Criminal law

there are four justifications for criminal sanctions: deterrence, incapacitation, rehabilitation, and just deserts. While nearly adjusted to utilitarianism, the deterrence and incapacitation models look to decrease future wrongdoing. Deterrence tries to make crimes all the more unreasonable, so less criminal acts will happen. Incapacitate does not attempt to change conduct through raising expenses; it basically expels the guilty party from society. The criminal behind jail bars can 't hurt those…

The first solution is being proposed by the Bipartisan policy center, Mayor Richard Berry and two legislators in New Mexico leading the solution towards the public safety who are advocating to call for tougher three strikes law in New Mexico in the 2016 legislative session which will allow the police officers of New Mexico to put the repeat offenders behind bars for committing serious crimes. This is the solution that I am advocating for it. Recently, there has been a lot of crime that have…

convicting the guilty while still ensuring guarding their rights. In their bid to enforce the law, it is up to the prosecutor to have the knowledge of the work of the police investigating the crimes. As such,…

Throughout history, laws have been used to guard civilizations and the people that dwell within them. Unfortunately laws are ever changing and will never stay the same. Since before modern civilization, there has been many on going arguments about different crimes and how they should be punished. For the first core essay, the class was asked to wright about either one of the Inchoate crimes, or the four parties to crime under common law. After reading about both, the history behind Inchoate…

Technological advances can be a huge advantage to the law enforcement community, but may also be a disadvantage as well. Technology. As the use of the Internet and other computer networks has grown rapidly in recent years, so has the opportunity for electronic crime. Unlawful activity can be committed or facilitated online. Criminals can trade and share information, mask their identity, identify and gather information on victims, and communicate with co-conspirators. Web sites, electronic mail,…

In today’s day and age law enforcement officials as well as investigators walk a fine line to make certain that the felons they apprehend are prosecuted and held accountable for their actions no matter how big or small. When it comes to the variety of different crimes ethics plays a very crucial part in every case that occurs and faces trial. The two most important crimes pertaining to ethical investigations is homicide and rape. The reason why homicide and rapes cases are most important when it…

consequences differ in civil v. criminal cases? Civil cases are disputes between two businesses or two individuals regarding the legal duties and responsibilities they owe one another and the accountability for the damage he or her causes to the other. Civil cases generally only result in monetary damages for the person or business caused the problem. Criminal cases on the other hand, are a situation where a person or a business, commit an act that is against the law. The act is called a crime…

it comes to Criminal Defenses and Criminal Punishments, perceptions of others can sometimes vary. Some may agree that the punishment goes with the crime, while others may argue that there are stipulations that can be enacted due to extenuating circumstances for the defendant of the crime. In this body of work, the key points involved in the court determining the lawfulness of the use of force, the fundamental difference between the castle doctrine and the stand your ground law, the…

Criminology does not focus on one level of behavior but nevertheless attempts to provide explanations of particular forms of behavior, namely, criminal actions. The crimes are basically reflects the different dimensions of culprit’s life. Psychology says that people having same background behave in same identical manners while being in same conditions. Similarly the crimes also tell about the behavior of a particular that how he thinks, how he reacts in different scenarios and what is his trend…

In today’s society, more African Americans compared to any other race are under the control of the criminal justice system than were enslaved in the 1800s. In 2007, according to the U.S. Sentencing Commission over 81% of convicted felons were African Americans. Since majority of felons are of colored people the system of mass incarceration depicts that racial discrimination remains as powerful as it was during slavery and the era of Jim Crow. In this paper, we will discuss Michelle Alexander’s…