Philosophical and Practical Approach for Balancing Issues

PHILOSOPHICAL AND PRACTICAL APPROACH FOR BALANCING ISSUES
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Individual rights and public protection.
This is a major theme in criminology. This is manly dealing with the offender rights and community safety and also public protection. Much of what is written in the public protection arena discusses these important issues. In most cases, it is difficult to comprehend for those who feel we should live in a democratic, free society. First, the human rights act have attempted to provide a more human side to the human justice system. Enshrined within the legislation is the protection of individual freedoms. Any individual who have committed a crime is still afforded rights and these are seen depending on your own perspective as either a good or a bad element of the criminal justice system process. The other issue is one of right to safety. In most of the debates on public protection is the argument that it is important to restrict the individual rights of the offender in order to provide adequate protection to the public (Maguire & Okada, 2011).
It is obvious that some individuals or groups of individuals that wish to see harm done on other member of the community. Most individuals accept that there has been some tradeoff between individual rights and public safety. Most of the countries in the world are controlled by democratically elected governments (Maguire & Okada, 2011). This is because we have put all our faith in our public protections systems. In recent years however an individual’s freedom can be restricted simply because their behavior fits into a particular classification system that deems them dangerous. What is of greater is that evidence to support to thee labeling of groups is inherently flawed lacks systematic application across jurisdictional boundaries has not been systematically analyzed and is in most cases accepted uncritically. In most instances in the UK, the opinion of caution is assumed given little concern and more concern on punitive stance towards individual freedom, restrictive sentencing and offender management practices. All these are justified by the public protection (Maguire & Okada, 2011).
Public protection is also risk and dangerous. This is because the issue of risk and dangerousness of offenders hence one of the most important issues discussed in public protection. In 1992 Beck introduced the neo-Marxist perspective examining the macro level risks that the modern capitalist and scientific communities have created through the rapid technological changes. Therefore the society is open to all type of risks. The discourse of risk and the risk avoidance strategies that have been developed in an attempt to avoid the dangers that have been efficiently brought has also become embedded within the criminal justice system (Harrison & Beck, 2003).
Hence, the issue about the level of risk of harm an individual could cause is a question that has become very generic and opaque (Maguire & Okada, 2011). Hence we as the public are exposed to risk and dangerousness of offenders. A good example that explains individual rights and public protection is child abuse. Individual who have children tend not to worry so much about the risk of child abuse...