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is transferred to a criminal court, the juvenile would be getting a sentence that an adult would get if they would have committed the same crime. In the past twenty years there has been a lot of changes within the juvenile justice system. Many states have started to lower their age range where juveniles can be transferred to adult criminal court for crimes that they have committed. Today the District of Columbia and all fifty states let the prosecution file a motion and go through the process…

One of the first reasons that a violent crime committed by a minor should be evaluated it…

A majority of you know that Christopher Columbus was the first to discover and explore the Americas, but many are unaware that this is a mythical statement; in fact, the information that we have learned about this individual is mostly false and inaccurate. We have been taught to think that this man was an amazing person, we have been taught to believe that he was courageous, intelligent, and modest. Still to this day, schools are educating children with these lies. Historians have looked into…

Orwell it is not specified what crime the man had committed. You can simply take the information given to guess what was the crime committed that led up to the man hanging. It is states in this short story that the man who was put to death was Hindu. “He was a Hindu, a puny wisp of a man, with a shaven head and vague liquid eyes.” (Orwell 1) As you continue to read the short story you take to notice that this man’s punishment for whatever crime he committed was the capital punishment which is…

a murder committed when he was 17 years old. Under Texas law, he was eligible for the death penalty, although in other states he would have not been eligible. Texas law did allow his age to be offered as a reason for the jury to believe that in the future, Graham would not be a danger to the community and therefore should be sentenced to life in prison. Graham argued in his appeals that some jurors might believe that his age would actually make it more likely that he would have committed further…

Michael Dowd committed many different police misconducts while he was a police officer working for the New York City Police Department. Michael admitted to committing hundreds of crimes while wearing a badge and violating his sworn oath as an officer. According to the documentary (Seven Five | SHOWTIME, n.d.) Michael stated that while he was going through the police academy he didn’t take the academy seriously. Michal admit that he had no remorse about what he was doing, he knew that as a police…

While the justice system tries its best to find the right people who committed a crime, it is made up of humans who can and will make mistakes. Because of this, people who are actually innocent can be determined guilty. If they are sentenced to the death penalty (and the state goes through with it) and new evidence (or even…

death is forever. What if the man that was sentence to death never committed the crime he was put to death for? The state of Missouri must look at all the facts when charging suspects with crimes faceable by the death penalty .When a suspect commits a crime there’s should be a punishment for their actions. When all evidence in the case can be turned over though, where is the justice in the crime committed? If the person being committed of the crime isn’t proven to be guilty aren’t courts just…

Within the last year, there were a total of 779 robberies committed in the Austin community("Crime in Chicagoland," 2017). When looking at data starting from 2001 to now, the robbery rate in the Austin community has not really increased or decreased, which means to me nothing has really been done to address this…

of the criminal committed crime before, the childhood of a criminal and the circumstances in which a criminal committed a crime. The criminal justice system can be one of the reasons behind the…