...assumes that the pieces that make up the criminal justice system work properly together to deliver justice. The Conflict Model says that the system does not work together but rather each agency works to serve its own purpose selfishly (Schmalleger, ch.1 pg.16 (2011). The Criminal justice system is a group of federal, state, and local agencies that deal with crime. These groups handle suspects, defendants, and people who have already been convicted of a crime. These agencies work together as the decisions of one agency affect others. The system consists of different branches of government, police, courts, and corrections. The primary function of these components is to enforce the law, maintain public order, and protect people from injustice. These components work together to see that justice is served (Schmalleger, ch.1 pg.16 (2011). Police work to uphold the law by questioning witnesses and suspects and apprehending perpetrators. They also work to keep the peace, protect the rights of citizens, and keep them safe. When a suspect is apprehended the police deliver the suspect to a city or county jail where they are detained until they either post bail or see a judge of the court, depending on the severity of the crime. The court will decide what action will be taken in each case. Sometimes this procedure includes a trial where a jury of one’s peers decides whether the suspect (defendant) must be incarcerated, put on probation or found innocent. When a defendant is incarcerated...
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...all human beings, whatever ours nationality, ethnic origin, religion, sex, place of residence, and any other status. Humans are all equally entitled to the human rights without discrimination. These rights are interrelated, indivisible and interdependent. All humans have the rights of freedom to live in the society without abandon and restriction to all resources necessary for a human life. It would be a violation of any human rights when a legal entitled right is deliberately or intentionally taken from a human. Humans should be treated equally to get benefit and have access to their own legal rights which are entitled for. Human rights violence are occurring all over the world; killing, wild torturing, illegal jailing, depriving from education and taking the right of freedom to select a life partner by his/her are few common human rights violations examples. To have a better picture of these human rights violations one must looks on the history that how people are affected and how they could be prevented of such human rights violation, if government and other human rights agencies have taken steps against these violation on the time manner. Only in year 2007, statistic shows that 6,500 people were died due to the arm conflicts in Afghanistan, most of them were civilians not involved in fighting, hundred of them were died in suicide attacks by insurgents. Barbaric killings of more than1260 individuals by police in Brazil and a large number of human losses in Uganda reveal...
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...Bill of rights is gradually evanescing its purpose of freedom, protection, rights, etc. It has given us a lots of rights but the movement and people have misused it. Also, Amendment II should apply to only people in uniforms or if it necessary. Next, Amendment VII claims to be given the rights to the people in jail, but it has failed in certain area. We over look our rights. We have freedom to speech but what happens when the government takes over? We are not going to be left with nothing. Second, I believe that first Amendment. It has been the greatest gift for all the citizen and non citizen in USA. It promises people of freedom of speech, freedom of right, right of people, prohibiting the free exercise. In addition, Amendment IX states to protect people’s rights and any rights that have not been listed. Without the first Amendment we would not be able to have a mixed community as we do now. Next, there would be no Voice to be heard. The government would...
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...For the most part the majority of people believe this to be true. For most people punishment will inhibit them from committing crimes such as, stealing while their morals will steer them away from committing crimes such as, murder. What happens when a person does not fear the punishment or has no morals? That’s where there are gaps in our justice system. There is no way to completely stop crime, as long as people still have free will. For the most part, punishment does lead us a way from a life of crime. For those who have no fear or moral value, they will and should be punished accordingly for their crime. Capital punishment has been a controversial issue since the beginning of our nation’s history. Executions began in a much more inhumane way then what we see today. We began with hangings and as of 1888 New York began to build the first electric chair. The death sentence was evolving into a more humane a civil way to carry out a sentence. Further down the line we developed other ways such as cyanide gas, and what is legal in most states today, the lethal injection. Does the person who just raped and mutilated a fourteen year old girl deserve a human death? She didn’t die with humility or dignity. She died in cold blood. If that was your daughter how would you feel in respects to her killer receiving a lethal injection as his final sentence? Is the Death penalty the easy way out for these criminals? Should these people be rotting in jail to suffer for the rest of their natural...
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...poverty and racial discrimination. The due process also stresses the possibility of error in the informal fact-finding process and therefore insists on formal fact-finding to protect against mistakes made by the police and prosecutors (w.Neubeauer). The due process models also grants too much leeway and could possibly result in loss of freedom and civil liberties. But most importantly the due process models was designed to make sure the people rights were portrayed ,and they had a fair trial to defend themselves in court. The crime control model was mad to ensure the criminal cases were dealt with quickly so that the criminal was charges at the earliest opportunity. The criminal justice system condemns individuals for partaking in criminal actions. I believe the crime control model was made to concentrate on the conviction. The criminal justice system didn’t really look at as if the defendant was innocence or guilty. This model was created to show society the numbers and convictions were making a difference to the reducing crime in the public. Both models are focusing on to reduce crime. They also rely on fact-finding to prevent from the innocent to be falsely accused and charged with a criminal act. Technicalities prevents abuse and let the guilty go free....
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...23 February, 09 “Should Condoms be administered in Jail?” Despite the harsh rules banning sexual activity along with any kind of activity for that matter in prisons, HIV is a growing threat to inmates and will become a larger issue once they are released back into the world. Though there are obvious differences between the two scenarios, distributing condoms in prison looks to hit the same roadblocks as condoms in High Schools. The first issue is that prevention in prison starts far before a condom enters the equation. The very concept of “safe sex” is dependent upon the partners being consensual and the most readily available allusion to Prison Sex is, of course, rape a kind of “sex” that won’t ever be safe. In reality, much of the high-risk homosexual contact in prison involves men who do not consider themselves gay outside prison, former prisoners and researchers said. About 1 percent of prisoners report being raped. From a health standpoint, it is not much different from inoculation against disease. If we are already using medical means to protect inmates from contagious illness, how are government-sponsored condoms a stretch? However, of course, there are those annoying moral issues. As if gay inmate sex was not enough to make the conservatives grumble in the first place, the idea of combining it with prophylactics. Is this the worst idea ever thought of? Violence is also against the rules in jail and we all see how effective it is as a deterrent. They...
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...combination of things that lead to an increased drinking and driving rate. Sometimes the newfound freedom is too much to handle responsibly and other times it’s as simple as peer pressure. Since teens usually have a low tolerance for alcohol and since they are also inexperienced drivers, all of these factors coming together creates a very dangerous situation. Most teen accidents are alcohol related, and many teens lose their lives in these accidents. As stated in firsteagle.com/tdd.htm> 60 percent of all teen deaths in car accidents are alcohol-related. In other words, teenagers that drink and drive have a greater chance of getting in an accident than when they are sober. So teens are putting their lives on the line while drinking and driving People today are well aware of the health problems caused by excessive alcohol consumption. Health problems can include stomach ulcers, liver problems, heart problems, and malnutrition. These...
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...to have any children. She was not having sex for the pleasure of it, she was raped and that is believed to be the cause of the pregnancy. I personally feel that a women should be allowed to choose if she wants to have an abortion or if she wants to keep the baby. I believe in pro-choice, which means that a woman should have complete control of her decision to either continue with the pregnancy or terminate the pregnancy. In the Mary Pluski Case, she was raped, became pregnant and does not want to have a baby. She is not ready to take care of a baby and she does not want to bring a baby into the world while she is not ready to make that change into her life. In some cases of rape, abortion can be seen as a method to free the woman of the pain and trauma the victim may have received. For plenty women, giving birth to a child that resulted from a rape can be just as brutal as the rape itself. I believe the ethical theory my argument reflects would be Act Utilitarianism. The person that may or may not have the abortion is making a decision for a certain reason. The decision may not be a right or wrong decision, because of the outcome or consequence of the decision. We all have freedom and it is that person's decision on what they decide to do. It is their body and their life, so they should be able to decide how they want to live it. Having an abortion may be a selfish action of the mother, but it may also be to protect...
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...PDF version Anarchy Is Brilliant Intro Our founding fathers said if the government is not working in favor of the people to change it. To improve it. “Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security”- Declaration of Independence. Look at what some of these revolutionaries of the time said: “Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.”- Thomas Paine. “I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.”- Thomas Jefferson. Misinterpretations I wanted to tackle some of the ridiculous views on anarchy. So, here we go. Many people have obscure or wrong views on anarchy. This is because of the government, the media and other such things. Example(s): According to wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn anarchy means a state of lawlessness and disorder (usually resulting from a failure of government)....
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...intentionally lying under oath to mislead the court, and assures the defendant did not commit the crime accused. Thus, without enough evidence, the real criminal is set free while an innocent man, with prior criminal conviction, goes to jail for somebody else’s felony. His sentence is sent to be punishable...
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...Justice System In the United States Abstract: This research paper explores some problems faced within the criminal system justice in the United States. Larry J. Siegel’s book “Criminology” gives us a history of the criminal justice system, how it operates, and some of the problems we experience with this system. Some of the problems detailed in this paper include the right to equal justice; which he explained the different kind of judgment that people receive based on their race, gender and class, the criminal justice system spends more money on criminals instead of improving technology for the police apprehending them, the criminal justice system lacks of sentencing disparity, reliance on eyewitness and modern technology can lead to conviction of innocent citizen, and finally the rehabilitation model which is set up to educate criminals and eventually let them free because of the belief that they are changed people and have been rehabilitated. According to the definition from the text “Criminology”, the term criminal justice system refers to “the components of government charged with enforcing law, adjudicating criminals, and correcting criminal conduct” (Siegel, 2009, p. 558). According to Siegel, the criminal justice system is essentially “an instrument of social control: society considers some behaviors so dangerous and destructive that it either strictly controls their occurrence or outlaws them outright”...
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...guaranteed the right to vote; the right to due process; the right to be free, not to be enslaved, as long as we conduct ourselves in accordance with the laws of our nation; and the right to equal treatment under the law, regardless of our race, color, sex, religion, or national origin. These are rights which attach to us as individuals, not as members of a group. This nation has a passion for fairness. That passion is evidenced in our Constitution, in the Bill of Rights, in executive orders, in court decisions. But most of all, it courses through our culture. At one time, practicing law was considered a worthy, honorable career. In an overstuffed legal system, where details count more than justice, and where wealth and fame can buy freedom. To be sure, there are some who still enter the profession with the best of motives, but they are in the minority. Law is not about idealism; it's about money and back-room deals. This movie definitely had a lot of unethical actions in it, not only from the lawyers but from the judge too. I was very shocked to see how all the characters acted in the presence of the court of law. Although, parts of this movie were funny, I was still appalled about their actions. This film is neither a parody nor a black comedy, but there are heavy shadings of each...
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...count there are about fifty eight countries that still recognizes Capital Punishment. Surprisingly most of the European and Asian Countries are the ones prohibit the use of Capital Punishment. And oddly even though most of the world physical land masses rebukes Capital Punishment, most of the world’s population still resides in countries that still strongly agree with the use of Capital Punishment. But here in The Bahamas, our situation is quite a special one. We are a free independent country, our laws say that we recognizes the use of Capital Punishment in the country, it obvious that a country cries for it, but the dilemma is that it is not being carried out. But the question raised is why? What is the hold up, and how do the Bahamian people feel about the whole situation? Chapter 1 “Capital Punishment in the Bahamas; Gone but not forgotten” Capital Punishment in The Bahamas has been a practice long before the ages, from as far back as the days of the Arawaks. We may not be as harsh as back then, but we still in force punishment ranging from Death and Life Imprisonment to just paying a fine for what it was you have been arrested for. But here in the Bahamas the Death Penalty is the Capital Punishment of chose, the most human way we see fit to remove those from society we...
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...long as history goes back, fear has been a key aspect of every civilization. Governments have brainwashed their people in order to scare them into thinking that what they are doing is the only thing to do. During the 1600’s, the Salem witch trials began, striking fear in the eyes of all the people living there. Civilians were forced behind bars if they did not attend church regularly, and the scare of witches caused many to be hanged for all to see. These acts were recounted in a book called “The Crucible” by Arthur Miller. The things that happened in Salem were not the only time fear has ruined lives, for fear is still a part of society...
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...The trial of John Peter Zenger lead to the beginning of a very large step for America during there rule under the British. Working as a printer for the New York Weekly Journal John Zenger was in charge of publicizing information for the New York colonist. In this time the colonists were under strict scrutiny having to limit what is said in the pubic eye. This idea did not allow the people of New York to get a full understanding on who and how their leaders were conducting themselves politically. Poor use of appointed government power by the King began to catch the attention of many. The leaders placed in power by the King were only there due to their connections and family ties. Once other officials in power caught on to these wrongful acts...
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