About the same number in federal systems, 91% of felonies" (http://els41.law.emory.edu/sites/crimpro/notes/ch17notes.html). ... This gives the defendant a set punishment, which is usually to good to pass up. ... The main problem with this is that the government made strict punishment for crimes and then 90% of the time the punishments do not get enforced. ... Plea bargains leave no real uniformity giving some people a lesser punishment than others who committed the same crime. "If all criminals cases went through a court with a set sentence for the nature of a crime, there would not be so ...

• Word Count: 1900
• Approx Pages: 8
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• Grade Level: High School

Crimes with guns and knives wouldn't take place without the students having access to those weapons. ... It covers criminal acts from traditional street crimes to white-collar crime and juvenile delinquency. The exchange theory is based on the premise that people act according to a system of rewards or punishments. ... Coordinating privileges and punishments at home based on bullying at school helps, too, but do not use corporal punishment. ... The program also gives special attention to supervision on the playground, at lunch, and in restrooms, noting that the greater the number of te...

• Word Count: 2600
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In addition to the practice of racial segregation across the South, Tindall and Shi note that, "The period of growing discrimination at the turn of the century was one of the worst" (America 854). ... Second, voters were disqualified if convicted of any crimes. ... In part he reminds the white race, " We shall constitute one-third and more of the ignorance and crime of the South, or one-third of its intelligence and progress" (42). ... She insists that the law must bring severe punishment to the lynchers, but that it couldn't be done without public demands to take action such as this. ...

• Word Count: 1894
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

Unlawful combatants are likewise subject to capture and detention, but in addition they are subject to trial and punishment by military tribunals for acts which render their belligerency unlawful" (Savage, A5). ... Scott Sullivan, former Air Force attorney, says that since the country was not at war on September 11, what happened was not a war crime. ... The State Department human rights report of 2000 notes that "Cairo's use of military courts - created in 1992 to counter a wave of terrorist violence - had "deprived hundreds of civilian defendants of their constitutional right to be tr...

• Word Count: 2166
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School