Restorative Justice Restorative justice follows the principle of reconciliation and rehabilitation. The justice system involves bringing the offenders back to the victims or the society at large and allowing them to reconcile through a set process (Zehr‚ 2015). In other words‚ the system allows the person who may be termed as a criminal be accepted back to the society. They are given a chance to reconcile with the people they wronged and through it they can become better people. The victims are
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Life is too precious to be thrown away and sometimes people make wrong choices at an early age‚ but that does not mean that it should affect the rest of their life. Sometimes people make wrong choices at a young age that if an adult were to commit‚ would affect them to several years in prison or even life. When a youth commits a crime‚ they are considered juveniles and are dealt with the Juvenile Justice Department. The Juvenile Justice Department decides what kind of punishment the Juvenile gets
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The Three Strike Law is a law that was passed in 1994. The purpose of this law is to require the defendant extra time for their new felony because of a crime that was committed in the past. This law have been active for several years and it came with a lot of pros and cons. In this paper I will give my view on what I think the good and the bad is for this law. I understand why the government started The Three Strike Law‚ but I disagree with this law because there are consequences that come
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The United States prison system is notorious for the way it treats its inmates. There are so many theories‚ and facts to back up the claim that the prison system is not working the way it was intended to be‚ and it continues to be a growing issue that the government is not addressing. Further‚ within the already complicated prison system‚ there is another issue. Solitary confinement‚ which was originally supposed to be used as a short term punishment within prisons‚ or jails‚ has now become an integrated
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This essay will discuss the job role of a National Probation Service. It will also go into depth with some of the history behind the job role and what they do. This job role is a statutory criminal justice service. They manage the offenders that have committed a crime and have been released out of prison‚ they then help them to be brought back into the community they live in. They collaborate and help at least 3‚000 offenders a year. The National Probation Service was developed in 2014 and they started
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Addicted to Incarceration is a research book that was written by Travis C. Pratt‚ a professor at Washington State University. The main purpose of writing this book was to point out that the USA imprisons more of our population than any other nation. Pratt says‚ "On the one hand‚ we have constructed the biggest prison system on the planet… On the other hand‚ the United States has also been‚ and continues to be‚ the most violent industrialized nation in the world…. It is apparent‚ therefore‚ that our
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Incarceration rates of Aboriginal people have increased over the last decade. There are a significant amount of factors that contribute to the over representation of Aboriginals in the Justice System. One way to address this issue is to analyze how stereotypes affect low income in relation to low level of education; gangs; drug and alcohol‚ and assimilation of Aboriginals. These are some of the reasons why there are an increasing amount of Aboriginal men and women among penitentiaries. Over
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As a warden‚ I already know that discovering a program or strategy that will address sexual violence in my prison is not an easy task. Today’s prisons and predators are not as bad as the horror stories that might have been told to us when we were younger. Today’s predators‚ can be compared to pedophile in that they groom their victims (i.e. new prisoners) in a series of predictable stages to get what they want or desire. For some new inmates‚ this can go undetected for quite some time which can be
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Is it hard to find a place to have a good vacation? Well‚ you should visit the Kilmainham Gaol! Mrs. Sparr‚ is going on a vacation and wants to go to Ireland but‚ she does not know where in Ireland to visit. I demand her to go to the one‚ the only Kilmainham Gaol (it’s a jail)! In my opinion‚ I think that Kilmainham Gaol is definitely a great place to go on vacation. In the first place‚ it’s just the name of it. Kilmainham Gaol! It’s a very unique place in the Irish history. It contains many cells
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The concept of rehabilitation in criminal justice rests on the assumption that criminal behavior is caused by some kind of factors. This perspective does not deny that people make choices to break the law‚ but it does assert that these choices are not a matter of pure "free will." Instead‚ the decision to commit a crime is held to be determined‚ or at least heavily influenced‚ by a person’s social surroundings‚ psychological development‚ or biological. Individual differences shape how we behavior
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