In the Colonial days, their law enforcement would use strict punishment as a way of deterring others from also committing crimes. ... When you combined both rehabilitation and punishment together the outcome for criminals becomes better than if they had just received one of those options. ... For punishment to become effective on a person they must undergo rehabilitation to learn how to break their habits. ... Most of the crime that is committed in Atlanta is done so by those under the age of 29. The crime prevention programs would benefit most if they were targeted at the youth of Atlanta. ...

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White-collar crime; however, can have more of an impact than violent crimes. ... The real problem behind white-collar crime is not defining white-collar crime, but developing the appropriate means to correct this type of crime. ... Also, embezzlement is an individual crime, not just a document or technological crime. ... Most embezzlements are actually a series or combination of crimes, rather than a single crime. ... The number of embezzlements increases annually, primarily because of inadequate pre-employment screening by employers, changing morality in all sections of society, particula...

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Introduction As quoted by Emile Durkheim, a society without crime is impossible.1 Even if the standard of determining criminal acts is set high, less severe acts will still be considered as crime. As there is no chance of eliminating crime out of society, punishment is an essential tool to create a fair society for it having 4 main goals: deterrence, retribution, rehabilitation and incapacitation. Setting a fixed standard and guideline of punishment aims to convince potential criminals that the crime is not worth the time (general deterrence), to equally and fairly distribute punishment among ...

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Plea bargaining is a process in which a person who is accused of a crime is allowed to say the he or she is guilty of a less serious crime in order to be given a less severe punishment. ... Plea bargains have enabled the pawns to get lighter sentences for small crimes such as robbery, in order to bring down the boss for larger crimes which will in turn prevent other crimes from being committed. ... There are three different types of plea bargain; they all are used to achieve the similar goal of reducing punishment, and each of them has unique pros and cons. ... Once an agreement has been enter...

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At the end of the spectrum exists the notion of pure justice, which states that you are judged for your crime based upon evidence of the crime, without any regard to your race, religion, or gender. ... Within the criminal justice system, a woman may commit a crime and receive a sentence that included incarceration, but she receives a 'slap on the wrist' because she is a woman and is not able to serve her punishment. Pure justice would exclude the facts related to her gender or social status, and base her punishment solely on the evidence that was presented and the nature of the crim...

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There are different forms of punishment that will be given to the convicted depending on the weight of the crime committed. ... For one, when these criminals are isolated away form the population, they will have no capacity to commit further crimes. The number of years of imprisonment is based on the gravity of the crime committed. Other forms of punishment include bail or fines, probation, house arrest, and community service among others and the most serious is the capital punishment which may employ lifetime imprisonment and death penalty. ... Still, others believe that punishment is given...

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I would enact a system that has three levels of punishment: minor, mild, and severe. The case would be investigated by a third party who would decide which level of punishment should be used. ... This process is one that the state of West Virginia's police department uses where they have a three level punishment system with a corresponding punishment similar to what I would enact (Police Misconduct). This is an obvious positive solution because if officers know there are mandatory penalties for excessive force acts on citizens they will be less likely to commit these crimes. ... I agree w...

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Many victims do not report crime because the criminal justice system does not meet their emotional, physical, or financial needs in the aftermath of crime. ... The President's Task Force on Victims of Crime have proposed that the Sixth Amendment be modified to include specific rights to crime victims. ... The Crime Control Act "mandated specific actions and responsibilities of federal personnel in dealing with crime victims" (Doerner & Lab, p. 341). ... Opponents argue that such statements guarantee longer and harsher punishments for the offender, but I say why not, they committed the cri...

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This makes it feasible for officers who do perpetrate brutality and human rights violations to abscond their punishment and replicate their offences. ... To focus on discipline is primarily punishment, not behavior change. In that case, police officers will still act the way they do towards people of our country because it is not guaranteed that the predominately punishment will change their behavior. ... At times, this strength appears to have been applied as punishment for the person's earlier verbal or corporeal resistance to an officer's command, and is not based on a current t...

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Stronger action should have been enforced on the police officers that committed these crimes. ... Should the Federal Government increase the punishment on law enforcement officials who brutally hurt citizens that are in custody, or under arrest? Many law enforcement officials appear to have a tough exterior towards crime, but are very sensitive to crime on the inside. ... Most times the jury will find the officers not guilty, or guilty of a lesser crime. ... In areas where crime rates are high often times so are stress rates. ...

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This law was enacted in response to soaring crime rates during the mid 1980's and early 1990's (Walsh, 2007, pg.1). This affected the courts because it changed the way the courts would make their rulings on crimes. ... This policy affected the courts because it not only increased the amount of cases it would handle, it would also present the courts with a wide variety of different cases that needed to be dealt with from minor to serious crimes (Grabosky, 1999). ... With the increased corruption within the Mexican government, dealing with drug traffickers and upholding zero toleranc...

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The marshal further had the authority to inflict severe corporal punishment when dealing with violators. ... In addition, the provost marshal assigned to the district was responsible for maintaining troop discipline, assuming custody of prisoners and deserters, administering punishment, and suppressing any depredations and disturbances caused by Army troops or individual soldiers. ... Pershing directed his provost marshal to organize a unit to investigate crimes committed against the Army in France called the Criminal Investigation Division or CID. ... (CID, Unk) In 1944, the Army again saw t...

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Sexual and violent crimes receive extensive media coverage, often generating anxiety and moral panics within the general public. ... This followed the shift taken from Probation from 'treatment' to 'punishment' (Raynor & Vanstone, 2007). Bottoms (1995) called this era the 'populist punitiveness', where there was a shift in a number of legislative and policy reforms and emphasis was placed on punitive sentencing as opposed to a more holistic approach focusing on treatment and rehabilitation (Bottoms 1995 cited in Pratt 2007: 2) The Criminal Justice Act (CJA) 19...

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(Book) In other words, By practicing restorative justice we would have the obligation and responsibility to reduce crime, improve human behavior, strengthen civil society, provide effective leadership, restore relationships and repair harm. ... In other words, educating teachers on how to practice restorative justice in the classrooms could prevent future crimes and establish new values and beliefs in our children. ... In other words, criminal justice should be applicable to those who commit serious harm such as; murder, kidnapping, extortion, gang violence etc. simply because they cause more...

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The excessive and unnecessary use of force by police officers, including unjustified shootings, severe beatings, and rough treatment of citizens are still common in our society today because of the many barriers that make it possible for officers who commit such crimes to escape due punishment and often go back to repeat the offenses. ... This drastically limits the effectiveness of the police force when witness statements or public assistance that would help them to solve crimes are not available. ...

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" Looking back in history, during the same period as the West makes legal structure to control and regulate blacks in the New World, there was a shift in types of punishment and social control in Europe and the United States in years preceding the Civil War. ... Even though in the 1960's Civil Rights banned segregation and discrimination, African Americans found themselves in dilapidated housing, inadequate schools, high unemployment rates, poor healthcare, and high crime rates. ...

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Many of those committing crimes are mentally ill. ... (Rockwell, 1997) Pressure has been put on police to deal with the criminals, juveniles and other public problems, so it "reasons" that an overburdened police officer finds people or a group of people committing some kind of crime that they just beat the hell out of them to save time instead of arresting the assailants and filling out the proper paper work. ... Asking someone to pick up his or her trash is not a crime (shouldn't Mr. ...

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