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GUILT, PUNISHMENT AND PLEA BARGAINING

The purpose of Bjerks (2007) article entitled Guilt Shall Not Escape or Innocence Suffer? The Limits of Plea Bargaining When Defen...

Argument: We Should Reduce the Use of Plea Bargaining

of the process but refute others (LaFree, 1985). Specifically, defendants that were more "criminally experienced," as well as thos...

Plea Bargaining

This 12-page paper deals with the effect of plea bargaining on the criminal justice system. It argues that the relatively new pra...

Criminal JusticeIV

Another advantage of plea bargaining is that it allows prosecutors to dispatch cases quickly, freeing time and resources to fully ...

Plea Bargaining: Unfair Advantage For Criminals

perpetrator to go free without any legal recourse speaks to the need for another option whereby the alleged criminal serves time, ...

Three Legal Questions

accused and the prosecutor takes two forms in the United States: a charge bargain and a sentence bargain. The former lessens the ...

Plea Bargaining

to be effective; if the defendant fails in his commitment to his rehabilitation, he will find himself facing the jail sentence. ...

The Practice of Plea Bargaining Should End

for the suspect as well. For the guilty, it allows for a reduced gamble. That is, the guilty defendant can take a plea and get out...

Are Plea Bargains Just?

An estimated ninety-five percent of criminal convictions occur through the plea bargaining process (Watkins, 2004). Plea bargaini...

Overview of Plea Bargaining

are a process, which usually includes a defendant "pleading guilty to a lesser offense" and thereby receiving a lighter sentence t...

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...

Case Information About Specific Crimes

can detain and frisk suspects if they have a reasonable suspicion that criminal behaviors have or will occur. The case found that...

Justic and Ethics IV

possibility that he could be acquitted and go free. He needs an attorney who will advise him properly. In Mr. K, Defendant B doe...

Plea Bargaining Advantages and Disadvantages

This paper consists of ten pages and assesses the positive and negative aspects of plea bargaining with specific cases discussed. ...

Need for Changes in Plea Bargaining

In five pages this essay argues that plea bargaining as it presently exists in the criminal justice system is ineffective and prop...

Criminal Justice System and Plea Bargaining

In six pages this essay argues against the option of plea bargaining for sex offenders and violent criminals with the Megan Kanka ...

Overview of Plea Bargaining

This paper consists of nine pages and defines plea bargaining in an overview of this criminal justice procedure. Seven sources ar...

Does Plea Bargaining Work Successfully?

In fifteen pages this research paper discusses whether or not plea bargaining successfully upholds justice or merely serves to und...

Judge's Role in US Plea Bargaining Process

This paper examines the diminishing role of the judge in the American plea bargaining process in 5 pages. Two sources are cited i...

Overview of the Corrupt Bargain of 1824

a down to earth individual and apparently completely opposite from any other president. "He was also extremely popular among the p...

Human Nature, Morality, Punishment, Guilt, Crime, Justice, and Law in Literature

(Sophocles). In this she is arguing how she has not followed the laws of "men" or even of the gods in this case, but rather per...

Ethics of Crime and Punishment

theory (which considers social factors, disorganization, control and the learning process)and the rational choice theory (which co...

'Cruel and Unusual Punishment' and the 8th Amendment

punishment.iv It was a close vote of 4 to 3, which means that not all justices on that court believed electrocution to be cruel an...

Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment

figures, the darkness, can easily represent the turmoil within Raskolnikov. His thoughts and plans are dark and frightening, espec...

Argumentative Death Penalty Paper

the study results that support their position and ignore other research. Studies that compare homicide trends in states and countr...

Death Penalty Supporting Argument

In seven pages an argument that supports the death penalty as justified punishment in terms of retribution, deterrence, and infall...

Sophism and Apology by Plato

In five pages this paper examines Socrates' arguments regarding capital punishment and the sophist foundation that cements them....

Letter to the Editor and Utilitarian Philosophy

In two pages this paper is structured as a letter to the editor and considers capital punishment form a utilitarian philosophical ...

The Case Against Capital Punishment

applied, was arbitrary and capricious" (67). While it seemed as if the death penalty was beginning to become less popular, this ca...

Does Collective Bargaining Automatically Lead to Wage Inflation?

will inevitably lead to wage inflation. There is little doubt that unions can wield more power than individual employees, ...