Prison Term Policy Recommendation Proposal September 9‚ 2013 Armed robbery is a serious crime that can put many people in harm’s way. Whether a person is robbing a place of business or an individual‚ they are committing a crime against society and robbing people of their sense of safety and security. When someone chooses to bring a weapon while they are committing a crime‚ their intentions are to intimidate and control their victims‚ or to injure them. Policymakers continuously
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Twenty years ago‚ super-maximum-security prisons were rare in America. As of 1996‚ over two-thirds of states had "supermax" facilities that collectively housed more than 20‚000 inmates. Based on the present study‚ however‚ as of 2004‚ 44 states had supermax prisons. Designed to hold the most violent and disruptive inmates in single-cell confinement for 23 hours per day‚ often for an indefinite period of time‚ these facilities have been lightning rods for controversy. Economic
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Wrongfully Convicted: Innocence Being wrongfully convicted of a crime is a life changing experience. Over ten-thousand innocent people every year have to go through this horrible event. (http://researchnews.osu.edu/archive/ronhuff.htm) Eyewitnesses take up a big told in why this happens‚ they will look at the line of people and tell the officers the wrong person‚ maybe not on purpose but the affect they will have on this persons life is unlike any other. Being wrongfully convicted means
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Prison Term Policy Recommendation Prison Term Policy Recommendation In this paper I will provide a recommendation concerning the issue of a bill that would double the maximum prison term for anyone convicted of armed robbery. I will also address the reasoning behind my recommendations concerning the matter. Regardless of how many voters are for or against a bill does not mean that it should become a policy. Many people would believe that this bill if passed would be for a greater cause or
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Prison Term Policy Recommendation As a Criminologist Advisor to the State Legislature‚ I have been chosen to provide a prison term policy on armed robbery. Currently the legislature will soon be voting on a bill that would double the maximum prison term for anyone convicted of armed robbery. First I would like to define what the legal definition of armed robbery is as defined by the Black’s Law Dictionary which is: an aggravated form of robbery in which the defendant is armed with a dangerous
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Prison Term Policy Recommendation Paper University of Phoenix Criminology/ CJA 323 May 30‚ 2007 Prison Term Policy Recommendation Paper The crime of armed robbery is an offense that deserves punishment. Should that crime be subject to double the maximum prison term‚ or could the offender be rehabilitated? Individuals who purposely commit violent acts of robbery on innocent victims should not only receive double the maximum prison term‚ but those individuals should be made to compensate
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I woke up to complete silence but a screaming in my head that something wasn’t right. My eyes opened to the sight of two strangers walking through my living room. There was still no sound‚ not even the creak of their footsteps as they deliberately crept towards the door. I was instantly flooded with adrenaline as I shattered the silence with a single word. “HEY!” I barked‚ causing the eyes of the men to snap straight towards the source of the word. Dropping what was in their hands they burst out
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I could not believe my eyes when I saw these foreign robbers who make an attempt to rob my kind neighbour sundry shop.They looked very strong and mean.Two of them‚tall and dark-skin wearing masks and wanted to rob Mr.Samy’s shop.It happened one evening when the sun was about to set‚ my mother asked to me to go and buy some onions and salts from a nearby sundry shop which is apparently my neighbour.The shop was managed by Mr Samy ‚ a jovial middle-aged indian man with a huge pot-belly.His wife and
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Prison Term Policy Recommendation Paper Sharon T. McKnelly University of Phoenix CJA 314 Dean Olson January 31‚ 2011 Prison Term Policy Recommendation In September 2011 there will be a vote on a bill that will double the prison sentence of anyone committing armed robbery‚ in the state of Wisconsin. The hope of the bill sponsors is that the increased penalties will deter a person from committing armed robbery. Senator McKenzie is aware of popular support for the bill; however‚ he has
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Prison Term Policy � PAGE �7� PRISON TERM POLICY RECOMMENDATION Tanya LaForce University of Phoenix CJA/323 Paul Frankenhauser September 22‚ 2008 � PRISON TERM POLICY RECOMMENDATION The information written herein is to inform readers of the pros and cons associated with doubling the maximum prison term for anyone convicted of armed robbery. Furthermore detailing to the reader regarding the author ’s professional opinion on doubling the prison sentence for those who commit armed robbery
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