Assignment 3: A Problem Exists Kimla Hughes Professor: Erica Ellsworth English 090 – February 10, 2013 Should minors who commit violent crimes be tried as adults? The youth of today do not fully understand the consequences of their actions. They may think that doing bad things or making bad decisions might not lead to prison or jail time. Peer pressure and the environment in which they live can influence their judgments to do right or wrong. Youth that hang around people their age that are making bad choices and not abiding the law will involve in crimes with friends who are doing the same.
“It is not the movement of people, but the exploitation of people, that is the central element of human trafficking.” People don’t realize the difference between domestic and international human trafficking and human smuggling, this is very important to realize the difference instead of categorizing them as one. There is a big difference between them and human trafficking has to be addressed more or people will think its okay to happen if they think it’s the same as smuggling. Domestic and International trafficking are more important and people need to be more aware of this. Domestic and International Human Trafficking are increasing within Canada and throughout the world which is a contributor to this demographic problem we are having. Along with Human Trafficking there are ways and things not only we as a person but also we as a group can do to help stop this
In Defense of Death Penalty in Canada: Discussing David Milgaard case Criminology 135 Professor Parker B. July 11, 2011 Introduction Referring to criminal law can be probably one of the most widely debated of the many ways of Canadian laws. Criminal law system can lead to many opinions and ways to deliberate law that can be too indulgent or too strict, with too much or too less concern about individual rights. The purpose criminal law is to punish certain acts that threaten or affects society. (Boyd, 2007, p. 295). Even tough crime is very complex; this paper will go to focus on the category offences against persons, in this case murder offences.
The issue of youth justice evolved into the concept conferencing, which can be considered as an option if a young person has committed an offence that is covered by the Young Offenders Act 1997 (cwlth), but is too serious to be dealt with by way of police warning or formal police caution. The point of this is to keep young offenders out of the criminal justice system and rehabilitate them instead of sending them to juvenile detention for periods at a time. (b) Explain the problems in the current criminal justice system with reference to that issue The main problems in the current criminal justice system can be seen as: • the failure to address social and economic dimensions of juvenile crime • inadequate legal frameworks • high level of violence and abuse from police The failure to address the dimensions of juvenile crime arose due to a number of reasons, but common to a few key points. Firstly, in reference to the social issues, the general public and local communities did not feel as though the juvenile offender really understood how the crime they committed impacted on everyone; including the
INTRO: The Youth Criminal Justice Act is the law that governs Canada's youth justice system. This law also protects the information of the youth criminals from being released to the public. Some believe that this Act should be taken away, and that the youth's information should be published, but I believe contrary. Youth criminals should not have their information published because it would humiliate the youth on a nationwide scale, the youth may not have known what they were doing or how the crime would impact their life, and releasing the youth criminals name would have them face more problems in finding a job and settling into everyday life. Imagine you committed a crime and your information was published for everyone to see.
The punishment should also increase for repeat offenders. The victims and victim’s families should be able to feel some kind of peace and closure from the punishment given to the criminal. As a future juvenile probation officer, justice does not mean punishment. Yes, there may be some punishment involved, but rehabilitation means more. As juvenile crime rose throughout the 1980’s and 90’s, public policy makers had little choice but to begin implementing more punitive sanctions based on the offense that was committed rather than the offenders characteristics.
I agree with David Clemens about banning The Godfather in our public high schools because the violent and criminal scene of the book as well as bringing the wrong impression to high school students that we embrace the intolerance worldviews in the Godfather First, The Godfather novel might present readers a great insight of the real world, yet this image is too violent to be taught for high school students. In fact, the book primarily tells the story of the Corleone crime family, the war it fights with the other crime families of New York, and the effects it has on the family members. It also details the origins of the family and its raise to power, as well as more in dept looks at various family members. The violence begins with a shot of Michael's godson. Besides that, Michael has deployed to take out his enemies.
Making cyber bullying a criminal offense would be a ridiculous and near impossible task. Not only would convicting a cyber bully be extremely difficult, but more importantly, making cyber bullying a crime would not reduce the damage caused by bullying. My first contention is that it would be extremely difficult to convict a cyber bully of their crime. According to Jonathon Strickland; Discovery News; April 1, 2010, “Cyber bullying is just an extension of classic bullying and that it should be handled on the local level. This proves that there is almost no defined difference between cyber bullying and regular bullying, so it should be handled as if it were regular bullying.
27, 2002) In 2010 Connecticut raised the age to 17. This change could be due to the change in the “adult time for adult crime” way of thinking, as more people are seeing that a child under the age of 16 is a child and they need to be treated as such. Trying children as adults, say rehabilitation supporters, comes from a desire for revenge-not a desire to find a suitable punishment. However horrible the crimes, they argue, neither society nor the children are well
It will also discuss how focusing on rehabilitation instead of punishment will affect different aspects of society and the criminal justice system. The juvenile justice system has had its ups and downs. In some years it was thought that having harsher punishment for the juveniles was the ideal answer. During the Clinton administration, crime rates rose for juveniles and congressional leaders demanded tougher treatment for juvenile felons, including more incarceration in both adult and youth correctional facilities (Krisberg, 2008). Although President Clinton passed bills to push for harsher punishment for juveniles before it could go into effect, the juvenile crime rates dropped.