... to be arrested for violent crime, 6.2 times more likely to appear in the adult courts, and seven times more likely to be sent to an adult prison (Vasudevan 105). The juvenile court must have a basis of equality and fairness. But 62% of all juvenile inmates in 2001 were minorities (Flowers 170). ... who 3 committed that same crime. If the purpose of the juvenile court is to provide a separate system for punishment and rehabilitation, then the adult prison should be taken away from juveniles. When a juvenile is put into an adult facility, they are 500 percent more likely to be sexually abu...

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... mentioned above have presented, but I also believe that the brain of a child that could function "well" enough to commit such violent crimes as rape, murder, and many other cases that we hear about single day, could also see the end of it. Even if they don't understand the ... designed in 1940's, when "serious" offenses included truancy, curfew violations and fistfights", while nowadays, the law has to deal with gang-related crimes, murders, rape cases, and many other violent offenses (Wilson 1). There is also a terrifying record Wilson presented which shows that "During 1990's murder was...

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... situations have arisen since, and they have sent the standards for subsequent cases. The 1977 case of Coker v Georgia held the death penalty unconstitutional for rape of an adult woman when the victim was not murdered. In 1986, Ford v Wainwright the execution of insane people was banned. Even into the ... who was executed, 7 lives were spared because others were deterred from committing murder"(7). The other option in place of the death penalty is life in prison without parole. However, this does not prevent the criminal from getting released later due to a change in law or change in cour...

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... among the juvenile offenses which could be punishable by 25-to-life sentences are the obvious ones, some may be considered borderline: "murder, kidnapping, rape, assault, even discharge if a firearm into an inhabited or occupied building, carjacking, escape from a juvenile detention center, even selling as little as ... to use discretion, depending on the perpetrator. So, for whom are these three-strikes "social experiments" really aimed at? In California, whose prison system (like most prisons throughout the nation) consists mainly of minorities, there has to be a better means of experi...

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Capital punishment, "the death sentence" is the execution of criminals by the state for committing monstrous crimes such as rape and murder. The debates over the intrinsic worth of the death sentence has continued for quite awhile, and is an extremely uncertain and complicated concern. Society must stay secure by ... persons life. But, why does the killer get to keep their most precious from God and take another person's away. Every year cold blooded killers are sentenced to life in prison, which is not fair when they sentenced their victim to death. The problem in America today is that we a...

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... & safety in the workplace and unethical business practices which can adversely affect vast members of the public. The sanctions are usually small fines. There are also Consensus crimes for example rape, murder, robbery etc. Then there is conflict crimes which occurs when social class & various interests groups may well be in conflict with each other. Vagrancy or creating a public disturbance. Drug ... consumption of alcohol is legal. If you are in the Netherlands you will not be breaking the law if you purchase Cannabis yet in Britain you could face the maximum prison sentence of two ye...

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... - "an eye for an eye." (Opas, P.1996) There's a big problem with this logic. Proponents of the death penalty claim ownership of the moral high ground in their arguments regarding murder, rape and other crimes. They claim the violence and immorality of the crime gives them a right to demand that they be able to do the same thing- to take the life ... . The first hanging was in February 1788, the last person to be executed in Australia was Ronald Ryan. Ryan was 'hanged by the neck until he was dead' at Pentridge Prison, Victoria in 1967. (Michael Victory, END OF THE LINE 1994) Now the sente...

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