Essays on Court Processes

Criminologists seek to understand not only why people commit crimes, but also criminals’ activities that occur more in certain areas. Chicago is an area most commonly used to study, primarily to “highlight the demographic and neighborhoods sources of variation in tolerance of deviance (including violence)...

Since criminal behavior directly impacts the victims, offender and community, restorative justice is an alternative “peacemaking” approach to law-enforced punitive punishment. Punitive punishment, often, perpetuates more criminal behavior by the offender because of the stigma once arrested and convicted. Depending on the crime, the victims...

Accountability is owning up to our own mistakes. Acknowledging our wrongs, rather they are self-harm or harm to others, has a huge effect on the healing process. A simple apology goes a long way. This is something that we have learned since childhood, yet adults...

Introduction A 2016 IDB report entitled the IDB Series on Crime and Violence in the Caribbean, has confirmed what the Bahamian public has long known, that the consistent rise of the crime rate in The Bahamas is alarming and a cause for concern. The abstract...

Sam Frankel in, Giving Children a Voice, defines advocacy as, “reflected in a setting which children’s voices are acknowledged and valued” (Frankel, p. 11, 2018). Advocacy is vital as it allows children to be involved in the community in things that affect them as active...

Thousands of teenagers are afraid to go to school. The reality is that is affecting millions of students, not only children who receive it but also everyone. However, parents, teachers, and other adults may not always see it because adults do not always see it....

This essay aims to cover matters concerning the needs for advocacy with older people and further examine certain significant difficulties on a thematic basis whereas these needs are being met. Generally, older people are regarded as people who are over 65. Statistics show that there...

Policy and advocacy can be defined as the active involvement in strategies and activities that influence decision makers and drive public policy, laws and systems. The traditional sense of policy and advocacy is often seen as being conducted through litigation, lobbying and public education but...

This essay will review the case study of Leo and distinguish between the support services Mediation, Counselling and Advocacy. An appropriate intervention will be selected for Leo and determine how it can meet his development needs. Mediation is an intervention used to resolve a dispute....

Advocacy is creating a case in support of a particular activity or cause and trying to rally other behind the idea by convincing that it’s a good idea. It is a process of collecting and organizing information to be passed on to decision makers in...

Introduction Over about more than a decade, Cook County, Illinois held the first juvenile court system in 1899. Prior to the juvenile court system children were seen as “miniature adults” causing them to be tried and punished as adults were. However, improvements in the understanding...

My passion of being a lawyer in the future is something that I think is most important to my growth as a person. I want to be more knowledgeable about what is our laws and I think it is something that is taught in school....

Introduction What is torture? It is punishment inflicted through means of severe methods meant to cause severe pain in exchange for valuable information or a sadistic action taken by others to exert power. What are war crimes? It is an act carried out during war...

In the Plato’s “Republic” the foundation for Polemarchus’ definition of Justice mostly is following in his father’s footsteps with the concept of helping friends and harming enemies, changing from the individual to the collective good. In this paper, I will argue that Polemarchus’ definition of...

The central theme seen in Plato’s Republic is to define different virtues and ideas that are seen to be important in society and life, namely justice in Book I. In the Republic, Plato attempts to answer the question of “what is justice?” All of these...

Creating a desire to respect the law is a vital step to building a civilised community. In order for the laws created by the government to be respectable, they must be aligned with our natural laws. St. Thomas Aquinas’ theory of natural law is that...

What would it take for you to want to kill somebody, well in Frankenstein by Mary Shelley it didn’t take more than just the thought of being alone for the rest of their life that led Frankenstein’s monster to release his bloodlust and take everything...

A numerus amount of cases is brought upon courtrooms every day and scheduled for the same time in different court rooms. DUI’s remain a big issue and concern to the public health and the safety of other as well as those under the influence. As...

On October 24, 2019 was my first time visiting a court case and I observed the New Haven County Courthouse which is located at 121 Elm Street in the Downtown section of New Haven, to observe the case of Morales who served detention in March...