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A 4 page discussion of the perceived phenomena of over criminalization, the perception
that our police, prosecutorial, and judicial time, personnel, and resources are being diverted to an excess in attempts to regulate public morality. The author of this paper contends that if we consider history and what is occurring and has occurred not only in our own country but in
other countries, it is easy to ascertain that there is not a phenomena of over criminalization in this country and that, in fact, just the opposite may be occurring. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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4 pages (~225 words per page)
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It has been suggested by some that there is a growing phenomena of over criminalization in the U.S., that our police, prosecutorial, and judicial time, personnel,
and resources are being diverted to an excess in attempts to regulate public morality. The question has been asked as to just how far our government-sanctioned view of morality
should intrude into the private lives of its citizens. If we consider history, however, and what is occurring and has occurred not only in our own country but in
other countries it is easy to ascertain that there not a phenomena of over criminalization in this country and that, in fact, just the opposite may be occurring.
Government officials both write and enforce the laws of our society. As a consequence government, and those who comprise it, not only intones their
own set their own morals and ethics but they are put into the position of judging those of others. But it is fair to ask whether or not true
justice is inherent in this process. To address that question, it is first important to realize that justice is more than just law, justice is the product of
morals and ethics (Kropotkin, 1923). Three philosophical frameworks in particular can be used to demonstrate this correlation. These frameworks are the Platonic model from Platos Republic, John Stewart Mills
theory of utilitarianism, and Immanuel Kants categorical imperative of reason. Plato provides perhaps the most enlightening view of the concept of justice.
Indeed, his writings serve as the basis for many of the later philosophers which would follow in his footsteps (Dantzig, 1955). In The Republic he gives us the
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