Young Offenders should not have Harsher Consequences Do you know about the YCJA? If so‚ do you agree with the way it goes about doing things? The Youth Criminal Justice Act passed in 2003 by parliament allows young offenders to be treated differently than adult offenders. The conservatives want to introduce a bill to treat offenders more harshly. I strongly disagree with this. Young offenders should not be given harsher consequences. The YCJA is stable. It has many goals to
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The impact of taubah result in the reformation of an offender. What does it meant by reformation? According to Cambridge Dictionary‚ reformation means correction or improvement by changing one’s behavior from the previous practice or an act. Thus‚ “reformation of an offender” means a person who has committed a crime previously‚ taubah can make he/she realize the mistake and show better improvement. Taubah bring 3 main effects in terms of individual itself‚ society and politics. Man are not perfect
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that specifically addresses what has happened in the past. It has two main forms known as revenge and just deserts (Bohm & Haley‚ 2014). Revenge is the act of wanting someone to suffer for their wrongdoing. Just deserts the act of punishing an offender because he/she “deserves” it (Bohm & Haley‚ 2014). Revenge is
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articles: Force Administration of Sex-Drive Reducing Medications of Sex Offenders: Treatment or Punishment? And Ethics‚ Prisoner Interrogation‚ National Security and The Media Force Administration of Sex-Drive Reducing Medications of Sex Offenders: Treatment or Punishment? The first article I chose was whether or not it is considered a treatment or a punishment to sex offenders if they are forced‚ by court order‚ to take medications that greatly
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Are the laws and services related to mentally disordered offenders adequate and appropriate? Care and treatment for the Mentally Disordered Offender (MDO) has always reflected society’s intolerance and punitive attitude‚ typified by a desire to remove persons with mental illness from public sight (Gostin‚ 1983). Traditionally‚ health care for this population was provided in institutions until the 1950s. De-institutionalisation and large-scale closures of psychiatric institutes in the 1980s resulted
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simply tell the victim not to take the bribe. Yes‚ indeed the victim may be going through financial problems‚ but is the money really worth the pain that the offender has brought upon you? Receiving money from a person who is capable of committing such a horrible crime like rape not only makes you look bad‚ but in fact‚ allows the offender not to receive the full punishment he or she deserves and has a better chance of remaining free in our society where they are more than likely to reoffend. I am
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Juvenile offenders sometimes commit crimes that are equal to or of higher quality than those of adults; however‚ punishing them as adults in adult prisons will do no justice; they are less competent to stand trial‚ adult prisons can harm them mentally‚ physically‚
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“I am a firm believer that upon release‚ ex-offenders should be afforded a second chance to become productive citizens by providing rehabilitation and education that will help them join the workforce.” Going along with this quote by Charles B. Rangel I think it is important to offer offenders who have proven that they are truly sorry for the crime they have committed as long as it’s in reason‚ a rehabilitation program. There are some offenders who in some perspectives deserve nothing less than to
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juvenile to life in prison without parole was unconstitutional even if the juvenile was found guilty of committing homicide (Board‚ 2016). When an adult commits first degree murder or even vehicular homicide‚ you will hear people screaming for the offender to be spending their life in prison or even receive
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Our correctional system punishes offenders‚ by putting them in jail‚ or in prison. In the early times‚ before prisons punishments were often cruel and torturous. The unsettling description of a man broken in half on a rack in the early 1700’s is just one of the ways crimes were punished at that time. Flogging was another. The last flogging was in Delaware on June 16‚1952. When a burglar got 20 lashes. Workhouses‚ were an early form of prisons in the sixteenth century Europe. The Penitentiary Era
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