crime rate, increase job opportunities and increase economical growth. There are many benefits to legalizing marijuana. Legalizing marijuana can decrease the overall crime rate in America. Legalizing marijuana will put less people in prison for possession of the substance. This is helpful to overcrowded prisons because it would open up more cells for criminals with more serious offenses like rape, murder, and robbery. Legalizing marijuana would also force marijuana dealers off the street.
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rise, some Americans argue that current drug law is too easy on drug offenders. Society at large asks, "Can we ever stop illegal drugs and their use?" It is a question that unfortunately has no easy answer. More and more people in America feel that if this country cannot stop illegal drugs, drugs should be legalized and controlled. Many people feel that this will eliminate the senseless violence that often goes hand in hand with illegal drugs. Although moral issues
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The issue of mass incarceration sparked conversation about racial disparities within the prison system. Following the abolishment of Jim Crow, legal racial segregation in the United States appeared dead. According to civil rights advocate, Michelle Alexander this is not the case; racial segregation appears dead, but mass incarceration perpetuates a racial caste system that preserves this outdated practice. In Alexander’s book, The New Jim Crow, she points to the cause, enforcement, and victims of
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In 2012, The Sentencing Project released results from a survey of people sentenced to life in prison as juveniles and found the defendants in other cases were not uncommon. Seventy-nine percent witnessed violence in their homes regularly, 32% grew up in public housing, and 40% had been enrolled in special education classes. Fewer than half of the prisoners were attending school at the time of their offense, 47% were physically abused, and 77% of girls reported histories of sexual abuse (“Juvenile
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why I chose these two theorists as my favorite for their efforts and contribute in to the field forensic psychology, and correctional services. It was noted by Dr. Gibbons and Dr. Katzenbach (2011)… “What happens inside jails and prisons does not stay inside jails and prisons” (Gibbons and Katzenbach, 2011, p.36). Being surrounded by negativity, fear, anxiety, rumors, hostility, and threat of physical violence have a profound effect on both the staff and offenders in a correctional facility. Dr. Gibbons
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Sentencing Paper Ruben Varela CJA/234 08/11/2014 Introduction In this paper I will go over the state and federal objectives of punishment. Also I will discus how does sentencing affect the state and federal corrections systems. I will define determinate and indeterminate sentencing; also give my opinion of which sentencing model do you feel is most appropriate. State and Federal Objectives of Punishment Punishment can be broke down into four fundamental objectives. These objectives
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Courts, and Corrections. ("Criminal Justice Careers crriminal Justice Jobs." & Salaries. Web. 1 Nov. 2015.) Today the numbers of people that are incarcerated is forcing the United States to build more secure prison facilities. From 1980 to 2010, the number of people incarcerated in America quadrupled from roughly 500,000 to 2.3 million people. (Barbee, Dawn. "Criminal Justice Fact Sheet." Criminal Justice Fact Sheet. Web. 28 Oct. 2015.) This number is getting to be a little out of hand. Today, the
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the racial disparity among the young African American males in the criminal justice system and the lasting effects of incarceration. This research paper will unveil the truth about why African men in this age group are much more likely to be sent to prison than are people of White or Latino descent. . African American men are often charged and prosecuted more aggressively than White or Hispanic men. This paper will also reveal the adverse mental and physical health endured by black males during incarceration
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the federal investigation also cleared Wilson of civil rights violations in the shooting (3). How can a police officer call a civil right violation in that case, pretending to be afraid of a retaliation? According to the book “Criminal Justice in America” by George F. Cole, Christopher E. Smith and Christina DeJong (4),” a civil right refers to cases in which some group, usually defined along racial or ethnics line is denied access to facilities, opportunities or services that are valuable to others
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or unsophisticated form of justice. America is, after all, one of the only developed countries that still enforces the death penalty. Others argue that it is necessary in keeping law and order and helps to deter crime. The death penalty has an interesting history, and still today there is an argument about whether or not it should continue to be enforced, possibly because of the historically discriminatory nature of the death penalty. In early colonial America, the death penalty was fairly strictly
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