Death Penalty Capital punishment has been and will likely always be a highly controversial issue. Throughout history‚ the death penalty has been used as a form of public display for crime deterrence. Examples in the past include beheadings‚ hangings‚ and now lethal injection. Modern research has been done around the issues of deterrence and whether the death penalty has any deterrent effect on homicide rates. This begs the question of whether it is ethical to execute a person just to deter
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In 1982‚ the Young Offenders Act [YOA] was established. It replaced the Juvenile Delinquents Act [JDA] of 1908 and its main objective was to guarantee the rights and freedoms of Canadian Youth were being met. Many revisions and opportunities arose with the passing of the YOA. With the passing of the YOA‚ it provided the young offenders of Canada with extended rights‚ chances for rehabilitation‚ and also therapy institutions. The YOA takes into concern such elements of age‚ maturity‚ reasonableness
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Women Offenders In this article it discusses how the number of women offenders has increased. Based on the self-reports of victims of violence‚ women account for about 14% of violent offenders an annual average of about 2.1 million violent female offenders. Male offending equals about 1 violent offender for every 9 males age 10 or older‚ a per capita rate 6 times that of women. Three out of four violent female offenders committed simple assault. Six to ten women in State prisons had experienced
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Punishment is a word that has many different meanings. It differs from person to person‚ state to state and even country to country. When looking at the criminal justice system the purpose of punishment is deterrence‚ rehabilitation‚ retribution‚ and incapacitation (Bontrager‚ Smith‚ & Winokur‚ 2008). Punishment involving adults is hard but when dealing with adolescents it is even more difficult. Adolescence is often thought to be a time of irrational and emotion influenced behavior. There are
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Juvenile Justice Developed by Roberta J. Ching MODULE: STUDENT VERSION Reading Selections for This Module: Garinger‚ Gail. “Juveniles Don’t Deserve Life Sentences.” New York Times 15 Mar. 2012‚ New York ed.: A35. Print. Jenkins‚ Jennifer Bishop. “On Punishment and Teen Killers.” Juvenile Justice Information Exchange. 2 Aug. 2011. Web. 11 June 2012. < http://jjie.org/jennifer-bishop-jenkins-on-punishmentteen-killers/19184>. Lundstrom‚ Marjie. “Kids Are Kids—Until They Commit Crimes.” Sacramento
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Running Head: UNFAIR TREATMENT Is There Unfair Treatment for Women in Prison? LaSonja Johnson Kaplan University CM223: Effective Writing II for Criminal Justice Majors Professor Vineski September 1‚ 2009 Women are thought to be gentler sex and the softer side of our humanity. But some women do commit crimes‚ and when they do‚ we want to know why. What drove them to commit those crimes? Was it an abusive husband? Was it drugs? Was it envy… fear… lust? With all questions still
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on the U.S. juvenile justice system. The original purpose of creating a separate juvenile court was to keep adolescents out of adult prisons‚ limit their exposure to adult criminal activity and poor role models‚ and also to provide guidance that helps them to turn away from further criminal behavior and be directed toward more positive results. It seemed that the individual juvenile offender cases were not getting looked at based on the individual characteristics or needs of the offender‚ rather whomever
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Determining whether a juvenile is identified as a child or an adult is quite simple. If a juvenile is under the age of 18 then he or she is not an adult and if a juvenile has graduated from high school then he or she is identified as an adult. I believe that if a juvenile has not developed a certain level of intelligence or has not emotionally developed then they can’t be identified as an adult. In addition to that‚ although juveniles may have developed the sense of knowing right from wrong they
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An alternative to juvenile offenders facing time at a juvenile facility is for them to attend a boot camp. Boot camps are a detention center in which youthful offenders are detained for a limited period of time. Boot camps are structured in a fashion that is modeled in a way similar to military training camps. These boot camps target criminal offenders that are under the age of 18. The goal of these militant boot camps is to take juvenile offenders and modify their problem behaviors‚ which include
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committed when he was 17 years old. At the time of his conviction the Court’s ruling in Stanford v. Kentucky held that the 8th Amendment did not proscribe juvenile between the ages of 16 and 18 from being sentenced to death. In 2002 the Supreme Court ruling in the Atkins v. Virginia barred the use of the death penalty on mentally retarded offenders due to “evolving standards of decency” which put them in a class that is “categorically less culpable than the average criminal. In response to the above
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