Summary of Article #1 Restorative Justice in School Communities This article deals with restorative justice in school communities. It looks at three different areas in America where restorative justice is being used in schools. There are some differences and some similarities. One thing they all have in common is that this "take" on juvenilecrime gives the offender a chance to reconcile with not only the ... to the typical juvenile justice system as well as turning these behavioral, drug or alcohol related incidents into "learning experiences". Summary of Article # 2 Teen Court: An Examinatio...

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... placed with relatives or foster parents. These infants are often unable to visit their mothers because they are returned to the mother's county of commitment, which in most cases is geographically distant from where the woman is being incarcerated. These early years of life are very important developmental stages for a child, often determining their future health and developmental potential. The incarceration ... chance to stay with their children. These programs were conceived about 20 years ago as an alternative way of handling the increasing number of mothers in prison. The first priso...

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... Fingerprinting). Francis was truly a pioneer. Most of his work has been disregarded but his research in fingerprinting is still in used in catching criminals all over the world. A person can change their looks a hundred times over but their fingerprint stays the same. Galton stated, "There is no prejudice to be overcome in procuring these most trustworthy sign-manuals, no vanity to be ... pacified, no untruths to be guarded against"(Extracts from Finger Prints). Galton also stated "Let no one despise the ridges on account of their smallness, for they are in ... some respects the most i...

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... known and the news that he was on trial for murder caused complete outrage in the public. Simpson was persistent in his innocence claiming he was one hundred percent 'not guilty'. When providing a theoretical analysis of this crime there are many things to consider: including people involved in the offender's life, the victim, and places. Both the prosecution and defense had theories ... case started in the very beginning with the speed chase for Simpson. The live broadcast of the chase following the double murders at his home are additional examples from the United States graphic ...

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... believed that the death penalty served as no deterrent, while four percent were unsure of the effect. According to Radelet & Borg (2010), top criminologists do not see the death penalty as a deterrent. Four hundred police chiefs and county sheriffs were randomly chosen for a 1995 survey, and of those four hundred, roughly sixty-six percent agreed that the death penalty made little difference as a deterrent ... the execution, in accordance to the rule, which must be followed every time. According to Mosser (2010), a relativist sees ethical issues as relative to one's cultural perspective...

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... committed. The crimes ranged from any between murder and fornication. In the 18th century more than two hundred capital crimes were recognized, and as a result over one thousand people a year were faced with the sentence of death. While Capital Punishment has been one of the most feared things of our time, it is still being questioned if it is unconstitutional. The Death Penalty is being enforced ... like then, executions have no place in our civilized society. The Death Penalty, throughout its years of existence, has always been against the views of the people, either because of its brut...

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... as nicotine and alcohol that remain readily available for the public. Marijuana has proven to be very beneficial for therapeutic and medicinal purposes. It costs the states millions of dollars yearly in keeping marijuana prohibited while decriminalizing it could potentially boost the economy by eliminating costs to incarcerate marijuana users, as well as eradicating government funded programs for ... alleged marijuana abusers placed there by the criminal justice system as an alternative to prison. A shortcoming of the decriminalization of marijuana may be that it can be more easily attai...

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... populations. Western industrial societies have undergone a number of transformations in their quest to achieve such control. Disenchantment with the penal system and its inability to achieve rehabilitation within its confines has meant that in recent years, and especially since the 1960's, a central element in the social control practises of advanced capitalist societies has been a state-sponsored ... attempt to deinstitutionalise deviant populations. In face of steadily escalating crime rates, overcrowded prison systems and an increasing number of the population formally deserving impri...

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... fine is the equivalent. Another big question that arises when talking about this problem is why states decriminalize instead of legalize. Most of the time states take the more conservative route of decriminalization because of the fact that smoking weed doesn't do anything positive for its non-medical consumers (Thimmesch, 2013). Many ... in both states. Take a look at the penalties. In New York it is simple - the drug will be confiscated and will be ticketed with a hundred dollar fine ("Working To", 2015"). Now in Virginia that male would be arrested and charged with a misdemeanor, he w...

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... Capital Punishment "). Furthermore, as the years passed, a study at Duke University presented data that showed that North Carolina alone spent over one billion dollars on executions between 1976 and 1992 (Capital Punishment "). This amount of money is not much if compared to today's total amount of money spent but in the 1970s, ... in the past seven years" (Death Penalty Information Center"). So, why does it cost so much more to keep an inmate incarcerated? Well, probably because being sentenced to death is a very serious issue. A lot of money is spent so that the court can be one-hundr...

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... guilty and received a seven year prison sentence rather than the treatment in a community facility his parents had desired. The Dalton case shows the dilemmas faced by the component agencies of the criminal justice system, police, courts, and corrections, which have been established to apprehend, adjudicate, sanction and treat criminal offenders. These government institutions are charged by law with ... crime control efforts. This act helped launch a massive campaign to restructure the justice system by funding the law enforcement assistance administration (LEAA), an agency that provided...

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... his profession" and that he means no harm in kidnapping children and possibly killing them. This theory, though not a popular one, is a further example of one of the great trends that has swept across the world, in the past hundred years. Now, worse than ever, no one wants the blame. Everyone seems to be a victim. In Darrows" eyes, even the common criminal with no remorse is not ... to blame for his actions but only the society that has drove him to them. (Clarence Darrow, Address) A second theory is that of socialization. According to socialists, a criminal is ... are to becoming crim...

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... that capital punishment is a cheaper way of punishing a murderer than keep them in a prison cell. Yet capital punishment is too important to base on economics. The legal costs of capital punishment sometimes exceed the cost of keeping a person in prison for 20 years. The great controversy about capital punishment ... is where the line for capital crimes and non-capital crimes is. There is no representation of what crimes capital punishment would include. ... flawed. A study in the USA in 1987 reported three hundred and fifty people were guilty of capital crimes yet they were innocent - ...

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... nature and it makes it difficult for a jury to be one-hundred percent unbiased to skin color. There is also the fact of representation: "Killers of whites are always over-represented among death sentences, but the extent of over-representation depended on the race of the offender. While the ratio was one and a half to one for Whites who killed Whites, the ratio for Hispanic who killed ... some would contradict that statement by revealing that there are just plain evil people in the world but I don't see the act of capital punishment as a way to handle any situation. Doctors, who take ma...

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... punishment. There are different forms of punishment that will be given to the convicted depending on the weight of the crime committed. The most common form is imprisonment and it has different purposes. For one, when these criminals are isolated away form the population, they will have no capacity to commit further crimes. The number of years of imprisonment is based on the gravity ... of the crime committed. Other forms of punishment include bail or fines, probation, house arrest, and community service among others ... and the most serious is the capital punishment which may employ l...

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... In Court, Children Aren't Adults. "). Adult brains are better in distinguishing the right from wrong in making a decision and can recognize any bad consequence of a certain action. As for children, they can't recognize that unless it becomes very obvious. Fortunately, there is a biological proof for this difference ... older, stronger, and more violent prisoners in this bleak and brutal world. For instance, A 15-year-old girl who ran away from home for one night, then returned voluntarily, was put in jail by a judge in southeastern Ohio to "teach her a lesson." She was an A student who ....

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... in America, and when we talk about prisons, we are talking about power and powerlessness. We are talking about hopelessness and helplessness. The one thing prisons do very well is punish prisoners, especially women prisoners. Prisons strip them of their dignity, their health, and whatever self-esteem they once might have had (Watterson 12). There are over 90,000 women in prison ... , I am horrified by the violence towards women prevailing in jails and prisons today. Women in prison are fighting to maintain a sense of self within a system that isolates and degrades, one which attempts to ...

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... crime. • Have had their controlled substance abuse deemed a precipitating or contributing factor in the commission of their crime. • Have no history of violent behavior in the community. • Have sentences 4 to 10 years in length. In a recent interview, David Oldfield, Director of Planning and Research, provided a list of violent offenses: • 1st-degree Arson • 1st- and 2nd-degree Murder • 1st-degree ... or who did not successfully complete the program This program costs the most of the three; the state pays a minimum of $67,577 per inmate accepted to this program. This minimum ...

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... for law officers and government officials making the people view the law as less serious and just an option instead of a rule that they must follow. One of Capone's men named Thompson said "We'll not only reopen places these people have closed, but we'll ... open 10,000 new ones (speakeasies)" (Prohibition and the Gangsters), showing you how much influence and power these gangsters had. Violence became a daily occurrence all over the country, 227 gangsters were killed in the space of 4 years ... , and on St Valentine's Day, 1929, 7 members of the O'Banion gang were shot dead by gangster...

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... sanctified, and that their whole spirit and soul and body may be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ" (Salvation Army 1). For example, in Tucson, Arizona, Michael Kennedy (45 years old) went from being a criminal on the run to a two year sober man. Kennedy states ... , in a local news story, he started to do drugs at the age of thirteen and continued being dependent on the high (Kinney 696). As ... couldn't care less about the consequences and came to the conclusion he'd spent his whole life in and out of prison. Then came the day that the courts let him out wit...

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... crime as it varies from police definitions, international definitions, and definitions in scholarly literature (p. 6-7). However, a definition of what an organized criminal group has been stated as: "A structured group of three or more persons existing for a period of time and acting in concert with the aim of committing one or more serious crimes or offenses in order to obtain, directly or indirectly, a financial or other material ... benefit" (Lyman and Potter, 2015, p. 10). This definition of organized criminal groups is significant because it is important to ... gets lost or disapp...

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... force at all. Problem oriented policing, allows the community to get involved also. If a police force sees a steady crime or problem occurring in one designated area, the townspeople may step in and create specific groups designated for these crime areas once everything is safe. These groups are put into play ... created to look for different ways in recognizing the problem. The first step of the SARA model is scanning. Scanning means that police, within their area to patrol, should recognize every problem at hand and put each one into perspective. The next step after scanning is called ...

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... she was the most dangerous women they had ever had in the institute. Ashley has been diagnosed as being suicidal. She would rip pieces of cloth off of her prison gown when she was in her cell and tie it around her neck until she passed out. The correctional officers would then ... come in and cut it off of her. They did not want to enter the cell until she passed out for their own safety. Instead of helping Ashley, they punished her, making the situation worse. At one point Ashley was assault by a correctional officer and had to be ... would receive the help she needed which they never ...

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... a specific intent. Whatever the reasoning, the crackers" acts are targeted against victims with a specific harmful intent and underlying objective. The methodology of a cracker is one of sophistication, pre-meditation, and malice. Attacks from crackers usually consist of the following: data manipulation or theft, financial robbery, system destruction, or widespread security breaches (i.e. opening up confidential files and distributing them to ... illegal funds to criminal Gabriel Shier's personal bank accounts. Jobson found vulnerabilities in the banking systems security. He exploited ...

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... Wayne Rotramel's first offense. Five years earlier when Rotramel was 14 years old, he forcibly sodomized a young boy, and a juvenile court adjudicated him delinquent. At the time he allegedly murdered the youngest girl and raped the older, no one had any way of knowing that Rotramel had an extensive juvenile record, including allegations of sex crimes, because of the sealed juvenile records. After Rotramel ... 's charge of rape and murder, a publishing company ... creating a statewide registry for juvenile sex offenders. Who is the juvenile sex offender? According to the Oklahoma Statutes...

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