Task Four Outline the power of the courts in sentencing offenders by using one example of a summary offence and indictable offence. There are two main courts - Magistrates and Crown Court. Magistrates have less power than Crown. magistrates can sentence up to six months in custody. Crown Courts can sentence longer up to life in prison. An indictable offence is one tried by a jury in the Crown court. When a magistrates court feels that the offence is so serious they cannot sentence accordingly i/e
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Film’s Impact on Society Film has played a huge part in American society since 1878 when Edward James made the first real motion picture. Ever since Edward’s first movie production‚ film has made many technological advances that change the way we look at film today. This is obvious when you go to a local movie theatre today rather than looking at movies from the 1900’s. I am very interested on finding out information about the impact of film on society. I personally think that today’s film has many
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The sentencing phase of the criminal justice process is where a guilty offender is sanctioned for his conduct. The goals of sentencing include retribution‚ rehabilitation‚ deterrence‚ and incapacitation. Historically the primary goal has varied by criminal justice era and the crime committed. However‚ each sentencing goal has a specific purpose (Masters‚ et al.‚ 2017). The sentencing goal of retribution is normally pursued in heinous crime cases. Its aim is to castigate the offender. In contrast
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64 A STUDY OF HRM PRACTICES AND ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE IN SELECTED PRIVATE SECTOR ORGANIZATIONS IN INDIA 1. Executive summary The new economic environment is primarily marked by the freeing of shackles for entrepreneurship and economic growth. The “license system” has been replaced‚ to a great extent‚ by a “market system”. The challenge of Human Resource Management (HRM) practices would be to create an environment of resilience‚ which can accommodate and assimilate successfully changes in
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if it is moral. With all of these problems taken into consideration‚ it is clear to anyone that capital punishment is the wrong choice. Capital punishment has proven to neither deter criminals‚ neither directly reduce crime rate nor even rightfully punish rebellious members of society. Rather‚ capital punishment has cost the American people millions of dollars in maximum-security prisons and executions‚ wrongfully sentenced innocent men and women‚ and blatantly gone against the eighth amendment of
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Sentencing Proposal The last stage of a criminal trial is known as sentencing. During sentencing the convening authority over the criminal court proceedings makes a determination of how the guilty party should be punished. Prior to that determination being made both the defense attorneys and prosecutors may make their arguments as to why or why not the defendant should be punished to the fullest of the law. The judge taking these arguments into consideration makes his or her decision on what
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out during the past decade. Foreign investment is when a company invests financially in a country abroad‚ whether in the form of portfolio investments which include shares‚ stock and bonds‚ or in the form of direct investment where locally based operations are owned and controlled by the foreign investing corporation. Such investments are controlled by laws known as International trade laws. International Trade law includes the appropriate rules and customs for handling trade between countries or
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Price Volatility in Food and Agricultural Markets: Policy Responses Policy Report including contributions by FAO‚ IFAD‚ IMF‚OECD‚ UNCTAD‚ WFP‚ the World Bank‚ the WTO‚ IFPRI and the UN HLTF 2 June 2011 UN-HLTF on Global Food Security PRICE VOLATILITY IN FOOD AND AGRICULTURAL MARKETS: POLICY RESPONSES –3 G20 leaders at their summit meeting in November 2010 requested FAO‚ IFAD‚ IMF‚ OECD‚ UNCTAD‚ WFP‚ the World Bank and the WTO (to) work with key stakeholders “to develop options
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in the Correctional Population Christina Kaba University of Phoenix Online Cultural Diversity in Criminal Justice CJA 420 Kevin Moore April 12‚ 2005 Racial Disparity in the Correctional Population Racial disparity in the correctional population refers to the difference in the number of minorities versus whites represented inside institutions. "The American Correctional Association acknowledges that racial disparity exists within adult and juvenile detention and correctional systems
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gratefully acknowledged. This project was partly funded by a European Community MED-CAMPUS program research grant. (Multinational Finance Journal‚ 2001‚ vol. 5‚ no.2‚ pp. 87–112) ©Multinational Finance Society‚ a nonprofit corporation. All rights reserved. 1 Shareholder Wealth Effects of Dividend Policy Changes in an Emerging Stock Market: The Case of Cyprus* Nickolaos Travlos ALBA‚ Greece‚ and Cardiff Business School‚ U.K. Lenos Trigeorgis University of Cyprus‚ Cyprus‚ and University of Chicago
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