...Case Study: Out-of-Town Brown and the Besieged Probation Supervisor Zacarias Sambula Jr, Derrick Cooper, Kenisha Smith, Harshvir Sekhon CJA/454 Criminal Justice Theory and Practice April 01, 2013 David Pettinari Case Study: Out-of-Town Brown and the Besieged Probation Supervisor Intro Question#1 Question#2 The mental and physical trauma experienced by the 23-year-old man from his stepfather was enough to send him over the edge and murder his stepfather. The boy never had a chance for a decent life. Many prosecutors would have a hard time sending him to jail because of the mental state in which the 23-year-old man was at the time. It is important to consider that there is no criminal record. According to, the young man’s report there is no prior record and had been an incest victim because he was five; otherwise he is a nonviolent person, a low recidivism risk. Because of the situation intermediate sanctions will benefits the young man because he will be able to get the treatment he needs. Intermediate sanctions serve multiple purposes aside from keeping the young man out of jail for treatment. It also allows the prison system to reduce the population, make room for the more serious offenders, provide non-violent offenders with opportunity at a second chance, offers a wide range of rehabilitation programs and treatments. While in intermediate sanctions the young man’s activities will be restricted while receiving the help he needs, at the same time hold...
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...Intermediate sanctions are not to be taken lightly nor is it a get out of jail free card. But, for those who have committed a crime intermediate sanction is an alternative solution to prison. While prison populations are overcrowded, intermediate sanction is another form of punishment without adding to the prison system. In this case, a young man has suffered for far too long at the hands of his father. After years of physical and mental abuse a 23 year old man killed his father. The young man has had a criminal free record until this point and does not show any signs of recidivism (Peak, 2012). This man should not be sent to prison because he suffered at the hands of his father, an alternative solution should be appropriate form of punishment....
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...Case Study: Out-of-Town Brown and the Besieged Probation Supervisor Team B CJA 464 September 2, 2015 Harry Kirk Case Study: Out-of-Town Brown and the Besieged Probation Supervisor The case is if Casey decides to talk with the reporter about officer’s recommendation, she should relate things to researched data. One useful piece of information is that about half of prison inmates are arrested and returned to prison soon after release from an institution (Beck, 1989). In this case, though the crime may sound horrific, the offender is low-risk; and moreover, he suffered emotional as well as physical abuse, sexual abuse, and that forced him to psychological disorder. As Prisons are meant for high-risk offenders, this offender may have so intermediate sanctions that may include fines, community corrections, home confinement, electronic monitoring, intensive probation supervision, and boot camps. These sanctions have better supervision than used in prisons. We know that first time offenders committing mid-level crimes and of low risk are eligible for intermediate sanction. This saves money without posing public threat. As intermediate sanctions are applicable for only specific offenders, probation officers have to put offenders in appropriate programs suiting their needs and treatment. Social skills and employments skills can be improved by placing offenders in intermediate sanction. Standard probation, a community service program, or fines can be sentenced if the offender...
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...The Alternative Sentencing Policies and Solutions This comprehensive analysis describes the different possible alternative solutions for women, and juvenile offenders. The Bureau of Justice Grant programs developed incentives for other programs to decrease the overcrowded conditions for most state and federal prisons. These grant programs provided the information and incentives for state governments to expand, build, and adapt closed military bases as extension of the federal penal prison system. This initiative encouraged local and state courts to implement truth-in-sentencing and alternative sentencing concepts to lessen the burden of overcrowded prison systems. The grants divided in half for building prisons to increase the bed space for violent offenders, and the other half for alternative solutions to incarceration. The incentive funds used for more alternative solutions; prison islands, or barges, or closed military bases. Sentencing Drug Statistics The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) reported four to one ratio of prisoners showed under the influence of drugs, or alcohol while committing the current crime, or at the time of the violation (Langan, P, & Levin, D, 2002). The BJS showed detailed statistics report of 400; 000 people arrested for drugs, or drug-related offenses; 70% sent to state prisons, 40% drug-related offenses, 32% alcohol-related offenses, and 20% other violent crimes. The survey researched by the Department of Justice (DOJ) along with the (BJS) report...
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...The Alternative Sentencing Policies and Solutions This comprehensive analysis describes the different possible alternative solutions for women, and juvenile offenders. The Bureau of Justice Grant programs developed incentives for other programs to decrease the overcrowded conditions for most state and federal prisons. These grant programs provided the information and incentives for state governments to expand, build, and adapt closed military bases as extension of the federal penal prison system. This initiative encouraged local and state courts to implement truth-in-sentencing and alternative sentencing concepts to lessen the burden of overcrowded prison systems. The grants divided in half for building prisons to increase the bed space for violent offenders, and the other half for alternative solutions to incarceration. The incentive funds used for more alternative solutions; prison islands, or barges, or closed military bases. Sentencing Drug Statistics The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) reported four to one ratio of prisoners showed under the influence of drugs, or alcohol while committing the current crime, or at the time of the violation (Langan, P, & Levin, D, 2002). The BJS showed detailed statistics report of 400; 000 people arrested for drugs, or drug-related offenses; 70% sent to state prisons, 40% drug-related offenses, 32% alcohol-related offenses, and 20% other violent crimes. The survey researched by the Department of Justice (DOJ) along with the (BJS) report...
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...reserved. Course Description This is an introductory course in the study of criminal law, general legal principles, and how the criminal law functions in and affects modern society. This course highlights a variety of key topics, including the concept of crime and the development of criminal law, defenses to criminal charges, and a number of specific types of crimes, including personal crimes, property crimes, public order crimes, and offenses against public morality. Legal issues affecting punishment will also be discussed, as will ways the criminal law impacts victims of crime. Policies Faculty and students will be held responsible for understanding and adhering to all policies contained within the following two documents: • University policies: You must be logged into the student website to view this document. • Instructor policies: This document is posted in the Course Materials forum. University policies are subject to change. Be sure to read the policies at the beginning of each class. Policies may be slightly different depending on the modality in which you attend class. If you have recently changed modalities, read the policies governing your current class modality. Course Materials Champion, D. J. (2009). Leading U.S. Supreme Court cases in criminal justice: Briefs and key terms. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Education. Lippman, M. (2010). Contemporary criminal law: Concepts, cases, and controversies. (2nd ed.) Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications...
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...GOVERNMENT OF ANDHRA PRADESH SOCIAL WELFARE (EDN.2) DEPARTMENT Memo.No.10537/SW.Edn.2/2011 dated:20.10.2012. Sub: Streamlining of PMS System – Registration of Fresh Scholarships to Open from 21-10-2012 to 20-11-2012 – Instructions – Issued. Ref:1) GO.MS.No. 66 (SW.Edn.2) Dept, dated 08-09-2010. 2) G.O.Rt.No.1307 Revenue (Ser.II) Dept, dated 13-09-2010 3) G.O.Rt.No.1551 Revenue (Ser.II) Dept, dated 04-11-2010 4) G.O.Rt.No.1570 Revenue (Ser.II) Dept, dated 10-11-2010 5) GO.Ms.No.60 (Sw.Edn.2) Dept, dated 27-09-2011. 6) G.O. Ms. No. 30, SW (Edn.2) Dept., dated 31-08-2012. 7) G.O. Ms. No. 33, SW (Edn.2) Dept., dated 15-09-2012. 8) Memo No. 3637/Edn.2/2010, SW Dept., dated 10-10-2012. *** Online fresh registrations for scholarships to students pursuing college courses for the academic year 2012-13 will commence from 21-10-2012 to 20-11-2012. The scholarship process has been made fully online by the Social Welfare Department. Under the online system, to access the website, a student must enter his SSC ID and Year of Passing to retrieve his record from the SSC data base For the academic year 2012-13, students can apply online for fresh scholarships on the e-pass website from 21-10-2012 to 20-11-2012. All students belonging to SC / ST with family income of less than Rs.2.00 lakh per annum & the students belonging to BC / EBC / DW / MW with family...
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...HOLY FAMILY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION AND EXTENDED LEARNING INTERMEDIATE ACCOUNTING I Semester: Fall 2014 August 27, 2014 – December 17, 2014 Course: ACCT 307 Intermediate Accounting I Credits: (3) Credit Hours Prerequisites: ACCT 206 Location: Woodhaven, Room 4 Days/Times T/TH (8:00am–9:30am) Instructor: Stephen B. Bates MBA, CPA, CGMA Office: Aquinas Hall, Rm. 17 Office Hours: T (1:30-4:30 p.m.)NE / TH (1:00-2:30 p.m.)WH Telephone: (267) 341-3522 E-mail: sbates@holyfamily.edu Catalog Course Description Preparation and interpretation of complex accounting statements, in particular assets using contemporary reporting techniques. Study of financial statements as well as in-depth analysis of the individual components of statements, with specific emphasis on current FASB statements and International Financial Reporting Standards. Students will utilize computerized spreadsheets to solve problems. Required Textbook Kieso, Weygandt, Warfield. INTERMEDIATE ACCOUNTING 15th Edition, 2013. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Hoboken, N.J. ISBN – 978-1-118-14729-0 Other Required Resources Students will be required to access portions of selected financial statements of publicly held corporations via the internet. Additionally, three financial statements, Tootsie Roll, Hershey, and DuPont will be handed out...
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...The Sanctions Debate and the Logic of Choice David A. Baldwin debate over whether economic sanctions "work" is mired in a scholarly limbo. One writer contends that recent international relations scholarship has promoted optimism about the utility of such measures and sets out to challenge this trend} while another notes the pessimism that "pervades the sanctions literature" and proceeds to argue that it is unjustified. 2 A third scholar cites the sanctions literature as an example of fruitless academic debate with little policy relevance.3 Such divergent readings of the scholarly literature are often explained by differences in ideology or fundamentally different theoretical orientations. This does not seem to be the case with respect to the sanctions debate. Under appropriate circumstances, it is quite possible for liberals, neoliberals, realists, neorealists, or globalists to argue in favor of using economic sanctions. If the sanctions debate is bogged down, the explanation does not seem to lie in the essentially contested nature of the subject matter. A second potential explanation is that scholars are talking past one another because they ask different questions, use different concepts, and set the discussion in different analytical contexts. In short, they are talking about different things. This article explores the second explanation. The basic paradox at the heart of the sanctions debate is that policymakers continue to use sanctions with increasing...
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...1. How can a party protect itself from an abusive discovery process? Do not provide full discovery. Do not provide inside information. One must object on all grounds. One most file a motion to dismiss fraud count for failure to pint to any specific misrepresentation. One could seek a protective order. One could hire in an agency to show out to disclosure information. Mazda's was to seek a protective order. Much of the information requested by the Chudasamas involved confidential documents that went to the heart of Mazda's business. They sought marketing studies, internal memoranda, and documentation on the history of the development and design of the MPV minivan and other vehicles. Fearing disclosure of this information to its competitors or to other potential plaintiffs, Mazda sought a non- sharing protective order that would keep the information under seal and prohibit the Chudasamas from sharing Mazda's proprietary information with anyone. They filed a motion for such a protective order on August 16, 1994. The Chudasamas objected, but indicated that they would accept a "sharing" protective order that would allow them to share the information with similarly situated plaintiffs, but not with anyone else. A protective order was issued by the court for the protection of Mazda's confidential information from disclosure to its competitors. 2. What is the practical consequences of a default judgment being entered against the defendants? The default consequences would be at...
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...sent to an overcrowded jail or prison without intensive supervision. Control is where the offender can maintained in a community under much closer security than traditional probation efforts provide. Reintegration is where the offender can maintain community ties and be reoriented toward a more productive life, while avoiding the pains of being in prison (p.472). It has been indicated that IPS has been ineffective in as much of 50% of cases it handles. IPS clients have a higher rate of being arrested than other offenders that are on probation. Joan Petersilia found that despite the good intentions of IPS, most of the money spent that was spent, was used for drug tests, electronic monitoring, and parole agent contact rather than enhanced social services (p.473). Offenders who had violated court conditions by using drugs had been identified more quickly and sent into custody. IPS had gone from being a correctional panacea to a failed social experiment within a decade. By the 1990’s, most of the IPS programs had been eliminated. A study by RAND, found that in places...
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...Canadian International Council Strengthening the Non-Proliferation Regime: The Role of Coercive Sanctions Author(s): T. V. Paul Source: International Journal, Vol. 51, No. 3, Nuclear Politics (Summer, 1996), pp. 440-465 Published by: Canadian International Council Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/40203123 Accessed: 30/11/2010 19:58 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of JSTOR's Terms and Conditions of Use, available at http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp. JSTOR's Terms and Conditions of Use provides, in part, that unless you have obtained prior permission, you may not download an entire issue of a journal or multiple copies of articles, and you may use content in the JSTOR archive only for your personal, non-commercial use. Please contact the publisher regarding any further use of this work. Publisher contact information may be obtained at http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublisher?publisherCode=cic. Each copy of any part of a JSTOR transmission must contain the same copyright notice that appears on the screen or printed page of such transmission. JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact support@jstor.org. Canadian International Councilis collaborating...
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...Study Guide: Adopted by Great Britain, their form of common law Constitutional: establishes basic character, concepts and principles of government, its organization, individual rights and privileges. Outlines duties of branches Federalism: Bill of Rights: Common law: Discovered law because magistrates discovered solutions to disputes by looking to situations in the past. Inductive. Laws because they have always been laws. Equity law: decisions of chancery court were made on the basis of fairness. Equity law begins where common law stops. Laws designed to address justice without criminal intent. (fairness) Administrative law: Rules that govern industry. Ex. FCC Statutory law: Created by government rep. Written law formally enacted by city, county, state and federal legislative bodies. Executive orders- orders from executive branch Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble and to petition the government for a redress of grievances. Freedom of speech, press, religion, petition, assembly Laws establish boundaries and allow for punishment of violators, they limit government power, and establish fundamental rights/liberties. They carry sanctions. Policy is adopted to achieve a social goal,they lack sanctions. Laws are passed in the U.S. to support policy. FCC- Federal Communication Commission is an...
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...also originates from a separate meaning which is the need or desire to provide a punishment to individuals that have committed behavior not found suitable or acceptable by the society. Therefore in this essay I will discuss the changes within the American Correctional systems that have caused them to evolve to the present day. Introduction: The correctional prison system within America has changes in multiple differential aspects between the mid 1900’s to the present day. But the most important of these changes which have occurred are: Prison programs, classification systems, housing, the professionalism, and the shift in authority and management. Programs for inmates have improved. The system used to classify inmates have altered. New intermediate facilities have been formed, including the development of adaptive housing. The professionalism between the prison staff as well as the formation of organizations, has increased. Lastly, among the more important aspects of changes, the use of applying policies, enforcing rules, authority attitudes, and the use of judicial interference, influence the evolutionary changes. Shift of Authority: First, a big evolutionary change was that from within the prisons themselves. By this I mean the prisons power shifted. Before the mid 1900’s, many prison systems were ran by the administrators (primarily wardens) and staff, whom determined...
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