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    the community and it is something that is of growing concern. A juvenile that becomes a delinquent is considered to be a child and treated as such in a juvenile court until their habits goes beyond a level that is unacceptable and they are treated as adults. When this happens a juvenile child can be lost forever and sent into an adult system. In this paper we will look at some statistics as they relate to delinquency prevention and juvenile justice. It will talk about the total decrease in juvenile

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    long been debated which method of deterrence works best within the criminal justice system‚ rehabilitation or punishment. In the past‚ the two mechanisms have been used together and separately in both adult and juvenile courts. Both rehabilitation and punishment are similar in their goals and purposes. However‚ the debate between which method is more successful continues year after year. The consensus of some in the professional community is that children are not yet fully cognitively developed

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    Intro to Criminal Justice Chapter 10–– 1. The Purpose of probation is the suspending and or delaying in a correctional term in jail so that‚ instead of being in jail‚ offenders are allowed almost a second chance and put back into the community for a period in which they must do the following (a) abide by certain conditions given by the court and (b) be supervised by a probation officer. Without probation jails would rapidly become even more overcrowded. Probation officers are the supervisor

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    Criminal Justice Prospective Employers Jose Paez Valencia College The list of criminal justice career options is an exhaustive one where criminal justice careers‚ jobs‚ and law enforcement training‚ are continually growing. These positions in the criminal justice fields have different educational requirements. In the following I will research information on the hiring requirements of an entry level position of one Local‚ State and Federal Criminal Justice field. The first

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    Kathrin Jones Professor Odem Criminal Justice Do you consider the criminal justice system fair to all: minorities‚ genders‚ socioeconomic classes‚ and people of different sexual orientations? Explain either why you do or why you do not. QB The Criminal Justice system was made to be fair to all‚ but throughout the years the Criminal Justice System has changed in my eyes. I do not agree that the Criminal Justice System is now fair to all minorities; gender and socioeconomic class. I feel it unfairly

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    into their own hands not thinking twice about the consequences. Crime is not a joke‚ especially when it involves innocent civilians who can end up hurt‚ with no protection of their own. This is why criminal justice is so important‚ it is their for the people. It is their to protect and get justice. It is there for knowledge and for people who dont necessarily feel the need to know about the law and how important it is to understand its meaning. In the first few chapters‚ I learned that there

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    We all must obey them‚ but why? For fear of going to jail‚ or being fined? Those are the individual effects of civil disobedience‚ but what happens what is the purpose of law in society? Thomas Hobbes‚ John Locke‚ and Jean-Jacques Rousseau all attempted to interpret the need for laws in society‚ in order to maintain the good of the whole and the individual. Each of their examination of the need for laws in society arose from the individual ’s departure from the "state of nature" to community living

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    Draft The trouble with the laws these days is that criminals know their rights better than their wrongs. ~Author Unknown. I truly believe in this quote. Criminals know when they do something wrong they will get out of it with a plea bargain or they might not even step foot in the court room because someone else is already getting prosecuted for it. Courts and plea bargains go hand in hand these days. To me‚ I think plea bargains are not true justice‚ its laziness. According to BGA‚ there were 85

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    results in the assaulter’s death. On the other hand it is considered a crime if you kill someone out of anger. To decide on what is or is not a crime there are two common models of how society determines which acts are criminal. The consensus model deals with how the majority of people within a society have the same beliefs and value as to what is right and wrong‚ such as the right to bare arms or freedom of speech. The conflict model deals with an economic or political

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    I have aspired to be a police officer my whole life and found it only fitting to interview a Police Officer from the Northern Virginia area. The officer told me of his own aspirations to become a cop and it only furthered my motivation. He said his goal as a police officer was/is to make positive influential changes for his peers by protecting and serving his community to his fullest potential. Before returning back to patrol the streets‚ the officer was a Student Resource Officer (SRO) at Herndon

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