without Parole Criminal Justice Policy Review Published in 2013 By: Megan Kennedy Reviewed by: Cajetan Ihe Doctoral Student Department of Administration of Justice Professor: Dr. Helen Taylor Greene September 28, 2015 Descriptive Summary This article, authored by Kennedy (2013) considered a number of factors which informed the decisions of the United States Supreme court in ending the law that stipulated mandatory life without parole for juveniles; with special emphasis on the
The war on drugs was originally initiated by President Richard Nixon in 1971. The United States created tougher laws and policies to deter the use of drugs. President Nixon was able to establish measures like minimum mandatory sentencing and no-knock warrants. As a result of the war on drugs incarceration rates during the 1980s and 90s dramatically rose. According to the Drug Policy Alliance, non-violent incarceration rates rose from 50,000 in 1980 to over 400,000 by 1997 (A brief history of the
was more focused on the Vietnam War and the Civil Rights Movement. Despite these more urgent concerns, Richard Nixon successfully launched a get tough on crime platform that funneled in mandatory guidelines, discretionary guidelines, determinate sentencing, and mandatory minimums. These tougher policies made way for a new market in the privatization of prisons as prison populations soared, which has exacerbated a criminal justice system that promotes mass incarceration and commodification at the expense
magistracy and analyse any alternatives that may be deemed appropriate. The most obvious benefit of the lay magistracy is the number of cases they see compared with District Judges (magistrates court), hereon to be referred to as stipendiary’s. This of course fuels the argument that there are inconsistencies within their sentencing yet in 1988 we felt it necessary to increase their workload, by making many more crimes summary offences, such as common assault and battery. This increase suggests that Parliament
Domestic Violence is a crime which occurs on a regular basis in the United States and everywhere. It claims the lives of millions of victims each year. There really is no specific cause to explain why domestic violence occurs. However, it has been noted that domestic violence is a product of emotional, sexual, psychological, physical, and any other form of torment or torture that the abuser wishes to use to gain control or power over their victims (Gosselin, 2005). Due to this crime being so