November 29, 2018 Thursday
Bedtime Story
From American to Japanese Criminal Justice System
Tonight we shall continue with the Nehru’s
argument in the Constituent Assembly.
“Wherever we turn, we are confronted with
this problem.
If we cannot solve the problem soon, all
our paper constitutions will become useless and purposeless.
Keeping this aspect in view, who could
suggest to us to postpone and wait?”
This passage tells us very vividly the
perilous and deprived conditions the nation was born deeply divided from within
and starvation staring at everyone’s face.
We shall leave India for now with the
knowledge that much of its constitution was borrowed from other nations but
tweaked for Indian conditions.
The word federal with respect to the United
States simply means national and the power to legislate laws rests on the
Congress and the power to execute orders or laws rests upon the President.
The judicial powers of the United States
government rests upon the federal courts with the condition that the President would
appoint the judges of all the federal courts.
Approval of the Senate for the appointment
of the federal justices is also needed by the President.
While the criminal justice of the United
States is interesting when it comes to conviction perhaps the most unique
criminal justice system belongs to that of Japan.
Japanese criminal justice system proudly
boasts of a spectacular conviction rate that exceeds 99%.
Scholars in the United States have been
fascinated with it and have sought to answer the question “Why is the Japanese
conviction rate so high?”
Japanese society is a liberal democracy
that is highly developed whose people are the most highly educated in the
world.
The Article 1 of the Fundamental Law of
Education in Japan states that:
“The law shall aim for the full development
of personality and strive to nurture the citizens, sound in mind and body, who
are imbued with the qualities necessary for those who form a peaceful and
democratic state and society.”
While every country of this world has set
out great ideals in print only very few are able to realize them either in
practice or spirit in spite of strong desire to do so.
As to why only few rare countries to manage
to do so while almost every other fail is like asking why was Bernhard Riemann
able to conjure up a whole new geometry while others didn’t.
It is, you might argue, silly to compare
destinies of nations with individuals but it might not be so whimsical
considering the fact that all human brains consists of 100 billion neurons
(besides the supporting glial cells).
They work and interact with each other
through 1000 trillion synaptic connections much alike we apes interact with
each other each time we conduct a professional business or transact socially.
Stay tuned to the voice of an
average story storytelling chimpanzee or login at http://panarrans.blogspot.com
Good night Mon Ami and my fellow cousin ape.
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Another great educator and a teacher that I am aware of is Professor
Subhashish Chattopadhyay in Bangalore, India.
While I narrate stories, Professor Subhashish an electronic
engineer and a former professor at BARC, does and teaches real mathematics and
physics.
He started the participation of Indian students at the
International Physics Olympiad.
Do visit him here:
All his books can be downloaded for free through this link:
For edutainment and English education of your children, I
recommend this large collection of Halloween Songs for Kids:
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