Question

In what ways can criminal justice system functionaries incorporate the principles of Ubuntu in their daily work ?

Answer 1

Ways criminal justice system functionaries incorporate the principles of Ubuntu in their daily work

Explanation:

• The South African Constitution protects everyone regardless of their differences, it encapsulates humanity's connectedness and the necessity to live based on particular values and also principles. When any law clashes with the Constitution,  it is considered void.
• Ubuntu concerns listening to and acknowledging others in relationships with the assistance of processes which establish trust, dignity, harmony, and fairness,. It denotes in its fundamental sense humanity and morality. As a criminal justice system functionary we must incorporate Ubuntu principles by treating each one with dignity or equally irrespective of their race, gender, and status.
• Ubuntu should not, however, blind us as a functionary to an extension that we'd go against our code of conduct and ethics. In criminal justice we are concerned with people who have committed crimes regardless if it is deliberately or accidentally, for example certain offenders are normal people who had become desperate or have made a single mistake or a wrong judgment without intent or causing permanent damage to another person.
• As functionaries we assume redemption and rehabilitation must be focused on perpetrators. In addition, it reinforces a co-operating value base, the desire for communication and reconciliation in the interests of common understanding, compassion and mutual respect towards each other