sentences for offenders under 18 was cruel and unusual punishment‚ and therefore unconstitutional. At the heart of the decision is the recognition that it is fundamentally unjust to mandate a life sentence for children convicted of homicide without considering mitigating factors. Young offenders in the juvenile and criminal justice systems lack adjudicative competence because of developmental immaturity (Grisso et al.‚ 2003). Moreover‚ the prevalence of mental illness among young offenders heightens
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“Which Path Should You Take?” Paul Arden once said‚ “If you always make the right decision‚ the safe decision‚ the one most people make‚ you will be the same as everyone else.” The truth of this quote not only applies to everyday life‚ but also compliments the poem‚ “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost. In this particular poem‚ the speaker of the poem must make a decision when he/she is faced with one road that diverges into two separate paths. They can either choose the path that has been heavily
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in courts is to reduce recidivism. Earlier the role of a federal court system was to bring together the administration and judges (Cohen and Spitzer‚ 1996). The role of a judicial official is to administer procedural justice that helps a defendant to accept accountability. The Procedural Justice Theory suggests that a person will see rulings as legitimate‚ and adopt the court’s value and goals (Wales et al.‚ 2010). O’Scannlain (2010) states the role of the federal judge is to apply the Constitution
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the other hand‚ anti-federalists‚ back country people or people involved in business but not in the mercantile economy‚ opposed the ratification of the constitution. The two sides‚ after much debate‚ were able to come to a compromise after the Bill of Rights was included into the Constitution. When the new Constitution was drafted‚ the ratification‚ the official approval by the people of the United States‚ sparked a national debate. People were shocked by the radical changes it proposed; they expected
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1. Could the Framers of the Bill of Rights have conceived of pornography as “speech” that would be protected by the First Amendment? What is the rationale for granting this type of expression a degree of constitutional protection? Examination of the arguments over the first amendment say the sole intent of the amendment was to insure a person could speak out against the government and support the political party of their choice without fear of retribution. The Supreme Court extended freedom
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Conditions under which decisions are made are as follows: Certainty This is when individuals are informed about a problem‚ alternative solutions are obvious and the likely of each solutions are clear. With this condition you have everything under control as you know that should something happen‚ you already have measures in place to take care of that situation. An example is in the case whereby you are involved in a car accident‚ say when you take insurance for your car you add the option of being
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Legitimacy and Procedural Justice The policing article simply gives the reader in detail explanation on Legitimacy and Procedure Justice‚ followed by examples and criminal issues in policing. The main topics are the complete definitions‚ importance and differences between the two. While discussing legitimacy‚ the actual term reflects the belief that the police ought to be able to exercise their authority to maintain social order‚ manage conflicts and solve problems in their communities. It
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Winning Film Silence of the Lambs popularized and universalized the concept of criminal profiling also known as Offender profiling. An investigative vice used by law enforcement agencies to discover likely suspects and analyze patterns and behaviours that may predict future offenses and/or victims. In the Hollywood Blockbuster Jodie Foster stars as an FBI agent trying to hunt down an active serial killer Buffalo Bill with help from Dr. Hannibal Lecter‚ a forensic psychiatrist and cannibalistic serial
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Capitalism or Socialism – Which is the moral social system? There are two major systems that compete for the name of moral social system. Capitalistic and socialistic ideas are quite different but both of them have a lot of supporters. Capitalism is about you pursuing your own goals and your goals only without caring about the others in the system. On the other hand‚ Socialism is about you pursuing the goals of you and the others at the same time. The question which system is the moral one is
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AIM: I am carrying out an investigation to see which alcohol is the best fuel. I will do this by experimenting with different alcohols and setting them alight and measuring different factors. I will analyse all my results and try to discover patterns‚ which should help me to conclude which alcohol is the best fuel. PLAN ==== This is how my experiment will be set out: ========================================== Keeping this experiment a fair test ===================================
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