Essays Tagged: "Mandatory sentencing"
Overcrowded Prisons
ting the prisons. One example of how the government tried to make the streets safer was by imposing mandatory minimum sentences. They were designed to put people behind bars that until then were being ... agrees on what the solution they do agree that something has to be changed.Although many agree that mandatory minimum sentences are out dated and should not be imposed any longer, there are those who ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Drugs & Alchohol
Overcrowding in America's Prisons: Can rehabilitation help lower the growing numbers of repeat offenders?
n meld back into society as productive citizens. Instead, factors as high crime rate and of course, mandatory sentences have caused an increased over-crowding of our jails. This has also caused and in ... rowdingC) RehabilitationD) ScopeII) PrisonsA) Overcrowding1) Legislative Changes(a) New Offenses(b) Mandatory Sentences(c) Terms(d) Habitual Felon Laws(e) Modification and Alterations(f) 1986 Anti dru ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays
Retention of the mandatory life sentence for murder.
eared with the Abolition Death Penalty Act 1965 and now the convicted murderer must be sentenced to mandatory life imprisonment (Smith and Hogan 1988:p330).Offences of murder vary so vastly in gravity ... at we should view the law as "a branch of morality" (Hart 1978:p7). More importantly some rules are mandatory in the sense that they require people to behave in certain ways, for example, to abstain f ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays
A Permanent Solution to a Reoccurring Nightmare
er, this is just a temporary fix to the terrifying problem. First-time sex offenders should serve a mandatory sentence of life in prison for the heinous acts they commit.The law supports the reinstate ... ter to be put back on the streets. This would allow sex offenders to abuse more victims. By using a mandatory sentence of life in jail, the predator could not molest any other victims.Furthermore, clo ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights
Mandatory Sentencing
Australian Criminal Justice Assignment 2WHAT IS MEANT BY MANDATORY SENTENCINGStrictly speaking, mandatory sentencing refers to the practice of Parliament set ... on over the age of seventeen found guilty of relevant property offences (see below) will be given a mandatory jail term of 14 days for a first offence. If the person is found guilty of a second proper ... is found guilty of a second property offence since the 8th of March 1997 their punishment will be a mandatory 90 days in incarceration. If the person is found guilty of their third property offence th ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays
IRAq Vs AMERICA
tion that began with Nick Greiner's 1988 "truth in sentencing" legislation and continues today with mandatory sentencing has simply added to our already bursting jails." (I agree, and thats concerned ...
Subjects: History Term Papers
Right to Bear Arms. This essay is about gun control and some problems with guns. It is pro guns for law-abiding Americans.
orting system has decreased processing time from several months to only several days. EXILE demands mandatory minimum sentences. Any person caught using a gun in a crime or unlawfully carry one, is au ... s. Any person caught using a gun in a crime or unlawfully carry one, is automatically "exiled" to a mandatory state penitentiary. If a project of this type were implemented nationwide, the gun crime r ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays
Crime
s one of deterrence. By being "tough on crime" with stiffer drug laws, tougher parole requirements, mandatory minimum sentences, "three strikes" laws and other legislation, our nation, supposedly, str ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law
Overcrowding in Americas Prison system analysis
quite possibly the direct result of an ensuing war on drugs. With this war on drugs have come many mandatory sentencing laws. Over one-third of all offenders in the Department of Correction are in on ... time but maybe rehabilitation are being uselessly put in jail and contributing to overcrowding. The mandatory sentencing laws are not just restricted to drug offenses. Over the past decade many "3-str ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays
Prison Overcrowding
e for longer times and less possibility for early release. Many other factors such as new offenses, mandatory sentences, lengthening terms, and habitual offender laws, have added to prison overcrowdin ... f overcrowding, one must look at some reasons contributing to the problem. In 1986 Congress enacted mandatory minimum sentencing laws, which force judges to deliver fixed sentences to individuals conv ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Human Rights
Injustice of the Justice System Pertaining to African-Americans.
ain to be unjust to minorities through punishment and sentences, selective enforcement of laws, and Mandatory Minimums.We currently live in a time when the government says that racism is illegal and n ... re represented in the suspended population. (www. School System Report Card 2003: Williamson County)Mandatory Minimums are among the most obvious examples of legislation aimed at hurting minorities. M ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law > Issues
Overcrowding in America's Prisons: Can Repeat Offenders Be Rehabilitated
d back into society as productive citizens. Instead, factors such as high crime rate and of course, mandatory sentences have caused an increased over-crowding of our jails. This has also caused and in ... longer periods of time with less possibility for early release. Many factors such as new offenses, mandatory sentences, lengthening terms, and habitual offender laws, have added to prison overcrowdin ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law > Issues
Prison Overcrowding: Causes and Solutions to Fix the Problem
agan in 1982 brought a dramatic increase to the number of people put behind bars for drug offences. Mandatory minimum sentencing and truth in sentencing are two policies which have sent drug offenders ... le to find appropriate housing for these extra prisoners, many of whom are there as a result of the mandatory minimum laws passed throughout the federal and state legislatures. By 1983, forty states h ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law
Drug Courts: The Return of Rehabilitation
ractices. In general, judges preside over drug court proceedings, monitor defendant's progress with mandatory treatment, counseling, and testing, and prescribe immediate sanctions and rewards as appro ... primary goal of sentencing and rehabilitation the last. The parole system began to be abolished and mandatory minimum sentences became increasingly popular, truth-in sentencing laws proliferated. It d ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Drugs & Alchohol
Prison Overcrowding
that have increased the use of prison sentences as well as the length of time served, e.g. through mandatory minimum sentencing, "three strikes" laws, reductions in the availability of parole or earl ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law
Criminal Justice Perspectives
aws which ensure that offenders serve the majority part of their sentence in prison. There are also mandatory minimum sentences based of the offense which indicates that an offender cannot be sentence ... ased of the offense which indicates that an offender cannot be sentenced to less time then what the Mandatory Minimum sentence is for a particular crime. Domestic violence offenders would be sentenced ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology
Mandatory Sentencing of Child Sexual Predators
�PAGE � �PAGE �1� Mandatory Sentencing Mandatory Sentencing of Child Sexual PredatorsLaura GabbardWestern Internationa ... rnational UniversityCOM 112 Utilizing Information in College WritingMaria SarmientoDecember 25, 2005Mandatory Sentencing of Child Sexual PredatorsIt was a late, fall day in November 2000 when it happe ... e, and murder of Christopher Ausherman was Spence's fourth sex crime in 25 years. There should be a mandatory 25-year prison sentence without parole for convicted child sexual offenders. If such a law ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Current Issues
Prison Term Policy
orida used guns to commit 31,643 violent felonies, including 13,937 armed robberies. That year, the mandatory punishment for using a gun to commit a violent felony was only three years in prison. Duri ... prison. The 1999 Florida Legislature passed sweeping legislation that provides for enhanced minimum mandatory prison terms for offenders who commit crimes with guns" (Florida Department of Corrections ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays
Equity in Sentencing
abolish it in its entirety.The Federal Drug Abuse Act of 1986 created the guidelines for statutory mandatory minimum penalties currently effective in the federal drug trafficking crimes and also esta ... ence in sentencing under the current law for possession of five grams of crack cocaine is a minimum mandatory sentence of five years in prison, possession of any quantity of other controlled substance ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law
The Effects of Punishment and Sentencing
cause this process is sensitive, guidelines have been made to ensure that presumptive sentences are mandatory.Rehabilitation is considered one of the most "humane" goal of punishment. There are differ ... ces are mitigating.A judge considers other factors as well regarding the sentence guideline such as mandatory sentence and habitual offender laws. Mandatory sentence states that a judge must not devia ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays