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INTRODUCTION TO CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM By DR. RUBEN A. STA. TERESA
Justice  – is a social norm providing guidance for people in their dealings with one another; as a standard against which actions are evaluated; and as a prescription for requirement that people act justly.
Schools of Thoughts about Justice:  Positive Law Theory • Justice is a creature of law made by men. • No justice exists apart from what law creates or mandates, there is no independent or abstract standard against which the actions of people or man made law itself can be judged.  Social Good Theory • Justice is more than what one finds in positive law, that there are standards or concepts of what is in the best interests of society, and that man made laws can be judged against these standards or concepts and found lacking.
 Natural Right Theory • Justice can be summarized by this rule “render to each his right or due”. • Those who hold that individuals have natural rights that precede and are superior to the interests of society or the state, and those who hold that human beings mean nothing apart from their social and political role in organized society.