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offenders, for drug related offenses the number has risen three-fold. One would see parole as a way to control this overpopulation problem, right? Well, not exactly. Inmate populations continue to grow, and spaces to put them are limited, in some prisons
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Category: /Law & Government
to police probation and parolees when probation and parole officers are so severely overworked. By not having to check in on the offenders as much, because at any time we can hit a button and know exactly where they are, or be notified instantly when
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Category: /Arts & Humanities
is an important tool to the criminal justice system. The definition of the just desert model is a model of criminal sentencing that hold the criminal offenders deserve the punishment they receive at the hands of the law and that punishments should be appropriate
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Category: /Literature/English
are juveniles or violent offenders who are not capable of giving unbiased, informed consent to irreversible procedures. Furthermore, evidence liking antisocial conduct—aggression—with abnormal electrical activity in the temporal lobes. Using a electroencephalogram
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Category: /Law & Government/Government & Politics
in which victims defended themselves with guns are typical of these types of crimes and that the lower injury rates resulted from the self-defense action rather than some other factor. Perhaps offenders lost the advantage of surprise, which allowed victims
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Category: /Science & Technology
are drinking when they are victimized.17
In a high percentage of serious crimes, alcohol is found in the offender, the victim, or both, and alcohol-related problems are disproportionately found in both juvenile and adult offenders. 18
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Category: /Social Sciences
of the relationship between aggression, delinquency, and violence. Moffett, Caspi, Dickenson, Silva, and Stanton (1996) suggested that most serious forms of antisocial behavior have an origin in aggression during early childhood. Lynam (1996) also found chronic offenders
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Category: /Literature/English
, also renders them inflexible and unduly harsh in cases where the offender's motives are not entirely dishonourable. Grant (2001) notes that our law currently has no defence available to those who can no longer cope with the suffering of a loved one
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Category: /Law & Government/Law Issues
a sentence to the offender. Some of these factors include mitigating factors, aggravating factors, and similar cases to the one's that the judge is currently presiding over. "There is an apparent disparity in the sentences awarded for similar crimes committed
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Category: /Law & Government/Civil Rights
that they should be able to report exactly what the public want to know and hear.
There is already a list that is monitored by the Government to know where sex offenders will be. "Under the Sex Offenders Act, those found guilty of crimes such as rape are obliged
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