Discrimination in legal justice system

rights. The ERA has a greater explanation of gender rights and would have it’s own process for handling situations of sex discrimination. The ERA would also help support inadequacies that federal and state courts have, especially in cases of sex discrimination. In January of 2011, Court Justice Antonin Scalia declared that the 14th Amendment does not protect against sex discrimination. This statement is something that every individual needs to understand. Our current amendments do not…

The Equal Treatment hypothesis states that our judicial system provides equal justice, that it does not have blurred eyes towards men offenders or women offenders. According to the equal treatment hypothesis criminal processing, males, and females are arrested, charged, convicted, and sentenced the same for the same crimes. It concludes that the criminal justice system does not see gender and sexual discrimination does not exist; therefore, criminality and punishments are based solely on the…

degree of justice achieved for all individuals involved and impacted. There are a range of contemporary issues concerning family law that affect the overall success of this part of the law and that includes recognition of same-sex marriage, care and protection of children and birth technologies and surrogacies. In relation to same-sex couples, the legal recognition of their marriage means more than the right to get married. It also signifies the removal of institutional discrimination and the…

The majority of the court’s opinion was presented by Justice Lewis Powell. In their analysis they concluded that the Baldus Study did not establish the clear intent of racial discrimination in the plaintiff’s case. They claimed that McCleskey failed to prove that any participating member in his case acted in a discriminatory manner against him. They concluded that discretion is crucial factor in the criminal justice process. Due to the critical need for discretion the plaintiff would have to…

49 hours of defensive tactics, 40 hours of con law/ legal issues Uof scenario- based training, 16 hours of basic first aid, 10 hours of communication skills, only 8 hours of de-escalation training, 8 hours of crisis intervention, 8 hours of baton training, 8 hours of ECW training and the less lethal use of force 6 hours Oc spray. By seeing the statistic that show that departments are trained more to use the highest method of…

The juvenile justice system has long been a topic of discussion. These discussions consisted of whether or not the system should exist at all and, after it was established, there was debate regarding what rights should and should not be granted to juveniles. The racial disparities that disproportionately affect African American and Latino youth soon became a large part of this discussion. This caused a number of questions to arise regarding the affect race has in juvenile justice decision making…

“The right to be a victim: how legal abortion creates an absurdity in criminal law.” National Review 21 Dec. 2015: 16+. Opposing Viewpoints in Context. Web. 22 Mar. 2016. Legal abortion creates a problem in the criminal justice system. The “Born Alive” Law only applies to a newborn baby and protects the infant from any actions like homicide or assault. However the legal abortion suggests that a fetus is not yet “living” therefore any criminal can not…

Not only are they prohibited from experiencing many of the basic civic duties non-convicted Americans experience, such as the aforementioned voting rights and right to serve on a jury, they also suffer from increased discrimination when applying for a job, a drivers license, housing and education opportunities from wearing the label of criminal. The way people view another human being changes when that individual is labeled a criminal, and that person is no longer part…

adversarial court system facilitate various methods of achieving just and fair outcomes in the Criminal Justice system. However, the court system is not the only route in sentencing offenders with less serious charges. Crime is defined as an action or omission which constitutes an offence and is punishable by law. On the other side of this is justice; the quality of being fair and reasonable. In this essay, I will be examining to how the court system fails to deliverer justice in particular…

Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (LASPO) introduced under the coalition government, reformed the basis of legal aid. LASPO reforms to legal aid aimed to regulate the the distribution of legal aid in the UK; which denounced legal aid liability for private family disputes, immigration, housing, debt and social welfare cuts. According to the final equality Impact Assessment in the Bill of Moj*** the implementation of LASPO intends to eliminate the the excess distribution…