Our country has a history of forgetting the poor, neglecting those who need help, and giving out cruel punishments for crimes that dont deserve it. It was only in 2002 when the supreme court banned ex…
Criminal Justice
Over the years, we have used a great deal of methods to deal out punishment, such as being beheaded to being boiled in oil, to being hung, strung and quartered in the medieval eras, typically for high…
I am writing this letter to try and persuade you that prison is not a proper punishment for juvenile offenders for the upcoming bill voting. In 1899, the world's first juvenile court opened in Chicago…
In every structured society, there is some sort of method utilized as an attempt to detain wrongdoers (as deemed by that culture). Oftentimes, this takes the form of some sort of prison system, the Un…
Crime as the topic of research and development has always been focused on the ability to not only stop current crime from happening, but also to prevent future crimes from occurring. In this topic of …
"Each of us is more than the worst thing we've ever done" (Stevenson 17). That is the one vital lesson Bryan Stevenson learned from his work. The U.S. criminal justice system judges people very unfair…
Justice is something we all deserve no matter who we are, where we come from, or what we look like, justice is a basic human right. But does the American justice system treat all people equally? For e…
In this corrupt world, there is no such thing as perfect justice. The criminal justice system as a whole is flawed. Innocent people are sometimes convicted and sentenced, meanwhile those guilty of cr…
Background The juvenile justice system (JJS) was originally both a rehabilitative and preventative approach, emphasizing the needs and rights of children over the appeal to punish them. Under The Juv…
Albert Einstein once said, "In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same" ("Albert Einstein …
The YCJA, or the Youth Criminal Justice Act, is a law and a system on how to handle youth from 12 to 17 years old when they commit a crime. It came into effect on April 1, 2003, and replaced the old s…
