Incapacitation

The goals of the criminal justice system are deterrence, incapacitation, rehabilitation, and restoration. Those goals are significant in formulating all policies as well as the two predominating hate crime statutes in the country today, the discriminatory selection model and the racial animus model. The fundamental purpose of creating hate crime statutes is to ensure the equal protection and freedom of members of the protected groups. The two statutes are rooted from two theories of punishment.…

of the Board of Medical Examiners and its licensee.” One of the provisions within this bill is to allow the Board access to “health care records of a licensee’s patients in the event of the licensee’s death, disability, incarceration or other incapacitation that would render the licensee unable to continue his or her practice.” Assemblywoman Jauregui asked what the current situation is in terms of when a doctor passes away. Edward Cousineau, Executive Director of the Nevada Board of Examiners,…

During the date of April 1st, 2016 I had the opportunity to witness a usual day through the court process. I wanted to observe the courtroom happenings on a day to day basis. I sought out our commitment to justice within Canada. According to the justice model, “…the essence of punishment should be to punish offenders with fairness and justice and in proportion to the gravity of their criminal offences” (p.296). Throughout our criminal justice system there are many methods, models and structures…

Mandatory minimum sentencing in the United States needs to be reformed. Especially for the non violent offenses. For federal and state crimes there is a mandatory minimum sentencing law requiring Mandatory minimum sentencing laws requiring binding prison terms of a distinct length for people convicted. These sentencing laws are set in stone and prevent judges from fitting the punishment to the circumstances of the offense. Mandatory minimum sentences do not by any means override sentencing;…

disparity.” The point was to provide fairness in sentencing while still ensuring that each offender was sentenced based on the specifics of his or her own case. The purposes of criminal sentences are listed in the act as just punishment, deterrence, incapacitation, and rehabilitation. Congress lists several factors and offender characteristics that must be taken into consideration when imposing a sentence. The factors are offense seriousness, aggravating circumstances, nature and degree of harm,…

In response to the mass incarceration issue in America’s prison systems, Arafa and Burns the authors of Judicial Corporal Punishment in the United States? Lessons from Islamic Criminal Law for Curing the Ills of Mass Incarceration, argued in favour of reinstating Judicial Corporal Punishment in the prison systems of America; similar to the ones that Islamic criminal law advocates for. Throughout the article, the authors’ work to prove how Judicial Corporal Punishment is more compassionate to…

Felon disenfranchisement is a common practice in the United States and occurs when incarcerated felons and ex-felons are denied certain rights, specifically their right to vote. Felonies vary between violent and nonviolent crimes and are considered to be more serious than misdemeanors. Depending on the crime and the state, conviction of a felony can lead to a minimum of one year in prison. Despite the crime and conviction, the question of whether or not an incarcerated felon or ex-felon has the…

In accordance to federal law, the two hospitals in Joplin, Missouri, Mercy and Freeman Health System, have conducted individual advance directive education procedures for many years. These procedures have not been thoroughly analyzed with a comprehensive list that indicates advised properties and methods of communication and education an advance directive education procedure should practice. This has not occurred because a comprehensive list has not been developed. However, research focusing on…

development of prisons in the State of California. For instance, the author carefully formulates her arguments around political and economic premises in order to explain how social concepts such as retribution, deterrence, rehabilitation, and incapacitation have each contributed to both the radical expansion of prisons in California and the political influence of California’s Department of Corrections as a whole. A perfect example of this can be found on page 14, where the author individually…

are back. Except, these vehicles do more than self-correct, they are self-driving. These new vehicles bring many solutions, as well as new problems, to the world of transportation. They have the potential to eliminate accidents caused by driver incapacitation, but they open a new world of ethical debates that may demand societal changes. However, even with these new problems, self-driving cars would prove safer than…