should find out by a preponderance of evidence that the defendant has remarkable ability to consult with his lawyer with a reasonable degree of rational indulgence. The def...
Judge Dee disguised himself as an itinerant physician and later on as a silk merchant in order to apprehend the double murdered Shao Lee-huai in “The Double Murder at Dawn” case. Judge Dee was also very diligent with the documentations and procedures for his cases. In “The Strange Corpse” case for example, he “had the necessary documents relating to the exhumation filled out” (76). Additionally, Judge Dee also made sure the information he received was as accurate as possible. For example, the grave digger that indicated which one was Bee Hsun’s grave had to impress his thumbmark on a document: “testifying that this is indeed Bee Hsun’s grave. Should there be a mistake, then you will have to bear the consequences” (69). Judge Dee drew up reports of the events that transpired during his investigations to his superiors. Moreover, if the judge believed he made a mistake, he would report it. In “The Strange Corpse” case for example, Judge Dee “described in full detail how he had committed the crime of desecrating a grave, and recommended himself for appropriate punishment” (79). Judge Dee wrote this because he genuinely believed he made a mistake. He believed he had slander an innocent woman and had desecrated Bee Hsun’s body after the autopsy failed to reveal how he
The merits of both the adversarial and inquisitorial system will be explored throughout this paper. The Australian rule of law best describes as all law should be applied equally and fairly. The five vital operations of the rule of law includes fairness, rationality, predictability, consistency, and impartially. The adversarial system adopts these operations by having a jury decide on the verdict and the judge being an impartial decision maker. In contrast, the inquisitorial system relies heavily on the judge. This can result in abusive power and bias of the judge when hearing evidence and delivering verdicts. The operations of the rule of law determine why the rule of law is best served by the adversarial system in Australia.
Norma agreed to cooperate and agreed to act as the lawsuit plaintiff. Eventually, a case was built against the state and the papers were filed suing the district attorney Henry Wade. Coffee and Weddington’s major worry was that McCorvey’s spotty past would be discovered pot...
When trying to describe Dan Locallo as a compassionate judge one could use the Tony Cameron, the Larry Bates and the Frank Caruso Jr. criminal cases. Tony Cameron has been in jail for only five months. He was arrested for armed robbery in August of 1997. Cameron has an inner conflict that he keeps fighting-whether or not he wants to plead guilty or not guilty (Courtroom 302, 26). Tony Cameron realizes that if he wants to present his case to the judge he better make it a good one. Most offenders that visit the courthouse feel like...
Legalism was practical and ruthless. Legalists did not concern themselves with ethics, morality, or propriety, but with harsh and mutual punishments. When Judge Dee was questioning Hsu Deh-tai about the secret passage and Hsu was denying it all, Judge Dee gave him cruel torture. "The judge then ordered the constables to give Hsu Deh-tai fifty lashes with the thin rattan. They tore Hsu 's robes from his back, and soon the rattan swished through the air. Long before the number fifty was reached, blood streamed from Hsu 's back, and his screams resounded through the hall." (193) Hsu would not confess and that is when Judge Dee got upset and powerfully yelled,
Through a young man’s eye we see how he views life and what is important to him and his reactions to the important life obstacles. Dexter is the main character we meet him young, he works at a golf course that he caddies for. We also meet someone important to the story as well who is young named Judy Jones. Judy is the girl of Dexter’s dreams and will be awhile down the story. Dexter has three desires that he thinks about through the whole book and they are love, happiness and, wealth. Dexter is put through these obstacles throughout the whole book and it has shaped his choices and feelings.
The Classical School of criminology was founded by "European legal authorities that thought crime was caused by supernatural forces" (DeKeseredy & Schwartz, 1996, p.155) preceding the 1700's. The catch phrase "The devil made him do it" was very popular because of the thought that people who committed crimes were sinners or people who didn't follow God. Those who didn't follow God were known as heretics and this following led to the connection of church and state where torture or execution could happen to anyone that the government thought to be evil or a part of witchcraft. Since the Middle Ages didn't have equal rights for all, women and the poor were usually the ones being prosecuted. With all of the problems of the times, the government found and made scapegoats out of these people, and blamed them of the troubles that were occurring. As DeKeseredy and Schwartz (1996, p.156) stated, "the most common way of determining guilt was through torture. It was a simple system: if you confessed, you were executed: is you did not confess, the torture continued until you died." This system of killing people was a well-respected way of running the criminal justice system. As time passed, the punishments turned away from inflicting pain on the body and turned more towards inflicting pain on the soul. This meant that imprisonment of long periods of time was going to take place of executions.
Punishing the unlawful, undesirable and deviant members of society is an aspect of criminal justice that has experienced a variety of transformations throughout history. Although the concept of retribution has remained a constant (the idea that the law breaker must somehow pay his/her debt to society), the methods used to enforce and achieve that retribution has changed a great deal. The growth and development of society along with an underlying, perpetual fear of crime are heavily linked to the use of vastly different forms of punishment that have ranged from public executions, forced labor, penal welfarism and popular punitivism over the course of only a few hundred years.
According to David Garland, punishment is a legal process where violators of the criminal law are condemned and sanctioned with specified legal categories and procedures (Garland, 1990). There are different forms and types of punishment administered for various reasons and can either be a temporary or lifelong type of punishment. Punishment can be originated as a cause from parents or teachers with misbehaving children, in the workplace or from the judicial system in which crimes are committed against the law. The main aim of punishment is to demonstrate to the public, the victim and the offender that justice is to be done, to reduce criminal activities and to deter people from wanting to commit any form of crime against the law. In other words it is a tool used to eliminate the bad in society or to deter people from committing criminal activities.
person knew that a particularly painful punishment was in-store for them, they would not commit the crime. This led to the creation of such punishments as beatings, torture, banishment, death, fines, and public humiliation.