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Putting Together a Mitigation

to injure his assistant to this extent. When we consider the findings of the sentencing advisory panel there is also an indicati...

Duties of a Paralegal Involving Sentencing Issues

calculations, as one can see, do not seem to be standardized from one state to the next. There have been proposals to standardize ...

Sentencing That is Indeterminate v. Determinate

minimums with the Comprehensive Crime Control Act of 1984 (1994). Since that time, stiffening or adding to mandatory minimums has ...

Three Strikes Law in California

of those that opponents to the law point to as evidence its injustice. In 1995, Andrade was arrested for shoplifting $84 worth of ...

Production and Liability

corporations are self-policing themselves for more accountability -- and how this action will likely carry over into the 2000s. Op...

Reforms in Sentencing

of each county in which the offense occurred. In other words, in some states, there is a mandatory life sentence for drug traffick...

Arguing in Support of Violent Juvenile Offender Sentencing as Adults

As a consequence there has been a growing tendency within our criminal justice system to try juveniles who commit such atrocities ...

Abolishing Patrole as an Option

This research paper argues that patrole as a sentencing option should be abolished. This five page paper ahs three sources in the ...

The Short Story Voice of Alice Walker

In this paper consisting of five pages the 'voice' Walker uses in constructing her short stories as expressed in sentence structur...

1976 Film The Town that Dreaded Sundown

it outlines all of the major action of the film. It is also one of the most positive reviews on this movie, as the author actually...

Whites, Blacks, Mentally Ill, and Criminal Sentencing

are mentally ill. One of the questions that then arises from this data is, are the white mentally ill sentenced to incarceration ...

Qualitative Study Death Sentence' to 'Good Cancer' Couples' Transformation of a Prostate Cancer Reviewed

objective in conducting their study was to "describe the experience of men who are diagnosed with prostate cancer and their wives,...

3 Strikes Law and Sentencing

10,500 juvenile facilities, which represents an over-capacity rate of 186% (24). Prisoners are doubling-up in cells. They are sl...

Discussion of Criminal Sentencing of Whites, Blacks, and the Mentally Ill

In eight pages this paper examines the high percentage of people of color who are currently incarcerated along with those presentl...

California and Mandatory Minimum Drug Sentences

In fifteen pages this paper examines California's aggressive efforts in the ongoing war on drugs in a consideration of laws that m...

A Federal Sentencing Guidelines Overview

In ten pages this paper considers the impact of these guidelines on the court system and offers some history as well as case law a...

The Need for Reform and Three-Strikes Sentencing

not violate the Eighth Amendment, which prohibits cruel and unusual punishment (Samaha, 2011). Ewing was sentence to 25 years to l...

Judges, Juries, and Sentencing in Criminal Justice

The American legal system revolves around two primary players when it comes to criminal sentencing. These players are the...

Repentance and Criminal Sentencing

According to Rogers (2007) moral retributivism is distinct from retributivism. In the latter, the infliction of suffering on thos...

Management of Sentencing, Corrections, and Probation

of what he chooses to do in life. Psychologists likely would say that Loser harbors immense hatred for women in that he chooses t...

Should Juveniles be Sentenced to Death?

The death penalty has consequently been in and...

Dante’s Inferno & Humanism

must take a stand against evil and live according to ideals rather than simply from a myopic focus on personal needs. In Canto 2...

Human Behavior: Conditioned Responses

Utilizing rats and pigeons, Skinner (1965) set out to prove the whole of human behavior is based upon the fundamental concept of o...

Sentencing and Armed Robbery

sentences imposed throughout the U.S., data from the Department of Justice indicates that recidivism rates are extremely high, as ...

Aspects Of Spanking Children

punishment. Opponents, however, say that any type of hands-on striking of any force serves to send the child the wrong message ab...

Classical/Choice Theory and the Death Penalty

this implies that if an individual has been convicted of murdering another human being, then the death of that person is justified...

The Tragedy of Loss in "Paradise Lost"

and why Adam and Eve were expelled from the Garden of Eden; but Book I is concerned to a great extent with setting the scene. The ...

Islamic Law, Aboriginal Customary Law and Queensland Law; a Comparison of Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Systems

there are also some commonalities in the way that the law has been developed and the way it is implemented. In each case the evo...

Parenting in the First Person

that parents have to know if they are to shape their childrens behaviors effectively, and that its possible to learn those skills ...

Alternative Punishments in the Justice System

for three offenses, no matter how slight each one is. The idea behind the punishment is to deter criminals, but it doesnt always w...