According to Criminal Justice Today: An Introductory Text for the 21st Century‚ Chapter 11. “Modern sentencing practices are influenced by five goals‚ which weave their way through widely disseminated professional and legal models‚ continuing public calls for sentencing reform.” The five goals of contemporary sentencing are Retribution‚ Incapacitation‚ Deterrence‚ Rehabilitation and Restoration. We are going to discuss what each goal means for sentencing criminals. Retribution a demand for punishment
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Intro to Criminal Justice Project Interview with Corrections Officer X On May 20‚ 2007‚ I met with X. Mr. X is a Corrections Officer 1 at the Camp Hill State Prison and has been working there for 7 years. He has a military background consisting of 3 years in the Marines and has been in the Air Force Reserve for the past 12 years. I asked Mr. X the following questions during our time together and his responses follow: What made you decide to get into the corrections field? I had
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promising future technology in the criminal justice arena? Fully explain the technology and why you believe it is the most promising? Technology is getting more and more advanced‚ for that matter it make things in criminal justice much easier. Technology helps us to improve public safety in many ways. For example‚ it can keep criminal records and identities save. It can keep criminals away from buying weapons and other dangerous tools. In order to catch a criminal you have to have the right tools
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In criminal justice there are two types of ethical decision-making approaches. The two types of approaches are deontological and consequentialist ethical decision-making approaches. Each one of these approaches like all things is similar in some ways and different in some ways. Therefore‚ I will explain them both briefly. Now deontological ethics is one of those kinds of normative theories regarding which choices are morally required‚ forbidden‚ or permitted. In terms this is what helps us make our
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Foundation Research Network on Adolescent Development and Juvenile Justice Paper presented as a part of a Congressional Research Briefing entitled “Juvenile Crime: Causes and Consequences‚” Washington‚ January 19‚ 2000. Address correspondence to the author at the Department of Psychology‚ Temple University‚ Philadelphia‚ PA 19122‚ or at lds@vm.temple.edu. 1 I’d like to talk today about recent changes in juvenile justice policy that are being implemented despite a full consideration of what
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The loosely applied laws toward certain individual within courts can also point to the faulty system that it is occurring in. The criminal justice system acts as the machine operated by the cogs. Courts often have a culture of lawyers who are socialized to see judges and law as supreme and not too question the outcomes. When lawyers are there to ensure their client is given a fair and speedy trial often you will see they are not there to represent or fight for their client‚ they are there to keep
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the criminal justice system exceptions in application of law? It’s not fair to punish someone if they did something by accident or punishing a kid for doing something that he didn’t know was wrong. On the other hand‚ it’s a different story if they did it on purpose or if they knew it was wrong‚ and the person still chose to do it. For those reasons‚ the United States criminal justice system should allow exceptions in application of law. One topic of exceptions made to the criminal justice system
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Justice and Authority paper Discretionary authority in the Criminal Justice system Allen Ray CJA/550 April 11th‚ 2011 Discussions in how discretion is exercised in the legal profession often raises debate in the criminal justice system. Discretion is vastly misused in many of the criminal justice fields. Areas such as youth justice‚ sentencing‚ policing‚ and a host of many other legal fields need better understanding‚ interpretation and communication. As with many practices‚ the object
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Technology affects our everyday life. Technology also affects the criminal justice field‚ especially in communication. The criminal justice system has different databases thanks to technology. These databases do things that humans wouldn’t be able to do or wouldn’t have the time to do. Two specific types of databases are AFIS and Iris scan. AFIS (also known as IAFIS) stands for Automated Fingerprint Identification System. AFIS is just that‚ a database created to keep track of fingerprints. Iris scan
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exonerates innocent individuals through the use of DNA testing. Moreover‚ they work to reform the criminal justice system in order to prevent further injustices that will occur. The United States criminal justice system is centuries years old and does not live up to the same standards as it once did. The American people are not equal. Minorities and the lower classes are not treated equally in our justice system. There have been far too many advancements in our world today to still be wrongly accused
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