Discretion: Legal Factors seriousness of the offense frequency of the offense prior or current system involvement extralegal factors: race gender: protective and chivalry factor socioeconomic status age other factors: demeanor family situation victim or citizen complaint departmental style/policy goal peer associations police can search and seize a juvenile with parental consent united states vs Matlock 1974 parents may not be able to give consent of search
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Rehabilitation Rehabilitation Idrees Ahmed CJS 230 June 9‚ 2012 Ray Delaney Jr Rehabilitation Rehabilitation The good in rehabilitation is when it works. “You can lead a horse to water‚ but you cannot make them drink”. The same principal is at work with rehabilitation. The programs can be made mandatory‚ but that doesn’t mean the inmate will adapt their behavior to accept the programs. Rehabilitation comes from inside a person. The person must want to change his behavior
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Criminal Justice System CJA/204 April 4‚ 2013 Criminal Justice System According to the Criminal Justice Interactive on the student website‚ crime is defined as the conduct in violation of the criminal law of the state‚ the federal government‚ or a local jurisdiction‚ for which there is no legally acceptable justification or excuse. In other words‚ crime is a forbidden act in which a punishment is attached. Law can be defined as rules and regulations that put in place for all
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Special Needs CJA 234 June 3‚ 2013 Mitchell Jessip Offenders with Special Needs When people think of the offender population all they may picture is a healthy person in his or her 20’s or 30’s. People never think about the fact prisons house juvenile offenders‚ drug addicts‚ mentally ill‚ aging offenders‚ violent and sex offenders. The reality is that correctional staff deal with these issues on a daily basis. Special offenders are those offenders whose circumstances‚ condition‚ or behaviors
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Did you know that criminal justice is interesting because it is not only action‚ it also deals with interesting cases that people might like depends on which case there are also science cases the reader will like every case that there is in criminal justice the department of political sciences and criminal justice is for students who are interested in the career or people who like to examine the big questions and problems facing society. The criminal justice program offers students the opportunity
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The criminal justice system has goals that it tries to achieve. The CJS is to respond in the name of society when there is a crime that has been committed. The CJS spans from federal‚ state‚ and local governments. Within the system‚ there are three agencies that work together as a system to implement the criminal justice functions. The agencies are law enforcement‚ the courts‚ and the corrections. Each one of these agencies has a criminal justice process that proved the justice to the victims and
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is titled to care and protect for the inferior persons in the society. A juvenile court system is the judicial system that is tasked with the duty of handling cases relating to youths and or rather minors in the society. The orientation taken by the juvenile courts is far much different from the normal judicial courts. The juvenile courts are mainly focused on rectifying the behavior of individuals through a rehabilitation process. They try shaping the conduct of the person
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CJ499-01P: Bachelors Capstone in Criminal Justice (P) Barbara Mitchell June 16‚ 2010 Abstract Over many years there has been great debate about whether rehabilitation reduces the rate of recidivism in criminal offenders. There has been great controversy over whether anything works to reduce recidivism and great hope that rehabilitation would offer a reduction in those rates. In this paper I will introduce information and views on the reality of whether rehabilitation does indeed reduce recidivism. Proposed
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Rehabilitation is generally designed to facilitate recovery from illness‚ injury or disease to a normal level of functioning. Usually this involves medical and physical treatment and rehabilitation‚ however‚ a person’s recovery has a myriad of other aspects for holistic rehabilitation. In the case of Hannah‚ she has both her physical restrictions to overcome as well as social adjustment to her new situation and her rehabilitation will also involve her family’s adjustment to changes to her lifestyle
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Although prison education and rehabilitation programs are offered in some prisons in the United States‚ there are still numerous prisons that haven’t implemented them. The purpose of these programs is to educate prisoners and prevent re-offense. However‚ the issue comes down to determining to what extent the purpose of imprisonment should be rehabilitation because some argue that punishment’s enough to educate prisoners. In contrast‚ proponents of these programs argue that it’s essential prisoners
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