Restitution

address promptly, and to not leave the required jurisdiction of stay without the permission of their probation officer. The punitive conditions set for probation is dependent of the crime that was committed. Examples of this condition are fines, restitution, community service, home confinement, and regular drug testing. The treatment conditions of probation are where the rehabilitation for the offender comes in. The treatment conditions can include counseling for mental issues or disorders, drug…

Aaron is a 16-year-old Aboriginal person, who has moved from his family home in a small rural area to pursue his high school education in the city. Learning of his father’s recent death is especially difficult, as he is dealing with feelings of frustration and isolation, including separation from his family and culture at a critical time in his life. These factors have combined to cause him to withdraw from study and to lose sight of his goal of becoming a physicist. He is charged with punching…

This chapter takes an in depth look at the literature on diversion programs,the different types of programs, its effectiveness, and participation requirements. Youth in the juvenile justice system often reflect a variety of high-risk elements that include inadequate family support, school failure, negative peer groups, and lack of utilization of community-based services(NCJRS). In order to address some of these high risk elements, we typically divert the youth through the use of diversion…

For many decades and centuries there has been a debate within the criminologists population about the causes to become a criminal. Throughout time, people have tried to come to a conclusion about what could be the cause for crime. It was perceived that there was one single cause for someone to commit a crime, whether it was robbery or murder. The reason in the 17th century would be that, the accused is possessed(Causes of Crime). As technology and society advanced, many criminologists began to…

A serious side effect of criminal justice systems, can be the secondary-victimisation caused on a victim, especially when not given the same rights as the defendant, partially in a violent crime cases. This paper discusses and evaluates the various issues surrounding secondary-victimisation on victims, in the court system. This paper focus on the victims of violent crime in the criminal justice system and whether victims be given more say in handling of the cases and should they be given the…

Contract One of the major contention points in this case of Mason v. R&G is the question whether a contract exists at all between the parties. In order to ascertain the validity of the contract, the elements of a valid contract in the state of Georgia must be carefully examined. The Code of Georgia, § 13-3-1, clearly states that in order to constitute a valid contract, the following elements must generally exist; there must be parties able to contract, a consideration moving to the contract,…

Why Abortion Needs to be Deemed Illegal and Socially Unacceptable The 1973 Supreme Court case Roe vs. Wade legalized abortion nationwide until the point of viability, or the point where the fetus can survive independently with or without support from doctors. Since Roe vs. Wade, 53 million abortions occurred legally in the United States from 1973 to 2011 (“Induced Abortion in the United States,” 2016). The pro-life argument strives for the rights of the unborn while the pro-choice argument…

Criminal Justice Response The case of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study was discovered by the press in 1972 (Brandt, 1978). According to the author Susan Reverby, the news article was titled “Syphilis Victims in U.S. Study Went Untreated for 40 years.” This article caused a major public outcry. People reacted negatively to the to the story, and compared the Tuskegee Study to genocide (Reverby, 2009). At this point, over 100 of the 600 test subjects had died from untreated syphilis (Brandt, 1978). The…

The justice system in the United States is a huge industry. In 2015, there were over 13 million adults arrested. Also in 2015 there were 1 million juveniles arrested. This means that a large part of the justice system focuses on the handling of juveniles. Despite the fact that the rate of juvenile arrests has declined by as much as 65% from 1996 to 2014, the rate is still high. For every thirty three juveniles, one was arrested in 2014. This is a large contrast to 1996, where one in every twelve…

I have made an abundant amount of change since I’ve reached level two. I have had to make many changes to my behavior before being able to reach this level. One of my main problems was lying which I have had trouble with before I came to Eckerd and stealing as well which I’ve worked on also. When I leveled up I was faced with problems within the group and problems I faced before I leveled up like arguing with my staff and peers. Since leveling up I learned to deal with these situations and…