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    Morton Grove woman 21-year-old Xin Zeng, has been charged with attempted first-degree murder. Responders found a newborn baby boy in a plastic bag that had been tied closed with a towel wrapped around it, underneath a pile of towels in the bathroom, Yaras said. Police said Zeng is a college student and lives with her parents, who were out of the country when the baby was born. Zeng is being held in Cook County Jail on $10 million on a charge of attempted first-degree murder. This crime makes a…

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    In the National Geographic film titled Female Offenders, several philosophies used for punishment in the field corrections are portrayed. You also see how female prisons function and the culture within the cells that makes it different from male prisons. Furthermore, through Robert Hansers book on corrections we see the aspects of confinement that are unique in female inmates, particularly regarding issues with female prisoners being mothers. In the film, you see the incapacitation theory used…

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    One of the best time in one’s life is the teenage years. During this time love is discovered along with the true meaning of friendship. In many cases being a teen can be difficult because everything that is done or said is driven by emotions. Emotions are hard to deal with during those years and they can cause a traumatic changes in life if they are not controlled properly. That is what happened to three particular teenagers who seek to be accepted by their peers, who needed to feel love and…

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    In the research article, Facial Trustworthiness Predicts Extreme Criminal-Sentencing Outcomes, the researchers, John Paul Wilson and Nicholas O. Rule, are asking if people infer trustworthiness based off the face of the target and how that is relevant to the judgement of this target. This is interesting because it shows the many biases in society, most importantly the criminal justice system, and how they influence the fate and lives of individuals. Introduction The experiment is studied…

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    Michael Morton Court Case

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    Throughout the years people have claimed and argued their position towards a big question. Although the simple truth thesis states that big questions admit simple, obvious, and undisputable answers this is not true. Big questions never admit straightforward and unquestionable answers. A big question can be anything from What is Life? to Is capital punishment wrong? yet, I will focus on Does the adversarial process harm plaintiffs and Defendants?. I will argue that the legal system does harm…

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    Evan Miller has had a rough upbringing. He has had emotional abandonment from his alcoholic and drug abused mother, his abusive father and forced to be placed in multiple foster cares throughout his childhood. Miller is a prime example of an abandoned, troubled minor, whose true destiny has been destroyed due to these circumstances. The problems he has faced steered him to being depressed and unsatisfied, using drugs, alcohol and four suicide attempts to trying and fulfill the emptiness he has…

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    Essay On Juvenile Justice

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    Juvenile Justice Juveniles are young children, the law states juveniles are children under the age of 18. Many of these juveniles commit crimes like theft, assault, and the worst crime of all murder. These certain juveniles who commit these heinous murders are sometimes sentences to life in prison without parole, depending the severity of their crime. But, should theses juveniles be sentenced to life in prison? Some people agree with these life sentencing while other Americans do not agree…

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    The way in which a child is raised can have a long term effect on the way that they live their lives. Many people would probably object that the child’s background has nothing to do with their criminal activity because the actions were brought upon by themselves, however examples of juvenile crimes have proven this wrong. The authors of the article “Life sentence: is life without parole for juveniles’ cruel and unusual punishment?”, Dontae Brown and Adele Birkenes, state “People are not born bad…

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    The Case Of Lionel Tate

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    Lionel Tate was just 13 years old when he was convicted of the murder of 6 year old Tiffany Eunick on in 1999. He is the youngest American citizen to be convicted of first degree murder and sentenced life in prison without possibility of parole in January 2001. Possible reasons of his delinquency may be his fascination with wrestling and him imitating the moves and hits he sees when he watches it. On the day of the murder Lionel Tate decided to practice some of the wrestling moves he had seen…

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    “Eyewitness” was on 60 Minutes reporting on the flaws of eyewitness testimony. Eyewitness testimony is where the victim talks about who she thinks did the crime. A point of the finger can heavily influence the thoughts of the jury members. Jennifer Thompson was going to sleep one night, when a man broke into her house. The man held a knife to her neck before raping her. Unlike most people, Jennifer Thompson studied the individual as closely as she could. She wanted to make sure he was caught. By…

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