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Injustice American concentration camps 110,000 Japanese-Americans incarcerated during WWII. [Am. Hist.: Van Doren, 487] murdered after being falsely accused. [Br. Lit.: Titus Andronicus] (1825–1904) his brand of justice was the only “law west of the Pecos.” [Am. Hist.: WB, 2, 137] wrongly accused of attempted murder. [Am. Lit.: Ben Hur, Hart, 72] a fortune is dissipated by the long legal battle of Jarndyce vs. Jarndyce, and the heir dies in misery. [Br. Lit.: Dickens Bleak House] (1754–1817) naval officer accused of practising unfair and illegal cruelties. [Br. Hist.: EB, II: 82; Am. Lit.: Mutiny on the Bounty] Jew falsely accused of ritual murder in Russia. [Am. Lit.: The Fixer] courtmartialed and unjustly hanged as mutineer and murderer. [Am. Lit.: Billy Budd] defendants brought before the Vehmgerichte. [Ger. Hist.: Brewer Note-Book, 166] decision majority ruling by Supreme Court that a slave is property and not a U.S. citizen (1857). [Am. Hist.: Payton, 203] (1859–1935) imprisoned on Devil’s Island on falsified espionage charges. [Fr. Hist.: Wallechinsky, 60] wife; taken to underworld before her time. [Gk. Myth.: Magill I, 700–701] law clerk commits forgery for an unselfish purpose, is imprisoned, barred from work, eventually commits suicide. [Br. Lit.: Galsworthy Justice; Magill I, 466] name given to a rapacious breed in Rabelais’s violent satire on the venality of the courts. [Fr. Lit.: Rabelais Gargantua and Pantagruel] falsely accused by stepmother of rape after he rejected her advances. [Rom. Lit.: Aeneid; Metamorphoses] symbol of injustice. [Flower Symbolism: Flora Symbolica, 174; Kunz, 330] Scottish version of lynch law. [Scot. Hist.: Brewer Note-Book, 468]
among other rulings, prevented interstate travel by Negroes. [Am. Hist.: Van Doren, 485] though innocent of any crime, he is arrested, condemned, and executed. [Ger. Lit.: Kafka The Trial in Benét, 1023] moblike tribunal, usually disregarding principles of justice. [Pop. Culture: Misc.] “hang first; try later.” [Br. Hist.: Espy, 160] (1736–1796) personification of mob law, summary execution. [Am. Hist.: Leach, 561] falsely accused of Bassianus’ murder. [Br. Lit.: Titus Andronicus] Indian tribe driven off homeland. [Am. Hist.: Hart, 515] in revenge for having supposedly rustled cattle and killed a man, three suspects are lynched. [Am. Lit.: The Ox-Bow Incident] “first the sentence, and then the evidence!” [Br. Lit.: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland] punished for crimes he never committed. [Br. Lit.: Darkness at Noon] accused and executed for murder (1927); their guilt has been largely disputed. [Am. Hist.: Allen, 59–61] unfair revenue law imposed upon American colonies by Britain (1765). [Am. Hist.: Jameson, 475] imprisoned nineteen years for stealing loaf of bread. [Fr. Lit.: Les Misérables] medieval Westphalian tribunals; judges abused juridical powers. [Ger. Hist.: Brewer Dictionary, 1124] How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Bourque (1996) found that there is existence of a threshold effect where corporal punishment appears to have no measurably negative influence on children's psychological adjustment until it reaches a specific magnitude of harshness or perceived unjustness. Women were increasingly demanding to be heard and asserting the unjustness of the existing inequality between the sexes. The sex offender directory could fail and promote unjustness, just as the judicial system could and does. |
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