Third Way = 1. Necessary beings are caused. 2. Not every being can be necessary. 3.
Now that you have identified it, what do you need to add to your own argument to convince your audience that this alternate position should be rejected in favor of your own position? The position that may cause my audience to think twice is that hands free devices are the answer to distracted driving. However I would remind them that anything that takes our undivided attention off the road is equally as bad as holding the phone in our hands. 12) Can you think of anything else that your audience might need in order to be persuaded by your argument? No because I believe that I covered all my bases in the
I have attended both dependency and delinquency courts and feel they are relevant to the reintegration of juveniles into out system. The theory and concept of “lock them up and through the keys away” cannot and should not apply to minors. They always deserve a second chance to fix their mistakes. Even though I think we should keep the juvenile justice system, I am not in favor of the way the “NO” argument on the Florida experiment is presented. I do not feel confident in its findings as the most valid or concrete reason for keeping the juvenile court system around.
Dangerous Driving Habits The majority of traffic accidents are caused by dangerous driving habits aquired and practiced by drivers. A recently new dangerous habit is the use of a cell phone while driving, but the most dangerous driving habit is driving after consuming alcohol. Another habit that many people tend to have but don’t view as dangerous is listening to music while driving. It’s imperative that drivers understand these issues need to be taken seriously. The statistics continue to rise, but if we would take time to think about the lives being put in danger, perhaps we wouldn’t allow ourselves to be so heavily distracted.
( Exodus 21 23-5,Newburn 2007,p22).The approach is based on the fact that punishment such as Imprisonment had to be in proportion to the crime and no more than that. Cesare Beccaria a classical criminal theorist and author “On crimes and Punishment” who like all classical theorists supported the Rational Choice Theory that all individuals have freewill “At the heart of the classical school of criminological thought is the assumption that the criminal is someone exercising free will and rationality” (Newburn, 2007 pg 115.) Due to this that meant not only should the punishment be painful or costly it should mainly outweigh the pleasure of when the crime was initially committed. Like Beccaria, Jeremy Bentham’s writings where
(Roper v Simmons, March, 2005). People with mental retardation cannot be executed. (Atkins v Virginia, June, 2002). People with severe mental illness cannot be executed, however, the only decision that is clear cut is the one dealing with juveniles. The Supreme Court
Monique Gonzales Mancia 11 May 2012 Minors Should Not Be Tried as Adults in Court “In the United States, children are treated as different from adults, except when it comes to criminal law; We see them as in need of protection from the outside world and as insufficiently mature to justify being treated as adults” (Barstow). Children are not allowed to smoke cigarettes, drink alcohol, or even vote until the age of 18 or 21 yet when it comes to criminal law they are looked upon as an adult and prosecuted as adults. Experts from attorneys to Supreme Court justices still wrestle with the issues that appear when discussing this topic. Current policies and procedures seem to create more controversy with each new case of a juvenile tried as an adult. Minors should not be tried as adults in court because they lose the chance at receiving rehabilitation services, the recidivism rate is higher, and the stigma of a criminal past on an adults’ life.
But it almost never happens. Extinction is not a likely future for probation and parole or their equivalents by other names. It is unacceptable to do nothing, and be seen doing nothing, when a convicted offender comes before a court for sentencing. "Probation" is undeniably useful to judges needing formal dispositions for offenders who are not to be fined or imprisoned, and post-confinement supervision has appeal for politically accountable officials, who are unlikely to commit to a public safety policy built on the idea that offenders emerge from prison sufficiently corrected to be dumped, unsupervised, in our midst. So, muddling along is certainly possible.
The decisions which were made in Graham v Florida and Roper v Simmons, made Michigan examine their own legal system on juveniles receiving the sentence of life without parole. Michigan’s constitution, article 1, §16, provides broader protection than the “federal constitution under its analogous ban on “cruel or unusual punishment.”” Further, the conjunct of several, separately passed, statutes means that, in many cases, juveniles sentenced to life without parole in Michigan will never have a judge evaluate anything about their individual culpability, maturity, or relative role in the
Any person needing legal advice should consult his or her own lawyer and should not rely on the information in this memorandum. S:\PUBLIC\LLS\MEMOS\Law Summaries\WHEN A CHILD CAN BE TRIED AS AN ADULT.wpd Reviewed: August 16, 2011 Page 1 of 4 and the juvenile's past history of delinquency. Under Colorado law, the youngest age at which a child may be tried as an adult is 12, if the child is alleged to have committed a class 1 or 2 felony or a crime of violence and the juvenile court transfers the case to the district court. This is discussed in greater detail