Alternative sentencing refers to ways in which a court or a judge can punish a defendant who has been convicted of a crime without necessarily putting him under a jail sentence. It can also be referred to as a non-custodial or community sentence. Due to...
Alternative sentencing or community sentence is where an offender is convicted of an offense and contrary to getting to jail or facing a death sentence. The defendant is punished in alternative forms, it’s mostly used for non-violent crimes, white-collar crimes, first-time convicts, and juvenile convicts....
Alternative sentencing is a form of punishment administered to law offenders that do not involve going to prison. In the past, law offenders went to prison because there was no substitute way of punishing offenders accorded by the law. In other countries like Malaysia, the...
Alternative sentencing includes all the different types of punishment that a court can impose on an accused after he is found to have committed a crime other than jail time or the death penalty. These sentences offer the defendant the chance to avoid sentences that...
There are a lot of controversies when it comes to raising or lowering the legal drinking age. The drinking age in America as of the year 2021 is twenty-one years old. Many believe that twenty-one is a good age and the law should remain the...
In today’s day and age, the act of drinking alcohol is highly frowned upon by adults, but for us teenagers, it is seen as a normal daily occurrence. As we grow up, we see alcohol in all places. We see wine at church, we see...
What’s an average end-of-the-week night out in Sydney like? A typical Friday night for a teen in Sydney might be described as a bustling wave of movement and excitement as people crowd to the many clubs and bars. Given that the legal drinking age is...
The national drinking age was 18 at one point. I strongly agree that it should revert back, believing it would be more beneficial than consequential. The benefits of lowering the drinking age would be that it would decrease binge drinking among minors and young adults,...
Oscar Wilde once said “After the first glass, you see things as you wish they were. After the second, you see things as they are not. Finally, you see things as they really are, and that is the most horrible thing in the world.” He...
Introduction As several states abolish their separate juvenile court system, it raises the question whether the state of Florida should follow suit or continue to have a separate juvenile system. There are many individuals who praise the juvenile court system, but these same individuals seem...
You wake up excited, thrilled. All your hard work is finally going to pay off. The year’s of studying, staying up late, exams and stress is finally going to be worthwhile. Today is the day you’ve been waiting for. There’s nothing holding you back, so...
Introduction The statement ‘A criminal is ‘Born’ and not made’ suggests the idea that a person’s birth decides whether they will be a criminal without any other deciding factors. It takes away the idea that environmental factors have anything to do with a criminal’s pathway...
Are criminals born or made? Criminals are made, not born. The following essay is going to prove it. Individual learn crimes through outside influences or the events that happened in their past cause such as nature and the environment in which they surround themselves. Nobody...
The grand controversy behind the “fruits of the forbidden tree” doctrine is whether or not legally damning evidence – obtained illegally should be admissible in the court of law. The idea – also known as the evidence exclusionary law – centres around the belief that...
Introduction A violent crime is considered to be a crime in which the perpetrator uses or threatens force upon their victims. This is evident in crimes such as murder, rape and theft. The violent act within a crime, is what makes a person a violent...
Throughout history, we have seen various forms of injustice targeted at citizens who don’t know their rights and government officials who exploit the system. Due to this fact, there has now been a law in place that prevents the government from making use of most...
Introduction The Supreme Court of Canada, seen as the guardian of the constitution was given the advantage of making broad judicial decisions after the entrenchment of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms in 1982 (Kelly, 2004). The courts prior to the Charter had authority, but...
This essay will examine the case of John Foster Emmott v Michael Wilson & Partners Ltd, where the parties who took place were the claimant named John Foster Emmott and the defendant Michael Wilson and Partners Limited. In that case, the UK Court of Appeal...
A significant figure, Chief Justice Earl Warren, transformed and modified the judicial system during a deafening time for American Politics. Chief Justice Earl Warren had accomplished a great amount before being appointed Chief Justice. He was first elected the Attorney General of California where he...