Justice Policy I N S T I T U T E Treatment or Incarceration? Treatment or Incarceration? National and State Findings on the Efficacy and Cost Savings of Drug Treatment Versus Imprisonment by Doug McVay, Vincent Schiraldi, and Jason Ziedenberg January 2004 Justice Policy Institute 4455 Connecticut Avenue NW Suite B-500 Washington, DC 20008 v 202.363.7847 f 202.363.8677 www.justicepolicy.org POLICY REPORT J u s t i c e P
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Introduction Alternative sentencing is also referred to as non-custodial sentence or community sentence. It is a term used in criminal justice to refer to all alternative ways used by courts to punish defendants who have been convicted of breaching the law, other than using a capital punishment or custodial sentence. The adoption of alternative sentencing helps the offender to avoid consequences associated with imprisonment such as revolving door syndrome. Furthermore, it helps to reduce crowding
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Effective Communication Paper Adam Maillho CJA/304 May 18. 2015 Professor Dominick Casciotta Jr. Effective Communication Communication is a process involving several steps; the goal is to transfer an idea between two or more people for the primary purpose of exchanging information. Communicating is essentially a mental exercise that an individual in law enforcement needs to be proficient in sending and receiving. Communication in criminal justice organizations entails verbal and non-verbal
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Crime relationship to the law The "Dictionary.com" (2014) website defines the word crime as “an action or an instance of negligence that is deemed injurious to the public welfare or morals or to the interests of the state and that is legally prohibited. Law can be defined as a set of rule for society to abide by for safety. Committing a crime is a disobedient act of the law which is their relationship. Government structure as it applies to criminal justice According to "The National Center for
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Connor Opheij #41 Hollie Dawson Texas Gov’t 2306-408 8 April 2015 H.B. (8) Human Trafficking Prevention Task Force Recommendations House Bill 8 of the 83rd Legislature will increase the protection of victims relating to sexual exploitation and will allow prosecutors more ways to prosecute the criminal with higher punishments. Texas has been identified as a major hub for international human trafficking. In response to the growing human trafficking the 81st Legislature created the Human Trafficking
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The author(s) shown below used Federal funds provided by the U.S. Department of Justice and prepared the following final report: Document Title: Lake County, California, Arrest Policies Project: A Process Evaluation Author(s): Brenda K. Uekert Ph.D. Document No.: 201874 Date Received: September 2003 Award Number: 98-WE-VX-0012 This report has not been published by the U.S. Department of Justice. To provide better customer service, NCJRS has made this Federallyfunded
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no’s of American culture. Examples being drugs, assault, theft, drug distribution. What needs to be discussed are how these infractions are handled in America, how our justice system operates, how mandatory minimum sentences are discerned, parole and probation are handled as well as their violations, and punishment for violations are handled. Dating back to Sweden around 1746 coffee was made illegal on the basis of public safety without any evidence. King Gustav the 3rd was fighting for prohibition
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In the article “The New Jim Crow” by Michelle Alexander, it is stated that “more African American adults are under correctional control today- in prison or jail, on probation or parole- than were enslaved in 1850, a decade before the civil war began” (pg. 183). The author of this article was featured as one of the speakers in the film and she stated a similar statistic in the film, as well. This contributes to the racial caste
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CONDITIONS OF BAIL ( IN DRIVING WHILE INTOXICATED CASES AND OTHER OFFENSES) BY JUDGE SCOTT E. KURTH INTRODUCTION The following article, while certainly not exhaustive, is intended to acquaint Texas Municipal Judges and Justices of the Peace with the constitutional provisions, statutes and case law applicable to: 1. a defendant’s right to bail; and 2. setting the conditions of bail, with a particular emphasis on the conditions of 3. bail in cases where
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“In 2008, more than 2.3 million Americans (0.7 percent of the US population) were incarcerated, in nearly 1,700 state, federal, and private prisons, and more than 5 million Americans were under other forms of custodial supervision, including probation and parole, for a total of 7.2 million Americans-3.2 percent of the US population-under some form of custodial of supervisory control of the criminal justice system (120).” African American men make up a majority of the US prison population. This is bad
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