Sentencing is an important aspect in the criminal justice process. It is the punishment defendants receive when they are convicted of a crime. The punishment spectrum is wide and vast‚ ranging from probation to death. Punishment and sentencing present some of the most complex issues of the criminal justice system. There are four main philosophical reasons surrounding the purpose of sentencing; they are retribution‚ deterrence‚ incapacitation and rehabilitation. Retribution is the philosophy that
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of corrections have evolved with society‚ moving from incapacitation which aimed to simply lock offenders up‚ to rehabilitation which aims to fix the offender‚ now restorative justice is gaining traction. The goal of restorative justice aims to “restore” the harm that was done to the victim by the offender. One of the main methods used to reconcile both parties and the community is through Victim-Offender Mediation‚ which offers a secure and structured environment that supports mediation with the help
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no one and it would be beneficial to remove them from the prison system‚ and into the parole system (D’Elia‚ 2010). Prison Cost Prisons are expensive to keep open‚ and most of the money to keep them open comes from the taxpayers. A study in 2012 showed that prisons cost American taxpayers approximately 5.4 billion dollars each year (Henrichson & Delaney‚ 2012). These cost include various expenses that include maintaining the prisons‚ employees salaries‚ educational training‚ providing benefits
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UNIVERSITY OF PHOENIX Prison and The War on Drugs Week One Assignment CJA 234 [Type the author name] 10/4/2011 Prison and the War on Drugs. The war on drugs has been implemented for more than 30 years. Currently‚ there are close to a half million persons imprisoned on drug charges in this country. That is a tenfold increase over the 50‚000 in 1980. (jrank.org‚ 2011) In the past few years‚ close to $40 billion has been spent annually fighting the war on drugs. As a result
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enough‚ most don’t realize how difficult it can be to adjust to an alien appendage. There are many amputees who have been wearing prosthetic limbs for years‚ but can still not function normally. Such situations only underline the need for amputee rehabilitation.
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Canada has a instituted a sex offenders registry‚ like in United States of America‚ called Sex Offender Information Registration Act‚ in 2004. An act that requires sex offenders to register information for the reason being‚ that it supports the police in preventing and investigating sexual offences (Antonacci‚ 2013‚ pg. 121). The sex offender registry is a bit different than in United States of America where it is viewable to the public. Here in Canada it is only available to the RCMP. The first
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principal goal of a penitentiary? • What were the differences between the two prison models? • What were the benefits and the drawbacks of each model? • Which model was considered to be the winning model? The penitentiary was suppose to be a place that would be a humane punishment for people that had committed a crime. It was to be used as a place that people could get spiritual improvement as well as rehabilitation. It was meant to be a place for people to express contrition for the crimes that
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At first you may be ill at ease when stating that offenders can be victims but it could be difficult to determine the victim and the offender. In the end‚ both could be in the wrong and both could be victims as well. The concept of offenders as victims is complicated. There are multiple ways that factor in this concept‚ such as the use of deadly force when resisting a violent offender. The judge and the jury must decide whether or not deadly force was justifiable. A good example is provided in the
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Persons convicted of crimes committed below the age of 18 enter adult jails and prisons while still children or as the youngest of adults. The US supreme court has recognized that a youth offender serves a higher percentage of his life in prison than an adult offender. About 200‚000 people ages 24 and younger leave juvenile facilities or prisons every year. Characteristics & challenges Research has found that youth offenders are among the inmates most open to physical and sexual assault during incarceration
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The concept of the prison has existed for more than two thousand years. It probably goes back as far in time as practice of cannibalism‚ where victims had to wait for their turn in contributing to the chief course in the menu of their captors. Examples of prisons can even be found in the Old Testament when Joseph was incarcerated in Egypt. It was not until the 19th century that a clear shift occurred from corporal punishment to imprisonment. As societies prospered and the industrial revolution began
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