teenagers or adolescents are offered more of a chance to turn their lives around before they turn down the wrong path too significantly to retract, gain more responsibility (some may have fines to pay that only they are allowed to pay if judge/probation officer demands), and depending on how bad of the situation, they will receive a dose of reality. Juvenile court is made up of three different cases: delinquency, dependency, and status offenses. For delinquency cases, the adolescent
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Criminal Justice Process 1 Criminal Justice Process Betsabe Aguirre CRJ 100, Section 010016 Professor Nicholas Myles, J.D. October 12, 2010. Criminal Justice Process 2 Criminal Justice Process Imagine living in the US where crime is out of control. Where laws are broken and there is no punishment for our actions. It wouldn’t be a nice place to live. This is why we have the criminal justice process. The agencies of criminal justice must process the cases that come before them. They
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crimes such as prostitution, robbery, petty theft, domestic violence, animal abuse, and high speed chases. You will also see more sever crimes such as murder and sexual abuse crimes. Many of the criminals that you see on the show are either on probation or parole, meaning this is not their first run in with the law. One thing that you will not see on this show is high capital crimes committed from the upper class. Most of the crimes are from the middle to lower class and in urban run down areas. Although
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supervision (e.g., a county’s sheriff’s department) to guard convicted individuals serving their time to one year or less. It might become a holding facility for potential offenders awaiting trial, suspected rulebreakers (e.g., violators of their probation, parole, or bail bond status), or prisoners in accommodation of overcrowding within the federal and state level. An additional purpose may be acting as a temporary detention centers pendant the transfer of adolescents or mentally ill people to their
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eyes and ears, and began to feverishly take notes. The case to be heard by the judge was People V. Ms. X. Ms. X was a small girl with long blonde and pink hair, hardly someone you would expect to face a judge in a prisoner jumpsuit. She was on probation for a multitude of offenses including a possession of a controlled substance and domestic violence charges. She admitted to a long time struggle with substance abuse, particularly Vicodin.
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Punishment versus Rehabilitation AJS/502 March 17, 2012 Punishment versus Rehabilitation For centuries the criminal justice system has struggled with punishment versus rehabilitation. Rehabilitation is the belief in curing a criminal of his or her criminal tendencies. By curing the criminal of his or her tendencies, he or she will one day be cast out back into society and be a contributing member. The idea behind punishment is to deter society while giving the offender his or her just
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There have been many studies conducted throughout Canada and all have found that Aboriginal people are clearly over-represented in Canada’s criminal justice system. Each study has provided many reasons for the high incarceration rates. A justice system that is not responsive to the experiences and needs of Aboriginal people contributes to the high Aboriginal incarceration levels. Many Aboriginal people have other social factors that contribute to their overrepresentation in the criminal justice
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This is an example of how the underage defence is not working someone that young should be trialed as a juvenile, however, currently the child is being trialed as an adult and is facing life in prison without any chance of parole (Chen). Even upon first arresting the child, he was placing in an adult prison as a twelve year old (Chen). In this case, I do not believe the child should be trialed as an adult. They should not be able to place someone who isnt even in middle school
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The Return of Rehabilitation Until recently, rehabilitation seemed more a forsaken aim than a likely outcome of imprisonment. Although the first rule of the Prison Rules 1964 stated, “The purpose of the training and treatment of convicted prisoners shall be to encourage and assist them to lead a good and useful life,” *the ideology of training and treatment did not last. By 1974 the American researcher Robert Martinson was denouncing rehabilitation programmes for prisoners in his paper What
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some extent even rights as U.S. citizens. The United States Congress should repeal mandatory minimum sentencing laws. “A mandatory term stipulates a minimum sentence that includes imprisonment and mandates that this sentence cannot be suspended and probation cannot be granted” (Schlesinger, 2011, p.64). These required laws
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