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The Criminal Justice System and Social Contract Theory

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What is social contract theory, and how has it affected the U.S. criminal justice system?
How are ethics absolute or relative in the world of criminal justice? What are the gray areas they may fall into?

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Social Contract Theory and ethics are discussed in the response as they relate to the criminal justice system.

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The "social contract theory" is predicated upon John Locke's theoretical construct that "governments" are created by people and governed by people wherein humans who matriculated toward "organized" societies from nomadic living determined that to live in these societies, all humans would adhere to a social contract. This contract would provide governments created by the people the right to create laws and morals for society that humans would abide by for the protection offered by the government, but these formerly nomadic people would have to give up certain rights previously held such as revenge ...

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