Justice and Authority paper Discretionary authority in the Criminal Justice system Allen Ray CJA/550 April 11th‚ 2011 Discussions in how discretion is exercised in the legal profession often raises debate in the criminal justice system. Discretion is vastly misused in many of the criminal justice fields. Areas such as youth justice‚ sentencing‚ policing‚ and a host of many other legal fields need better understanding‚ interpretation and communication. As with many practices‚ the object
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TDARAGA COMMUNITY COLLEGE Daraga‚ Albay PROF.ED 10 CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT Bloom’s Taxonomy of Learning Domains JEANCRESIA E. ALBA BSEd III- English Mr. NILO BERJUEGA Instructor Bloom’s Taxonomy of Learning Domains Bloom’s Taxonomy was created in 1956 under the leadership of educational psychologist Dr. Benjamin Bloom in order to promote higher forms of thinking in education‚ such as analyzing and evaluating‚ rather than just remembering facts (rote learning). Against horse race
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Q’orianka Kilcher once said‚ “I think it’s important for us as a society to remember that the youth within juvenile justice systems are‚ most of the time‚ youths who simply haven’t had the right mentors and supporters around them - because of circumstances beyond their control.” There are two different paths to go down in life‚ the good and the bad. When growing up‚ there are certain things you adapt to and certain things you don’t. Some kids might have experienced loving‚ caring families while others
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Women and The Criminal Justice System University of Toledo Women represent the fastest growing segment of the criminal justice system (PEW Center‚ 2008). With more than one million women behind bars or under the control of the penal system the incarceration of women has nearly doubled the rate of men since 1985. Most of these female offenders are guilty of nonviolent drug-related crimes and should be held accountable-but for whom prison is an injudicious sentence. Most female offenders
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article‚ “The Recovery Process Utilizing Erikson’s Stages of Human Development”‚ as a resource tool to help gain an understanding of objective goals for the client (Please refer to resource section for further details). When she first arrived at the school last year‚ a student had made a remark about the client’s weight which quickly turned into a physical altercation by the client. Development was not achieved in the clients systems and subsystems; the client is need of many interventions
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The Moral Development and Aggression in Children Abstract The moral development of a child is closely related to the aggression that they will display. Researchers have found that there are gender differences in relations to social aggression and physical aggression. Studies have shown that male children display high levels of aggression and that female children reach their moral maturity sooner. Though there are several methods of treating aggression in children‚ research has shown that there
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The events of misunderstanding a case can lead to unnecessary punishments that weren’t caused by the prosecuted‚ which is what the justice system has done multiple times. The system isn’t perfect but there are mistakes that should not have happened which lead to the extensive struggle of a person for many years to come. Problems occur among the justice system when there is not enough evidence or false evidence that accuse the wrong person and is given an injustice ruling for nothing. The first innocent
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decisions. This issue becomes more complex in the Juvenile System because of the relative infancy of this aspect of the American judicial system. In addition to analyzing the history of the Juvenile justice system‚ one must take into account previous case law that dealt with this specific issue. While capital punishment for juveniles has been permitted in America as far back as 1642‚ the courts did not rule on this issue until the mid-late 1980’s. Furthermore‚ as recent as 1989‚ the Supreme Court upheld
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To the editor of time magazine Our country is in the process of getting tared apart. Our justice system is discriminating against our african-american citizens and this needs to stop! We have to stop the shootings of african-americans that has occured all over our country so that we once again can be proud to call ourselfs Americans. During the last couple of years atrocious killings have occured here in the US. I belive everyone has heard about cases like Trayvon Martin‚ Michael Brown and Eric
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lies within the juvenile justice system. A huge suggestion for reforming the juvenile justice system would be to make the children their number one priority‚ rather than focusing on punishment. Although these children have committed crimes to get them there‚ they deserve to be treated with dignity and respect. They also deserve to be protected‚ educated‚ and properly treated for their mental and physical health issues. Three major proposals for improving juvenile justice are: Multisystemic Therapy
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