| Prisons | | | | | | Our country has come a long way in the way that it disciplines those who break the laws. Once convicted, criminals can be sentenced to many different punishments depending on the crime they committed. Punishments can range from lenient, such as probation or community service, or more severe, such as jail or prison. Punishments increase in severity depending on the severity of the crime committed. A person who has committed a non-violent crime will have
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Week 2 individual assignment October 27, 2011 CJA/204 In the following paragraphs choice theories will be described as well as how they specifically relate to crime. Common models on how society determines which acts are or are not criminal in nature and how they impact choice theories directly will also be made known in this paper. The first topic at hand is choice theories. What are choice theories? According to Wikipedia (2011) “the term choice theory is the work of William
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Overcrowding in prisons is one of the biggest challenges facing the American criminal justice system today. The total population of prisons and jails in the United States neared the 2.1 million mark in June 2003, according to the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS). The Bureau of Justice Statistics reported incarceration rates of state and federal prisoners continued to rise. At midyear 2003, the number of sentenced inmates was 480 per
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Objectives of Punishment Curtis Woodhouse November 25, 2011 CJS/230 Many people have the different ideas of the objective of punishment in the criminal justice system. Some say that punishment is circumstantial. Different forms of punishment are effective for various forms of crime. There are cases in which retribution, prevention/deterrence, and rehabilitation are all suitable. A legal system is necessary in our society and the maintenance of this system requires punishment. However, the main
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FIVE STEPS OF THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM Entry into the System Investigation and Arrest: In this case discretion is used in many ways, whether it is to relieve pressure of say overcrowding in prisons, or the chance of a kid getting an officer that sees more harm in an arrest than a warning. Just like in the wedding cake model example, everyone has their own views and thus have different reactions to discretion with different people. Simply the courts, officer, prosecutor may choose to let
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Federal Lawsuits and Sexual Assault: Wider Implications Senjon S. Vann Professor Mark B. Pullin, J.D. Legal Aspects of Business I - Law 304 (21106) 18OCT2011 Introduction When lawsuits occur on a federal level, a degree of national notoriety is common. The media seizes on the most controversial and/or disturbing cases, and public reaction becomes an actual presence in the trial process. Even as courts and juries enact protections to preserve the integrity of the trial
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A Union Out of Control The California Correctional System which operates prisons in the state is broken and in dire need of reform but this can not be done because Correctional Officer’s union blocks any attempt to implement much needed reforms. So how does the State of California fix its broken prison system? The state must take on the Correctional Officer’s union and find a way to curtail and/or diminish its power. In laymen’s terms the state must break the union. This will be a very difficult
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[Course Title] [Date] Prison Industrial Complex Prison Industrial Complex – Origin and Establishment The term prison industrial complex ‘ refers to an American criminal justice system that has been substantially transformed by almost three decades of rapid growth and by the increasing importance of private interests in criminal justice policy ... All these factors combined to provide an opening for private sector involvement in prison management and speculative prison building The third factor
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Rehabilitation What do people think of when they talk about offender rehabilitation? What are the origins of prisoner rehabilitation? Why do some people support prisoner rehabilitation even for serious offenders? How does prisoner rehabilitation affect prisons and general society? What recommendations might you make to improve prisoner rehabilitation? According to Foster rehabilitation is often thought of in a more narrow definition today as specific programs applied within the prison setting
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