Corrections CJA 444 March 12‚ 2012 Corrections Correctional officers are in charge of overseeing individuals who have been arrested and are currently awaiting trial‚ and those that have been convicted of a crime and sentenced to serve a sentence in jail of prison (Bureau of Labor Statistics‚ 2010-11). Correctional officers usually have no law enforcement duties outside of a prison of jail facility they work at maintaining order within the institute and they over see many inmates preventing assault
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“why we punish”: deterrence (“to keep them from doing it”)‚ incarceration (“to keep those who do it away from us”)‚ rehabilitation (“to help them stop doing it”)‚ and retribution (“because they deserve it”). Any punishment should fall in line with your basic theory of punishment. It seems to me that each theory of punishment‚ when applied and examined‚ ends up needing such a degree of retribution as justification that retribution may be said to be the primary theory. Deterrence is probably the
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Categorisation of arguments for and against the death penalty. 1. Consequentialist arguments: the deterrence argument‚ the prevention argument‚ economic arguments‚ effectiveness of the judicial and penal systems 2. Deontological arguments: the retribution argument‚ discriminatory use of the death penalty‚ right-to-life arguments‚ consideration of democratic rights 3. Virtue-based arguments: the rehabilitation argument‚ cruel and unusual punishments‚ 4. Mixed arguments: the human fallibility argument
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Criminal Justice System CJA/204 Crime is an omission or act which violates laws that results to punishment of an individual. The specific omissions or acts that constitute a crime are determined by the governmental bodies from the area you live. At any given time you will most likely be subject to three sets of laws. Defined is the first set federal statute. Outlined by the state government where you live is the second set. The third set is laws enacted by local government. If conflict ever arises
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bring the murdered person back by taking the prisoner’s life. Proponents of capital punishment tend to defend their opinion mainly on two grounds: death is a fitting punishment for murder‚ and executions maximize public safety through incapacitation and deterrence. The view of proponents of the death penalty in reference to the "let the punishment fit the crime" ideal is that‚ in the eyes of many law officials and citizens of the United States‚ if a crime is so serious that it causes irreversible
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Public Affairs‚ examines deterrent effect of the death penalty. Choe compares state-level panel data of states with capital punishment/non-capital punishment related to homicide rates. Through uses of data he failed to find meaningful effects of deterrence of the death penalty. Most execution records does not have statistically meaningful lower homicide rates than no death penalty states. Choe explains that his paper does not aim to find “universal conclusions regarding the deterrent effect.” but
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The ultimate goal of rehabilitation is to restore a convicted offender to a constructive place in society through some combination of treatment‚ education‚ and training. Although this philosophy is better applied to punishment in general‚ it is believed that people who support rehabilitation are more likely to oppose the death penalty than those who do not support rehabilitation. The reason for that is this is almost is an alternative to the death penalty. Rehabilitation more so attempts to restore
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Philosophical and Practical Approach for Balancing Issues CRJ- 220 Ethics and Leadership Strayer University Is there a way to balance the protection of individual rights while protecting the public at the same time? There are many arguments to this question due to the grey areas surrounding individual rights and public rights. Many argue that their rights are violated but then complain when the protection of the public is breached. This needs to be a give and take situation and
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The penalty of death differs from all other forms of criminal punishment‚ not in degree‚ but in kind. It is unique in its total irrevocability. It is unique in its rejection of rehabilitation of the convict as a basic purpose of criminal justice. And it is unique‚ finally‚ in its absolute renunciation of all that is embodied in our concept of humanity. For these and other reasons‚ at least two of my Brothers have concluded that the infliction of the death penalty is constitutionally impermissible
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Midterm Return to Assessment List Part 1 of 1 - 100.0 Points Question 1 of 26 4.0 Points European approaches to correctional strategies largely reflect those found in the United States. A. True B. False Answer Key: False Question 2 of 26 4.0 Points Most people who work in community-based correctional programs do so because they want to have a positive impact on the world around them by enhancing public safety‚ aiding offenders in need‚ or increasing offender
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