Criminal record

jail or prison. There is a prison that was meant to be escape when it was in service because it took very bad criminals. Alcatraz was suppose to be the escape proof prison, but has anybody escaped this “escape proof prison”? Alcatraz is a very high security prison off the coast of san francisco, california built in 1847. they used this prison from 1934 - 1663 to house the worst criminals in the san francisco area. Alcatraz was suppose to be impossible to escape from. altho there is a large…

paper, Goffman explains what this increase has meant for wanted African American males and the inhabitants of poor communities. Since, according to Goffman, such studies done in poor minority neighborhoods were written before the expansion of the criminal justice system, she worked with a group of poor African American males for six years to get an “extended ethnographic look” at life in “the policed and surveilled ghetto” (Goffman). Goffman built her research not only on six years of fieldwork,…

Being in law enforcement for several years I come across several suspects and defendants who expresses the criminal justice process moves like a snail and is always unpredictable. Imagine if a significant amount of cases was going to trial instead of over 90% of felony cases are plea bargained (Bohm, R., Haley, K.,n.d). Nevertheless, there are three types of plea bargains and prosecutors tend to have factors to decide if the plea bargain is in the best interest or what’s the better plea…

fourteen-year-old sitting in a secluded prison for merely disregarding your C-train ticket once in your life. Before the Youth Criminal Justice Act, unreasonable consequences were thrown at you after only committing a minor offence by accident. That’s how important the Youth Criminal Justice Act is; it addresses youth crime in a fair and equitable manner. Since the introduction of the Youth Criminal Justice Act in 2003, we have seen the youth crime rate lower, youth are getting second chances to…

Prison Reform: Avoid using Excessive Force and Establish Resources for Ex-offenders There are many problems with the United States criminal justice system. People of color are arrested more frequently than any other race. The majority of people of color that are arrested are poor. The poor people can not afford a paid attorney and end up with free legal aid attorneys. Legal aid attorneys usually advises arrestees to plead guilty. Arrestees are advised to plead guilty so the attorney can close…

their identifying information cannot be released to the public for the safety of the young person. It can only be released under some circumstances, which are for the protection of the public, or if the youth receives an adult sentence. However, the records of the young person are not destroyed but are kept very…

about rehabilitation, parole, and recidivism in the criminal justice system. This movie perfectly exemplifies and highlights the…

For this assignment, I reviewed two articles on the Criminal Justice database library. One focused on bail decisions, and how this can sometimes affect the outcome of the sentencing phase. The other article focused on Capital Sentencing Decisions, that focused on the portrayal of the victim. Both of these articles gave some interesting theories of how judges and jury decide the fate of one’s future. It described how certain factors can influence the judge or jury in their decision making.…

reason that officers stay put at a given location while observing. The second method is called the two-person method. The same concept applies, with an officer observing a specific area, however an additional officer is added to the situation in an attempt to be more effective on the job. The second officer can observe in a different direction, creating a larger range for observation, while also providing a fresh set of eyes. The two-person method is both more effective and more efficient when…

the advancement of tools became a major step in the Victorian era, the method of dissecting bodies for criminal work began to be explored. Sherlock was known for working with dead bodies and working with cadavers, yet he was not the first to adopt this method of crime work. Before Sherlock's method became known, Giovanni Battista Morgagni changed the way the idea of dissecting bodies for criminal work purposes would be looked at (Wagner, 4). Before Morgagni's idea came to be, the thought of…