Assess the role discretion plays in the sentencing and punishment of offenders. Sentencing and punishment has actively involved the discretion of judges and magistrates in affecting the decision of the sentencing. Discretion involves the power of Judges and magistrates to determine the most appropriate sentence for a case. Allowing judicial officers to decide sentences on a case by case basis and thus permitting them to take into account the various circumstances. Many factors influence the role
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ages. His writings and arguments on jewish law‚ specifically the talmud have influenced many of his successors. His writings mostly focus on God and the topics surrounding it. In this essay I will present Maimonides discussion of God and God’s essence as one without plurality in The Guide of the Perplexed. This essay will mainly focus on the arguments Maimonides makes regarding this view. First‚ I will discuss the historical context of his works. Second‚ I will present a reconstruction of Maimonides
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Elizabeth Stefanik Research on Sexual Offenders 10/19/17 I completed my search from the Kent stark library at school. To begin conducting a search‚ I typed in “sexual abusers and offenders”. My results were around 256 for articles. To reduce my results‚ I added academic journals for source type and quantitative study for methodology. This knocked my results down to 58. Furthering to refine my results‚ I added women or females or girls. This came down to a whopping 17 results. The two articles
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While offender profiling is a significant part of the criminal justice system the exact definition of this practice tends to vary from source to source‚ overall the general consensus is that it is “an investigative technique by which to identify the major personality and behavioral characteristics of the offender based upon an analysis of the crime(s) he or she has committed” (FBI‚ 1998). Although having grown in popularity in the recent decades profiling criminals based on behavior patterns is
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“Protect Yourself‚ Family from Sex Offenders‚” Rick Schneider takes the position that sex offenders should be observed at all times (PA 657-658). One of the hardest and sensitive subjects to talk about is about sex offenders. In America it could go two ways‚ either the convicted is sent to jail and that isn’t even enough for the family that is suffering because of the convict’s actions. It is very difficult to discuss the problems with the results of a convicted sex offender’s life out of jail because
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Should the names of registered sex offenders be available to the public? The state of Georgia requires the disclosure of every sex offender’s address in a given area. Research also show that 67% of sexual assaults are victims under the age of 18. Almost 2/3 of all sexual assaults are committed by someone who knows the victim. At the moment all 50 states have a registration and tracking system to monitor the sex offenders’ movement. In the past there have been various attempts to enact laws
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My Thesis: I agree with Anna Quindlen statement that men and women differ in multiple ways but at the end they try to live together. I. Introduction: Had you ever thought that you have not something same with the opposite sex? Many people answer yes. In the article ’’ Between the Sexes‚ A Great Divide ’’ republished in Norton Reader 13th edition post in 2008‚ Anna Quindlen‚ professor of writing maintains that ’’ Finally‚ two genders try to do the best to come closer ’’
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Madalyn Daniels ENC 1101 600 Instructor: P. Rentz July 24‚ 2014 Argumentative Essay Word count: 1080 Schools think they are doing well but they are really they are hurting students. The main focus of classrooms today is testing. Classrooms are no longer focused on learning‚ they are being centered on raising a standardized test score: schools are putting too much emphasis on standardized testing. However‚ it could be argued that emphasizing test scores promotes learning and is a key point in education
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lifetime monitoring of some convicted sex offenders are not sensible public safety measures. By applying the Rule Utilitarian ethical theory‚ the moral rule would be: all sex offenders should be monitored for life. If this rule was actualized‚ overall happiness would not increase‚ which means the benefits would not outweigh the harms. The harms would be the privacy intrusion done to the sex offenders and increase of risk of re-offense. If the convicted sex offenders were monitored for life‚ the police
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Assignment: Bias‚ Rhetorical Devices‚ and Argumentation The speech of Kane campaigning for Governor is full of bias. The bias starts from the opening seconds of the movie clip and continued through the speech. The man in the beginning of the movie clip demonstrated a bias in favor of Kane becoming Governor. These biases are created by labeling Charles Kane as a “friend of the working man” who is an ally of the under paid and under fed. This same Kane campaigner offers up a negative bias
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