Justice 20 February 2014 Alternative Sentencing and Diversion Programs There are many types of diversion programs and alternative sentencing. Some being more successful than others. It has been found that only nonviolent offenders have been positively affected by alternative sentencing and diversion programs. Violent offenders have shown to be unaffected by such programs. One of the most popular sentencing laws in the state of California is the Determinate Sentencing Law. This law places a shorter
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Principles of Sentencing There are five general aims or functions or justifications of punishment: 1. DETERRENCE There is a belief that punishment for crime can deter people from offending. There are two forms: - Specific deterrence is concerned with punishing an individual offender in the expectation that he will not offend again. - General deterrence is related to the possibility that people in general will be deterred from committing crime by the threat of punishment if they are caught
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Effects of Punishment and Sentencing Jesus Lujan Jr. CJS/200 February 13‚ 2011 University of Phoenix- Robert Winkler Effects of Punishment and Sentencing The Effects of Punishment and Sentencing Punishment and sentencing are an integral part of our criminal justice system. There are four basic philosophical reasons for sentencing retribution‚ deterrence‚ incapacitation‚ and rehabilitation. There are some factors that that can affect how a wrongdoer is punished. There is a debate surrounding
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effects of to this day: mandatory minimum sentencing. Mandatory minimum sentencing is a procedure in which a judge must sentence a citizen convicted to a minimum amount of years in prison for a crime regardless of circumstance. Because of this‚ the amount of prisoners in federal prison has skyrocketed from “only about 25‚000” inmates in the 80s to “more than 215‚000” as of 2014 (Miles). As a direct result of minimum sentencing‚ according to the U.S. Sentencing Commission‚ at least 50% of those incarcerated
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When it comes to sentencing a juvenile who has committed a murder or heinous crime it all depends on the circumstances. There was a Supreme Court ruling stating that juveniles could not be charged with life sentencing because they felt as if this was violating the Eighth Amendment on cruel and unusual punishment. Marjie Lundstrom‚ Paul Thompson‚ and Gail Garinger agree with the Supreme Court ruling of not giving life sentences to children‚ Lundstrom feels if they think a juvenile is old enough to
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Objectives of Punishment There have been many rules throughout history some choose to follow those rules and some choose to break the rules. The big question is the product to those who should break the rules. There was a day when parents could spank their children freely and accepted as simply normal. As the years went on‚ society started to see how people would take it too far. Therefore‚ laws had to change. It is the same within today’s prison system. Individuals are in prison because
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Over the past century capital punishment has been a very controversial issue. Sentencing people to death does not always sit well with the general public. People that are opposed to the death penalty claim that is does not deter people from committing murder‚ that it is cruel and unusual punishment‚ that it is unethical‚ and that the justice system is flawed and can sometimes result in sentencing innocent people to death. These seem like good arguments on the surface‚ however once expanded upon they
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Introduction Within the English legal system there are four main theories of punishment; retribution‚ deterrence‚ incapacitation and rehabilitation. The retributive theory looks back to the crime and punishes because of the crime. The remaining three all look forward to the consequences of punishment and thereby hope to achieve a reduction in crime. They are therefore often termed consequentialist or utilitarian theories. The boundaries between these theories are far from clear‚ containing sub-categories
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Sentencing Proposal Learning Team A CJA / 354 May 3rd‚ 2015 Paul Croushore My team and I believe there was a crime committed and at some point the defendant was in the victims home and stole some of her property. There was a fight or struggle of some sort because the victim has the defendants skin under her fingernails. Drugs were found in both party’s apartments‚ blood stained the carpet and rope was discovered in the victims’ apartment‚ which was used to tie the victim up at some point
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Sentencing Paper CJA/234 September 30‚ 2013 Sentencing Paper Earlier responses to crime were to be brutal‚ which included torture‚ humiliation‚ mutilation‚ and branding. These kinds of punishments often attempted to relate the punishment to the crime‚ as close as possible. The first response to crime incorporated linking criminal acts to sin and developing strict punishments. Throughout the years‚ this thought process has changed into a more humane system. The reason for corrections
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