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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Communication Process Carolyn Whatley CJA/443 October 18‚ 2010 Jeffrey Gordon Communication Process Communication is important within all organizations‚ therefore an organizations communication process may be unique to that organization. Discussion includes the communication climate of Upshaw Processing as a whole. In addition‚ discussion includes the strengths and weaknesses of Upshaw’s communication. Discussion includes the contributions of management‚ supervisors‚ and employees
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Goals of Sentencing There are five goals of sentencing: punishment‚ deterrence‚ incapacitation‚ rehabilitation‚ and restitution. Punishment‚ also called retribution is society’s way of getting revenge on a criminal for the harm they have caused. Retribution is society’s way of getting revenge or feeling like they got even with a criminal. In society a crime not only harms the victim of a crime‚ but society as well. A criminal’s injurious actions may outrage society as a whole. This creates the
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Prison sentences are too soft in New Zealand to the criminals who commit serious crimes and need to be harsher. In New Zealand criminals who commit serious crimes are handed a prison sentence. I strongly oppose the sentencing of criminals currently. I believe justice should be served more harshly. Presently the New Zealand court system is too soft on criminals who commit serious crimes. In 2012‚ there was approximately 376‚000 recorded offences. This resulted in 196‚000 convictions. That’s just
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Every victim looks forward to fair trial‚ conviction and sentencing. Money‚ time that the lawyer has with the client and other motivating factors determine whether the accused will receive fair or unfair sentence. However‚ this has not always been true for many suspects in the court of law within US. According to Death Penalty Washighton Center‚ (2003) victims race‚ the defendant or both elements play a fundamental role in deciding whether death penalties or death sentences are imposed on victims
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Aims of sentencing. Retribution. · Based on idea of punishment‚ because offender deserves punishment for his/her acts. · Does not seek to reduce crime or alter the offender’s future behaviour. · Concerned only with the offence that was committed and making sure that the punishment inflicted is in proportion to that offence. · Contains element of revenge (eye for an eye) and is used to justify long prison sentences. · Tariff sentences Idea that each offence should have a set tariff with
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Personal Dilemma CJA/324 September 17‚ 2014 Personal Dilemma In February 2014‚ Baltimore Ravens player Ray Rice and his fiancée Janay Palmer (now wife) were arrested‚ charged and later released in Atlantic City on what was called simple assault charges. The details were not clear at the time. However‚ what was known was that Rice and Palmer got into a some form of an altercation inside the Revel Casino. Rice ’s lawyer stated in was just a "minor physical altercation." Not long afterward
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Criminal Justice System Paper Steve Hunter CJA/204 February 6‚ 2011 Gary Howard Criminal Justice System Paper A crime is which one breaks the law‚ meaning an individual or a group partakes in an event to do something wrong and one is accused in which a crime was committed. A crime (1981-2005)‚ according to The Free Dictionary is defined as “A violation of a law in which there is injury to the public or a member of the public and a term
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Policing Functions Paper Priscilla Martinez CJA/394 November 25‚ 2013 Instructor: Jeffrey Hooker Abstract Law enforcement in the United States have three levels of law enforcement that are local‚ state‚ and federal who have tasks every day ‚ but their functions are somewhat distinct. Their main purpose of their daily objective is to serve and protect all citizens from any harm‚ and they also enforce all laws to people violating them as well. Because each agency has their
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Effective Communication Carolina Fernandez CJA / 304 Interpersonal Communication May 8‚ 2013 Michael O’Connell‚ JD Effective Communication Effective communication is essential in any workplace‚ especially within a criminal justice organization. In this paper‚ the author will discuss the process of verbal and nonverbal communication and the associated components of each‚ the differences between listening and hearing in communication‚ the formal and informal channels of communication in criminal
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