In our society, we should offer everyone a second chance no matter what their offense might be. A criminal's past should not follow through to the future because what is done is done. Harsh sentences or any punishments at all ruin the individual's quality of life in a country where everyone is guaranteed life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. One can really see the justice system is working when a serial killer only has to serve two years. It's only fair for someone who has done something wrong to be helped back into society to be productive and contribute to the economy.
First of all, when someone is sentenced to jail, they feed off the economy with out giving back. They have no purpose or reason to live and they become worthless to society. Instead, criminals should be given their life back and be offered help if they should need it. Thousands of people everyday make mistakes such as murder, theft, child endangerment, fraud, and drug abuse. These people are not a so-called 'endangerment to others', they are just the person next door. Criminals really are good people who have just made one mistake and should not have to serve time or be executed.
Instead of being sentenced, the normal, fallible, person should go through a program to determine a better occupation for their needs. Like the tests high highschoolers take to see what occupations they should follow, faulty persons should reevaluate their careers. For example, someone who is found guilty for murder should consider being a butcher. This job is more suited to their preferred hobby. They could still kill, but also be within legal boundaries. Also, the government would not have to waste .
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time by putting people in jail and then releasing them a few months later. In another instance, a teacher at Durango, Carolyn Wilson, was charged for engaging in sexual relations with a student. This doesn't deserve jail time, she should instead consider a job where she is allowed to engage in her favorite pastime.
"PUNISHING WITH LIFE INSTEAD OF DEATH" I used to think that life in prison was a sufficient punishment for criminals that commited horrible crimes. ... Convicted criminals shouldnt be given life sentences or the death penalty. ... As they get old it costs $75,000-$80,000 a year to keep them in jail because of medical costs. ...
This essay will review criminal and civil court litigation. ... Civil and criminal cases both can be resolved without the defendant having to go to jail (Henton, 2013). ... A criminal lawsuit differs from a civil one. ... Incarceration in a jail or prison; 2). ... In a criminal case, the defendant is charged with a crime, for instance, murder, and can face criminal punishment. ...
Now there are many mentally ill in the criminal justice system. ... Homelessness is one of the common traits found in criminals. ... This has quite an impact on the Criminal Justice System. ... (Congress 2000) In fact statistics show: 25% to 40% of mentally ill individuals become involved in the criminal justice system; In July 1999, the Department of Justice issued a Special Report announcing that at least 16% of state jails and prisons, or 260,000 people, are individuals with severe mental illness. ... One of the most successful of these is Jail Diversion. ...
There are plenty of cases where people are almost without a doubt guilty and should be executed or just thrown in jail. ... So why would they let someone go who they thought committed the crime? ... Once a crime is thought to have occurred, an investigation will go on by law enforcement. ... Law enforcement cannot just go through all your belonging if you are suspected though. ... The levels of courts go from small claims courts all the way up to the United States Supreme Court. ...
The phsychatrits diagnosis was that he was faking having a mental illness to get out of jail. ... This bothered me because there really wasn't a good reason why they shouldnt be able to watch the world series. McMurphy watches the blank tv and starts imagining what is really going on. ... Then he uses the bus to take all his friends to the beach where they borrow a boat and go fishing. ...
But in this paper I am going to talk about the ones that I feel are the most important. ... First off I think the criminal does not have the right to a plea bargain, any criminal does not have the right to a plea bargain. I think If a criminal is a criminal and he or she shouldn't get their charges droped down a little bit for a plea bargain, I think if a criminal does something wrong he or she should pay abosolute full price for it. ... Because say if a criminal got a certain number of years for rape but not for life, the victim would allways have that fear, disturbance, and memory in ...
The US Bureau of Justice Statistics concludes that the chance of a black male born in 2001 of going to jail is 32% or 1 in 3. ... Thus black boys are five times and Latino boys nearly three times as likely as white boys to go to jail. ... In 2003, blacks comprised 48.2% of the adult members in prisons and jails. ... Trials are rare, only very small numbers of criminal cases go to trial - the rest are plea bargained- with most African Americans defendants never getting to a trial. ... The United States leads the world in putting people into jails and prisons. ...
The criminal justice system is designed to achieve the wider purpose we have called justice. ... Some jail inmates stay for as little as a day. ... Drug violations accounts for twenty-two percent of those in jail. ... The imposition of a criminal sanction by a judicial authority must occur before a person gets incarcerated. ... According to Schmalleger, F (2003) Criminal Justice Today An Introductory Text For The 21st century (7th ed) The purpose of probation is to obtain control over criminal offenders while using community programs to help rehabilitate them. ...
The complex topic of same sex marriage is based on should we or shouldnt we accept it. ... Marriage shouldnt be available to only a man and a woman. ... So does this mean the homosexuals who wish to marry their partner have the right to go to a city hall? ... This law is wrong and shouldnt be a law. You shouldnt be allowed to single out one gender and get rid of them. ...