Deterrence

feel that the main goals of probation are rehabilitation and deterrence. In addition, I feel that probation/community supervision is a better option to incarceration, when the offender does not pose an immediate threat or danger to the community. Upon completing the exercises in this assignment, I feel like my views were confirmed. A large part of a probation officer’s job is to provide rehabilitation services to offenders and offer deterrence against committing new/additional…

Mentally Ill individuals have been dramatically increasing inside the Corrections System of the United States and have become a great problem for all prison institutions. According to a piece of writing written by Roy Walmsley titled “[The] World Prison Population List” states that the United States holds approximately 2,239,751 prisoners in penal institutions including pre-trial detainees as of late 2011 (3). That’s almost 22% of people incarcerated world-wide, which is roughly 10.2 million…

The article takes a “laid back” tone by using terms such as “nukes” and “pragmatic administration.” Tepperman takes the side of nuclear deterrence; by having nukes nation states are too scared to use them. He presents, “nuclear weapons have not been used since 1945” and a professor's quote “‘We now have 64 years of experience since Hiroshima ….. There has not been any war among nuclear states…

Juvenile Sentencing Sentencing juveniles to life is cruel and unusual punishment. The abolishment of the mandatory life in prison for juveniles who commit murder is a great start to stop sending children into state prisons with adults. “On June 25, 2012, the Supreme Court ruled that juveniles who committed murder could not be sentenced to life in prison because it violated the Eight Amendment ban on cruel and unusual punishment.” Alex Hribal, the 16-year-old suspect in a stabbing spree at a…

other than a breach of contract for which relief may be obtained in the form of damages or an injunction, and medical malpractice is a unintentional tort. “The medical malpractice tort system in the United States is based on three main goals: deterrence of unsafe practices, compensation for injured persons, and corrective justice. The tort system is not accomplishing these goals. Recurring medical injuries, uneven payment of damages, and a lack of clearly defined success and fairness in the…

Author: Anabel Rotger Based on the information obtained from the textbook in chapter 6, I decided to select an article related to negligence and medical malpractice. I found this article in nj.com dated September 15, 2016. It is about former Bergen County, New Jersey prosecutor John Molinelli is suing the Hackensack University Medical Group Urology Department, his urologist and other members of the urology department such as unnamed nurses and doctors for misdiagnosis and lack of treatment back…

Incarceration may appear like a good deterrence on the surface, but it costs the state and government more money than fines do, even if these prisoners are living in what they would consider substandard conditions. Similarly, judges usually sentence white-collar offenders to shorter sentences…

Restorative justice philosophies blossomed throughout the twentieth century as a response to various developments in the criminal justice system. More specifically, the lack of confidence in rehabilitation and deterrence tactics, increased recognition of victims as essential stakeholders, and heightened interests in community justice were trends that led to restorative practice (London, 2013). While Albert Eglash first mentioned the term “restorative justice” in the late 1980’s, scholars have…

Lisenba v, California (1941), Stein v. New York (1953), Gallegos v. Nebraska, 1951), Crooker v. California (1958), and Cicenia v. LaGay (1958) (Hemmens, 2014, p. 22). In another case, Gallegos v. Colorado (1952) the United States Supreme Court ruled that the confection a violation of due process after Gallegos who was 14 years of age at the time was denied his right to have contact with his mother (p. 22). The concerns that the cases cause among the liberal United States Supreme Court…

According to Kent Greenwalt (1983), both retributive, as well as the utilitarian perspective in relation to justification of societal punishments were prevailing methodologies. First, the main justifications for punishment using the retributive perspective were that punishment was in place due to the offender deserving to be punished for a specific wrongdoing. Greenwalt states that there is a simple justification for using this perspective, if there is an offender who has violated the law that…