Extrajudicial punishment

Community juvenile probation and juvenile detention centers both play an important role in decreasing juvenile delinquency. Probation is the main form of community treatment used by the juvenile justice system (Siegel, 386). This evidence proves that probation is one of the effective programs that can be used to deter minors from committing crimes. I believe that community treatment programs are good because they give juveniles the opportunity to gather resources and receive treatment plans,…

kneel in the corner of their living room for a half an hour, and that struck me as so completely bizarre, but now it makes sense. Punishment and discipline is very controversial. I was raised in a household where physical punishment was not accepted; I actually do not believe that any of my friends from home were punished physically, it consisted of more verbal punishments. It was not until I started going to UNH and met my roommate and others that they had talked about being hit with a belt…

House arrest is a type of imprisonment that requires guilty parties or associates for the situation with pre-trial detainment to stay inside their home unless they are occupied with affirmed exercises, for example, work, volunteering, religious love or getting therapeutic consideration. The benefits of house capture guarantee consistence with court orders by steady electronic checking and unannounced visits, drug tests and liquor tests by consistence officers. This decreases the chances of…

prison should be regarded as a place of punishment, where criminals should do their time and pay for their crime. On the opposite end of the spectrum we have those who believe prison should be a place of rehabilitation, where there is a focus on moving the prisoner away from criminal life. Others may argue that prisons are outdated, and that their cons outweigh the pros. This essay will discuss the popular stances on whether prison should be a place of punishment or rehabilitation in relation to…

The forty-five square miles stretch of earth and sea at the southeastern tip of Cuba—Guantanamo Bay—has served a controversial role in history. Guantanamo Bay primarily served as a strategic logistics base for the U.S. Navy’s Atlantic Fleet to support Caribbean counter-drug operations and process undocumented aliens for US refugee repatriation/status to their host country but since 2002, it has also served to detain and interrogate international terrorist suspects (Schwab). (Previous Thesis)…

Our Justice system came to this country with the settlers from England. The systems mirror each other and each have evolved to our present systems. As with all systems our justice education systems has flaws. Remedies such as reintegration need to be implanted to help address some of the justice systems flaws. In my proposal, I will touch on the subject of our youth and how we need to educate them before they become a statistic in our criminal society. Rehabilitation is often cited as the…

Looking back at the memories with my grandparents now, the words that come to mind are “home cooking and warm embrace”. Can’t picture grandma and grandpa doing hard time for murder. Just can’t seem to process people in their 60’s and 70’s as being hard cold criminals. They should be on some porch somewhere enjoying the sunrise with a cup of hot coffee. How we easily forget that before we become old and wise we must first be young and stupid. However, for the men and women who are currently…

Prison reform is a significant issue for many Americans. The prison population is expanding at a phenomenal rate, often beyond the capacity of the existing system to accommodate the expanding ranks of the incarcerated. The focus for many is increasingly on rehabilitation as a means to reduce recidivism and consequently reduce the number of individuals who must be placed in prisons every year. In the early 1990s, the number of people jailed in the United States topped one million (Waldman, 2013).…

Jail overcrowding poses a problem for American society. Non-violent criminals, such as child support offenders and traffic violators who cannot get a speedy court date live for free in our jails while the tax payers support them. Others believe that these criminals belong in jail despite overcrowding. Although Glenn E. Martin, Marc A. Levin, Nicholas Turner, Julia M. Stasch, Malcolm M. Feeley and Kent Scheidegger differ on their opinions of overcrowded jails, they each share concerns about the…

are they not supporting their citizens’ rights, especially for those who cannot stand up for themselves. Furthermore, why aren’t they implementing the eighth amendment behind prison walls? The eighth amendment actually prohibits cruel and unusual punishment and provides…