Sentencing

I certainly do not believe the judge in Kenneth’s appeal made the correct decision because Kenneth has been rehabilitated there is no other reason why the judge should keep him imprisoned any longer. Kenneth was sentenced at the age of fourteen to four life sentences for his part in the armed robberies taking place at four facilities within a 30 day span with an older adult. In 2010 the court ruled juvenile life sentences are illegal for offences for less than murder. During Kenneth’s appeal the…

Chapter 9 Chapter Review: Punishment & Sentencing In the book, Criminal Justice in America, by George F. Cole, Christopher E. Smith, and Christina DeJong talk about punishment and sentencing in chapter nine. Punishment and sentencing are both a love/hate relationship to an individual. The reason being is because many people will receive the proper punishment and sentence but other individuals do not. Punishment occurs in order to maintain social order, but there is always that balance of…

relation to §2G2.2 of the Federal Sentencing Guidelines Manual which outlines the trafficking in material involving the sexual exploitation of a minor (Federal Sentencing Guidelines Manual , 2011). The argument being is this section of the sentencing guidelines are congressionally directed rather than empirically being empirically based. When federal cases are tried, the length of imprisonment is determined by the United States Sentencing Commission sentencing table (Cite2). The defendant is…

The most plausible reason for racial disparities regarding sentencing is that minorities “are more likely to be subject to facially neutral laws and policies that prescribe more severe sentences or sentence enhancements” (Walker, Spohn and Delone 2012:286). For example, police patrols in a minority-housing complex on one shift disregard anyone with a joint or two when they search an individual. Occasionally they may write a summons to court therefore the residents get comfortable that they have…

follows, whether it be a death sentence, or jail time, or maybe just some community service and an apology. The point is for every crime there is a difference in punishment. The differences of the punishments are called the five goals of criminal sentencing, each of them being important and useful in different ways. They list as; Retribution, incapacitation, deterrence, rehabilitation, and restoration. The first one that we come across is retribution in the old days we as a society might have…

race on criminal justice processing and sentencing. As a result of this research, sentencing policies have undergone numerous periods of reform. Yet, racial disparities in sentencing outcomes and incarceration rates continue to give rise to serious questions about how and through what processes race continues to affect sentencing outcomes. In this essay, we will review the scholarly research on race and sentencing, and discuss a number of important sentencing reforms that have taken place in the…

There are five different types of sentencing models that have played a major role in how our correctional employee community operates today. Some of these sentencing models have put a strain on the correctional workers because of the increase in prisoners that they are responsible to supervise for. With the amount of people going to either jail or prison, this makes it crucial that our correctional employees are well trained and equipped to handle the different types of criminals they will…

According to section 718.1 of the Criminal Code, Sentencing in Canada “must be proportionate to the gravity of the offence and the degree of responsibility of the offender”. Despite that being said, the system tends to leave the final decision to the judge. In 2015, the population of adult offenders showed a decline in the overall adult population at 461 offenders per 100,000 adults (Reitano, 2016) and drug related offences decreased by 15% between 2014 and 2015 (Allen, 2016). Looking at the…

Harder Sentencings Every ninety- eight seconds, someone is sexually assaulted in the US, and every eight minutes that victim is a child. Their crime. The rape and sexual assault numbers are going up daily, not only in America, but everywhere in the world. Today I will be pursuing you as to why I think that rapist and people who commit sexual assault should have longer, harder sentencings. I will try to persuade you by using facts about sexual assaults, educate you more about the sentencing…

In 1994, California legislators and voters made a change in the state’s criminal sentencing law, known as Three Strike and You’re Out. This law was passed after several high profile murders were committed by ex-felons. These ex-felons made communities concerned that violent offenders released from prison would go on to perpetrate serious, violent crimes. The Three Strikes law had a minimum sentence of twenty-five years to life for three-time great offenders who had multiple priors of violent…