Critical and Reflective Thinking

Should our criminal justice system be more punitive or rehabilitative? Why?

I think our criminal justice system should be more punitive and rehabilitative. Establishing both of these in our criminal justice system will be hard, but it is important to give enough punitive actions for those who have committed a crime and giving access to the rehabilitation after to also give them a chance to return to society.  

I can analyze evidence to make judgements. 

Taking law this year, I learned how to analyze evidence to make my judgements. There were a lot of assignments that required me to find all the evidence from the crime and give out a sentence that I thought was reasonable. Sometimes it was confusing because one piece of evidence could be used by both the prosecution and the defence side. Making judgements for crimes was one of the parts that I struggled most on, but by taking this course my skills for giving reasoning to my judgement have developed. I think this skill will help me in the future whenever I need to make an accurate judgement based on my reasoning.