The role of crime control is to get the criminal off the street and to protect the innocent. The due process model of criminal justice is like an obstacle course, you have to keep going through legal obstacles to ensure in the end you convict the right person. ... If we did not have due process in the US, people in positions of power, could manipulate the system for their own personal or political gain and railroad the innocent off to prison. ... The common goal of both models of criminal justice is to convict the guilty and set the innocent free. ... Though some innocent people do go to jail ...

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Crime control takes the approach of a suspect being "guilty until proven innocent.... It is focused on individual rights and would rather take a lengthy process to convict a guilty person rather convict an innocent person (Samaha. 2015). ... This model protects the life, liberty and property of everyone; innocent citizens and defendants. ... Not only can a defendant hurt an innocent person, they can flee and escape prosecution by not returning to court. ...

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Though the jury members too easily confirmed the facts in 12 Angry Men to be wrong, this could actually happen to a poor person with a court-appointed lawyer that has a load of cases and cannot properly defend his client. This movie also shows how prejudice and ignorant people can over look and innocent person by only listening to what they are told and not putting any thought into their decision. These people are a prime example of how some innocent people are proven guilty in our judicial system. ...

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The death penalty should be abolished because it is a risky punishment in which the final judgement is made by a human jury, and it takes away a person's right to live. What I mean when I say that the death penalty is a risky punishment is that the judgement made could be wrong, therefore killing an innocent person. ... Also, each person has the basic human right to live. Although this right is said to be forfeit when a person rapes or murders another person, the jury is also taking a life by convicting the person. ... I am definitely not saying the person should get away free, but to...

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Changing the meaning of a word does not change the effect it has on a person. ... Among many of those subjected to "not torture" are innocent people with little to no information who still get the same treatment as those with reliable intelligence (Weiner). It is possible that these innocent captives could be giving out false information to officials in order to end their "interrogations" and shorten their sentences. Thousands of innocent lives were lost as a result of the terrorist attack on 9/11. ...

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A deeper objection to Euthanasia is the truth that we lack the moral right to take innocent human life-even our own. ... Yet conscience tells them that innocent life must not be destroyed. ... Marking the devaluation of human life would then lead to steps of ending the lives of mentally ill persons or non-terminally ill patients who are just in a state of depression. ...

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The law governs the nation, not a person. ... Presumption of Innocence Section 11(d) of the Constitution states, "Any person charged with an offence has the right to be presumed innocent until proven guilty according to law in a fair and public hearing by an independent and impartial tribunal; "Plea bargaining circumvents the procedural and substantive safeguards set out to ensure that the truth is discovered. ... The practice of P.B. skips public marshalling and trial and head towards the conviction of a person right away! ... Provision that you are PRESUMED TO BE INNOCENT? ... IS ...

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Crucible What is there about the society of Salem which allows the girls" stories to be believed? Salem is a well-known dark piece of American history. It was responsible for the deaths of innocent people who where accused of being witches. Abigail and the other girls were the cause of the ...

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Laws are setup to hurt innocent people who don't belong in jail. ... For example if a person gets a dui whiled there parked that person should just get community service or join AA meeting, but placing a person in jail or suspending his business license is cruel and is only going to make a person become violent. ...

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Take drugs for a prime example, the use of drugs doesn't harm another person but once that person is heavy on a particular drug, then the user might hurt someone else. ... If the law fails to fulfill its obligations, example: by threatening to kill an innocent citizen, does this not mean that the law has broken the agreement? Socrates, an innocent man is free to escape, if he chooses to do so. ... His authoritarian impulse liked more of the laws and thought that if they made enough of the right laws then the average persons would be made better. ... Some would argue that a person is sti...

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As innocent people, it's a not only illegal but disrespectfully intrusion to invade our privacy without our acknowledgment or consent. ... This puts many innocent people in jeopardy of unlawful invasion of privacy. ... Around the United States innocent people's lives are being intruded daily without their acknowledgment or consent. ... Although the FBI and CIA are able to obtain information helpful to criminal activity, it still doesn't give the right to invade every single person's privacy as a whole. ...

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Citizens cannot board a plane now and not wonder if the person sitting next to them is going to hijack the plane. ... Also, this causes these people unfair searches when they could be perfectly innocent. ...

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According to Zher, "In a small, tightly organized community, the victim needed a moral statement to the community that they were right and that the other person was wrong. ... This idea explains that blame is the cause of punishment inflicted upon both innocent and guilty offenders. ...

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Contrary to the belief that man is innocent and society evil, the story shows that laws and rules, policemen and schools are necessary to keep the darker side of human nature in the line. Ignoring those elements can release the primitive part of a person. ...

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The fourth Amendment states: The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized (U.S. ... While considering the laws, people should also concern about what the unreasonable searches could bring to students, especially those innocent students. ...

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Double jeopardy is the act of causing a person to be put on trial two times for the same crime. Even civilians who were innocent in state court could be tried for the same actions in federal court. ... When a person signs up for military service they sign a contract agreeing to obey the military justice code....

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You are the reason they all had to meet today and you are the person they are deciding the verdict for. ... Most of the time that idea is the verdict of ˜guilty' because we want to punish the person who broke our beliefs and make them suffer. Even if that person is proven innocent by the evidence, the idea of the accused committing the crime is still in that juror's head and that will never go away. ... Juries are a waste of money and frankly no body enjoys deciding a person's life. ...

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Aside from man fighting for freedom or beliefs, the question is whether one person can make a difference using words instead of wars. ... King is saying that judging innocent people is injustice. ... They plainly did not know how to treat me, but behaved like persons who are underbred." ... It was mentioned whether a person could make a difference by using words other than war. ...

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Marijuana is a harmful drug. People under estimate the dangers of this futile drug. In fact, people protest for the legislation of marijuana. Are these people mad? Of course they are if the use marijuana, its been proven it leads to mental problems, depressions and low sperm count in males. As a cu...

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The defendant is the person who infringed on the plaintiff's rights. ... This heavier burden exists on the government to protect defendants from prosecutors who might succeed in convicting innocent individuals with less evidence if the proof requirements were lessened. ... A criminal case is for a person who commits a crime to pay a debt to society for breaking the law. ...

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Why are we paying for innocent people to be behind bars when there are real criminals out in the world being overlooked every day? ... This will allow consumers to know everything about the product and help contain any other concerns that could deem hazard to the person and people of the US. ... It has great health benefits, flexibility, and is cheap that any person with medical problems could really benefit. ...

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Suppose one is issued with a gun today with sane mind, what precautions are taken to ensure such a person maintains his or her sanity? Legalization of guns is flawed in this aspect because when a person issued with a gun goes berserk in public, the result is quite disastrous was the case in the Virginia Tech incident of 2007 and the Columbine High School killings of 1999 in Colorado. ... Cases of what happened in Virginia Tech 2007 and in Columbine High School in 1999 where innocent lives were lost could not have happened if guns had not been legalized. ...

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Nothing surpasses the greatness or dignity of a human person. ... If a person's right is violated when it is born and conceived through his/her mother it can't be bypassed through a legislative order. ... At what point would you call this a person? ... No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. ... Also, abortion is a fundamental ass...

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Torture can be defined, within the Convention against Torture, as any act by which pain or suffering, whether physical or mental, is intentionally inflicted on a person. ... If given the choice of one person suffering over many, then one person would be more preferable. ... If the torture is then carried on indefinitely, even to the point of death, it may result in the death of an innocent. ... Last but not least, The Geneva Conventions in article 3 bans the use of "violence to life and person, in particular murder of all kinds, mutilation, cruel treatment and torture". ...

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If every person in the legal system was as fair as he is, maybe we could call the system 'just' again. ... I wonder how many times this has happened before, where innocent people are taken as suspects even without enough evidence. ...

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