Justice to me is pure and simple, you violate a law there must e a consequence, cause and effect. I am in no favour of cutting a man's arm off for stealing. But the prison sentence should be for as long as the judge decide, there should not be an option of getting off early for good behaviour, just beacause he/she was good in prison does not mean he/she will behave once outside.

What do you think sending people to jail is, it is revenge cloaked as justice.
Mug a person and then they go to the police, then society has its' revenge, on a person who has broken a law.

This is a personal question for all those who believe in objectional government, those that believe in holding the police up to a higher standard.

Hypothetical: Your sisters boyfriend abuses her, what are you going to do?
(She 'loves' him too much and believes that she can change him)
A). Nothing, she must report it, he can only get perecuted if the victim files a case against.
B). Go to the police and tell them what is happening,
C). Tell your sister to leave him, he is no good, freeloading drunk
D). Tell him to bugger off, she doesn't nesd his no good, free loading drunken self.
E). Knock him into another dimension of pain and agony, while he is recovering you move your sister and family, all numbers change, you also leave a warning, any attempt to contact your sister/family will result in police intervention.

If you say that you would follow all options in that order I now create an F option.

F). Your sister is either close to death or dead, You now file a complaint against him at the police station.
G). You kill him for harming your sister.

If you followed the options you would have only gotten up to option D.

The point of that justice would be to change to mind of that person, to show him/her that she/he can change his/her life for the better, I would do this in an AA setting, all the inmates would sit around and sate why they were incarcerated, they would get counselling, if the counseller decides that they are unfit for society and a panel of judges concurs, then he/she will have to spend even more time in prison until they were deemed fit to return to society, (no they cannot be held resposible for that persons relapse into crime, no they cannot suggest that an inmate be let off eary for good behaviour)

With technicalities, if a person breaks into a place to steal and is caught case closed, though it would be interesting to hear the story of how he was in the wrong place at the wrong time. If the police need to fabricate evidence then everything is suspect and they should be put on trial and the fabrications dismissed, though they should know if their case is strong enough, if they need to fabricate stuff then their case was obviously not strong enough.

I agree with wigferth, Society comes first, a society lacking in bad people is better off.

Also why do criminals always want their day in court, if you take to the dodgy path you should be prepared to accept the consequences if you are stupid enough to get caught.