Presumption of innocence

Recently, there has been a trend in keeping people who are accused in remands. The accused are more likely to be denied bail. It is a form of keeping our community safe from the accused. However, may not be beneficial for the person being accused. Many of us may think that keeping people who have committed crimes in remand is good and that our community is becoming a better place to leave in. But most crimes that arouse police officers are pity crimes. Nonetheless, they are still crimes. Yet,…

The army is geared into destroying the enemy of its nation; while the police force serves the people, who are guaranteed presumptions of innocence and rights. However, according to Wiebenga, ever since the National Defense Authorization Security Act of 1997 it becomes much easier for the distribution of military equipment to make its way to the civil law enforcement agencies which leads…

Are we at debt with a supreme Being? What is the nature of man’s guilt, given the rupture caused to an original divine order? Can a just God lend forgiveness and thus offer reconciliation to his fallen creation? All these fundamental questions and more have been thoroughly explored by philosophers of all ages. Two thinkers in particular who have sought to provide answers to these inquiries are Friedrich Nietzsche and Saint Anselm. In their respective works, On the Genealogy of Morals and Cur…

SECTION 1 In one sense, historians have had no choice but to privilege social, cultural, and political factors when analysing the relationship between women and crime in Victorian Britain because there is no complete, impartial, and conclusive body of evidence that might fully explain that relationship. The problem predates the Victorian era. During the Hanoverian period, for example, there was no professional police force and the British government did not collect data on crime, with the…

Most societies in early World history have created rules, guidelines, principles and religious teachings that control how people in those societies should live and act. At the same time, individuals have seemed to always seek freedoms within those societies, and have sometimes come into conflict with the restrictions placed on them by those rules. Hammurabi’s code, Confucius’s analects, and the Bible all have clear rules and regulations that state how an individual should live, while still…

about her neighbor Boo Radley and learns why everyone categorizes him as a monster. Scout develops the same feelings for Boo Radley and fears the possibility of encountering him. Scout says, “He can get out at night when we’re all asleep...” Her presumptions on who Boo Radley show that she is quick to judge and partial like the rest of her neighbors. It is not until a couple years later that Scout discovers who Boo Radley really is. Through this discovery, she herself discovers that the…

Positivist criminological theory emerged within the nineteenth century, primarily focussing on explanations of crime by examining the forces and aspects outside an individual’s decision-making capability. The capacity of positivist criminology to explain reasons for violent crimes, particularly family violence, has resulted in a multitude of theories and definitions aiming to explain their impact on society. Family violence incorporates violence between family members and intimate partners,…

People think that professional sports players deserve punishment for accusations, however people often forget the most important information involved with crimes. The presumption of innocence dates back to the Roman Empire, and is very important in many nations today. Brette Sember, a student of law, and a writer of more than 40 books involving law, declares, “Most domestic abuse incidents fall under state domestic violence laws…

I, for one, do not believe in American ethnocentrism especially when it comes to our criminal justice system, as long as there is at least one other country that has produced better results. One example of where the American criminal justice system falls short is the rate of recidivism; based on data gathered by Latimer et al (2005), over half of all criminals who were released from incarceration went back to jail. This is compared to most Scandinavian and a few other European countries that…

Victims’ rights, the victims could participate actively in the trials, include the participation, representation, protection and repatriation of the victims. In Hong Kong, the victims’ rights has written in the Victims Charter. Some victims’ rights has achieved, but some of the victims’ rights in some cases may not be achieved. Also, it is difficult to get the balance between the rights of victims and offenders. The relationship between victims’ rights and offender rights are very complicated,…