Criminal record

“Over ninety percent of all criminal cases are resolved with a guilty plea” (Bender, 2011). This truly helps the costs for the courts by holding plea bargaining sessions for the prosecutors and defense attorneys so that they may reach an agreement without a lengthy and costly trial. “Guilty pleas are useful to the criminal justice system because they allow courts and parties to avoid the costs and risks associated with jury…

limitations has expired, it becomes an absolute bar to prosecution. Out of the fifty states in the nation, only two do not have a statute of limitations when it comes to criminal cases. South Carolina and Wyoming. What is a Statute of Limitations? A statute of limitation is a law that prevents a person or government agency in a criminal case from charging someone with a crime that was committed more than a certain period of time after the incident. The purpose of a statute of limitation is to…

resulting in the creation of criminal bodies, the way in which these behaviours are defined greatly fluctuate over time. To a large extent, this is due to the specific contexts of the respective time periods , as it is the ideas, values, beliefs, morals and attitudes that shape the concept of the normal and hence also the abnormal. These concepts additionally shape the penal structures surrounding the identified crimes, meaning that in order to understand the criminal proceedings, one must…

Anti-gang (criminal conspiracy) legislation is an attempt to eliminate the criminal society off the local streets which causes danger to the community. The federal government passed an anti-gang legislations called Bill C-95, any or all of members of a gang which engage in or have, within the preceding…

important argument is who should control the footage recorded. “Police departments across the country have increasingly used body cameras to record interactions with the public. Some politicians and activists have seized on the cameras as way to restore transparency to policing. Some police departments, however, are blocking access to the footage the cameras record.” (Murphy, Police body cameras: A struggle over who controls the footage) Actions like blocking footage and turning off cameras are…

In the U.S criminal justice system, most Americans are unaware of the reality of inequalities minorities face during sentencing. People have colorblind ideologies in which they assume race is no longer a major factor in the criminal justice realm. “The most serious problems facing contemporary minority groups are structural and institutional” (Healey 2012:466). The pseudo environment in peoples minds paints a perfect world of what they believe is equal treatment and punishment, but in the…

In the United States, we incarcerate a greater percentage of our population than any other country in the world. I think that there are various reasons as to the way our incarceration rates have begun to rise in the late 1907s and has risen to record highs by the early 2000’s. There are many purposes of punishment. One of the immediate things that come to mind is the war on drugs for the increase in incarceration rate. Also the harsher sentences for different races than white. Looking deeper…

killed the school bully to be faced if the same and punishment as a 37 year old adult man who shot and killed his wife and kids? Is it fair for a 17 year old to be faced with the death penalty? The debate as to whether a minor should face the same criminal penalties as adults has been a long going discussing. Even with development of juvenile courts and putting juveniles though a different…

After reviewing the file of Kris, Robert Donovan, a Jurisville probation officer, has suggested severe probation. Probation officers examine the record of an individual and make recommendations to the court. Severe probation refers to direct supervision by a probation officer that is organized and designed to reroute the offender from going to prison. Criminals sent to prison are far more likely to commit crimes upon their release than the defendant that is on probation. When looking at the…

that the judge shouldn’t lose his job after one unfair decision. In an article written by Paul Butler, a law professor and former prosecutor called “Judicial Recall Will Inevitably Lead to Harsher Sentences” he brings up a point that if Persky’s records reflect a pattern of unfairness, then he should be removed from the bench. However, if the judge had simply made a bad decision on the case, then a recall is unnecessary. A judge should consider about how popular their decision is to the public…