KWL Analysis on Justice

Each lens of the liberal arts has got its own unique and distinctive characteristics. These mentioned characteristics are discussed further;

Social Sciences

Firstly, social sciences exist as the study of society and the relationship ties between people. Finally, social scientists tend to utilize both secondary and primary sources of information when arriving at conclusions within this giving lens. Additionally, social sciences cover various academic disciplines such: as anthropology, psychology, sociology, and many more. Lastly, social sciences have a scientific aspect that entails the adoption and adaptation of models about natural sciences.

Natural sciences

Natural sciences at defined as the study of the physical world, which includes: biology, physics, and chemistry: supplemented by other STEM-related academic disciplines such as mathematics and technology. Natural scientists tend to come up with questions and hypotheses with the utilization of processes of description observation and prediction of the natural world. This lens is heavily reliant upon scientific methods derived from the science field and used in other lenses.

History

Some of the characteristics of these liberal arts lenses include studying past events. Additionally, the historians heavily rely on primary sources that are obtained in the form of first-hand experiences such as artifacts derived from a particular era in time, letters from civilization that existed in the past, documentations from specific periods, pictures of photographs as well as first-hand accounts of some of the distinguished personalities that existed during the historical era.

Humanities

Some of the traits of humanities as a lens of liberal arts include a study of various cultures globally, which provides an opportunity to compare and contrast between the cultures. Humanities tend to cause a broadening of perspective as well as the promotion of understanding of various experiences values via different mediums of creative ways of human expression such as dance, photography, literature, philosophy, play text that dives into the exploration of understanding human experience as well as representation of this same. Additionally, humanities professionals rely on primary sources and question cultural norms in values in their essence. There might be an overlap between humanities and history because there is the evaluation of what artists try to convey about their particular culture or their period of existence.

Each lens relies on different types of evidence used by professionals to gather information. Social sciences rely on primary and secondary sources. Examples of primary sources include interviews, court documents, memoirs, laws, legislations, quantitative data, and Diaries. Other sources of information include scholarly articles and books that help interpret data from original experiments and derivation from other researchers’ studies. Natural science relies on the following types of evidence: data drawn from original experiments and allusion to scholarly articles that exist as report findings from various experiments carried out. For history, the types of pieces of evidence include primary sources such as letters, government documents, photographs, and maps. Lastly, the humanities perspective realizes the following types of evidence: the lines of passages of poems and texts, image details, film details or art details, different passages derived from musical compositions, and critique of essays that aim to analyze original works.

Some of the similarities between the lenses include that all of them rely on primary sources of information. There are instances of overlap between them lenses since there lays an element of inseparability amongst them all. On the other hand, some of the differences include that as much as all lenses rely on primary sources of information, some tend to incline towards either primary sources or secondary sources more than the other. For instance, history heavily relies on primary sources, whereas social sciences occasionally heavily rely on secondary sources of information.

The chosen topic on justice is of much interest to me, given that I had a neighbor who was incarcerated due to aggravated assault. Interestingly, Jason was a Mexican aboriginal, and in my case, I feel that the case was not handled legally. Jason attacked a stranger who had trespassed on his grounds, only for him to inflict life-damaging injuries on the trespasser. I had always known that discrimination in the justice delivery system was indeed a tarnishing element; however, Jason’s experience has set me apart towards the scrutiny of justice about Aboriginal people.

Some of the aspects that I would wish to gain further comprehension of being shaped by the following questions below;

•  What does history clarify about original landowners and the conduct of given aboriginal tribes given similar circumstances of trespass threats?
•  What does history depict give an analysis of historically recorded data on justice about Aboriginal people?
•  How do the statistics compare between the imprisonment of aboriginal people and other population segments?
•  What are some of the statutory spellings concerning Aboriginal people?
•  How do the cultures of the Americans compare to the Mexicans in a name to assess Jason’s criminal conduct?
•  What’s the mandate of courts when trying and sentencing Aboriginal people?

Unfortunately, most questions posed above were not fully answered with the resources entailed within the library guide. However, it was beyond doubt that humanities dictate that law takes a different approach when dealing with aboriginal or indigenous people (Halsted, 2015). To answer the unattended questions intend to research deeply on various case documentations in the legal arena and carry out interviews and issue questionnaires to professional athletes within the legal field.

Two of the four lenses I will use to evaluate my justice topic include humanities and history. From a humanities perspective, I learned that justice was perceived from the basis of legal aspects inclusive of sociological elements. There was an inclination towards the freedoms and rights of particular population segments (Boyce, 2016).

However, there is an evaluation of axiological data and sources exclusive of wall inscribing from a historical basis. The study of prisoners remains in particular jails selected as case studies best defined as the most suitable sources of information.

Similarly, both lenses look up the quality of life experienced by Aboriginal people under the justice delivery system. However, contrary to humanities, history tends to be free from any form of bias by strictly observing data without any form of intent to apply, which may cause filtering out of certain bits of data.

To further explore this topic, I will wish to continue with the lenses and additionally attempt to gain more information on the questions named above and some that may crop up along the way.

References

Halsted, J. B. (2015). Criminal justice education and the humanities: A new era?. Educational & Psychological Research.

Boyce, J. (2016). Victimization of Aboriginal people in Canada, 2014.