What is Procedural Justice?: Criteria used by Citizens to Assess the Fairness of Legal Procedures

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Procedural justice is the concept of fairness in the process of resolving conflicts and allocating resources. One aspect of procedural justice includes discussion of judicial proceedings and court proceedings. This meaning of procedural justice is related to proper procedure (United States of America), basic justice (Canada), procedural justice (Australia), natural justice (other common law jurisdiction), but the concept of procedural justice It also applies to non-legal backgrounds. We use programs to solve conflicts and distribute profits and burdens. Other aspects of procedural justice can also be found in social psychology and sociology issues as well as organizational psychology.

Procedural justice (or procedural justice) is defined as the fairness of processes used by people who achieved specific results or decisions in a powerful position. In the current survey, when citizens make a comprehensive judgment on the validity of authoritative individuals (also known as powerful persons), they are more concerned about procedural fairness (way of handling) I am interested in. . This bibliographic item covers litigation judicial literature related to the criminal justice system. The references began with initial work on experiments with adversaries and interrogation by John Thibaut and Laurens Walker. This explores the relationship between procedural fairness and fairness of decision-making (see Thibaut and Walker 1975, General Materials). Through this scholarship, procedural justice theory is currently considered to have two different but interrelated factors.

Therefore procedural justice problems arise when different types of decisions are made. In the context of court proceedings, procedural justice is related to securing a fair trial. The application of the law should ensure fairness, consistency, transparency. Judges and jurors must make fair and impartial rulings in order to give retaliatory justice and fair penalties for criminals. For example, the US drug judgment law is procedure unfair. In particular, the Federal judgment system is making stricter judgment on cocaine than powder cocaine, which is a popular substance for white and wealthy users. Extensive inequality results in federal prison 's national imbalance, while African Americans are overcrowded by criminals.