Intermediate Sanctions Intermediate sanctions are the sanctions that are more restrictive than the probation and less restrictive than imprisonment. It is also intended to relieve the pressure on the over crowed facilities that deal with the corrections and the probation departments that are understaffed. The purpose for the intermediate sanction in the criminal justice process is that it helps with any of the concerns from the facilities being packed and over crowed. Jails and the prisons
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Racial and Gender Inequality Functionalist Theory Racial inequality evaluated through the functionalist theory would be looked at to provide a function to the working system of a society. One function for racial inequality could be that the inferior race‚ prefers or needs direction by the dominant race. This was a common view in the enslavement of blacks in the south before the civil war. Another functionalist view might try to explain that the inferior race is in fact dangerous to mix with the
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Sentencing and punishment essay in achieving justice The main purpose of the criminal justice system is to prevent crimes and to protect citizens from the wrong doings of others and to keep society in a stable and working order. Throughout Australia‚ sentencing is the final unambiguous act given from the court to the offender as their result of punishment. The Crimes (Sentencing Procedure) Act 1999 (NSW) is apparent to be one of the main core of statutory guidelines in relation to the sentencing
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• Offender profiling is only a part of criminal investigative analysis and is not treated as a single entity of investigation‚ instead as part of an interrelated behavioural investigation. However‚ this technique is not widely used in Australia‚ as there are only four members of the International Criminal Investigative Analysis Fellowship (ICIAF) that work in conjunction with the police‚ mostly within the serial cases of a violent/sexual nature‚ it is widely used in America possibly due to their
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Economic sanctions are a tool in the world of diplomacy that nations use to influence other countries. Further explained in The Impact of Economic Sanctions‚ “Sanctions can be applied for a variety of reasons‚ including punishing or weakening a target‚ to signal disapproval‚ to induce a change in policy‚ or to bring about regime change” (The impact of Economic Sanctions 2007 ‚9). Sanctions are a more aggressive tool than diplomacy yet not as extreme as war‚ as Hovie Huseby and Sprinz assert “Sanctions
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our actions to help ensure peace and unity is economic sanctions. Economic sanctions have been used for many years now in international relations. There has been countless number of times that the U.S has used this form of relations to deter a country away from its wrongful path of destruction. In recent news president Barak Obama has issued economic sanctions against Russia for their takeover of Crimea. The purpose of economic sanctions is to influence other countries in that their current
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Outline and assess sociological explanations for ethnic inequalities in modern Britain Different sociological theories have different perspectives in terms of explaining ethnic inequalities in modern Britain. For example functionalists would argue that ethnic inequalities have a purpose and are functional for society. In contrast to functionalists‚ Marxists would argue ethnic inequalities benefit the bourgeoisie (ruling class)‚ whereas Postmodernists reject the traditional sociological explanations
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economic sanctions for decades to change some undesirable behavior of target states in a way favorable to sender states. However‚ a number of cases in which economic sanctions were imposed comprehensively called into question the effectiveness of sanctions in general. Iraqi case of comprehensive sanctions imposition revealed the sanctions crisis and put on the agenda three substantial and overlapping issues. First‚ comprehensive sanctions inflict wide humanitarian damage on mass public. Sanctions imposed
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populace of African American slaves across the United States. Furthermore‚ the Reconstruction that followed the Civil War worked to create social‚ political‚ and economic equality for both races. However‚ the South was opposed to working and living with African Americans‚ who they considered inferior to their own race. Therefore‚ the South developed systems to ensure white supremacy and prevent African Americans from using their newly gained
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be an equal citizen in a democratic state you must be free from many of the capacities of domination‚ many of which plague our society today. Racial disparities in the criminal justice system are not in line with a Relational egalitarian way of thinking. At many times racial disparities fuel hierarchy-enhancing legitimizing myths propitiating the inequalities that citizens have comparatively to each other. Relational egalitarians believe that individuals are to be treated equal with respect and value
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