Restitution

include six months in the Holmes County Jail. Rinfret said he considered her relatively clean record, her current employment, her obligation to her four children, three of whom she has custody, and restitution payments in electing a non-prison sanction. Already she has paid $660 of a $3,770 restitution order.…

When most people think about the concept of state sponsored corrections, the first thing that usually comes to mind is jails and prisons. The next though may very well be that the jails and prisons are where the state puts people, who have committed crimes, to punish the offender and protect society. These thoughts and ideas are all correct in some ways. What most people do not know is that a form of state sponsored corrections has been in existence since the time of Hammurabi in the 18th…

A restitution is simply a payment “made by the perpetrator of a crime to the victims of that crime.” (http://criminal.findlaw.com) Generally these payments are meant to cover any loss that the victem faces as a result of the perpetrator. It can also take place…

previously. The society suggests the use of imprisonment, restitution, and fines. Each rehabilitation methods are used depending on the seriousness of the act committed by the lawbreakers. The use of fine makes people pay for their unlawful act with money they earned by spending time to work. For instance, people who drive their automobile at a higher speed than the maximum allowed would get a speed ticket for their illegitimate action. Restitution is also used to make people pay with money for…

5.1 Liquidated Damages: • Due to the contract being sucked away in the aftermaths of Hurricane Llewelyn, it is unknown whether the contract had a liquidated damage clause. (2-718) • If it did, we would be required to determine if the liquidated damage clause caused a penalty or not on the breacher 5.2 Expectation • The goal of the expectation damage would be to put MJC where they would have been had NSH performed. To do that you must take the difference of the market price at the time when the…

The importance of private property in Canada is evident in the protection offered by the legislature and jurisprudence. Numerous acts, like the Law of Property Act or the Residential Property Act, protect the property rights of an individual. Laws like these prohibit the state, and private citizens, from with interfering another person’s property. However, there are certain circumstances, such as an Anton Piller order, where these rights are not protected. These are justified on the basis that…

prison that can be an option for the court system to decide for an offender. These alternatives are also known as intermediate sanctions. Intermediate sanctions can include probation, rehabilitation, fines, home confinement, electronic monitoring, restitution, community service, and boot camps (Siegel, 2006). The courts will usually choose the type of punishment that they see fit for the offender and crime committed. Mostly, these alternatives are given to 1st time offenders and non-violent…

else. He also possessed a flaw that ruined all epic heroes, hubris. Dante’s journey through the Inferno fits the frame of an Epic Hero Cycle perfectly. As he went through the circles of Hell, Dante overcame the hubris, gained his resurrection and restitution. In doing so, he had established himself the status of an epic hero. Dante displayed sympathy to the souls of the sinners in the first few levels of Hell by passing out, twice,…

through his tale, as well as following his flaw, restitution, and resurrection. The hero faces his flaw of not needing his sword and shield, but only to battle with his fist and using his intelligence. When he defeats Grendel 's mother, the resurrection of Beowulf as men quarrel with his death and only his most loyal men stay and hope for his return. Of his loyal men, he picks Wiglaf as the heir to the throne before he passes away, the restitution of the hero. To Beowulf, loyal is royal, as many…

offer their children as slaves as seen in 1 Kings 4:1. A Hebrew would also become a slave in the event of theft where the offender could not afford to pay the restitution as explained in Exodus 22:1-3. Anyone caught stealing a sheep or a lamb was forced to pay five others. The period of slavery in this matter was equated to the value of restitution required. It was the parents who determined the slavery of the Hebrew females according to Exodus 21:7-11. The parent would sell and she was bound…