Sentencing

Life in prison without the chance of parole also known as, death by imprisonment, has many strengths and weaknesses. Possibly more strengths since many countries have replaced the death penalty with this sentence. Countries that have established this punishment find it to be an effective alternative compared to the death penalty. Life in prison promises us, as a country, peace, safety, and justice. Lifers prefer the death penalty than the life sentence simply because they will not have freedom,…

questions are whether the murder was committed “deliberately” and if the defendant would be “a continuing threat to society” (United States). The jury in Jurek v. Texas answered these questions unanimously, therefore sentencing Jurek to death (United States). Jurek disagreed with his sentencing and challenged the court’s ruling several times after their…

Robert, great job on your post! As you mentioned blanket confidentiality does little to protect unsuspecting individuals yet fully protects those with malice intent to spread the virus. I fully understand that disclosure of positive HIV status has the potential to create turmoil in the lives of the affected as well as their loved ones. Stigma, the potential for violence, and discrimination is the fear that people with positive status live with. The comment, "We can fight stigma. Enlightened laws…

Crime is the violation of a normal behavior that has been made into a law (Godwin, PPT). Variations and differences between crime exist because some crimes are classified differently. Violent crimes, for example, are crimes where violence is the motive (Godwin, PPT). One example of a violent crime would be aggravated assault, because the person committing the crime was intended to injure another person due to conflict or rage. Property crimes however, are different than violent crimes. Property…

With the foundation of due process established, Beccaria turned his attention to the aspect of punishment. As stated before, crime is a threat against social order, therefore, the purpose of punishment is to deter individuals from committing crimes. Crime occurs when it is concluded by the individuals that the potential benefits from the crime outweigh the fear of judicial punishment. This factor may increase individual’s chances of either commit more crimes or severe ones in the future. To…

social, political, and economical trends. The courts must also adjust their goals according to particular periods in criminal justice practices such as probation, parole, and sentencing with the Community-Based Era of 1970’s to the Just Deserts Era of the 1990’s which altered the court's concerns to determinate and mandatory sentencing (Cronkhite, 2013). The court administrator expresses a concern for strong organizational leadership. They occupy the increasing need for professionally managed…

MILLERSBURG —Following a series of actions crafted to mimic the original intent of the court, a former Millersburg man on Tuesday was sentenced to time served, and released from prison, for admittedly making and possessing meth in the vicinity of a school and juveniles in 2010. For the second time in a month, Delane A. Goodwin, 43, who has been serving his sentence at Richland Correctional Institution, sat in Common Pleas Court Judge Robert Rinfret’s courtroom. First returned to the court in…

Punishment for criminal offences is a practice that had been present since the inception of human civilizations across the globe. In ancient times too, people were convicted and punished for committing crimes which encompassed heinous crimes like murder. Though the modes of punishments varied from what are present today, different forms of retribution were thoroughly present in those ancient civilizations. But it must be noted that the entire criminal justice system, today, has changed, and to…

for the actions of a group of which they are a member, even if they are not involved in criminal activity. It has been contended that the VLAD act disregards the well-established principles of the Rule of Law in relation to the proportionality in sentencing. Section 7 of the VLAD act states that the offender will receive a sentence for the offence in which they committed under the law, as well as an additional mandatory sentence of 15 years imprisonment, to be served solely in a correctional…

America that has stopped actual justice from being made in cases like Tom Robinson’s in To Kill a Mockingbird. The United States has an extensive background on violating human rights due to racial disparities. For instance, in 2005, the United States Sentencing Commission wrote a report that stated, “African Americans receive longer prison terms for drug offenses than whites. In 2002, the average prison term of 105 months for African Americans was 69% longer than the average of 62 months for…