Any court system of any country is designed to punish the offender and keep all the citizens secured from attacks and harassment from their neighbors as they go about their daily chores. Hover‚ due to the age difference of the offenders‚ there is the need to design and develop a juvenile justice system which is formed with a sole purpose of taking care of the needs and desires of the youths who can be deprived basic needs of development and can be harassed if taken to the adult prisons. The juvenile
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The French court system is a double pyramid structure. There are two separate orders: administrative courts and judicial courts. Each order has a pyramid structure‚ with a single court at the top and various courts at the base. Litigants displeased with a court decision can seek a review before the next court up in the hierarchy. In each order‚ a single court of last instance ensures that the lower courts interpret the law in the same way. The administrative courts settle disputes between users
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Is the Court System Fair? Lynette Price CJA-224 9/03/2012 Professor John Pierce Throughout generations‚ the public joke of how attorneys are like sharks‚ they “circle around their prey before they head in for the kill” has been proven through ruthlessness and relentlessness to acquire and win a court case‚ especially if the possible case is high-profile (a Hollywood star‚ a nationally known football player‚ singer‚ a television show icon and etc.) The stigma of working in one of the top
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The justice system in today’s society is not bias. People today‚ just like to say that they are. If you have committed a crime white or black you will pay a price for it. The way I see it is‚ you get what you get no matter what race. People today‚ just want to believe what they see on tv. Which is clearly not true in some aspects of the news media. The news does not show how the whites are treated by police. The media only shows what they want you to see. If you look at the per capita for the united
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Issues of diagnosis centres around gender‚ ethnicity and social class‚ and these groups were brought to attention by people such as Rack (1982) who said there are biases in the way doctors diagnose illness. Illnesses can be diagnosed through two main classification systems known as DSM and ICM. The DSM is the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders and is published by the American Psychiatric Association. It was first published in 1952 and has been followed by many further editions
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The US Court System The courts are the overseers of the law. They administer it‚ they resolve disputes under it‚ and they ensure that it is and remains equal to and impartial for everyone. In the United States each state is served by the separate court systems‚ state and federal. Both systems are organized into three basic lev- - els of courts — trial courts‚ intermediate courts of appeal and a high court‚ or Supreme Court. The state courts are concerned essentially with cases arising under state
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COURT HISTORY AND PURPOSE PAPER INDIVIDUAL ASSIGNMENT Neil Holmes CJA/224 - INTRODUCTION TO CRIMINAL COURT SYSTEMS 02/16/14 LEESA MC NEIL
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Federal v. State Courts The United States is at the forefront of modern democracy. Its unique three branched system allows the government to operate under a quasi-idealistic form of checks and balances. As outlined by the U.S. Constitution‚ the judicial branch of government serves as the interpreter of the law and is “one of the most sophisticated judicial systems in the world.”1 This complexity is a product of balance and structure in the form of a judicial hierarchy‚ with the Supreme Court at the top
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judiciary is composed of two court systems‚ a federal court system and fifty state court systems‚ with courts at both the national and state levels. The impact of these two court systems allows for criminal laws to be imposed by Federal‚ State‚ and local law enforcement agencies‚ each with its own jurisdictional requirements and enforcement criteria. The differences in impact can be in areas such as sentencing‚ policies in sentencing options‚ appellate court opinions and Supreme Court decisions that result
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There are many hoops that a case must jump through in order to reach the federal supreme court‚ and there are different tracks in which it can get there. The Supreme Court can have original jurisdiction‚ it can reach the court via the federal system‚ and it can reach it via the state courts. The Supreme Court receives thousands of cases a year‚ and will only hear from approximately 80. The Supreme Court has original jurisdiction in a variety of cases. For instance‚ they have original jurisdiction
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