One penalty that can be applied during the sentencing process is imprisonment/gaol. Gaol is one of the key penalties imposed during the sentencing process. Gaol is the detention of an offender for a specified period of time. There are a number of levels in the gaol system including open prison farms, minimum security, medium security, maximum security and super max. Gaol plays a significant role in achieving justice for society and victims as it incapacitates the offender so they cannot reoffend, provides a serious punishment for serious offences and keeps dangerous criminals off the streets.
Being in Jail is known as a booking where the person stays in jail while the next couple of steps to the process take place. Shortly after put in jail a Bail hearing takes place where the suspect is given a certain amount of money that can be paid off in order to get out of jail until the trial takes place. In this case, the gunman was not granted a bail because the judge did not believe that he would go to court on his given date. Because of this the man will spend the remainder of time before his trial in jail. In other crimes different that this, a plea bargain may be a viable option but in this particular case its not.
It also imposes life in prison for a third conviction. II. Proposition 184, the three strikes law, was imposed to sentence repeat criminals with harsher sentence A. California’s current “three strikes” law B. The original law was approved in 1994 C. The California Supreme Court has judges presiding over such cases D. Proposition 36 went into effect on July 1, 2001 III. Pros and Cons on the “Three Strikes” law A.
Most states have statutory "presumptive guidelines" for major or common offenses. A mandatory sentence is a court decision setting where judicial discretion is limited by law. Typically, people convicted of certain crimes must be punished with at least a minimum number of years in
| Death Row | Is Death Row Needed? | | Jeff Callahan | 7/21/2010 | This paper is an argument that identifies the questions associated with the use of Death Row. The concerns that are identified are cost, rights, wrongful sentencing, and length of death row sentences. | Is death row in today’s society the best option? Do criminals that commit such crimes really deserve a right to be placed on death row?
Murder, rape, aggravated assault, burglary and arson are all felonies. Any crime that results in confinement in a state or federal correctional institution for than a year constitutes as a felony. Misdemeanors are minor violations crimes punishable by a year or less in confinement. Misdemeanors include petty theft, simple assault, possession of burglary tools and disorderly conduct. Some possibilities for convicted felons for sentencing are fines, monetary sanctions, probation, community service, electronic monitoring, incarceration and the death penalty.
Common law defines felonies as the most serious class of criminal offense and were uniformly punishable by death. In comparison the modern definition of a felony is any serious crime that is punishable by more than a year rererrof imprisonment or by death. According to Garland criminal responsibility or liability, has five elements. The actus reus is the physical action that a person must take in order to be responsible for a criminal offense. The mens rea is the mental state that a person has at the time that he or she performs the acts that constitute the commission of the crime.
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.
The first main point that I am going to discuss is being tried as an adult. Being tried as an adult is far different than being tried as a juvenile, especially when you are between the ages of 12 and 17. According to Laurence Steingberg, adult defendants are more mature, competent, responsible, and unlikely to change his or her way of life. People who are prosecuted in adult trials are likely to receive a life time sentence to jail or in some states, the death penalty. The second point that I am going to talk about is being tried as a juvenile.
Death Penalty Washington Cherie Reeves Washington State along with 32 other states and the military and U.S. government are in support of capital punishment. The types of capital punishment vary from state to state. The types of death penalty include lethal injection, electrocution, gas chamber, hanging and firing squad. Washington State is in favor of the death penalty and exercises the use of lethal injection as a first choice and hanging if the inmate chooses that instead. As of March second 2010 a third option called 1 drug protocol was introduced and adopted as an option for the death sentence in Washington State.