The Morality in Juvenile Justice: The current trend of trying juvenile offenders as adults in cases of violent crime. ... Florida is just one of many states that have over the past decade enacted laws to try offenders such as Tate as adults. And under Florida state law, a conviction of first-degree murder requires a mandatory sentence of life in prison. ... A case can be made for convicting young felons under adult standards from a Kantian perspective in that it is the duty of a society to see to it that its laws are upheld, that the society is a safe environment for its law-abiding...

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The intent of juvenile justice is that children should be treated differently from adults with less punishment because their brain and morality is not fully developed. ... It is important because it impacts law enforcement, court processes, probation, corrections, community services, and intervention programs. ... Those who complete rehabilitation have a less chance to recidivate and law enforcement can focus on other criminals. ... In addition to poor experiences in facilities, juveniles who are involved in the system may also develop a hatred for juvenile court professionals and law enforcem...

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Just desert theorists have tended to follow the ideas of Kant, that people deserve to be punished if they have broken the law. ... Justice and fairness ensure that all persons must bear the consequence of obeying the law equally. ... The idea of educative deterrence is that punishment of criminals builds up the habit of not breaking the law in society. For example, every time someone is punished for theft the public morality that theft is wrong is strengthened and the habit of not stealing is reinforced. ... However, the educative theory rests upon the premise that public morality and inhibiti...

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This system, founded by the Federal Government of Canada, ensures a minimum of peace and order is kept by establishing a set of rules also known as laws, rights and freedoms. ... The never-ending debate for the legalization of assisted suicide is quite interesting in the sense that its morality is questionable according to certain groups of individuals of the population. ... Another major flaw in the Canadian Criminal Justice System is the facility in which serious offenders get away with their crimes by invoking certain excuses like psychological problems or even making deals with the law in ...

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However, youths who commit sexual offenses are required to register under the sex offender's registration act, more commonly known as Megan's Law. ... While some disagree, Schnelz believes it is inappropriate that the boy be branded a sex offender--but Schnelz had no choice but to order the boy to register under the state law. ... Here we see that the law has certainly provided for penalties of sex offenders, however, there is still work to be done as far as exclusions and modifications of those penalties. ... The majority of cases of juvenile sexual aggression appear to involve a...

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Either way in colonial Massachusetts's laws were made and enforced. The crimes and punishments in Colonial Massachusetts not only reflect the societies morality but an embedded commitment to God. ... But, it was more a case of the colony leader's own law rather than God's moral law. ... In Massachusetts the Sabbath laws were enforced frequently. ... Magistrate also created strict laws against Quakers and persecuted them cruelly. ...

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Law enforcement agencies have less and less manpower to pursue embezzlement so the fear of prosecution is less of a deterrent to employees. ... Periodic surveys and statistics gathered by law enforcement agencies indicate that losses attributed to acts of embezzlement are more significant than losses attributed to all other types of business crimes combined (Barlow, 1978). The number of embezzlements increases annually, primarily because of inadequate pre-employment screening by employers, changing morality in all sections of society, particularly the work force, decreasing law enforcem...

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Violent crime abhors most of us, and outrages our sense of morality. ... (Michael Victory, END OF THE LINE 1994) Now the sentence of life imprisonment (in some states penal servitude for life', strict security life imprisonment', or for the term of his natural life') has become the most severe sanction authorized by Australian law. ... Under Commonwealth law, the death penalty was abolished in 1973 by s.4 of the Death Penalty Abolition Act, 1973.( Australian Institute of Criminology report in crime and criminal justice 1993) Although Australia has abandoned capital punishment...

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