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Criminal Justice Final Exam
[OOC: Sorry for the delay. Today has been wacky. Standard procedure, though. Get it done by the weekend if possible, Tuesday at the latest. Class Info Link.]
*The Tick is at his desk. In front of him are the exams. Lockheed is on his normal shelf and is waving what appears to be the answer key. More than likely, he's just being a bit of a jerk.*
"Well, class, it's been an interesting semester. My goal was to make this class a Treasure Map of Knowledge. I've tried to give you a Path to Learning Something, but hopefully I also managed to encourage you to use your own Metal Detectors of Pondering so you could find your own path to your own treasure."
"I hope that you will all walk away from here today rich with Gold Doubloons of Understanding. And I also hope that all of you will join me next semester in Advanced Criminal Justice, where we'll be dealing with more advanced maps, more advanced treasure, and more advanced metaphors."
"I will be here during class time next week if you would like to stop by and talk, or even just study for your other exams in a different place than usual. Your semester grades should be posted in this room some time next week as well."
Tick passed out the tests and sat back down as he said, "Good luck on your exams!"
1) Summarize what you learned about forgiveness and its place in the judicial/penal system.
2) Explain how a being who survives repeated murder attempts could be considered a worse criminal than the attempted murderer.
3) While we all love Justice, like with every spoon we sometimes spill some of the soup. So is it best to sometimes let a guilty carrot escape or is it better to get spill free spoons where an innocent piece of leek gets eaten?
4) Give a detailed understanding of the idea of redemption, and what society can do to ensure that Justice is served in the cases of reformed/reforming criminals.
5) List three things you learned about Justice fromthat book that we don't know the name of or exactly what it's about or who the author is.
6) ESSAY: Create a metaphor involving Justice and ducklings. Keep it between 25-75 words.
Extra Credit -
A) Make up a sentence that has to do with Justice using only words beginning with the letters of your name. Only one word per letter in your name, and each letter can only be used once. They can be arranged in any order as long as they form a complete sentence. (For example, the words in a sentence for Rory could be arranged "Y R G M R L R I O E.") Bonus points if you only use your first name.
B) After taking this class for this long, you should know how to summarize your feelings about Justice and how you feel about those who try to evade it in a brief word or phrase. Go ahead. Give your battlecry!
*The Tick is at his desk. In front of him are the exams. Lockheed is on his normal shelf and is waving what appears to be the answer key. More than likely, he's just being a bit of a jerk.*
"Well, class, it's been an interesting semester. My goal was to make this class a Treasure Map of Knowledge. I've tried to give you a Path to Learning Something, but hopefully I also managed to encourage you to use your own Metal Detectors of Pondering so you could find your own path to your own treasure."
"I hope that you will all walk away from here today rich with Gold Doubloons of Understanding. And I also hope that all of you will join me next semester in Advanced Criminal Justice, where we'll be dealing with more advanced maps, more advanced treasure, and more advanced metaphors."
"I will be here during class time next week if you would like to stop by and talk, or even just study for your other exams in a different place than usual. Your semester grades should be posted in this room some time next week as well."
Tick passed out the tests and sat back down as he said, "Good luck on your exams!"
1) Summarize what you learned about forgiveness and its place in the judicial/penal system.
2) Explain how a being who survives repeated murder attempts could be considered a worse criminal than the attempted murderer.
3) While we all love Justice, like with every spoon we sometimes spill some of the soup. So is it best to sometimes let a guilty carrot escape or is it better to get spill free spoons where an innocent piece of leek gets eaten?
4) Give a detailed understanding of the idea of redemption, and what society can do to ensure that Justice is served in the cases of reformed/reforming criminals.
5) List three things you learned about Justice from
6) ESSAY: Create a metaphor involving Justice and ducklings. Keep it between 25-75 words.
Extra Credit -
A) Make up a sentence that has to do with Justice using only words beginning with the letters of your name. Only one word per letter in your name, and each letter can only be used once. They can be arranged in any order as long as they form a complete sentence. (For example, the words in a sentence for Rory could be arranged "Y R G M R L R I O E.") Bonus points if you only use your first name.
B) After taking this class for this long, you should know how to summarize your feelings about Justice and how you feel about those who try to evade it in a brief word or phrase. Go ahead. Give your battlecry!
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#1 -- Forgiveness has no place in the justice system. Forgiveness is an emotional response. Justice is all about logic and facts.
Jack hopes that's the sort of thing the Tick wanted.
#2 -- The only way I can imagine that the survivor could be considered a worse criminal is if the survivor sacrificed someone to his attempted murderer. I mean, defending yourself is no crime, and attempted murder is a crime, so the only way that the survivor could be a worse criminal is to commit a crime worse than his attempted murderer. So if he, like, pushes someone inbetween him and his murderer... no, wait, that would still make the attempted murderer an *actual* murderer, just of the wrong person. If the survivor killed someone and used their body as a shield, then they would have committed a worse crime than the attempted murderer.
Jack thinks that drinking heavily might be the only way to get him through this exam.
#3 -- Um... guilty carrots can always be popped back into the soup, but an innocent leek, eaten once, is eaten forever.
#4 -- Well, since you can't trust that criminals are actually *reformed*, you better put all sorts of electronic tags and detectors on them, so that the minute they even think about doing something criminal-like, you can yank them out of society.
#5 -- this answer left blank by a very confused test-taker
#6 -- Justice is like ducklings because it is small and fluffy and yellow and swims in a pond and quacks. And comes out of a shell.
EXTRA CREDIT:
A) Justice Always Catches Killers.
B) HELP ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Jack turns in his test.
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mmmmm... pieor for ruining their cross stitch pattern. So forgiveness in the penal system is a pretty rare thing indeed.2). Well I'm not so sure, unless the person escaping the muder attempts also happens to commit murders to stay way from the murder attempts. Eventually it'll all catch up to you.
3). Not being a fan of leeks, I'd have to say that spill free spoons of justice should not be used. Plus spill free spoons of justice would mean that there would be no spills and the tablecloth of society would never need cleaning by the clothes washer of purity.
4.) Redemption is a concept where a person's criminal actions have been deemed paid for by society's standards. To make sure Justice is served properly, the cops and district attorney's should be fed a specialized diet with low Carbs and a meat and vegetable side dish.
5.)One: Justice is a tricky thing. Don't try it at home.
Two: Coyotes can be pretty stupid
Three: Ducks don't usually wear pants.
6.) In the Pond of Justice, it is important to keep the PH level of truth monitored in order to protect the young ducklings of Innnocence
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2. Perhaps this being should be examining its actions more carefully. If someone has attempted to kill it multiple times, it might be following a pattern of reckless endangerment of its own life. Of course, it might also be someone sent out on insanely difficult Jedi diplomatic missions where everyone's always trying to kill
methem. But if this being has some kind of special powers that bars it from being killed and it then goads other beings into trying to kill it--well, I'm not sure what kind of law might be on the books for such an event, but it doesn't seem very Just.3. This is something that we have been discussing for millenia where I come from. We are gradually moving towards an era where the occassional innocent leek is eaten because in a time of fear and war, using a bigger spoon to catch more evil carrots means you also pick up more leeks. I do not believe this is truly just.
4. Good and evil exist. Redemption, for most things, is possible. But society must watch for those beings who take advantage of society's generous nature and pretend redemption while not making concrete reforms. Actions speak louder than words. And electronic collars might not speak, but they can certainly help a criminal on his path of redemption. At least where I come from. It beats the prison worlds, in any event.
5. a.That
the thing with the guy about that casewas important.b. That the author needed more concrete examples when dealing with
that one issue.c. That Justice is really
that concept that was the main thesis of the book.6. Ducklings of Justice float along on the smooth lake of Society, eating the Breadcrumbs of Crime and turning it into the Fertilizer of Righteousness.
EXTRA CREDIT:
1. Revenge killings are not sane
ckhoices: killing an innocent, like a youngling, never ends well.2.
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2. If they try to get revenge, or maliciously try to turn the tables upon their attacker. Also, if they could easily evade the anvil trap and instead toss it on the coyote's head, that would be mean, wrong, and probably a perversion of Justice.
3. I'd rather let a guilty carrot escape and spoon it up later. Why should the innocent leek be punished for something that's not its fault? Is there a Spill Free Spoon Of Justice? I'd think you'd chance that turning into Tableware of Totalitarianism.
Janet resists the urge to cross that answer out and write something more sensible.
4. Redemption is something personal to the criminal. The idea of redemption from outside is nice, but the real work has to be done by the criminal himself. The criminal should feel regret, guilt, or sorrow about his misdeeds and attempt to atone for them in some sort of personally meaningful way. If that happens, there's a strong possibility that the redemption can be earned and the criminal will be genuinely reformed.
What can society do? Allow the criminal the attempt to reform. Try not to cut him or her off from society. Feelings of alienation could allow more negative emotions to arise and therefore they would possibly cause the criminal to either consciously or unconsciously sabotage his attempt to reform.
5. Janet was fairly sure she
was in Las Vegas during that classhad the flu when they readthat bookand she only had vague memories of it.So she wrote out
that point about Justice and the thing in the placethat she was pretty sure she remembered correctly, then added a second item aboutold ideas of Justice compared to new onesand also, because she was completely clueless, added something fromthe author's biographyon the dustjacket and how he could really dig the Justice system because ofthat one thing in his life.6. If you show a duckling Justice and it's the first thing it sees, it imprints upon Justice immediately. Then you have a bunch of baby ducklings quacking and trailing after Justice, trying to imitate it. Justice is a good duckling parental figure.
Janet apparently can't write a metaphor to save her life today. That should have been much snappier.
A) Justice absolutely needs everything trustworthy.
B) You'd better do exactly what I tell you, or I will sedate you, and you will suffer worse than if you just came along with me now.
Janet thinks that she's fairly sure this isn't exactly the nicest battlecry. On the other hand, she's fairly sure that any of her former patients could testify to the truth of that statement. Not that they would. Not if they knew what was good for them.
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2) If the person getting harassed doesn't contact the police and report the crime, he's allowing a murderer, even if it's a bit of a clumsy one, to keep walking around and possibly endanger other people. Inaction can be a crime too.
3) Cameron frowns and wonders why this question sounds so familiar.
It's probably best to let a bad carrot escape than prosecute an innocent leek. If the Justice system works right, it will pick up on the carrot and be able to stop him from causing harm. The leek's life however would be possibly ruined and that's something that should never be allowed.
4) Redemption is when a criminal is willing to pay for his crime and will try to work to make up for the harm that has been done, even if he knows that he can't possibly undo it ever again. Society can try to provide the reforming criminal with the means to make up for his crimes and offer a fall back system for him to turn to in case that he fears he'll do wrong again. Society should also try to keep in touch with the reforming criminal and check up on him on a regular basis.
5) a) Fighting crime isn't as easy as it seems, it involves
a whole lot of things that the author spend chapters on explaining but failed to illustrate with one example.b) Justice is a fragile system that needs to be cared for by
several institutions that the author carefully explained in chapter 8.c) That
the authorprobably never experienced the true side of Justice and totally based himself ona whole lot of statistics that he added in shiny tables at the back of the book but which don't really tell you much as it never mentions spoons.6) Justice is a mother duck who leads her ducklings through the pond of life. All ducklings will be tempted to stray and swim out into the dark deep of the pond, where they are in danger of getting swallowed by the waves of crime. When the ducklings are good and follow their mother in a straight line, this is when society and Justice persevere.
Extra Credit -
A) Crimes Always Obliterate Near Eloquent Radiant Metaphors.
B) The Spoon of Justice will scoop up crime!
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say, just against propertyand not of a permanently-damaging varietyyou can always give it back!, and the criminal is repentantor faking it really well, forgiveness should always be considered an alternative to or a mediating factor in punishment.2) Well, if the survivor doesn't turn in their attacker, then they are leaving the rest of
The Fandomthe local population at risk. Even though they may keep surviving, their neighbors may not be so lucky if they are not warned and the malefactor stopped.3) It is definitely better to let the occassional guily carrot escape, because locking up an innocent is just wrong, so if there is any doubt, it should be given to the "criminal". If they really are doing evil things, the Spoon of Justice will catch them sooner or later!
4) Redemption requires recognizing the wrongness of your past actions, feeling remorse, resolving to change, and endevoring to make amends. While it may take some time for The Sharp Eye of Justice to stop pinning the evildoer to the Wall of Suspicion, eventually -- given enough sincere effort -- it should be possible for The Eye to look upon someone with a more Friendly Gaze of Acceptance, and possibly even the Shut-Eye of Trust.
5)
From that book that we don't know the name ofI learned that Justice isone thing the author would clearly have coveredandanother thing the author could hardly have left out. In addition,the authorwas very adamant abouta very, very important topic that covered three whole chapters.6) Ducklings are the Subjects of Justice. Most live peacefully in the Pond of Good Behavior. But occassionally one will develop The
Scary-AssTeeth of Evil and begin to attack the Passers-by of Morality, or even Create a duckling Army of Lawlessness that attempts to take over the Town of Peaceable Living.Extra Credit -
A) Law Violations Are Amoral.
B) STOP THAT! NOW!!!!
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2) A being who survives repeated murder attempts might be construed as displaying a willful inclination toward, perhaps, framing other people for his murder, and therefore exacting undeservedly harsh punishment on another human being. This could be considered unduly vengeful and, perhaps, cruel.
3) I imagine that at some point, the guilty carrot will end up stranded at the bottom of the bowl anyhow, will it not?
4) Redemption -- a regaining of one's respectable status in the eyes of his fellows -- should be earned, but perhaps we as a society should be more willing to award it to those who put in the effort to earn it.
5) List three things you learned about Justice from that book that we don't know the name of or exactly what it's about or who the author is.
- Justice should always be capitalized in order to be held in the proper awe and reverence.
- Justice can be exceedingly verbose, and yet at other times stunningly concise.
- Books cannot be used as an absolute reference for every aspect of Justice. Sometimes Justice is best based off of visceral reactions. Books do not have viscera. Though I have not set foot in Special Collections, so I could be mistaken.
6) ESSAY: Create a metaphor involving Justice and ducklings. Keep it between 25-75 words.
Justice, like ducklings, can be surprisingly resilient. Ducklings swimming alongside river boats near the shore, when it seems that they might be overtaken and run over by the boat, either manage to display surprising, elusive speed or handily survive a brief submersion beneath the boat's keel.
Extra Credit -
A) Even if anticipatory, crimefighting retains honor.
B) The Shiny Brass Telescope of Justice sees you!
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2) It depends on what they did to piss off the person who keeps killing them. I mean, they would have had to really do something bad, like burninate a family or something. That would make them worse.
3) I'm hungry now. I don't even like leeks. If I'm being funny, I'd say let 'em all rot in jail, but really, I think it's better for the carrot to get lost under the counter somewhere. They get squishy and gross pretty quick anyway.
4) Society is usually what made the criminals bad to begin with, so they should have some part in making it better. Redemption is when the person who did something wrong has finally made up for it, and really, it's society itself that decides whether or not they have made up for it. You can send someone off once they've been up in the prison system for a while, but then they have to deal with others who have to deal with what they did. There's an answer in there somewhere, really.
5) I learned that
random fact, such as in the case ofrandom case, and thatauthoris a pretentious idiot.6) Justice is like a duckling, all frail and furry at first, but when it has enough support to survive those fragile early days or years or whatever, it can flourish into a great big duck, that bites when it's threatened and delivers a dose of right and wrong.
Extra Credit -
A) J A Y E
Justice Always Equals Yes.
B) CHUNG CHUNG!
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2) It would all depend on the matter that brought up the repeated murder attempts.
3) I don't quite understand the question.
4) A criminal is put into jail, and expected to serve their time. If they behave and show that they won't do it again, they may get some time reduced. If they can't even do that, they should stay in longer. Once they are released, society itself can keep an eye on the person, especially as they tend to be a bit more distrustful in general.
5) The author can't write and should be kept from doing so as a form of justice.
6) Justice is like a duckling which forms an army and does things.
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*snickers*
Thought it was a good final theme..... ;-)
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If I had any free time at all I would so do this whole thing.]