This illustrates how inefficient America's current system is in that it does nothing for youths committing the crimes. ... A second argument Kramer uses involves a change in focus among the judges and lawyers of today, as opposed to those of earlier times. ... This explains the idea that the focus of these lawyers and judges is now not even on the fact that the crime has been committed, but on finding ways to prevent the youth from being found guilty. ... The last half of her article is devoted entirely to her ideas of what should be done to revise the current system. ... It involves her ...

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Current Reform Initiatives and Intervention As understanding about the developmental process that children and adolescents experience has grown, so too has the demand for juvenile justice reform and intervention. Rather than focusing on harsh punishment of offenders in order to prevent others from committing the same crime, more emphasis has been placed on rehabilitation and understanding. ... Other initiatives focused on reforming the juvenile justice system focus on understanding the causes behind delinquent behavior. ... Finally, current initiatives are increasingly focusing upon strategie...

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This research paper describes the reason as to why wrongful execution has become a protruding matter, the scope of the issue, its causes, focused analysis and supporting evidence. ... Lastly, it is significantly vital that a focus is made as well on the greater, systemic matters in order to avert such inequalities from taking place.  ... This understanding is reinforced by a substantial amount of current research. ... Over half of the states do not lawfully allow financial compensation for individuals who were persecuted by the criminal justice system in this way, even though the number of ...

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" This model is community focused and is concerned with "community security" (Samaha. 2015). ... 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). The American criminal justice system has a pendulum swinging between both of these models, but currently it is favoring the due process model. Current justices are pushing for the will of the people (Samaha. 2015). ... Current justices are pushing for the will of the people (Samaha. 2015). ...

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Marijuana should be legalized because it would benefit the economy, help people with physical and emotional pain, and allow law enforcement to focus more heavily on violent crime. ... Based on a 2015 survey, it is known that 11% of Americans currently use marijuana(Gallup). ... No longer would sufferers have to jump through hoops with our current healthcare system, instead they would be able to self-medicate as they choose with an effective and universally acclaimed medicine. If an end were put to the current prohibition on marijuana within the United States, an estimated 7.7 billion dollars...

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Currently, doli incapax means that the courts believe that juveniles are incapable of committing a crime between the ages of 10-14. ... If unable to be established by the prosecutor, as is currently the case, then very likely the young person in question will escape from the penalty he or she might otherwise deserve. ... In 1996 the Juvenile Crime Prevention Division of the NSW Attorney Generals Department conducted a number of focus groups totalling a number of 100 young people. ...

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The current criminal justice system that is used in the United States allows juvenile offenders to be convicted, tried and sentenced as adults for certain crimes. The laws need to be reevaluated, and changed, to ensure that the primary focus regarding juveniles is rehabilitation rather than incarceration. ... It is not in the best interest of society to just lock these offenders up and not focus on the underlying reasons that may have resulted in the crime being committed. ... The laws that are currently being used that allow these troubled juvenile offenders to be placed in adult situations...

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Define and give current examples of disparity related to criminal justice. ... Because say, two people are entering into prison and they are introduced to inmates, there is an immediate focus on many characteristic such as age, disabilities, and race; this is disparity. An example of a current disparity related situations is Ferguson Missouri and New York City when time and time again a white police officer either gunned down and African American or choked another African American resulting in his death. ...

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The main focus of this conference was to help the Asian community become more aware of the current state of which Asians really do live in. ... Some people are now in INS detention waiting to be sent to Cambodia, but they are not currently serving time for a crime. ...

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The prime article clearly illustrates a major default in our current legal system in dealing with criminal offenders and the issuing of bail prior to sentencing. ... However, with our current legal system, the criminal past of an offender is not to be used in a "case" against an accused, as it may impact on the outcome of a case. ... Possible solutions put forth include (as outlined in the supplementary article added): • A new focus on offenders with a violent background, with those charged with "serious offences" almost certain to be refused bail • Local courts stripped of po...

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Key Issues There are many key issues that could be related to criminal offences since this is such a wide spread topic, but basically the issues that need focusing or re-adjusting in the Australian law are... ... There is and always has been a real need for people to feel safe in there homes and communities but the current politics of "law and order," in which parties seek electoral advantage by playing on people's fears and generating scapegoats, which would fail to make everyone in society safer and will not deliver criminal justice, and not surprisingly enough the criminal...

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The databases are also extremely beneficial to scientists focused on studying certain diseases to better understand them and hopefully obtain a cure for. ... Currently there is no similar federal law on DNA databases regarding time limits in the United States. ...

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Lewinski's argue contains many strong points focusing on the human ability to receive information, process the situation, decide an action, and to complete the action decided. ... Many compare the 1960's riots to current day riots in Missouri and Baltimore; the differences are few and the similarities are many. ...

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This paper is going to tell about the people who have been executed and the people who are currently on death row. It will not only focus on the statistics amongst the races but also will discuss the average age, social status, and educational achievement of the people sentenced to die, the difference in the crimes that got them sentenced, and the small amount of women who have been faced with this court decision. ... There are fifty-eight that are currently on death row. ... The social status of current and late death row inmates has a sort of trend to it. ...

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Often, someone who has committed a violent crime shows evidence of a poorly developed childhood, or the unsuitable current conditions in which the subject lives. ... Canada's current rate of violent crime is one fifth of that of the United States, which proves that criminal behavior is not solely caused do to hereditary factors. ... Loosing both his mother, and his father figure was like a double-catastrophe for LePine and he focused on this, which lead him to live a maladjusted life eventually killing himself and fourteen girls. ...

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While doing so discussed life and their current situations and the sad reality of not having what they wanted. ... My first recommendation would be to have him enrolled in a state-funded institution for kids who can finish out schooling as well as focus on the ways of society, a crash course on the right and wrongs. ...

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Criminals have been overlooked for many years because society has decided to focus on the brighter pictures in life. ... Criminals already have illegal firearms, with the current laws, so what would make gun control laws any different? ...

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Under current law economic security is a state of protection of the national economy of the Republic of Belarus from internal and external conditions, processes and factors that threaten its sustainable development and economic independence. ... Because of that sometimes certain difficulties in the tracking of all the changes in the legislation may arise. - Joint efforts of law enforcement agencies , taking into account the legal distribution of their powers have not yet fully focused on the identification, detection, investigation and prevention of crimes in the customs area; -Lack of proper...

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We are constantly reminded that the United States has a problem with juvenile violence. Not only in EEUU, but in England and Spain people are very concerned with murders in communities and even in the schools. The United States is now the world leader in its rate of incarceration. Yet polls show...

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Retributive justice focuses on punishment, whereas the new paradigm of Restorative justice accents accountability, healing and closure. ... Finally, the skyrocketing cost of corrections, incarcerations for example, is leading a growing number of legislatures and policy makers to reconsider the wisdom of the current retributive system of justice, which relies so heavily upon incarceration, while largely ignoring the needs of crime victims. ...

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Retributive justice focuses on punishment, whereas the new paradigm of Restorative justice accents accountability, healing and closure. ... Finally, the skyrocketing cost of corrections, incarcerations for example, is leading a growing number of legislatures and policy makers to reconsider the wisdom of the current retributive system of justice, which relies so heavily upon incarceration, while largely ignoring the needs of crime victims. ...

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I chose gangs as my research topic for a current urban issue. ... The main point of this article is that there is so much focus on terrorism these days, people aren't aware that the amount of gang-related violence in America is rising. ...

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Hate crimes have evolved drastically over the years and have become a main focus in American society. ... Currently, forty-three states have enacted hate crime laws but twenty of them exclude offenses based on sexual orientation and eight states do not have any hate crime prevention laws ("Hate Crimes Laws")....

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