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English Criminal Law and Whether Mandatory Sentences Are Justified

is punished with the loss of their freedom. Therefore, retribution may be seen as basis for punishment. There are many that believ...

The Evolution of Punishment in Criminal Justice

The evolution of punishment strategy has gone hand in hand with the evolution of society as a whole. Harris (1996), for example, ...

Society, Criminals, and Mandatory Drug Sentencing

emotion yet little fact, and 2. That based on fact. The purpose of this paper will be to review the latter....

Three Strikes Law in California

of those that opponents to the law point to as evidence its injustice. In 1995, Andrade was arrested for shoplifting $84 worth of ...

Criminal Law and Strict Liability

the moral aspect needs to be remembered, but the case is made on the law and on the facts surrounding the case, not on moral indig...

Repeat Offenders and Mandatory Sentences

This paper consists of fifteen pages and examines theories of criminal justice in a consideration of shortcomings and limitations ...

Sentencing and the American Criminal Justice System

toward determinate sentencing models that go along with a tough on crime stance. Of course, juvenile justice has to some extent b...

Federal Sentencing Guidelines

The law, as well intended as it is, can vary in regard to its application. The law is not always black and white in terms...

Parole And Minimum Sentencing

load of inmates weighing down the penal system. By contrast, a significant drawback is the pressure to place a convicted criminal...

Judiciary and the Role of Statutory Interpretation

of Britain. He suggested that these powers were separated in the following way Legislative - law creation. Executive - executing t...

Criminal Justice, Social Justice, and Morality

the right to be treated the same as others Conclusion Although we know that the US Constitution guarantees certain rights to its ...

English Criminal Law's Function

or threat may cease to be a threat yet still remain a crime (James, 1984). The English Criminal Justice system is unlike ot...

The Nature and Purpose of Criminal Law

of law" (Lippman, 2006, p. 3). This is what sets crime apart from acts we might find morally objectionable or distasteful, such as...

Could the Leaders of Boko Haram be Charged with Crimes Agsinst Humanity?

Boko Haram are an Islamic jihadist organization based in Nigeria who became known for the kidnapping of more than 200 Christian s...

Insuring Criminal Justice

Criminal justice has benefitted tremendously from recent scientific and technological improvements. Crime scene investigators no ...

Criminological Theory

People commit crimes for a diversity of reasons. A considerable body of research has been devoted to explaining those...

English Law from the Sixth through Tenth Centuries

In six pages this time period is examined in terms of the development of English law in a consideration of theory and whether the ...

Life or Death and Cost Effectiveness

This research paper adresses the fact thaty it is far more costly to house and feed criminals for life than it is to sentence them...

Occupational Drug Testing of Employees

have enacted certain laws on their own which sometimes provide for testing in a much wider arena. Consider Idaho as an example. ...

Criminal's Society Reentry and Various Influential Factors

Gottredson and Hirschis Self-Control Theory contends that criminal behavior is perpetuated to meet the perpetrators own self-inter...

Australia and Changing Laws on Rape

it - leading the women involved in acquaintance rape where alcohol is involved to being required to assume an element of blame. A...

Criminal Justice Aspects

prison. In the United States Judicial System, courts specify when handing down the sentence the amount of time that must be serv...

Terrorism and Wartime criminal law

an individual may initiate a private lawsuit, that is, in regards to "contracts, injuries, real and personal property and family r...

Islamic Law, Aboriginal Customary Law and Queensland Law; a Comparison of Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Systems

there are also some commonalities in the way that the law has been developed and the way it is implemented. In each case the evo...

Criminal Intent and Inter Vivos Trusts

the conviction of most crimes. The intent element is usually fulfilled if the defendant was generally aware that she or he was ve...

English Law and Its Sources

In five pages this paper examines the importance of case law, legislative law, and common law in a consideration of English law...

English Law

These were; Dane Law, adopted after the invasion and settlement by Scandinavian warriors, located in the North and North East of E...

Three Questions of British Commercial Law

A three part English law paper addressing three specific questions relating to insolvency law, agency, and contract law. The auth...

Is Black English Vernacular a “Real Language?”

This idea, she says, is not hypothetical; the grammar and syntax peculiar to Black English Vernacular have been known for several ...

Criminal Justice Are Humans Inherently Good or Evil?

IS THAT WE ARE NOT INHERENTLY MORAL AND WE HAVE TO WORK TO ACHIEVE OUR MORALITY. PART OF THAT WORK HAS BEEN THE DEFINITION OF VAR...