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alice343:
Hi everyone! If anyone could help me in figuring out how to answer this essay question, and how to go about structuring it, I would greatly appreciate it!
To what extent does the criminal justice system balance the rights of the victims, offenders and society when dealing with young offenders?
There's just a lot going on in the question and I'm a bit confused on how to answer this exactly.
Turd Ferguson:
How would you answer a question like the two 2016 HSC World Order questions, in terms of what your paragraphs should be about?
(a) To what extent does the law encourage cooperation to achieve world order/success of global cooperation?
(b) Evaluate the effectiveness of the law in balancing state sovereignty and the 'responsibility to protect'.
Thank you, any help is appreciated.
jamonwindeyer:
--- Quote from: Turd Ferguson on February 25, 2020, 06:54:25 pm ---How would you answer a question like the two 2016 HSC World Order questions, in terms of what your paragraphs should be about?
(a) To what extent does the law encourage cooperation to achieve world order/success of global cooperation?
(b) Evaluate the effectiveness of the law in balancing state sovereignty and the 'responsibility to protect'.
Thank you, any help is appreciated.
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Hey, welcome to the forums!! For WO I tend to recommend either:
- Issue based responses, where each paragraph tackles a contemporary issue/scenario and evaluates responses (EG - North Korean missile crisis, Iranian/US conflicts we've had recently, etc.)
- Response based responses (haha), where each paragraph evaluates a legal response/mechanism (UNSC, UNGA, ICJ, etc.)
Either is good! It's a preference thing. For these specifically, for (A) it is super broad, literally pick anything you want to talk about and you can probably link it to how well (or not well) nation states cooperated to achieve world order. World order is literally just about cooperation. (B) is a bit more specific. You'd obviously be discussing UNSC and R2P quite heavily. I'd go issue/scenario based here, pick 3 significant events and evaluate the response to them, and argue whether each was an effective/ineffective balance of SS and R2P. EG, should UN Peacekeeping Forces have intervened in North Korea given their threats of attacking other nation states and their human rights atrocities? Choosing not to, you could argue that was pushing SS and not R2P - Was that a good/bad move, to you? How would you argue it? :)
jamonwindeyer:
--- Quote from: alice343 on January 22, 2020, 08:20:01 pm ---Hi everyone! If anyone could help me in figuring out how to answer this essay question, and how to go about structuring it, I would greatly appreciate it!
To what extent does the criminal justice system balance the rights of the victims, offenders and society when dealing with young offenders?
There's just a lot going on in the question and I'm a bit confused on how to answer this exactly.
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Yo! Sorry you didn't get a reply here but I thought I'd chuck in a late answer. Breaking it down:
To what extent: How much? This is asking you to make a judgement!
does the criminal justice system: Legislation, courts, police, procedures, literally anything you've learned about!
balance the rights of the victims, offenders and society: How well are each of these parties considered at different stages? Ideally we should have a balance, but in some areas you could argue some are favoured over others. EG, do increased police powers to combat terrorism under LEPRA Amendments place societal safety ahead of the rights of offenders?
when dealing with Young Offenders? Self explanatory, all needs to relate to Young Offenders!
So what do you do? Pick a few aspects of the Youth Justice System (warnings/cautions/YJC's, Children's Court, etc.) and evaluate how effectively they achieve the balance between the rights of the offenders, justice for the victims, and the safety of society. Maybe the balance is great, maybe its not, your job is to make the judgement and argue it! As for paragraphs, I'd just do one paragraph per 'aspect' that you pick :)
Salwasabz:
hello I have an assignment which is an essay and this is my finished product I just wanted some feedback
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