It's difficult to judge how effective Virginia's system is when it comes to juveniles punished as adults, because no state agency keeps track of how these cases turn out. The Virginia State Crime Commission is trying to fill that knowledge gap. In its preliminary study, the commission found that most teenagers sent to adult prison in Virginia end up there because of robbery convictions. An earlier study conducted by an advocacy group asserts that a disproportionate number of those teens are black. One Virginia teenager who served adult time for a carjacking in which no one was injured -- and who spent most of his sentence in the Red Onion supermax prison in Wise County -- bucked the trend documented
O.J. Casey and Trayvon How Society Influences Criminal Justice Term Paper Amanda Kellams LET 5117 Captain Steven Baum May 30, 2012 Abstract This Essay deals with three high profile cases; the Fatal February shooting of Trayvon Martin a 17 year old African American male who was shot by 28-year-old George Zimmerman allegedly in self-defense. The 1995 death of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman, and the 2008 death of Caylee Anthony whose mother Casey Anthony was accused of Her murder. Some facts have been released about these Cases and a majority of the public has strong opinions on The guilt and innocence of the parties involved but even More so opinions of the Criminal Justice system. This essay examines the conduct of Police and prosecutors involved based on articles circulating in the News and media.
And in Florida jury had gave a 14 year-old boy who killed a girl while playing wresting moves on her, and now will be life in prison without parole. (Jessica, Reaves that some consider 16-and 17- year-old for the death penalty). My second source was on a website huff post crime at (WWW.huffingtonpost.com) were their is a case that is written (By Paul Elias 08/18/12) were a young girl at age 17 from San Francisco she was sentenced to die in prison without parole. For killing and robbing and in that same city there was a murdered in 1993 by two teen did a robbery of gun shop. The San Francisco of California Assembly’s passage a bill introduced by state Sen. Leland yee, D-San Francisco.
Shortly after grieving for the loss of his daughter’s innocence, Carl Lee seeks counsel with the lawyer Jake Brigance. They discuss a similar case where four white men raped a black girl and were set free. Knowing that that these two men could more than likely walk free, Carl Lee takes justice into his own hands and shoots both men down including his childhood friend deputy Dwayne Looney. Carl Lee is immediately arrested and put on trial for the murder of the two white men. As the story continues, Carl Lee hires on Jake Brigance who valiantly accepts the case knowing the dangers and challenges involved in obtaining it.
An eyewitness memory relates to a person's episodic memory for a crime or other dramatic event that he or she has witnessed. Eyewitness testimony is often relied upon in the judicial system. However, the accuracy of eyewitness memories is sometimes questioned because there are many factors that can act during encoding and retrieval of the witnessed event which may adversely affect the creation and maintenance of the memory for the event. Various scholars for instance, Feldman (2009), have found evidence to suggest that eyewitness memory is volatile. It has long been speculated that mistaken eyewitness identification plays a major role in the wrongful conviction of innocent individuals.
In New York City, an average of seven Latin Americans were killed a year between 1986 to 1989 but, in 1990, that number increased greatly. In that year, twenty three Latin Americans were killed by police gunfire. When asked how he felt about racism being involved in police brutality, Yussuf Naimkly of the University of Regina Commented: “Excessive police force against blacks has always been tolerated, because as a formally enslaved minority African Americans are trapped in a cultural context specifically designed to inhibit their development and thus minimize their threat to white hegemony”. Another shocking incident of police brutality occurred in Reynoldsberg Ohio. A group of offices named themselves “S.N.A.T” squad.
We read or hear stories about Amidou Diallo, an unarmed man, being shot forty-one times by the NYPD. We find it incomprehensible that Abner Louima, an immigrant from Haiti, was assaulted by police officers outside a Haitian nightclub in Brooklyn; handcuffed and thrown into a squad car, then beaten with radios and fists. At the police station, the officers pulled Louisa’s pants down, took him into the bathroom, and sodomized the cuffed man with the wooden handle of a toilet plunger. These horrors continue. No human being should suffer as these people did, in a civilized nation of laws and government.
Should Teenagers be tried as adults? Everyone has different opinions but in my case I agree because I’m old enough and smart enough to know what’s right and what’s wrong so unless you’re mentally impaired then there should be no excuse to committing any crime. The amounts of violence in our world and generation today shows us that the fact that if you commit a crime, you can get into lot of trouble even spend the rest of your life in jail has not reached the violent crime offenders especially our young offenders. Young teenagers who commit serious crimes should be tried in an adult court system. Trying teenagers as adults would convince potential and actual teenage offenders that if they commit adult crimes, they will serve adult times.
Running head: PRISON TERM POLICY RECOMMENDATION PAPER Prison Term Policy Recommendation Paper Pierre Charlien CJA314 March 28, 2013 Prof: Jacqueline Waltman Introduction In the criminal justice field, it is more common to find that members of society are supportive of stricter sentencing guidelines for serious crimes as well as for repeat offenders. Criminals who are convicted of armed robbery usually do not receive much sympathy from justice officials or society. Armed robbery stories are portrayed widely as it is broadcasted in the media but official data suggest that armed robbery has truly worsened evidently since the early 2000’s. There is debate over this decline in numbers, although it appears that probable changes in criminal profile may be motivating this observed trend (Willis, 2006). Many armed robbers are not new to the crime and usually have a criminal history of robbery or criminal behavior in their past.
To help explain their reasoning of a serial killers mind, Wolf and Lavezzi provide two cases of serial killers to analyze. Case one describes the serial killer Gary Evans, a white 43 year old man. Out of South Troy, NY, Evans had a bad reputation with law enforcement. Evans’ main priors had to do with the robbery of antiques, a small offence compared to serial killing. He had a group of close friends that he would commit robberies with, and when three of them went missing in 13 years Evans was thought to be involved with their disappearances.