... lives, families, and neighborhoods. Punishment helps prevent crime. Punishment steer the behavior of the criminals. Punishment must be immediate, consistent and tied to a specific behavior. Corporal punishment is imposing of physical injury on someone convicted of committing a crime for the purpose of deferring future crime. Corporal punishments should be allowed in the crimes such as drugs offences, rape and attempted rape, kidnapping, firearms offences, attempted murder, causing grievous injury, child ... ago California had about 20,000 prisoners and 12 prisons. Today, we have 33 pris...

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... consequences if they broke a law, instead this is saying that once a criminal commits a crime and is arrested, they should also receive the rehabilitation they need. This will help them in lowering the recidivism rate. If society were to just lock up these criminals, even non-violent criminals and just forget about them, they would become very angry and possible become violent. " ... ;Upon reentering society, former offenders are likely to struggle with substance abuse, lack of adequate education and job skills, limited housing options, and ... Atlanta, GA and it is almost five time...

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... plus a prior record. There are three types of transfer laws: automatic, judicial-discretionary, and prosecutorial-discretionary. The automatic transfer law is a law stating that any juvenile who commits either murder, manslaughter, kidnapping, rape, aggravated assault, arson, or any crimes committed with a fire arm. In many instances the older the juvenile is, the more likely he or she will be transferred to ... adult court for the above felonies. The judicial-discretionary juvenile law is when the prosecutor files a petition or motion with the juvenile court and the judge decides whethe...

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... convicted again? This will not only discourage the more serious crime such as rape and armed robbery, it will discourage the more minor offenses of things like burglary. It's not like this law is secret or unknown to the criminals. The media distorts the true effectiveness of the law by showing trivial cases (like someone stealing pizza) rather than the usual perpetrators. The liberal media obviously has an agenda to push ... in California between 22 and 34 percent. This reduction in crime will be bought at a cost of an extra $4.5 billion to $6.5 billion per year in current dollars . Th...

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