Research in this area is often difficult because the researcher can quite easily get committed for an offence. ... According to psychologists the reason for this is because it is far better to aim at shaping and reinforcing an offenders behaviour, rather than just giving them a prison sentence on the basis that they deserve it. ... Overall, it appears that judges conform with strict retributive sentencing, due to the fact it is an easier option than reductive sentencing and is also a safeguard against public speculation. ... Notably judges find the ...

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In addition, the young adults might have a chance to start a new life if they are sentenced to do the compulsory community service. ... However, when they come out, they might start robbery and murder. ... Therefore, compulsory community service sentence is more efficient than the jail sentence. ... Therefore, by doing the community service will create job opportunities for them because not many companies will hire people with a jail record. ... Otherwise, the cycle continues because the jail punishment will only teach them to try harder not to get caught. ...

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With sex trafficking you usually get a harder sentence that labor trafficking because there usually more severe. ... Whitney has been charged with up to 16 years because of her pervious offenses. ... The right sentence would have been from 10 to 15 years because he committed modern day slavery. ... The offenders are generally benefitting from this because with such light sentences, they are going to continue their crime after they served their time. ... To start off with, if you are convicted of human trafficking you would not be able to just pay a fine even if the fine is a great one. ...

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With sex trafficking you usually get a harder sentence that labor trafficking because there usually more severe. ... Whitney has been charged with up to 16 years because of her pervious offenses. ... The right sentence would have been from 10 to 15 years because he committed modern day slavery. ... The offenders are generally benefitting from this because with such light sentences, they are going to continue their crime after they served their time. ... To start off with, if you are convicted of human trafficking you would not be able to just pay a fine even if the fine is a great one. ...

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Training should start as early as possible because some children start engaging in criminal behavior as early as 7 years of age. ... Because punishments for crimes are not consistent, they continue to commit crimes. ... Shichor argues that "three strikes" is extremely unfair because he believe it is aimed at only poor offenders, and the middle to upper class will be treated with leniency. Shichor does not like the fact that because third strikers are getting mandatory sentences, minor offenders are being released without having served even half of their time. ... Judges have the power to s...

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Such an inmate would benefit from living in a segregated setting with other older inmates. ... Now they are serving a sentence in their elderly years. ... Second and more importantly, sentencing practices have changed. Our courts starting to use consecutive lengthy sentences, long mandatory minimum sentences and life without parole (Clear & Cole, 2000). ... A growing elderly prison population will be more costly to accommodate than a younger one because elderly inmates require more medical and mental health services in special settings (Neeley, 1997). ...

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The plea bargaining originally started in the early part of the nineteenth century with, the prosecution for violation of liquor laws. ... Sentence bargaining is where the prosecutor agrees to recommend a lighter sentence if the defendant pleads guilty or no contest to the charge. ... In some cases, the defendant will start out paying a retainer fee of just $10,000.00 dollars. ... This is after serving little or none of their sentences. ... Once a person is sentence to prison, then they are known as an offender. ...

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In the simplest terms possible, it all comes down to the cost efficiency of sentencing to life in prison vs. death, and of course, compliance with the United States Constitution. ... Is that because they commit more crimes? ... My feelings have stumbled now not just because it's someone I know, but also because I have a different perspective of a set of events that led up to the situation. ... So what could we do with the millions of dollars we would spend on capital punishment? ... I do agree with Wolf's statement when it comes to in...

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The prison system has evolved to give criminals their minimum and maximum sentence for the crime committed. Depending on the behavior on the inmate would consider whether or not his sentence would be reduced or extended. ... The hole is a cruel punishment and it slowly starts to mentally break a person. ... People started to kill themselves because many people were suffering mentally and emotionally that death could end just the pain. ... If a person is sentenced to prison for associating themselves with risky, illegal drugs and is still doing it behind bars, then the prison system is clearly ...

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That is because Jenkins feels murder is murder and it is not right. ... Second, a disproportionate number of nonwhites are sentenced to death and executed. Third, poor and friendless defendants, those with inexperienced or court-appointed counsel, are most likely to be sentenced to death and executed. ... People will think less and less of the law and start resorting to "private law and order". ... They are fed three meals a day, able to watch television, listen to music, play games, shower, and visit with their relatives. ...

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I would like to start of by asking; how can anybody agree with the death penalty being an option for the juveniles as a punishment? ... He received an execution sentence on May 1, 2002 in Missouri. ... Lets rephrase that, sentence him to the death penalty. ... We are going to murder a child because he was brought up in a house that thought him that violence was fine. ... In large part because of our desire to remain free to retain the death penalty for juvenile offenders. ...

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It is also suppose to specify if a sentence is done concurrently or consecutively, and it restricts the amount of time that a prisoner can have taken off his or her sentence. ... So in other words, if you start early you can actually get five strikes before you are put away for good. ... This quote was made from a student at Stanford and I agree with his statement. ... The three strikes law seems to have its good side because it puts away several hardcore criminals. ... And at certain times I feel that I agree with this. ...

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Their crops started to become worth nothing and because of that they couldn't keep up with their payments. ... Mainly, because they rebelled against the government and banks. ... Clyde's sister thinks he started becoming a criminal because of the lack of discipline. ... When he was arrested in Dallas for auto theft and served a short jail sentence. ... In March 1930 Clyde was arrested as a fugitive and sentenced to Texas Penitentiary. ...

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I agree somewhat with the fact that black people are getting harsher punishments than whites or any other race, but the way I look at it is that the offender is there because they committed a crime and they should get the punishment they deserve not extensive jail sentences because of what color they are. ... The article backed up its argument with the use of facts from past court cases of offenders plea bargaining and getting shortened jail sentences, parole, and even as small as measly fines. ... I think that the public will agree with this because of the strong use of opinionated values...

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Family doesn't end with blood. ... When Alexandria and Atticus are sitting in the living room one night Alexandria begins to talk to Atticus about the fact that they no longer need a cook or maid of the house because they have her. ... The Town of Maycomb County on the other hand stuck a death sentence on Tom Robinson before the poor man had time to say his piece. Atticus knew from the very start that he was in a losing battle but he never gave up and when Tom was shot trying to escape unlawful persecution Atticus was furious and went over to talk to Helen Robinson and Tom's children...

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The convicted are executed slowly, by firing bullets at intervals, starting at the ankles. ... He was arrested and charged with murder because he was drunk and could not tell where he was at the time of the murder. The FBI had matched his palm print with the one found in the women's apartment. ... Criminals who plan their crimes very carefully, won't be deterred by the death sentence because they would believe that they won't be caught. ... People who are inadequately represented are more likely to lose their case and this is what makes capital punishment unfa...

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Alex is sentenced to fourteen years in prison. ... At the end of the movie, he starts thinking about settling down, marrying, and having a son. ... These "outcasts" often are forced to break laws in order to survive because they cannot get jobs because of their looks. ... Ideas such as an eye for an eye, prison sentences, death and rehabilitation have been tried in various places around the world with no real answers to which one works better. ... Alex in A Clockwork Orange was given a relatively light sentence for the crimes he committed. ...

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They lack reasoning and judgment because their cerebellum hasn't fully grown. ... Sentencing teens to the death penalty is cruel and unreasonable; therefore, juveniles should not be sentenced to the death penalty. ... Later, I then moved to Farmington age 13 grade 8, I was starting fresh. ... I had started dating seriously and growing maturely at age 14. ... They had stabbed her with a knife. ...

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It was a truly heated debate starting with the legality of the death penalty. ... Some would say that life in prison is harsher because they have to live with themselves for the remainder of their natural life. ... In Georgia when a black kills a white twenty percent where sent to death row while when a white kills a black it is merely six percent who are sentenced to death, along with similar numbers in Florida. ... Juries are purely convicting and sentencing criminals based on the nature of their crime. ... Juries make their decisions on presented evidence with limited scientific evide...

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America being a country which started with thirteen charter governments, based off of customs from Great Britain, and it was hard to make laws. ... This all has to do with media and how they portray those being accused. ... These rights are called the Miranda Rights because they refer to the Supreme Court case Miranda v. ... After the trial, the ninth part is the sentencing. ... The sentence has to be reasonable because of the eighth amendment against cruel and unusual punishment. ...

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Juveniles tend to think that they can get away with crimes because they are young. ... This leads to them disbursing false information to the public and the public takes it and runs with it because of course they believe the media knows everything. ... When a juvenile is charged with a criminal offence and they're sent to a juvenile court, the focus of the judge is not necessarily sentencing them. ... This doesn't mean that they are sentences to prison. ... Educating our youth starting from the top and working our way down is the only way that will allow America to get a hold on the ...

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When I first started to research this topic I thought the death penalty to be morally wrong and an injustice to the persons rights. ... As of today in Pennsylvania the only crime punishable with the death penalty is first-degree murder with eighteen aggravating circumstances. This means that in the state that we live the only way for someone to be sentenced to death is to commit and be convicted of first-degree murder with eighteen aggravating circumstances. ... All of the people I surveyed agreed with the death penalty. ... These seven said that the only crimes that minors should be sen...

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"...the death sentence is abominable, as abominable as the crime itself. ... Sentences with significant minimum terms can also provide the public with the protection from repeat offenders. ... There are thirty- two states in the United States that offer life without parole as a sentencing option. ... Instead of having these people being executed they should give them more help than ususal because of their state. ... Standing in an enclosure 20 feet away, five shooters are armed with .30 caliber rifles loaded with single rounds. ...

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When he finally gets a chance to settle his life down and start his boxing career he runs into the same racist officer from when he was 11. This time around Della Pesca is there to apprehend him to finish his last 10 months of juvenile sentence. ... Also, this case caused Carter to stop fighting because he was wrongfully convicted. Since he had to serve a life sentence his boxing career had to come to an end. ... Police shouldn't falsely accuse someone of something because of their race. ...

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The focal point is a particular After- School program that was started in Braintree, Massachusetts by the Norfolk County Sheriff office called "Significantly raises youth.... Ind. boy appeals prison sentence imposed at age 12. ... Paul Gingerich, Paul is the youngest person to tried, convicted and sentenced as an Adult. He was sentenced to 25 years for participating in the shooting that lead to the death of Mr. ... William Donges is an educator who conducted a survey using interviewed methods with eight participants with seven Caucasian males and two males of bi-racial background who are...

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