Defendants Critical Thinkings Samples For Students

Criminal Law

Abstract
This paper will provide a personal response on capital punishment and its relationship for deterring crime. At the same time, there will also be a discussion on the ethical issues concerning the imposition of death penalty in relation to the Constitution. The standpoint of United Nations Committee and anti-death penalty movements will be presented as well as the discussion on the causal link between imposing death penalty against the defendants and its ability to diminish criminality in society. The recognition of the right to equal freedom and respect for human rights by adopting less restrictive means to achieve the ...

While the hit Netflix television series “Orange is the New Black” has succeeded in pulling back the curtain a bit on the situation facing woman in the criminal justice system; popular notions, assumptions and stereotypes of female offenders remain misleading at best or completely false at worst. More importantly, however, public policy continues to ignore the special status of women offenders despite the fact, as the show illustrates, of major differences in the types of crimes in which women commit crimes and the frequency in which they commit them.
Even though the traditional portrayal of women in the criminal ...

The United States Courts- Chapter 5

Caylee Anthony’s murder takes place in Orange County, Florida in this case; courts in Orange County heard the case. In the case of appeals due to the charge of murder, Judges in the Appellate courts in Florida will listen to the case. If the Jury finds the defendant guilty and imposes the death penalty, the defendant has the opportunity of challenging the sentence in the federal courts. The issue describes the complexity of the court system in America. United States has close to 17,000 courthouses with elaborate architecture. The modern courthouses don a faceless structure due to lack ...

Criminal Law

The prosecutorial style is more reflective of the Due Process Model of criminal justice because this approach adheres to the concept that the search for truth is more important than speed and efficiency in the resolution of cases (May, Minor, Ruddell and Matthews, 2007). On the other hand, Crime Control Model is based on the theory that the repression of crime is one of the crucial roles of the government where emphasis is given on the rapid arrest, screening, charges, acquittal, conviction, sentence served and the limitation on the process of appeal to eradicate the criminals in society (Lipmann, ...

Discussion # 1

Discussion # 1
Discretionary death penalty laws are considered more just, fair and reasonable than mandatory penalty laws because it allowed the jury the option to impose life imprisonment instead of death (Bohm, 2012, p.9). Mandatory death penalty can be considered as contrary to justice, fairness and morality because of the theory that criminality was not freely chosen by the criminal, but the criminal behavior of such individual was a consequence of biological and environmental factors that are beyond such person’s control (Bohm, 2012, p.9). Based on this premise, the motivation and causation that influences an individual to develop ...

(1). William Glasser, an American psychiatrist and psychologist developed Reality Therapy in the mid-60s. As he continued making use of the therapy he had developed, its theory, techniques, and broader applications kept on evolving. Reality Therapy is a therapeutic approach in which people learn to comprehend the needs that our species have developed as a result of evolution and that drive every human being. Using this form of therapy allows therapists to help people make more effective choices so that these needs are met, to take control of their own lives, and become strong to handle problems and stresses of life. Glasser ...