How do you tell a family member that their loved one is dead because the court system set a murderer free? ... " No system is infallible and regrettably, there are victims of the judicial system. ... Valerie Wright, a research analyst at The Sentencing Project, claims that the "One problem with deterrence theory is that it assumes that human beings are rational actors who consider the consequences of their behavior before deciding to commit a crime; however, this is often not the case....

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A fingerprint was recovered at her house and was compared with other prints in AFIS, the Automated Fingerprint Identification System. ... With the help of Michele, a systems analyst for the Department of Criminal Justice Services, Lucy figured out that Waddell's prints were switched with someone else's. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Hypothesis: Due to the dubious and unproved value as a deterrent to violent crime, the inequity and mistakes inevitable in any system of justice instituted and administered by fallible human beings and the degrading and hurtful impulse toward retribution and revenge that it expresses, the abolition of capital punishment should be still maintained in Australian society. ...

• Word Count: 2841
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate