Jail and Prison CJA/204 Jail and Prison The judicial system has a way of punishing criminals in such a way that will remove them from visual daily contact with society. The punishment is in the form of imprisonment‚ jail or prison. This paper will discuss the four types of prisons and explain the concept of prison as a total institution. Jails can play an important role in the criminal justice system‚ in which will also be discussed. The paper will also study the role of community based
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CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION A. Background of the Study “The youth is the hope of the fatherland.” Thus‚ declared Dr. Jose Rizal‚ the Philippine national hero. Yet‚ like the youth in other countries‚ many Filipino youths are potential candidates of the country’s Criminal Justice System (CJS). It is a fact borne out by the news stories people read daily that many young people go astray and violate the norms of society as expressed in the country’s laws and statutes. Unlike the adult offenders
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Corrections Jails vs. Prisons ------------------------------------------------- Andrea K. Wester ------------------------------------------------- April 30‚ 2012 To start‚ this paper has been more than challenging for me. Never before has my eyes been more opened to such differences. And to warn you I may have more information than needed‚ but no surprise there. Here bellow is what I have come up with on the differences between jail systems and prisons systems. There is not a major difference
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with youth offenders under the age of 17. The Act regulates the courts dealings with children who come in contact with the youth justice system. This includes police response‚ diversionary options of rehabilitation against detention‚ multiple sentencing options‚ operation of detention centres and recognition of family and community with particular reference to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island communities. A review of the former Juvenile Justice Act 1992 commenced in May 2007. This review was an assessment
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and enhance the dignity of persons deprived of liberty; EMPHASIZING the need to transform the criminal justice system in accordance with the paradigm of restorative justice; AGREEING that deprivation of liberty refers to “any form of detention‚ imprisonment‚ institutionalization‚ or custody of a person in a public…institution which that person is not permitted to leave at will‚ by order of or under de facto control of a judicial‚ administrative‚ or any other authority….”; RAISING WITH DEEPEST
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Hamdi v. Rumsfeld Thompson‚ 1 Hamdi v. Rumsfeld: Detained Enemy Combatants Michael Thompson Liberty High School AP Government 4A Hamdi v. Rumsfeld was a very controversial case in the early 21st century. With terrorism being a striking topic at the time‚ the rights of alleged enemy combatants was argued in the Supreme Court in 2004. This case determined the rights of enemy combatants and assured the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment of Due Process is available to all U
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conclusion of this trip‚ Paul calls the church officials from Ephesus to meet with him‚ and based on the events leading up to this point speaks about his future detention. Thus‚ destiny or irony leads us to Paul’s arrest in Caesarea on the grounds of violation traditional religious Jewish Temple practices. Furthermore‚ this is the start of his detention and journey to Rome where he completed his mission work. While it is likely that converting Gentiles was dangerous‚ the conclusion depicts traditional Jews
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Australia’s imposition of mandatory detention‚ for the asylum seekers who arrive in Australia by boat without visa’s and how this is in violation of common human rights principles. An asylum seeker is a person who has left their home country as a political refugee and is seeking asylum in another country. This policy was introduced in 1992 and has since been a highly controversial issue that has generated considerable debate. The policy of mandatory detention is in breach of a number of international
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“Access the effectiveness of the criminal justice system in dealing with young offenders” The criminal justice system’s aims to be effective in dealing with young offenders. Youths have the highest tendency for rehabilitation and most continue there lifestyles obeying the law as they mature. There are several factors prompting juvenile crime. These are psychological and social pressures which are exclusive to teenagers. This leads to an increase of young people diobeying the law and running into
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Criminological Perspectives: Assessment on Laojiao System in China Introduction Punishment‚ prisons and incarceration play critical roles in our contemporary societies despite much criticism on their effectiveness of rehabilitation[1]. In China‚ there is a punishment system “Re-education through laboring” (Laojiao) enabling the police to sentence people who have committed minor offences to prison-like facilities without trial[2]. Reformed-minded law makers‚ judges and scholars both in China
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