Sentencing

to light sentencing. Capital punishment focuses on the death penalty. Capital punishment affects many people from the defendants to the family members left behind. The focus of this paper is that Capital punishment sentencing can have an outcome that is derived from jurors being swayed by the defendant’s race, gender, age, and possible mental illness. A swayed decision in a capital punishment case can be called a racist decision. Capital Punishment should not be part of the sentencing process…

He talks about two vastly different approaches, one being the “War on Drugs” (U.S.) and the other decriminalized drugs all together (Portugal) with the notion of instead treating the problem as a disease instead of a crime. Sentencing policies from the War on Drugs have created a large increase of incarceration for drug offenses. There has been an increase of both usage and deaths related to drug use, unlike Portugal, which ended the war on drugs and began to treat the addiction…

have considered the fundamental view that killing, even a murderer, is wrong and the morality of charging juries with understanding the laws that govern sentencing. All of these points have support and should be considered when deciding where you stand on this issue. Citizens…

This meant that it would now take a much larger quantity of crack to receive a mandatory minimum and it eliminated the mandatory minimum for small possessions. Although the Fair Sentencing Act is not retroactive, it has helped to balance the scale with race and punishment since 2010, and has been a factor in addressing mass incarceration in the United States. Mass incarceration went mostly unnoticed in the U.S. until 2011 when the…

was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia. He also believed that he was the “Prince of God” and thought he would resurrect and sit on the right hand of God. Ferguson committed a crime which resulted to him receiving a thirty-four year death row sentencing. In Ferguson’s case although he suffered from a mental illness that increasingly progressed he was still given the death penalty. Many individuals have a story that is very similar to the outcome that Ferguson received after committing a crime.…

The juvenile justice system has been criminalized leading to a more punitive system, but some juvenile justice professionals believe that a holistic approach would be more beneficial. The issues of juvenile delinquent offenders and status offenders have been addressed from a holistic approach, which involves offenders, victims, communities and families in the resolutions of problems. This holistic approach has shown successful results in decreasing the recidivism rates for status and delinquent…

alternative options to prison such as restorative justice and community-based corrections, and re-examining sentencing legislation and policies there may be a way to improve prisons. According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) “in the June quarter 2015, the average daily number of full-time prisoners in Australia was 35,949,” surpassing previous records for Australia…

Aside from protecting racially-motivated policing, the Supreme Court has also made it so that claims of racial bias cannot be made in the sentencing process. An example of this can be found in McClesky v. Kemp, where the Supreme Court illustrated that they would tolerate discrimination in the criminal justice system so long as no one explicitly claimed their racial biases (Alexander, 109). In 1987, an African American man named Warren McCleskey was facing the death penalty after being convicted…

After a suspect has gone through the process and was sentenced to be guilty, the next step will be carrying out the sentencing order. This phase of the criminal justice process is called the corrections phase (Travis & Edwards, 2015). There were various components in this corrections phase. This phase includes incarceration, probation, parole and community corrections (Travis & Edwards, 2015). All this components differ from one and another. If a suspect is being sentenced to spend times behind…

punishments, while most people feel that Norway treats their prisoners like people by working on getting them back to normal life. Between Norwegian and American prisons there are many differences that set them apart, the population, incarceration rate, sentencing, and common crimes are the main differences between the prisons even though they are made for one reason; to house…