Most juvenile institutions have some form of treatment program available to juveniles. The most common programs include: counseling‚ vocational and educational training‚ recreational programs and religious counseling. Two community based programs are guided group interaction (GGI) and positive peer culture (PPC). Guided group interaction is a program where a delinquent can acknowledge and solve personal problems with support from other members in the group. Individual members can be supportive and
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differences between the organizations in the police component as compared to the other two? * Police: Police are public agencies which purposes are to serve the community by maintaining order‚ enforce the criminal law and provide services. The goal of these procedures is for officers to prevent and control crime. Officers work with prosecutors to obtain evidence to set a conviction in the court of law. * Courts: Court is where a person accused of committing a punishable offense go to have
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Does the Punishment Fit the Crime? Queensland Mandatory Sentencing Good Morning Class‚ today I will be speaking on a issue that‚ due to recent changes in legislation has sparked both support and outrage within the greater Queensland community. The issue of course‚ being the notion of mandatory sentencing. In recent years‚ Queensland and other States‚ including New South Wales and Victoria‚ have introduced mandatory sentencing laws for certain types of offences. The Queensland Government is now
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is convicted of a crime by a guilty plea‚ plea bargain‚ or jury verdict the sentencing takes place. A sentence is a decree of punishment. This punishment can be fines‚ incarceration in jain for short term and in prison for longer term‚ probation‚ payment of restitution to crime victim‚ community service or drug and alcohol rehabilitation. Not only will the severity of the crime determine the punishment but the sentencing judge usually will consider the defendants criminal history or lack thereof;
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Mandatory Sentencing “A mandatory sentence is a court decision setting where judicial discretion is limited by law. Typically‚ people convicted of certain crimes must be punished with at least a minimum number of years in prison.” – Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopaedia The difference between normal and mandatory sentencing is the process that this happens in as normal sentencing sets a range of penalties‚ which allows the judge and the magistrates to see out the sentence according to the circumstances
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Justice 20 February 2014 Alternative Sentencing and Diversion Programs There are many types of diversion programs and alternative sentencing. Some being more successful than others. It has been found that only nonviolent offenders have been positively affected by alternative sentencing and diversion programs. Violent offenders have shown to be unaffected by such programs. One of the most popular sentencing laws in the state of California is the Determinate Sentencing Law. This law places a shorter
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Department of Labor. The evaluation led by MDRC and the urban institute‚ assesses the impact of CEO on employment and recidivism for program participants compared with control group participants. The CEO Program Evaluation Program Description The goal of the CEO program model is to provide former prisoners with: a. Immediate work and pay through a day labor approach b. Necessary work experience for finding more permanent jobs c. A way to build work related soft skills The focus is not
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History of parole and indeterminate sentencing History of parole and indeterminate sentencing This paper discusses the history of parole and indeterminate sentencing‚ how do either have a place in the current correctional system? In addition‚ would we be better off to abolish them for good? Parole began with the passing of the legislation on June 25‚ 1910. In this time‚ there were only three prisons and there were a parole board at each of the three prisons that would grant parole
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6.) Alternative sentencing (Instead of sending juveniles to industrial schools). Example‚ probation which would include the completion of a community service order‚ or drug program. Many juvenile offenders can be effectively rehabilitated through community- based supervision and intervention. There is need for alternatives to detention; research on traditional confinement in large training schools or correctional facilities has found relatively high recidivism rates (Austin‚ Johnson and Weitzer
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Indeterminate &Structured Sentencing To me Indeterminate Sentencing is a very degraded and/or very disturbed type of sentencing. In this sentencing a legislature is the one who has say as to what the terms will be for the crime that has been committed and a judge gets the decision as to what the sentence will be for the offender. As I look at this information I feel that the judge should have a say in what the sentence will be‚ but not have all the power as to what it will be. A Parole Board gets
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