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]

[janet_fraiser]

Janet turned in her paper on Justice and trains. It included such phrases as the "Tunnel of Justice," the "Third Rail of Iniquity" and "Jumping The Turnstile Of The Law Is Frowned Upon." Comparisons between criminals and rats were running high and it was entirely possible that buskers were generally considered to be harmless entertainment unless they were horribly off-key. It was, in fact, almost like Janet was comparing the El to Justice.

1. Front wheel - courts which decide upon the laws guide the police in enforcement of said laws and penal system in punishment of those who break thelaws.

2. The victim of a crime is like someone broken, but the police are falling down under the pale moonlight if they don't try to make sure the criminals don't go free like water in the warmth of the sun to stand in the wind. But the people standing up to injustice should be brave like soldiers and maybe get hazard pay.

There were a lot of scribbled-out sections on question two.

3. Working for Justice is the highest calling a hero can have--with or without superpowers.

4. A scalpel is a kind of knife. I think that 'scalpel' could symbolize how Injustice (which is kind of gangrenous and icky and spreads when it's left unchecked) could be excised--within the limits of the law and the justice system--to keep it from harming society. Which would make Justice system the Immune System of society.

5. Yes. Absolutely. But not necessarily in the traditional way. Sometimes the authorities of Fandom can't take action and other people have to step in to ensure that Injustice is taken care of.

6B. Aside from hiring Veronica Mars? I have no clue.

6A. I'd call Anakin or Elizabeth Weir, both of whom are trained in negotiation, and ask them for help, first of all. But if neither of them were available, I'd threaten that thing with needling omg try to be reasonable with the marmoset and explain about things like property law and how the mouse put all that effort into baking the pie to share with its friends and family for dinner that night. And if that failed, I'd get an axe. Or a slingshot. But I wouldn't try to talk the mouse into giving any pie to the marmoset, because you don't negotiate with pie terrorists. And if all else really failed, I'd find Anakin and ask him to use his telekinesis to get the pie back.

The crossed-out bits on that one were pretty heavily crossed out.