173 Reflective Journal. Week 1: Aims of the criminal Justice system This week was essentially an introductory topic and provided me with a basic understanding of the aims and operations of the criminal justice system. I learned that there is a number of different steps within the criminal justice system and the involvement of all the parties involved such as police, judge and jury and the defence. According to John Champion the main purpose of the criminal justice system is to process and prosecute individuals who commit crimes against society and to deal out suitable punishments for these individuals. This is a pivotal part in terms of maintain the functioning of society and to ensure that people don’t go around breaking laws wherever and whenever they want.
Sentencing The objectives of punishment within the United States corrections system are detailed and precise. State and federal objectives of punishment are very similar. Sentencing impacts the corrections system, both state and federal, in a positive aspect. When a crime has been committed and the person is officially found guilty, sentencing occurs in the criminal justice system. Many things are considered throughout a trial in order to determine whether the defendant is guilty.
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This has been developed in a variety of ways, in part of efforts to abolish parole, to adopt certain kinds of determinate sentencing guidelines and to put into practice other sentencing reforms. "www.thefreelibrary.com" (2011). I believe truth in sentencing is a deterrence of recidivism when using good time and work time credits. I believe every person deserves the opportunity to pay off their debt to society and prove that they will not be a repeat offender. Once a criminal has been convicted and has been sentenced to do their time, this is where they are able to show society and the criminal justice system that they have learned their lesson from their mistake.
Plea bargaining is an essential part of the United States criminal justice system and is practiced extensively in the federal, state, and local municipal criminal systems. Plea bargaining occurs when the District Attorney agrees with the defendant or the defendant’s attorney to lower the charge to or to agree to put the defendant on a special rehabilitative program which usually does not carry an imprisonment as part of the sentence and might or might carry a conviction. The advantages of this practice allows the system to heavily reduce the criminal dockets, and for the prosecuting attorneys to concentrate on prosecuting serious crimes in which a plea bargain is no palatable. A trial costs time, resources, and taxpayer money. Bargaining reduces this burden.
Week 1 Individual Work Criminal Evidence Judith Ramos The country that I chose to write about is Aruba. I believe all countries have different approaches in determining the truth in criminal proceedings. In the U.S. the legal lsystem is det up with judges; lawyers; juries; and prosecutors. What the purpose of the trials in court is to bring justice to the victims involved in the crime. We have to make sure that all evidence is brought to court; all witnesses are present; have all the necessary documents needed to prove a guilty or innocent verdict.
Phillip Smith contends that harm reductionist and addiction specialists oppose drug courts. According to Smith, treatment for drug addiction should be voluntary; not enforced, some drug courts reject methadone assisted rehabilitation; judges may not understand addiction as a chronic condition; and some drug courts are under attack for denying due process rights to defendants. While drug courts are better than prisons for addicts, Smith believes that chemical dependency should not be confronted with sanctions. The first drug court designed to find a more effective way for the criminal justice system to deal with drug offenders, was born in Miami in 1989, under the guidance of then local prosecutor Janet Reno. The notion behind drug courts is that providing drug treatment to some defendants would lead to better outcomes for them and their communities.
Jose Arana Mr. Guthrie 12/11/2013 Intro- AJ 111 1. Over the years, the criminal sentence has served a number of different purposes, including retribution, deterrence, rehabilitation, and incapacitation and are made for people to pay the crime they’ve committed and learn from it so that they wouldn’t do it again and for other to see that there are consequences for those who choose to not follow the laws 2. The six different types of punishment within the criminal justice system are capital punishment which is the actual process of executing someone. The second one is incarceration which is the most common punishment putting people away behind bars for a good time. House arrest is the third one which is almost the same thing as incarceration of prison difference is that your under incarceration in your own house and have different rules you need to follow and if you disobey them, then prison will be the second option, fourth option is probation this means that in some how you are free, but you still need to follow several rules by your “probation officers” depending if it’s an adult or juvenile order.
Grant pardon is to release a person from punishment or disfavor. I think the president can have power over grant pardon because the president basically should be in charge of everything. Someone that has full responsibilities should be responsible on what people’s punishment should be leased. President Barack Obama granted clemency to twenty individuals, consisting of eight commutations and twelve pardons. Here are some examples off the granted clemency Obama has done: Sidney Earl Johnson, Jr. – Mobile, AL Offense: Conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute cocaine base; possession with intent to distribute cocaine base; use of a communication facility to commit a felony (Southern District of Alabama) Sentence: Life imprisonment; 10 years’ supervised release (Apr.
Sandra Riggs Prisoners of Parole Jeffery Rosen The article Prisoners of Parole conveyed a lot about a program implemented by a Judge and a Criminal Justice Professor at John Jay College in New York. The program being implemented focused on paroles mostly convicted of drug related offenses. The program was established with the primary focus of keeping paroles from violating their probation by using strict scare tactics, such as random drug testing and many other tactics that I will discuss further in this paper to make them think twice before violating their probation. After reading the article Prisoners of Parole, it never occurred to me that the “United States represents five percent of the world’s population and nearly twenty- five