Extrajudicial punishment

of crime in order to reduce future offending (Worrall, 2015). In colonial times, sentencing was solely on retributive and later on deterrence. However in the late 1800's, sentencing became premised on rehabilitation. This then led to a system of punishment called indeterminate sentencing. Sentencing often had wide ranges involving minimum and maximum terms that could sentence someone as little as a day to life in prison. This wide range allowed for time to evaluate the offender's rehabilitation…

Solberg 1 Reed Solberg CJUS/POLS 205 Mrs. Smith 16 November 2015 Prosecuting Youth in Criminal Justice Field The Criminal Justice system was first brought about knowing that children have different roles and obligations then adults. Lately there have been many rules and laws that have made us change what the Criminal Justice was built on. This is because it is hard to find a happy medium between throwing a child in prison or sending them through a rehabilitation program. When the United…

In 2013, more than 4,200 Californians were arrested for nonviolent drug offenses. Meanwhile, criminal rehabilitation services are exceptionally poor, and often not offered to the majority of criminals. Proposition 57 gives parole opportunities to non-violent criminals, and offers merit points for criminal rehabilitation. It extends the freedoms of those who have been unfairly sentenced by the justice system, ensures public safety, and decreases prison population. Although many oppose this…

The beginnings of what was to be Salisbury prison was that of a cotton mill that was abandoned by the time North Carolina succeeded from the Union in 1861. The abandoned cotton mill was in a prime location for a desired confederate prison in the confederate states , being located close to the main railroad line that ran through the area. The main building was surrounded by several smaller buildings that were to have multiply functions but would later be only used as hospitals. The complexes were…

Do prisoners have the right to vote? in my country and also in the UK, New Zealand and a few other places if you are in prison you cannot vote. Judging by the almost total lack of public discussion about this, most people in the United States at least seem to be fine with that. It is something we do not really talk about, something we do not really think about and whenever this gets brought up somebody usually says something like “if you break the law you lose your rights” or “voting is a…

1a. In my breaching experiment, I put the public to the test with the help of my girlfriend, and a few friends. My two friends, Angie and Steve, are a heterosexual couple, which is very much “normal” in our society and throughout the world. I sent them out into a crowded public area to show “Public Displays of Affection,” or PDA, while my girlfriend and I, a homosexual couple, observed the reactions of their surrounding people. Then, the experiment was repeated again, but this time, with my…

Designing and implementing a BIP in response to a student demonstrating “repeated inappropriate behaviour” is one of the requirements of Durack State School as outlined in the Responsible Behaviour Plan for Students (Education Queensland, n.d., p. 3). Following the referral to the Special Needs Team by Louise’s teacher, data collected through a FBA has been used to inform the creation of the BIP (see Appendix A) (Scott, Anderson & Alter, 2012). A BIP is a written document that describes what…

The justice system in the United States is a huge industry. In 2015, there were over 13 million adults arrested. Also in 2015 there were 1 million juveniles arrested. This means that a large part of the justice system focuses on the handling of juveniles. Despite the fact that the rate of juvenile arrests has declined by as much as 65% from 1996 to 2014, the rate is still high. For every thirty three juveniles, one was arrested in 2014. This is a large contrast to 1996, where one in every twelve…

this essay I will discuss two approaches to punishment which are retributivism, also known as non-consequentialism, and utilitarianism, also known as consequentialism. I will then analyse three justifications of punishment within the utilitarian approach which are reform and rehabilitation, individual and general deterrence and incapacitation. Retributivism is a sociological perspective of crime which looks at the different forms and changes in punishment. It is a backward thinking approach as…

arrest or incarcerated”. I am firmly against this. Prisoners deserve mutual respect and to have their humanity intact, the same as the guards do. However, because these guards are just as human as the prisoners, they have no place to overrule the punishment set by the court system. Overall, the people in charge of the prisoners should behave better than those they have power over. I do not want people in charge of our prisoners that would stoop so low as to abuse people they have complete…