This would be in line with international perception of the country's state of affairs. ... Systemic factors operating at one or more positions of the criminal justice production line increase the likelihood of Maori being apprehended, arrested, charged, convicted or imprisoned. ...
Does the punishment in line with the crime committed? ... The criminal justice system should not be blamed for the increase in the rate of crimes or the number of offenders being locked up, because social vices like poverty, bad economy, and unemployment are responsible for the increase in the crime rate and numbers of offenders being locked up. ...
Another theory asserts that certain criminals are born into environments that tend to generate criminal behavior including extreme poverty or minority groups (Sacco and Kennedy, 2002). ... THE PUNISHMENT AND PREVENTION OF CRIME There are many strategies to prevent crimes, such as installing lights on city streets, developing Neighborhood Watch Programs, mounting public information campaigns, introducing programs to reduce unemployment or poverty (Sacco and Kennedy, 2002). ... First, the theory was more difficult to implement, as well, the model formulated the assumption that the line betwee...
"The death penalty is constitutional and comports with prevailing understandings of justice. Capital punishment provides the only penalty for murder that is proportionate to the crime committed. Capital punishment deters future murders, provides a means by which society can express its outrage at th...
They say that when students are likely to live in poverty, witness drug abuse at home, have parents arrested and/or sent to prison, then it is not surprising how many students behave well, rather than some of them are violent. ... It makes first line mention in all the news stories for the night and sometimes for weeks and months to come. ... School violence starts out with the bully on the playground, or the pushing and shoving in the lunch line, but given the right set of circumstances what might have been prevented with some supervision instead turns into something deadly. ...
