Essays on Convict

Most people have tried to explain the term justice from different perspectives. Justice is seen as a simple word, but the truth is the word justice is very complicated. Justice can be based on the concept of moral rightness that has varying perspectives on ethics, fairness, religion, rationality and law. On the other hand, justice can be termed as fairness in the protection of the rights and the punishment of wrongs. While the legal systems and other tribunal aim to uphold the ideal through the proper and fair administration of the laws, it's likely to have the unjust laws ...

LSI-R And Oasys Diagnostic Techniques in a Criminal Case

The expansion of the operational convict reentry system is among the most dangerous encounters that correction facilities face in the 21st century. To tackle the need for enhanced services, greater prominence has been employed concerning the application of practices that are evidence-based and, precisely, the application of risk and requirements valuations to monitor programming and planning of case for criminals whether in the prison or going back to the society. The contemporary inclination is to use fair, actuarial valuations instead of depending on perception, common sense or preference to enlighten behavior and management approaches. This paper looks into LSI-R ...

Were the convicts hardened criminals, innocent poachers or something in between?

The convicts that were sent to Australia ranged from being murderers and thieves to being advocates for social and political reform and debtors. However, no matter their reason for being sent to the penal colony, they all had the fact that being poor contributed to their crimes in common. Men and women who were too poor to pay their debts were sent to Australia. Murderers and thieves who often times were led to commit their crimes in an attempt to escape the poverty that they were in. Finally, the men and women who saw what was going on in ...

Proposition 36 - Literature Review

Before 2000 The three strikes law commonly referred to as Proposition 36 has had a long history. It started in the year 1994 when the state passed Proposition 184, which allowed courts to convict a person from 25 years to lifetime if that person had two or more serious convictions for a violent felony in the past. It also qualified the courts to double a person’s penalty of a convict if had been convicted of a felony before (Farabee et al., 2004). The initial attitude was that it was mandatory in all qualifying cases. This attitude came to ...

Coal Creek war was the war that took place in Coal Creek, a mining town in Tennessee. The town was found in the second half of the 19th century especially for people employed at the local coal mines. The war took place in 1891-1892 and was actually an opposition of free miners to the convict lease system implemented by the state. These people considered themselves law-abiding citizens possessing the right to work and honestly earn their living, while convicts brought to the mines were seen as those stealing bread from free miners (“The Coal Creek War” 1). The miners ...

Over the years, several problems have emerged in relations to parole management. At some point in time, parole management posed several challenges that people began to think that perhaps it’s something that is relatively impractical; however, intense pressure was laid to law enforcement agencies to come up with programs that could effectively work. Parole is just but a status of a convicted offender being released conditionally from prison before the actual expiry of the incarceration period by a paroling authority (Donald, 2011). Due to this reason, the inmates are thoroughly supervised by the relevant authority; moreover, they are ...

Proposition 36 - Literature Review

Before 2000 The three strikes law commonly referred to as Proposition 36 has had a long history. It started in the year 1994 when the state passed Proposition 184, which allowed courts to convict a person from 25 years to lifetime if that person had two or more serious convictions for a violent felony in the past. It also qualified the courts to double a person’s penalty of a convict if had been convicted of a felony before. The initial attitude was that it was mandatory in all qualifying cases. This attitude came to change only in 1996 ...

a. Prior to 1972, the death penalty legal procedure varied from one state to the other. However, in Furnam v. Georgia, a Supreme Court case which was decided in 1972, the constitutionality of the death penalty was addressed. In this case, the Supreme Court decided that the death penalty was imposed b as a result of an arbitrary and discriminatory process (Lynch and Haney 337). In this case, the defendants claimed that the imposition of the death penalty represented a violation of their rights under the 8th and the 14th Amendment (Dunn). Furman, the main defendant, was charged of ...

A Good Man is Hard to Find

Among American writers of the twentieth century, Flannery O’Connor holds a special place and has solid reputation as a representative of the unique American fiction subgenre – southern gothic. Despite being rather short, most of her stories convey important moral, cultural and philosophical messages while her peculiar techniques and choices reflect her own background. Indeed, Flannery O’Connor is among the writers whose literary legacy is closely intertwined with her biography, her family background, beliefs, experiences and challenges she was burdened with in the course of her rather brief life. The complex set of environmental factors which shaped her ...

Essay Plan

Introduction/Thesis In 'Spiders in the Centre of Their Webs': The NSW Police and Bushranging in the 1860s, Susan West speaks of bushrangers that rose to prominence in late 19th century Australia. This paper will look at the rise of bushranging in Australia and discuss the culpability of Australian Law in regards to the rise of the bushrangers. The sources that will be utilized were chosen because they seemed to be upon initial inspection relevant to the thesis topic.

This paper uses a number of primary and secondary sources including books, online websites, and PDF’s. The purpose of all ...

12 Angry Men is a film about a jury consisted of twelve men all of whom have their own system of beliefs which is hard to change. They are members of the community and are supposed to reach a verdict because they are jurymen. The legal system has flaws which is why the jurors need to decide about the guilt of the defendant. The defendant is an eighteen-year-old boy who allegedly stabbed and killed his father although there is reasonable doubt that he did not commit this crime. The juror Number Three is the man who looks for answers ...

Release on parole or a shortening of a prison sentence are both highly complex issues that need to be viewed from both a legal as well as humanitarian standpoint. While ‘imminent danger to society’ is an integral component in determining if parole should be granted to any convict, I believe that when the crime relates to sex offences, even more care and precaution is necessary. The option of early release should only come in question if and when there are very explicit mitigating circumstances, such as the criminal being afflicted by a mental disease that prompted the action, and ...

What was different about the entrance to Vaucluse House as opposed to other stately homes? What is the reason for the difference? The Vaucluse house was different in that the entrance did not have some kind of a waiting by or lounge for visitors; it let the visitors right into the home. The entrance was informed by a socialist sense of architecture.

Describe Sarah Cox's family background.

Sarah Cox came from a family of commons. His father was not wealthy and Sarah’s mother was a convict. Their ‘marriage was unofficial since Mr. Cox had left a wife and children in Britain when he ...

A 19-year-old high school girl was shot twice and buried while still alive in 1998 and Clayton Lockett was convicted of her murder (“Clayton Lockett” 1). After conviction, he was given the death penalty to be imposed by lethal injection and fifteen years later, his execution was botched when drug dosage was not adequate for death, finding veins for giving the drugs required multiple attempts, and the medications leaked into his muscle tissue (Connor). Witnesses to his death described it as agonizing and the response of the public again stirred the debate concerning using government sanctions to kill in ...

There are a number of lessons that one must learn as one goes through life. But the lesson of attempting to survive through the racial discrimination in the south is one lesson that is most valuable to those who lived in that era. Many blacks can now relate to the racial challenge that Jefferson face in Louisiana in 1948. Like many other blacks during the 1940’s, Jefferson faces death for a murder. Of course the laws during the period did not require much proof to convict a black man as much of the stories of the past reveal ...

The United States has one of the most complex and fascinating criminal justice systems in the world. The reason that the United States has such a unique criminal justice system, is that the founding fathers based their principles from superior legal frameworks around the world. For example, the founding fathers were known for looking to English, French, and other European Legal Frameworks, (The United States Constitution). Additionally, the founding fathers thought to their education of Roman Law and the laws of Ancient Greece, (The United States Constitution). For this reason, the United States has a unique array of principles ...

Clayton Lockett was a 38-year-old murderer of a 19-year-old girl whom he shot twice and then buried while she was still alive (Connor, 2015). Following his conviction, he was sentenced to death in Oklahoma by lethal injection. Fifteen years later in April 2014, his execution was botched when inadequate drugs, an inability to find an adequate vein for instillation, and inappropriate administration into muscle tissue resulted in an agonizing and prolonged death. The public’s response to the news releases ignited again the debate over the use of the death penalty for punishment of the worst offenders in society. ...

It takes a great deal of effort to trust, and once that is lost then it takes a monumental amount of effort to get it back. The committing of a crime against another is a betrayal not only to an individual but to society in general, as it proves that the perpetrator cannot be trusted to exist in an ordered manner among their fellow citizens. In breaking that trust it is often seen that criminals will be labeled for the rest of their days as convicts, untrustworthy and unable to be seen as anything other than a lawbreaker and ...

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Abstract Juvenile transfer laws is one of the most controversial issue on the today’s criminal justice agenda of the United States of America. Thus, the policymakers vehemently argue that the possibility of being tried ‘as an adult’ is an effective general, specific and potential deterrent of juvenile crime. Enacted in the majority of the states, the juvenile transfer laws are thought to be an effective restraint against juvenile recidivism, an effective tool for rehabilitation of the young offenders and a solution, which protects the community against the most dangerous juvenile offenders. Yet, the several studies demonstrated that these ...

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Introduction The development of science and technology over the last several decades has made crime investigation easier. Agencies like FBI today can identify the true assailant more authentically and quickly with the help of forensic science. It appears that explosive advancements in the area of forensic science have totally changed the way crime investigators approach case enquiry. Prior to the broader development of forensic science, investigation officers were forced to rely increasingly on situational evidences and physical torture to prove the involvement of a suspect in crime. Under such circumstances, fundamental human rights were often ...

When asked to view the documentary Slavery by Another Name, I was expecting to see something about prisoners being used in forced labor by some other country. I was clearly not expecting it to be about the treatment of African Americans in the United States after the Emancipation Proclamation. Based on my understanding of American history, I believed that after the Civil War, African Americans had some struggles, but they were free. I understood that there was still discrimination, especially in the American South, but the former slaves at least had the opportunity to make a living on their ...

Convict Women have usually been portrayed as Prostitutes and Criminals.

Convict women have usually been portrayed as prostitutes and criminals. Prostitution among female convicts was a common practice in the new colony where women convicts were considered sexual objects for men. Most female convicts were punished with transportation when found guilty of their offences for the purpose of serving the needs of other sailors. Female convicts were subjected to harsh conditions where besides receiving and giving sexual favors they were forced to work as servants as well as laborers for the few individuals who had influence within their context such as the prison officers. Only a few of the ...