The four main purposes of punishment in the criminal justice system are: Deterrence - this is something intended to discourage someone from commiting a crime through instilling fear as to the consequences for their actions. There are two types of deterrence - specific deterrence and general deterrence. Retribution - its purpose of punishment is to administer justice - a deserved or morally right consequence to the offender that committed the crime. Rehabilitation - this punishment aims to reform
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Shapley | Civil Law v. Criminal Law | Introduction to Criminal Law | Joanna Solis 3/2/2012 | Only a few people actually know “the law”. Others think that the criminal justice system is a body that only has one set of rules and laws and all act the same. Not to mention that because of television they think that every case is tried at criminal court with a judge and a panel of jurors. However that is not the case because there’s two specifically types of law‚ civil and criminal law. Though both
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Introduction Criminal Court Systems are fundamental to the functioning of any state in the world. Criminal Court System is a system created with the aim of reducing crime rates by ensuring justice‚ encouraging public vigilance and winning the public confidence. Not only is the court system expected to be fair but also concerned with service delivery‚ transparency and accountability‚ thus birthing law-abiding citizens in a society. This essay thereby seeks to examine and evaluate the American Criminal Court
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205 - Produce Minutes of Meetings 1. Explain the purpose of different types of minutes and other meeting records Minutes are an official written statement of the motions and resolutions taken in a meeting. It is brief but a complete record of all discussions held with the members that attended the meeting. Minutes are also the official record of the proceeding of a meeting that should be needed to approve by the participating members of the meeting. An accurate written record of meetings is significantly
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quiet life‚ they have to be protecting from criminals and all other perpetrators by the government through its security agencies and the judicial system. However‚ to ensure that all the arrests made by the police force are legal‚ the suspect should be taken to court where the court has the sole responsibility of proving his or her innocence or guiltiness. The criminal process often begins with a stop or an arrest after a suspect is apprehended. The criminal process could end at any point up to the
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------------------------------------------------- Assault From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia This article is about the criminal act. For tortious aspects of assault‚ see Assault (tort). For other uses‚ see Assault (disambiguation). Criminal law | Part of the common law series | Element (criminal law) | * Actus reus * Mens rea * Causation * Concurrence | Scope of criminal liability | * Complicity * Corporate * Vicarious | Seriousness of offense | * Felony * Misdemeanor
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The Three Strike Law is a law that was passed in 1994. The purpose of this law is to require the defendant extra time for their new felony because of a crime that was committed in the past. This law have been active for several years and it came with a lot of pros and cons. In this paper I will give my view on what I think the good and the bad is for this law. I understand why the government started The Three Strike Law‚ but I disagree with this law because there are consequences that come
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Criminal Law Assessment Paper Nicole Mazurkiewicz CJA/343 Graham Quisenberry July 12‚ 2010 This paper will present an assessment of Criminal Law. The paper will discuss sources and purposes of criminal law. Some of the topics that will be discussed will be‚ explain jurisdiction to create and enforce criminal law‚ the adversarial system and what standards of proof are needed in criminal cases. We will also discuss the concepts of criminal liability versus accomplice liability as well
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Introduction Criminal law is referred to as that branch of law concerned with crimes committed against the public authority. It is very different from civil law. An example is murder. It is very easy to put murder under civil law because it is a crime committed against another human being but the crime of murder is against the public interests. An example of civil crime is when a person does not honor a contract. Criminal law can be substantial or procedural. Substantial criminal law is concerned
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Explain the purpose of an operating system Process Management A multitasking operating system may give the appearance that a lot of processes are running concurrently/simultaneously‚ this is not true as only one process can be executing at any one time on a single-core CPU‚ unless on a multi-core or similar technology. Processes are often called tasks in embedded operating systems. The function of the task or process is something that takes up time‚ as opposed to memory‚ which is ’something that
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