Jayquan is not currently on any form of juvenile supervision but he has been on juvenile probation in Chesapeake for an assault and battery charge in 2013. His case was closed to services on November 23, 2014, when he completed a period of probation, completed an anger management program, completed 25 hours of community service work and paid restitution. Jayquan also has a Learner’s Permit violation in Portsmouth on April 5, 2014. He was ordered to complete 15 hours of community service work which he did on April 13, 2015. Jayquan is currently an adult and being held in the Chesapeake Correctional Center for charges in Chesapeake of Concealed Weapon (2 counts), Receiving Stolen Firearm, and Possession of Marijuana.…
Erion Sakarr Williams was on level four parole supervision prior to his death on October 1, 2016. He was released from the Department of Juvenile Justice (DJJ) on May 2, 2016. He was committed to DJJ on March 5, 2015, on the charge of violation of probation with the following underlying charges of assault and battery against family member, brandishing a firearm, grand larceny, and possession of a firearm by a minor. He was also committed to DJJ on March 30, 2015, for assault and battery on law enforcement officer, 3 counts, and false identity to police which were offenses transferred from the Chesapeake Juvenile and Domestic Relations District Court for disposition. He had a moderate adjustment at DJJ.…
Direct Victim: The direct victim in the case study is a factory manager who explains that he was shocked and horrified by the mess and damage from the crime. His financial losses were not only the cost of the damages, but also the loss of making money the entire day as the day was spent cleaning up the mess (Crosland, P., & Liebmann, M. 2003). Although the financial needs of the direct victim were not met because the offenders were young children and could not repay it; according to the victim motives for participation in our textbook, the victim’s emotional needs seem to have been met. Some of the needs that were met are holding the offender accountable (the offender took full responsibility for his part in the crime), learning…
Jacob Ind 15 year old Jacob Ind is being charged with first degree murder for the killing of his parents . As a judge I have decided to charge Jacob under the Youth Criminal Justice Act. Because of his young age and the extreme abusive home life, some leniency is required in this case. I want to give him a second chance, but he did kill his parents and does still deserve sentencing. Intensive rehabilitation custody and supervision is one of the sentences to rehabilitate him and get the care he needs.…
In the case of 19 year old Slick Martin, whom has resided in several foster homes as a juvenile, has trouble with alcohol and substance abuse, is a high school dropout, and has a juvenile record for shoplifting and auto theft, is facing his first offense in adult court for armed robbery. Robbery charges can carry serious criminal penalties and individuals who are convicted may face incarceration from 2 to 10 years, fines, and probation. The local jurisdiction has a highly structured and secured community correctional facility (CBCF) designed to reduce and divert offenders from doing prison time. The CBCF is a 24hr secure locked-down facility in which inmates work a six-to-nine-month program. Eligible offenders will obtain alcohol and/or drug treatment, education, employment and life skill classes.…
Wrongful Conviction On the morning of August 10, 1984, Deborah Sykes was brutally stabbed, sexually assaulted, and eventually killed in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. The man convicted for her murder was Darryl Hunt, a 19 year old boy that would go on to spend 20 years in prison for a crime he did not commit. Hunt was convicted based on eye-witness testimony and informants, but was later exonerated based on DNA evidence that matched a man that was caught just a few months after the murder took place. This case is an exemplar of the strength of DNA evidence and the fragility of eyewitness testimony.…
M1: Justify the use of adjudications and incentive schemes in relation to addressing offending behavior and the maintenance of control. M2: Analyze how developing positive relationships and addressing offending behavior benefits the individual and society. A prison’s sole purpose is for retribution, incapacitation, deterrence and rehabilitation. When an individual commits of crime/offence against the laws put in place by society and is charged for their crime; the prison system is used to protect society and punish those through taking away privileges and freedom.…
Analysis of Punished: Policing the Lives of Black and Latino Boys In Punished: Policing the Lives of Black and Latino Boys, ex-gang member, Victor Rios, Ph.D., came back to the place where he grew up in Oakland, California to conduct a study of 40 young men's battles managing stigma and punitive social control applied on their lives from society. Rios conducted his study for a time of three years using various number of qualitative methods ranging from observation, interviews, and review of academic scholarship and official records. This book is divided into two major sections, the first part of the book contains four chapters which examine the punitive nature of the criminal justice system, more specifically the police, and how it has stripped…
Carmel Health Network (CHN) is a Christian, private, non-profit, 501(c) (3) corporation that provides access to primary healthcare for underprivileged children in the inner City of Mobile, Alabama and surrounding areas. Carmel Health Network has a multitude of ministries that empower, educate, enlighten, and inspire youth to attain goals that may appear challenging (Carmel Health Network Mission, n.d.). Carmel Health Network became involved with the patient case when the mother called the office requesting an unexcused absence notice for their child to return to school after missing three days and for a letter to take to the school board to reimbursed for taking the child to school due to his bus anxiety. Dr. Allen Johnson refused to write…
Once an arrest is made the accused is charged either with a misdemeanor or felony, they do have the right to remain silent and seek council. Misdemeanor cases are handled in the tribunal correctionnel, which doesn’t require that the accessed to have council. Individuals found guilty can incur a penalty, which could be a fine and if that fine is not paid a the accused can face jour-amende ( imprisonment for not paying the fine as ordered). Whereas felony cases are heard in the cour d’assises any murder or rape cases are punishable with over 10 years in prison.…
CM conducted a face to face/ court hearing meeting at the Jersey City Courthouse for Dre’quan (youth). In attendance were Jasmine Alexander (CM), Miracle Moore (parent), Monique Cox (FSO partner) Joe Dickinson (Probation) and Dre’quan (youth). Ms. Moore informed the team that she would like youth to be release from Detention Center today. CM was informed that youth has built a positive relationship with his mother since he has been placed in Detention Center. Ms. Moore stated that if youth comes home he will stay with a family member (niece) in Jersey City; family member lives closer to youth’s school.…
Examine the underlying historical and economic reasons behind the quest for alternatives to incarcerating offenders in jails and prisons. In the past 30 years of community corrections has become a substantial part of the correctional system, The search for alternatives to incarceration has,been a bit of a challenge. In the 1950s, national attention was focussed on the development of alternative, community-based correctional services. In the early stages of the community corrections movement, local institutions, residential centres, group homes and specialized probation services were promoted as alternatives to incarceration In the 1960s and 1970s, alternatives to incarceration became an even greater fascination for criminal justice planners…
1. What is your thesis statement? Innocent individuals have been wrongfully convicted for crimes that they did not commit. This has happened in the past, before DNA technology was available, however, it continues to happen today. Some people have spent several months behind bars, while others have spent decades behind bars, all while being innocent.…
Often, statements from people with incentives to testify — particularly incentives that are not disclosed to the jury — are the central evidence in convicting an innocent person. The registry itself, which looks deeply into 873 specific cases of wrongful conviction, examined cases based on court documents as well as from groups that have long documented wrongful convictions. That group of wrongfully convicted spent more than 10,000 total years in prison, according to the report, with an average of 11 years…
For this assignment, I will be doing the case study on myself. I, Sara, am a freshman at MSUM majoring in Elementary Education and Early Childhood Education. The content area I am choosing to focus on is psychology, specifically my grand round assignment. For this assignment we are expected to create a profile of a person who has an issue of some sort. We are then to relate the psychology theories to this person and explain how they fit into each.…