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Overcrowding Prisons Prisons are overcrowded throughout the nation. Innocent prisoners are thrown in and locked up behind bars. Money is crucial. Prisoners are competing and struggling. Our two choices are to release the prisoners, or overcrowd them into jail. It’s your choice to pick which side of the argument you are on, but choose wisely. Whichever one you select will affect you, your loved ones, and our society in the near future. I’ve already chosen the best choice for me and my society,…

The alleged goal of probation from the perspective of alteration is rehabilitation or/and to prevent recidivism. By far the most used alternative to incarceration is probation. Probation is an efficient and cost-effective way to reduce the immense financial and executive affliction of prison. It is also a good alternative way to reduce prison crowding. It is also a practical way to dispense with a great number of petty crimes or ‘’normal’’ such as shoplifting and other minor property crimes,…

“Guilty.” This is what the judge and jury claimed Tom Robinson was, but why? We all know that Tom was innocent, but there must have been reasons for this verdict. This craziness wasn’t actually uncommon during this time in Alabama. Actually, in the time of To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee, almost all the black people going into court were proven guilty, no matter the situation. This is due to the severe amounts of racism in the state. There are many people during this time that didn’t care…

Prompt #2 The American criminal justice system is meant to be impartial, fair, and universal regardless of the defendant’s race or socioeconomic standing. As Professor Roy stated in his lectures, the foundational principles that the legal system is built upon are to be consistent and logical (Roy). These ideals should be utilized when implementing a consistent sentencing and conviction process. In other words, the courts and law enforcement officials should only look at the crimes committed…

The doctrine of extended joint criminal enterprise has attracted significant criticism. Much of this criticism is based on the perceived capitulation of legal principle to policy; though the doctrine is of some prosecutorial utility, it lacks legal coherence – it overextends criminal liability to individuals for crimes to which they have neither agreed nor committed. This essay will first try to explain this unwieldy doctrine before considering its criticisms and rationalisations. Most…

The Lincoln Lawyer The purpose of this paper is to apply Packer’s two models of the criminal justice system to a media depiction. The two models of the criminal justice system in which Packer speaks is the crime control model and the due process model. The goal of the paper is to find a better understanding of the two models through media depiction. This paper is going to illustrate how due process and the crime control model is depicted in the movie The Lincoln Lawyer. The Lincoln Lawyer…

issues facing the African-American, and our community as a whole, and is brought up in the New Jim Crow is: the myth of color-blindness of our Criminal Justice system. Michelle Alexander reiterates, that despite the popular belief, our Criminal Justice system is not color-blind after all. She proves this argument by illustrating case after cases where our criminal justice system has treated exactly the same scenarios differently. The only noticeable difference in such similar situations has been…

Midterm 1. Decide as an appellate judge based on the law that you have learned whether the police had a legitimate exigency based on the 4th Amendment and whether the trial judge should have suppressed the marijuana cigarette as evidence. In King v. State the trial judge should NOT suppressed the marijuana blunt as evidence. In this situation the police had "probable cause," meaning there was reasonable basis for the officers to believe that a crime may have been committed when they heard "Some…

1. Explain in complete detail Howard Zehrs ' approach to restorative justice. Restorative justice provides an opportunity for people who committed a crime and those who were impacted by it to communicate with one another on the cause, damage, and potential repair. The central concern of restorative justice is the repair of harm caused by the crime committed. Howard Zehr pioneered restoratice justice while directing a halfway house in Indiana. Zehr worked with the residents in…

As a result, conformity from its members keeps society running smoothly and efficiently (Stith, 2008). However, disruptive members of society are sanctioned to guarantee conformity from the rest of the population (Stith, 2008). Additionally, the criminal code of Canada dictates behaviors that are unacceptable in society (Stith, 2008). Therefore, breaking those laws showed Mr. Sharpe blatant disregard for Canadian laws. As a result, his actions violated the rules of law and accountability is…