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.
In our city, we chose Green, Brown, and Yellow as our theme colours. Green is shown mostly in trees and bushes, Yellow in flowers and fire, and brown in our buildings. The colours green and yellow symbolize Nature, growth, harmony, and happiness. Brown represents reliability, stability, honesty, and comfort. These three colours bring forth everything we value in an idealistic city.
This is our collaborative city based on our values. We chose 5 values which were safety, community, education, environment, and health. We chose safety as one of our values because, in order to have a well-functioning and happy community, you need to have safety and trust within the people. No one wants to live in an unsafe city where you constantly worry about being in danger. To show safety in our city we built a police station and a bank. We built it in a bank because we thought trust was closely related to safety. In every relationship between clients, employees, and friends they need to have trust between them in order to work together and to help each other. Community was also an important value that we thought should be in our city because a sense of community is necessary in any city or neighborhood. Communities play an important role in every aspect of our lives. We have communities in our friends, our families, our jobs, our neighborhoods, and in so many other places. We find community in the sports teams we support or participate in, or hobbies we enjoy, even the food that we like. Having a sense of community unites us. To show the community in our city we built a recreation center and a park where people can enjoy their hobbies together and spend time together. Education was our third value. We built a school to show education in our city. We chose this because education is important all around the world. Going to school not only builds character but also prepares children for the adult world. Everyone needs a fair chance at life, and in this modern society, having a good education is the first step to a more fulfilling life. For the fourth one, we chose the environment. We chose this because to have a healthy life, the environment is very important to us. It not only provides us resources for new medicines, but it also provides us home as well. For our society to thrive we need to protect the environment because there’s so much we depend on them for things such as food, water, fuels, medicines, and so many other things. To show our value we made a park, trees, garbage cans and recycling bins in the street. Lastly, we chose health as our fifth value. Health is like the center of our life. To enjoy going out with friends and family, you need to maintain a healthy body. To show health in our city we built in a hospital.
Communication Reflection
For this project we had to make an ideal city with our values in it. We used Minecraft to build the city. OneNote was the app we used to share our work together and Instagram to communicate. We had 3 members in our group and each member had their own part to contribute to the design. One of our members was able to build the city and the other member and I did the writing part. My partner got most of the information, so I just made it into a paragraph. I think we really worked well as a group, and we also used our time efficiently, so we were able to finish it before the deadline. I think we didn’t face any problems while doing the project, everything went out smoothly and we all had our own parts to finish. Overall, I’m very satisfied with our project, but I think next time I can make the paragraph a bit shorter and clearer.
