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    Variation In Sentencing

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    Variation in Sentencing with Armed Robbery Antwanette Billingsley St. Leo University 10/13/2011 There are many questions surrounding the sentencing process in the State of Georgia surrounding several crimes. Why is there a variation in the process depending on where the crime was committed‚ who committed it‚ who the victim was‚ how many cases are on back log? Why do we allow these factors to play a part in the decision making process? Serious violent crimes are subject to

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    Rationale

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    _ Catino_B Rationale I chose Unilever’s product brand Dove to do my rationale on; it is because of the clean white bottles of the shampoo and conditioner and the way the company markets their products to all generations and genders. They are also one of the first companies to develop a self-esteem program that is targeted to growing girls of all ages; this program is designed to help young girls accept their own beauty with advertisements that are not promoted using thin‚ gorgeous models

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    Sentencing Offenders

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    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 give a harsher punishment‚ as

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    philosophical reasons behind this sentencing. The four basic reasons are rehabilitation‚ deterrence‚ retribution‚ and incapacitation. Because this process is sensitive‚ guidelines have been made to ensure that presumptive sentences are mandatory. Rehabilitation is considered one of the most "humane" goal of punishment. There are different ways a judge can impose a rehabilitation sentence. For example‚ a young woman is arrested for public drunkenness. The judge could sentence the young woman to 10 days

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    Does Prison Deter Crime

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    Vintean 1 Michael Vintean Professor Dozier English 1A 11 February 2014 Does Prison Deter Crime The debate over whether or not if prison deters crime in our society is something that many of us have often thought about for quite awhile.  When you think about the punishment aspect of it‚ it removes the criminals off the street but does it really deter crime?  Without getting to the root cause of why they become criminals and resolving that issue‚ we often find that the criminal becomes a

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    Rationale

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    RATIONALE Speaking is one of the most challenging skills for high school students. They may feel bored because they can not handle it so well. Therefore‚ we tried to integrate interesting activities into the lesson so that we could arouse students’ spirit. We made full use of pictures to teach the lesson as meaningful pictures talk more than words. On designing the lesson plan‚ we took students’ learning styles into consideration. Consequently‚ all the activities are arranged with

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    Pogarsky On Deterrence

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    The article‚ “Identifying deterrable offenders: implications for research on deterrence‚” proposed a unique framework from which to understand how deterrence operates. The article argued that most research has not adequately explored the proposition that deterrence operates for only a subgroup of the general population. In light of this‚ Pogarsky focused on more efficiently testing the effects of the certainty and severity of sanctions by dividing a sample into three subgroups and then analyzing

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    Rationale

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    Maria Lundie Mathematics Rationale Dr. Montessori recognized that children are born with a particular kind of mind. A mind that is naturally inclined towards order. This ‘special’ mind is what gives humans the ability to make judgments and to calculate. Dr. Montessori called this ‘the mathematical mind’. Dr. Montessori felt that‚ if we are to support development‚ then we must offer mathematics at an early age since this is the kind of support that is appropriate for the kind of mind that we have

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    Sentencing Paper

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    Sentencing Paper Deadrian Williams CJS/ 200 3/3/2013 Bryan Maglicco Six Forms of Punishment Fines are one of the oldest forms of punishment‚ the use of fines as criminal sanctions suffers from built in inequities and a widespread failure to collect them (Schmalleger‚ 2011). Fines can deprive offenders of the proceeds of criminal activity‚ and also promote rehabilitation by enforcing economic responsibility (Schmalleger‚ 2011). People have to pay fines when they break minor laws‚ such

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    rationale

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    RATIONALE In computing the student’s grade manually will make the user hard especially when it is intended to submit within a short period of time‚ not easily to find errors which are to be corrected and lot of hassle. As we started to expose ourselves to the face of new technology‚ it is about time to used them as our resources‚ or create and develop a specialized system in order to cater and to answer the problem which most of the school has‚ specifically Banilad Night High School. The common

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