Advanced Criminal Justice, Final, Period 1, 05.02.06

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[OOC: Handwave the final with an idea of how you did if you must, but you know you want to answer the questions, come on. A big thanks to rory__gilmore who has helped me out so much with this class over the entire fake school year. Have some cookies! Anyway, work is likely to be murderous today, so probably slowplay if you want interaction. Class Info Post.]

"Welcome to your final Advanced Criminal Justice session, students!" Tick said after everyone was in the room. "People who had stuff to turn in, please do so now so you have it off of your mind."

"In just a moment, you'll have six questions of Justicey goodness. Please answer them to the best of your abilities and then you're done with my class!"

"Before you leave, though, please say a farewell to Lockheed. He'll be leaving us next week for greener pastures. He seems to claim that his work here is done, whatever that actually means."

1. On the Tricycle of Justice there are three wheels: the police, the courts, and the prisons. The front wheel supplies the powers to move and steer. The rear wheels provide balance and a place for a passenger to stand. Describe where you believe each Wheel of Justice is located on the tricycle.

2. Please write a paragraph about what Justice means to you, using at least three of the following phrases:

- drawn from the weeds
- brave like soldiers
- falling down under the pale moonlight
- like a someone broken
- stand in the wind
- free like water
- warmth of the sun
- both been shaken

Using five or more will gain extra credit.

3. What is the most important thing that you have learned about Justice this term?

Extra credit will be given to those who write their answer in the style of Dr. Seuss.

4. Former Principal Bristow was famed to use a spoon to fight for Justice. Professor Tick uses the word "spoon" as a battlecry. How would you use a utensil - or the idea of that utensil - combined with your knowledge of Justice this term?

5. Does Justice work in Fandom? Explain your answer.

6. Please write a paragraph on one of the following scenarios:

A) A marmoset steals a pie from a mouse and retreats to a tree. You are unable to reach it, no matter how you try. How will you negotiate with the tiny miscreant and/or victim? (Bear in mind that these are magical animals who can talk, of course.)

B) A criminal is decided to be innocent based upon insubstantial evidence and a possible jury bias. What can the average person do as recourse in the case of this Injustice?

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Re: Take the test [Final]

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1. On the Tricycle of Justice there are three wheels: the police, the courts, and the prisons. The front wheel supplies the powers to move and steer. The rear wheels provide balance and a place for a passenger to stand. Describe where you believe each Wheel of Justice is located on the tricycle.

I would say that the police would be the front wheel, with the prisons and the courts serving as the back two wheels. But without someone to ride the tricycle, to use it for its intended purposes, it would just rust in the Driveway of Society. In my galaxy, I would say that the Jedi ride on the Tricycle of Justice, trying to keep it off the Lawn of Political Intrigues.

But we don't actually ride tricycles. Just making that clear.

2. Please write a paragraph about what Justice means to you, using at least three of the following phrases:

- drawn from the weeds
- brave like soldiers
- falling down under the pale moonlight
- like a someone broken
- stand in the wind
- free like water
- warmth of the sun
- both been shaken

Anakin rested his face in his hands for a good thirty seconds when he read this question.

Then he wrote:

Sometimes it feels that Justice is like a someone broken, with the Jedi standing in the wind and being buffeted around by forces we can't control and having no more chance against it than some kind of fragile insect that has been drawn from the weeds.

But Jedi will continue going out in pairs to try to fix things, and even if we've both been shaken, occasionally falling down under the pale moonlight, we'll continue to be brave like soldiers.

Because Justice shouldn't just be for the beings with political power—everyone in the galaxy should be free like water and feel the warmth of the sun. Or suns. Or stay indoors if they are a species that prefers to stay indoors.

But they should be free. I can't believe I wrote this

Using five or more will gain extra credit.

3. What is the most important thing that you have learned about Justice this term?

Extra credit will be given to those who write their answer in the style of Dr. Seuss.

Anakin didn't know who Dr. Seuss was, woe.

I have learned that Justice is a more widely applicable concept than what some members of the Galactic Senate would currently prefer. I've learned about the Darwinian concept of Justice and look forward to being the Vending Machine of Justice and squashing wrongdoers back home.

Re: Take the test [Final]

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4. Former Principal Bristow was famed to use a spoon to fight for Justice. Professor Tick uses the word "spoon" as a battlecry. How would you use a utensil - or the idea of that utensil - combined with your knowledge of Justice this term?

Work with what you're given, right? I could use a fork to explain the different paths rival groups are walking, then show the bottom part to emphasize how they are all connected, whether they want to admit it or not. Or I could use the fork for a more, um, aggressive form of negotiation if the talks went badly.

5. Does Justice work in Fandom? Explain your answer.

Justice might not be held to the strict legal terms that many beings are used to—there are an awful lot of varying and even conflicting modes of Justice mixing in Fandom—but I do believe that it works. There might not be a press conference or a trial, but wrongdoers are punished and there is a definite deterrence against doing something illegal. At Fandom High, the assignment of detention seems a tad on the capricious side for my personal taste, but there are planets that inflict crueler punishments with less incentive.

6. Please write a paragraph on one of the following scenarios:

A) A marmoset steals a pie from a mouse and retreats to a tree. You are unable to reach it, no matter how you try. How will you negotiate with the tiny miscreant and/or victim? (Bear in mind that these are magical animals who can talk, of course.)

Anakin smiled. This was what he was good at, after all.

First I would try to figure out why the marmoset had felt it was necessary to steal the pie from the mouse—was he hungry? Did the mouse owe him some form of payment? Prank gone wrong? Part of a string of pie-related felonies in the area? Then I would try to make the marmoset understand that coming out of the tree was a better choice in the long run, no matter how long this negotiation might take me. Then I would sit down with both the mouse and the marmoset and work to reach a compromise agreeable to both parties that didn't result in thefts or extended periods of time living in foliage. If necessary, I would call in Obi-Wan for backup.