Trina Trelles Criminal Justice 141 Phase 2 the Criminal Justice System Today DB Habitual Offender Laws are made to target poor minority groups. More than half of California’s adult male population is Latino or nonwhite (55%)‚ but three of every four men in prison are Latino or nonwhite: 41% are Latino‚ 29% are African American‚ and 6% are of another race. All Contents © Public Policy Institute of California 2012 | New York Times Report Of 1/8/2007 found those with
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certain of our actions as humans are necessarily right or wrong. What would happen if we say two contradictory statements can’t coexist as Aristotle demonstrated? Through the law of non-contradiction from Aristotle and ethical absolutism‚ I will argue against ethical relativism. In ethical absolutism‚ there is only one answer on certain human actions‚ following an objective moral code. According to absolutists‚ this code has been the same ever since humans have existed. Logically‚ this code applies to
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Justice and Authority paper Discretionary authority in the Criminal Justice system Allen Ray CJA/550 April 11th‚ 2011 Discussions in how discretion is exercised in the legal profession often raises debate in the criminal justice system. Discretion is vastly misused in many of the criminal justice fields. Areas such as youth justice‚ sentencing‚ policing‚ and a host of many other legal fields need better understanding‚ interpretation and communication. As with many practices‚ the object
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Webster defines an abortion as a medical procedure used to end a pregnancy and cause the death of the fetus. Just reading these definitions begin the argument of whether or not abortion should be legal and if it is “morally” right. Abortion has become a popular topic of discussion across politics and within churches. Although both sides have valid arguments‚ it is up to the woman carrying the child to decide whether she will keep the child or not. No government‚ nor religion should force someone into
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the aims of improving their performance in their field. It does this by mainly promoting muscle building. There are three disadvantages to the permission of consumption of steroids in sports‚ which will be discussed in this essay. The main argument against the permission of steroid use in sports is its long term consequences on an athlete’s health. Examples of these negative health affects are prominent breast‚ infertility‚ and shrunken testicles in males. Females taking steroids experience deepening
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the bathrooms. with their gender identity”. However‚ in one of the sources‚ the parents are for the sake of transgender student‚“Students‚ parents and community groups are still able to — and we expect will continue to — bring lawsuits against schools that discriminate‚” said Harper Jean‚ Unlike the other‚ the other source when the parents are of the transgender students‚ “parents...worry that allowing transgender students to use the bathroom of their choice could violate other students’ privacy or
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The issue I have been hired to explore is the injustices of the Criminal Justice system in the Judicial System‚ and the findings are not so astonishing There is no doubt the criminal justice system in the United States is broken. Between the issues of disproportionate mass incarcerations‚ the illusions of the “War on Drugs” and the targeting of other racial and religious backgrounds. These are the just some of the injustices that will be elaborated on throughout this report as well as now incarceration
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SeaWorld’s Argument Against BlackFish The website for SeaWorld Parks and Entertainment is speaking towards anyone that has seen the documentary BlackFish‚ or anyone who thinks that SeaWorld is abusing or mistreating the orcas or other animals by keeping them in captivity. They also attract the corporate side of SeaWorld as a business. The website gives information about what the business does to give back to the community‚ how their animals are treated and shows their credibility to draw
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In today’s criminal justice system‚ jails and prisons are becoming more overcrowded due to the recent increase in crime rates. Many criminal justice agencies have recently found a new method of punishment that can be used deter people from committing criminal actions and further prevent overcrowding the prisons. This new method of punishment is known as restorative justice. This new method of punishment focuses on having the offender restore the losses of both their victim and their community in
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the accepted forms of conduct. The law is intended to be a neutral aspect existent to solve society’s problems‚ a system specially designed to provide people with peace and order. Within the Canadian legal system‚ there is the Canadian criminal justice system‚ which is meant to guarantee the safety of citizens within the country and is used to sustain social control and deliver justice for a society. In the year of 2011‚ the Conservative Party government of Prime Minister Stephen Harper introduced
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