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.
Monday, January 14, 2008 Pros and Cons Three Strike Law Is the three-strikes law, which provides mandatory 25-to-life sentences for a third felony conviction, a good idea? In a Nutshell Yes No It provides a fix for a flawed justice system so that repeat offenders stay in prison. The law provides a very effective deterrent after the 2nd conviction. The media distorts the true effectiveness of the law by showing trivial cases (like someone stealing pizza) rather than the usual perpetrators. The law applies to 3 convictions, not 3 crimes (i.e.
Michael Rea March 22, 2011 Koch vs. Bruck "Is capital punishment an adequate and necessary form of payback for the crime of murder? And will it prevent the occurrence of future murders? These are the vital issues argued by Edward I. Koch in his article, "The Death Penalty is Justice," and David Bruck's "No Death Penalty." In my opinion, Koch is able to ideally show the need for capital punishment, while Bruck is ineffective at justifying his stance that the death penalty is an unsuitable punishment for the crime of murder." In "Death and Justice: How Capital Punishment Affirms Life", readers view the opinions toward the death penalty in today's world.
In this case, at a post-trial hearing, the judge found by a preponderance of the evidence that Cunningham's victim was particularly vulnerable and that his conduct was violent, making him a danger to the community. The judge then concluded that this aggravating evidence outweighed the fact that Cunningham had no criminal history, and sentenced Cunningham to the high term of 16 years. The California Court of Appeal affirmed. The California Supreme Court denied review because it had recently held, in People v. Black, that the DSL was constitutional under Blakely v. Washington. Cunningham asked the U.S. Supreme Court to hear the case, and it agreed to do
Individuals who are law-abiding citizens should be able to rest and know that the streets are free from persons who have committed crimes such as armed robbery and other felony crimes. An offender who has committed felony crimes previously should be disciplined much harshly than the times before. According to the criminologist, the punishment which an individual commits should be harsher than the crime which has been committed. The current recommendations for the prison term policy for an individual who has committed armed robbery should be as follow: Each is a repeat offender of an armed robbery will do a maximum sentence of 10-20 years. Along, with the 10-20 years, 10 -15 years of probation will be added.
http://abcnews.go.com/http://abcnews.go.com/ Judge: California Mistreating Mentally Ill Inmates Judge says pepper-spraying, isolation violate rights of mentally ill inmates in California By DON THOMPSON The Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. A federal judge ruled Thursday that California's treatment of mentally ill inmates violates constitutional safeguards against cruel and unusual punishment through excessive use of pepper spray and isolation. U.S. District Court Judge Lawrence Karlton in Sacramento gave the corrections department time to issue updated policies on the use of both methods but did not ban them. He offered a range of options on how officials could limit the use of pepper spray and isolation units when dealing with more
The criminal justice system is not different and constantly evolves to adapt to its environment. The court system in the United States is overrun with cases and appears to be an ineffective way in offering the accused a speedy trial or an effective way to possible appeal a conviction. The following ideas are presented as ways of improving the appeals process. I believe in criminal cases that have sufficient evidence to convict the accused with a one hundred percent degree of certainty should not be able to be appealed at any level. For example, if the accused admits to the crime or if there is proof positive that the accused committed the crime, they should waive the right to an appeal.
The goal of any law enforcement philosophy is to limit crime whenever possible, and it is rather apparent that whatever the statistics may show, sex offenders have a recidivism rate that borders on a pathological need to commit additional crimes. Merely brushing this aside by saying after their prison term that they have paid their debt is insufficient in light of the emerging research; it must be studied further in order to determine what the most effective way to curtail sex offender recidivism is. The research problem I will examining is why sex offenders have a recidivism rate that is so much higher than other crimes. I will focus on scouring the published material to find out if there is some sort of hormone imbalance in the average sex offender, or if there is a commonality in their upbringing that pushed them to commit such horrible crimes. The goal will be to look for links between sex offenders that commit the crime once again after their prison term is over.
Running head: COMPARATIVE REVIEW Introduction The article “Why Prostitution Initiative Misses” was written by Ronald Weitzer, a professor at George Washington University who specializes in criminology. The article is about prostitution and the proposed Measure Q a bill initiated by the city of Berkeley. The second article “The Legalization of Prostitution” was written by James Bovard a libertarian author and lecturer who have written several books on social issues. The article states several reasons of why legalizing prostitution is important. Article One The purpose of the article is to state why Measure Q, a proposition on the November 2004 ballot in the city of Berkeley, is negative and should not be passed.
The three strikes law was implemented in 1993, it was created to act as a strong deterrent as well as to identify and incarcerate habitual offenders by enforcing minimum sentence lengths. The advocates of the law propose that it keeps violent and serious criminals behind bars therefore reducing crime rate. Those opposed suggest it overfills our prisons with aging criminals that eventually hamstring our economy. Overall I believe the three strikes law does more good than harm, and Ill examine articles that go deeper into these matters. According to Eugene H. Methvin, a large portion of violent crime can be prevented with an effective strategy of identifying and incarcerating the individual, keeping him/her off the streets; saving society much