Models Of Criminal Justice Essay

Applications of the Models of Justice There are four main theories of justice retributive, utilitarian, restorative, and parallel justice. All four theories have different ways of interpreting both procedural and distributive justice. Procedure justice according to Newmark, L. (2017) is the “the process used to determine society’s response to a crime; the steps taken to arrive at an outcome; how society decides what it should do about a crime”. Distributive justice on the other hand has to do with the consequences that one receives from the justice system. The definition of distributive justice is society’s response to the crime; the consequences that society provides for the crime; what society does about a crime; the outcomes resulting from

Therefore the next step for Garcia in the retributive justice theory would be to have a fair process of justice. First Garcia should be held by law enforcement officials and asked about the crime. If he asked for a lawyer questioning would stop so that the process is fair. Once facts on the murder are found a trial or determination of the evidence would happen. During the trial there would be specific rules that everyone going though the process would follow, even though what Garcia did was wrong and society thinks he may be guilty. Garcia would appear in front of a both governmental and citizen based system that is the same system used for anyone else that violates the social contract. The citizens that would be involved in the justices process would have to be proven to have no connection to the crime, offender, or victim in the crime, that way the process remains unbiased. Garcia would have the right to have someone represent him. The process would go through evidence to determine if there is enough to hold Garcia accountable for the murder. Through this process Garcia’s guilt or innocence would be proven. If any part of the trial or process was unfair or not done in the correct form a second look at the case could be done until the trial and process is deemed