Habitual offender

criminal justice system without affecting the others. Correctional professionals painfully learned during the 1990’s, when prisons become crowded, inmates back up in local jails that are not equipped to deal with long-term populations or with serious offenders. Incarceration rates and policies that affect those rates have an impact on probation, parole, and community-based programming. Mays and Winfree Jr., (2009) list below ten changes in policies or practices that could have a positive impact…

The state circuit court of appeals is a three-prong system. The lower level is the state circuit court of appeals, and the second would be federal appeals, and for the most controversial cases the United States Supreme Court. The duty of all of the lower level c courts are the same…to determine if the trial court did make any legal errors, and if so can a new legislation or law be made to ensure it does not happen again. The duty of the Supreme Court is to determine if a decision the Federal…

prisoners allowed. The fact that both state and federal prison systems are overcrowded is a direct result of the stiffer penalties that certain crimes demand, the minimum maximum laws, and the three strikes and you are out laws that sentence habitual offenders to longer sentences. The cost to run a prison system varies greatly…

Imagine it is 8:04 on a Wednesday morning and you are just now leaving your house for school. You know that the bell will ring in four more minutes regardless of whether or not you are there. You don’t want to get the mandatory thirty minute detention associated with showing up even a couple of minutes late to first hour. What is the conclusion many of us will come to in this situation? We will speed a little bit just so we can get to school on time. Now fast forward two days. It is a…

to the risk of recidivism” (James, 2015, p. 2). Risk assessment is often used to influence decisions regarding offender treatment, the granting of parole and length of sentence for incarceration (Andrews et al., 2006). Some research argue that risk assessment would be a helpful tool because it can collect and analyze data to identify low-risk offenders (Andrews, 1989). Meaning offenders could be placed in rehabilitation programs or be supervised in the community (Andrews et al., 2015) instead of…

Prison overcrowding has become a major problem in the United States. As per, Issues and Controversies, “The United States has only 5 percent of the world’s population, but holds 25 percent of the world’s prisoners.” Housing the growing prison population is putting a strain on the federal government’s budget, costing roughly $80 billion a year. Crime rates are down, but prison populations are a growing concern. In light of these facts, we need to explore ways of reducing crime that does not…

It sets a precedent for new offenders and may offer a deterrent to those that consider their actions before commiting a crime. A minimum sentence guideline allows for a judge to not have to rely on gut instinct, personal consensus, but rather be confined to set procedures and guidelines…

Being in law enforcement for several years I come across several suspects and defendants who expresses the criminal justice process moves like a snail and is always unpredictable. Imagine if a significant amount of cases was going to trial instead of over 90% of felony cases are plea bargained (Bohm, R., Haley, K.,n.d). Nevertheless, there are three types of plea bargains and prosecutors tend to have factors to decide if the plea bargain is in the best interest or what’s the better plea…

material. A handful of adolescent studies suggest no relationship between pornography and behaviour. For example, a retrospective study of adolescent sex offenders found no relationship between prior exposure to pornography and the number of victims. Additionally, in a more intensive interview with a sub-sample of youths, the majority of offenders denied that their use of pornography in any way led to the subsequent sex crime. Clearly, more research is needed about child and…

vary by cases to case bases, with the most serious offenders being found of causing physical damage to another person ( Murders, Assaulters, and sexual predators). Our society has a job to rehabilitate these individuals, but also protect the community that they service. The growing problem that has occurred is the ability to facilitate these individuals in state prisons. Although these prison contain some of the most serious and violent offenders our society knows, it also caters to less…