Sentencing Proposal The last stage of a criminal trial is known as sentencing. During sentencing the convening authority over the criminal court proceedings makes a determination of how the guilty party should be punished. Prior to that determination being made both the defense attorneys and prosecutors may make their arguments as to why or why not the defendant should be punished to the fullest of the law. The judge taking these arguments into consideration makes his or her decision on what
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Sentencing Paper Amanda Robertson CJS/200 8/19/2013 Mr Winkler The four philosophical reasons for sentencing criminals are rehabilitation‚ incapacitation‚ deterance‚ and retribution. Rehabilitation is when a criminal is thought to be better off by
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Prison sentences are too soft in New Zealand to the criminals who commit serious crimes and need to be harsher. In New Zealand criminals who commit serious crimes are handed a prison sentence. I strongly oppose the sentencing of criminals currently. I believe justice should be served more harshly. Presently the New Zealand court system is too soft on criminals who commit serious crimes. In 2012‚ there was approximately 376‚000 recorded offences. This resulted in 196‚000 convictions. That’s just
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The criminal investigation process (‘the process’) is a complex and necessary aspect of the legal system that aims to gather and investigate evidence lawfully‚ justly and in accordance with the rights of victims‚ suspects and society. The responsibility for enforcing criminal laws and ensuring they are adhered to lies with the police. In the criminal investigation process‚ the role of police is to investigate crimes through gathering evidence‚ interrogating and detaining suspects‚ searching and seizing
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Jeron April 8 2013 Assignment #7 Determinate sentencing vs. Indeterminate sentencing First of all‚ choosing amongst the two types of sentencing‚ indeterminate or determinate‚ really depends on the questions‚ what the crime is and is the crime violent or non-violent? If the crime is only non-violent such as fraud‚ then determinate sentencing would be the right fit for the suspects but if the crime that had occurred is murder‚ kidnapping‚ or other violent crimes‚ then the suspects would fall under
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retribution‚ rehabilitation‚ and incapacitation. The first is deterrence; this is where people are discouraged from committing crimes. This can be broken down into two subcategories; specific and general. Specific is aimed at offender do not want to commit a crime because of the punishment received the last time they were caught. General is where someone is made an example to prevent others from doing the same thing. An example would be the over publicizing of inmates that receive death sentences.
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Insanity Defense In criminal trials‚ the insanity defense is the claim that the defendant is not responsible for his or her actions due to mental health problems. Any mental illness could serve the basis for an insanity defense‚ excluding conditions that have antisocial behaviors as their primary characteristic and appear to have no physiological basis. Overall I believe that if someone has a real mental illness and it made him or her commit their crime‚ they should not go to prison. I feel that
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Analyse your contribution to the selection process In this task we were told to do a role-play on the selection process. We were first told to do questions for candidates. The whole group done 15 questions and after as a group‚ we had to talk to each other to create 15 questions for interview. By doing 15 questions I have learned some of the questions that there could be in the interview. From these 15 questions we chosen 7 questions to ask to the candidate‚ we agreed that these questions are not
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This archive file of CRJ 301 Week 2 Assignment Criminal Sentencing includes: Juveniles Learning Lessons Deadline: ( )‚ Law - General Law In Chapter 1 of the text‚ our author talks about "putting it all into perspective." After reading chapters 1 and 2 and reviewing the video Young Kids‚ Hard Time (this video is recommended‚ but not required)‚ select one of the juveniles from your reading‚ the movie‚ or you may speak from personal experience and a particular juvenile in mind. Address
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Recruitment: Recruitment involves attracting candidates to fill the positions in the organization structure. Before recruitment begins the position’s requirements‚ which should relate directly to the task must be clearly identified. This makes it easier to recruit suitable candidate’s form the outside. Sources of recruitment: Sources of recruitments are commonly divided into- 1. Internal Sources: It refers to the present working force of a company. In the event of a vacancy someone
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