Criminal procedure

Teen courts (also known as youth courts or peer courts) are specialized diversion programs for young offenders that use court-like procedures in courtroom settings. It is an alternative for first time teenaged offenders. The typical delinquent youth referred to teen court is probably 12 to 15 years old, in trouble for the first time, and charged with vandalism, stealing or other non-violent offense. The teen court offers a non-binding, informal alternative to the regular juvenile court process.…

The study being reviewed is from the ICPSR (Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social research. The research study being examined is Criminal justice drug treatment studies: Transitional care management (TCM), increasing after care participation for parolees, 2004-2008 (United States). The purpose of the study is to increase aftercare attendance by parolees by using a strength based support system that will encourage parolees to continue to move forward and seek the help they need and…

The United States Constitution affords defendants the right to a trial by an impartial jury through the Sixth Amendment (Hall, 2015). The selection of the jury is a precursor stage for all jury trials, in this stage, the counsel for the defense as well as the counsel for the prosecution have the right to request the dismissal of a potential juror commonly referred to as voir dire. In the instance where there is a specific reason, a potential juror is to be dismissed it is called a challenge for…

Also in this chapter it talks about corruption. There is internal corruption which takes place among the officers. Discretion bribery and extortion. The moral ambivalence and practices of some of the police officers were shown on this TV show as being very immoral. There are environmental, corrupted departments which shows your environmental conditions. The accountability system may help control corruption as stated in chapter 7 but on the television show it did not show that it showed more of…

accuracy of crime statistics is highly important in all criminal justice departments as well as related agencies. In a 2010 study, after interviewing twenty different staffing experts representing several agencies across the nation, Wilson and Weiss concluded that crime rates were one of the most analyzed sets of data when determining staffing needs in police departments. (Wilson, Weiss, 2014). Crime statistics are used by researchers in the criminal justice field to provide important data…

When the word crime comes up, majority of the people may think of physical crime. For instance, people may make a quick assumption about crime dealing with breaking into someone’s house, robbing a bank, or even murder. One type crime that people have a tendency to overlook and don’t consider to be dangerous is white-collar crimes. According to the article How White-collar Works, Jane McGrath mentioned, “Another kind of crime is much easier to rationalize to ourselves. Committing it doesn't…

committed. Labelled as hardcore criminals when they did not even do anything violent, they are often slapped with these prolonged sentences and then not given a chance to reform during their time in prison, both simply adding up to no possibility for improvement or betterment at all. If these prisoners are given a chance, such as in-prison treatment programs, there is a much higher likelihood of these prisoners leaving with much better attitudes and less criminal tendency. These programs,…

Mental Health Issues in Criminal Justice Megan Urbanski PSCI: 130 American Legal System April 29, 2018 Mentally inmates have recently become a higher population within the criminal justice system. While many prisons and jails have begun to teach their staff members how to handle this special population, there are still changes that need to be made in order to properly understand this special population of inmates. With the closing of state hospitals, mentally ill individuals have begun to get…

accounted for 7% of the inmates currently serving time for criminal charges. Women in prison have special needs that are not always readily available within the facility in which they are serving time. Conditions such as pregnancy and prenatal care which were not taken into consideration as prisons were built, account for a large portion of funding being allocated to health care of both the mother and child, as well as placement procedures to place the child after birth. Potential mental…

or property taken from them, without the use of due process. So long as the court system has correctly convicted, those convicted of a crime have given up those rights. The Miranda rights are the rights named in the fifth amendment that protect criminals from self-incrimination as well as making them aware that a lawyer will be provided for them if they can’t afford one. Many defendants deliver incriminating statements even after being warned against doing so (“Miranda v. Arizona…”). Among other…