Restitution

enforce constitutional law, and lastly to improve conditions such as wages and security for actual American citizens ("Immigration Reform."). Trump outlines that Mexico must pay for a wall to be built along the border and that it would be sufficient restitution for all they have cost the US by purposefully sending criminals into the US in order to avoid dealing with them themselves. He goes on to mention that until Mexico complies, prices of temporary visas will go up, and may even be revoked,…

Response Paper 1: The Covenant The Israelites were a small society that was located at the border of Egypt. It was between the Mediterranean Sea to the west and the desert to the east. (Tignor 143) The Israelites culture is estimated to have emerged in the area of present-day Israel between 1200 and 1000 BCE. (Tignor, 144) Though it was a small society, the growth of the cities occurred due to religious reasons under the king 's rulerships, in Jerusalem. Under their leadership was a great God…

focuses on restorative justice and responding to victims, while acknowledging the importance of strengthening families, other jurisdictions clearly focuses on accountability, procedural justice, rights of the child, responsibility, compensation and restitution. On the other hand, Northern Territory Act focus on ensuring the young offenders appropriate treatment, punishment and rehabilitation (Bull, 2009, p.189). Therefore, the ideal of conferences might be difficult to achieve in practice. The…

Key Points: The defendant, who was an adult criminal justice ASU student instructed a 17-year-old high school student who was her boyfriend to aid her in committing the felony. The defendant had the juvenile accomplice use his body as a shield so as to block her actions from public view as she made her way around my vehicle to cause the criminal damage. When this occurred, another male had attempted to stop the defendant, but the defendant pushed the male friend away and had her juvenile…

The Last Chance Ranch is a program for serious juvenile offenders in Florida, which provides a final opportunity for adolescents to turn around their lives before they are officially transferred to the adult system, which often involves prison sentences. The Last Chance Ranch has a number of strengths and areas for improvement, while it also adheres to both the risk and need principles, as well as the general and specific responsivity principles. The Last Chance Ranch displays various strengths…

occurring. Also, life without parole allows mistakes to be corrected whereas once the death penalty has been inflicted. It is a fact that “41% of the population would choose the death penalty over a sentence of life without parole coupled with restitution to the victim 's family” (deathpenaltyinfo.org). This means that more people are already on the side of against the death penalty. Since 1996, the decline of people in favor of the death penalty has gone down drastically. The death penalty is…

In “The West’s Major Cities Are a Bulwark Against the Tide of Right-Wing Nationalism” by Ishaan Tharoor. Tharoor writes about the celebration in London of the Battle of Cable Street which was a protest that had various groups coming together to prevent a group of fascists from marching over eighty years ago. The events that were taking place at the time were happening in the middle of Hitler’s rise to power and the rise of Nazism in Germany as well as the rise of fascism in Mussolini’s Italy and…

Debating Same-Sex Marriage is a dialogue between John Corvino and Maggie Gallagher but this summary will exclusively focus on the pro same-sex marriage argument of John Corvino. John Corvino is a highly-respected philosopher at Wayne State University. Primarily his focus tends to be on ethics, equality, sexuality, and freedom. While Corvino is an open homosexual man he does not allow that bias to cloud his argument. In a somewhat Socratic method he deconstructs other arguments using a means of…

promised reparations of "40 acres and a mule," subjecting them to structural discrimination. This injustice underscores how reparations efforts were often clouded by racist notions that victims owed a debt to oppressors. Policies positioned as restitution failed to provide true nationwide repair and recompense. This inadequate approach allowed America to continually fail its responsibility to confront slavery's original sin and ongoing structural racism, leaving the economic realities of…

What to Do When Your Child is Facing Criminal Charges Youngsters can be hooligans. We all know this. Whether it’s accidentally dinging the car, staying out past curfew, or stealing a few cookies from the cookie jar, kids of any age know how to get into trouble and do the things they shouldn’t. But when their trouble involves law enforcement, that’s when things can get stressful, for you and your family. Juvenile crimes are nothing to shake a stick at. They can result in serious consequences and…