Introduction Texas Center for Justice and Equity (TJCE) promotes solutions and constructs alliances to end widespread imprisonment and promote safer communities in Texas. TCJE has always advocated for a shift in financing towards community support and a reduction in the criminal justice system’s racial disparities (About TCJE, 2021). The TCJE’s...
Introduction As the Executive Dean and Vice President of Student and Academic Services, I was presented with a student appeal challenging the Coordinator of Residence Life, as communicated by the Registrar, Susan Shirk. The Appealing Student, a learner at a community college in Santa Ana, pleads against fine and disciplinary...
The regular court system rarely takes into consideration the previous background of an offender. The focus of regular courts is on punishment and incarceration rather than on rehabilitation. It is true that it is impossible to consider each offender’s background and what pushed them to commit one misdemeanor or another;...
Defense attorneys have a challenging and complex role in the criminal justice system. They are tasked with advocating on behalf of their clients, who frequently face significant criminal charges, and assuring that their legal rights are upheld. Their responsibility goes beyond merely representing their clients in court. In general, the...
In the United States, there are many common laws and standards according to which people and agencies organize their life and work. Due process is one of such norms defined by the Constitution to ensure that individuals cannot be deprived of life, liberty, and property (Funk & Seamon, 2020). Most...
Abstract Stand your ground laws permit a person to use lethal force in self-defense in public, even if such force may be avoided safely by retiring. As a result, these rules encourage the use of lethal force in daily disagreements between individuals. Many works of literature have suggested that SYG...
Human service work is complex and unique and involves direct work with people. Specialists in this field should be able to interact with them to give them the most qualified help in solving their issues. Therefore, the key elements in the work of a human service professional at the micro...
Criminal Justice Criminal justice is a set of laws, rules, and bodies designed to charge criminals who commit illegal acts and allow them to rehabilitate their victims. The criminal justice system includes law enforcement agencies, prosecution of offenders and protection from these persecutions, punishment and rehabilitation of criminals, witness protection,...
The use of force is a critical subject in the United States. Law enforcement agencies have taken a severe blow to their reputation due to such encounters. Strict policies for such actions allow them to be applied only in cases where civilians’ or officers’ lives are immediately threatened by a...
Introduction Mandatory mediation is a growing trend in the UK justice system, and debates about its future have intensified. Supporters view it as an effective way to provide access to justice for those who cannot afford costly court proceedings. Critics of mandatory mediation argue that it takes away personal autonomy...
Introduction Solving disputes through Alternative Dispute Resolution is faster and more cost-effective. Alternative Dispute Resolution can solve conflicts without a trial imposed during the proceedings. Mediation, neutral evaluation, and mediation are used during Alternative Dispute Resolution. According to the research, almost 62 counties in New York State are using Alternative...
The first source to be used is Birck, M. A. (2018). Do you see what I see: Problems with juror bias in viewing body-camera video evidence. Michigan Journal of Race and Law, 24, 153-176. Web. In this article, the author examines the prejudice that jurors may face when considering a...
Introduction Misconduct in law enforcement is a widespread problem that must be addressed. At times, police officers must make quick decisions regarding responses to crime scenes. These actions are done to protect citizens and maintain law and order. Unfortunately, although it is a small percentage of police officers, many have...
Introduction Texas Legislature’s 87th session ended in an eventful night in May 2021. House Bill 20 (HB 20) is a GOP priority bill that failed to pass (Astudillo Carla and Texas Tribune Staff, 2021). The statute required offenders suspected of committing violent crimes and those previously accused of such crimes...
CLTC 11.1: Critical legal thinking indicates that the coins were sent for approval within 14 days. This means that the contract of sale does not play a vital role at this point. Therefore, Numismatic bears the risk of loss and will not win a lawsuit against Prewitt. CLTC 11.3: Once...
Summary Eyewitness Testimony is a widespread practice in legal and judicial cases where people give an account of an event they have witnessed. The fields of forensic and cognitive psychology are concerned with this practice because although it is believed to be a generally reliable source of evidence, it still...
Introduction Once a Supreme Court makes a ruling on a matter, it makes a new law used to determine cases of similar nature. The judges should evaluate the impact of their judgment on the administration of justice both locally and internationally. If their ruling creates uncertainty on the interpretation of...
The legislative process is a complicated road a bill makes to become a law. While the legislative process is similar in different states of the US, there may be some peculiarities in the ways every state approaches it. This paper focuses on the discussion of the legislative process of Texas...
At a Glance:Â The Provincial Court of Alberta instituted specialized courts to handle prosecution in a therapeutic and culturally appropriate manner. Drug Treatment Court:Â First established in 2005. Meant to stop the cycle of criminal behavior driven by drug addiction. How Dtc Work:Â The program offers a comprehensive list of interventions meant to...
Ladies and Gentlemen of the Jury, may it please this Court and you; that our defense stands against the plaintiff’s allegations of Ari Felder, as Surviving Spouse of Morgan Felder, are mistaken. The case against Air LLC is based on wrongful assumptions of the breaching of laws that ensure that...
Introduction Criminal and civil law are extensive and discrete lawful entities with distinctive edicts and sentences. For example, civil law deals with conflicts amid corporations, individuals, or both, and reimbursement is paid to the victim. Criminal law is the form of legislation that deals with law-breaking and the lawful castigation...
Introduction The work of a legal assistant can be an interesting, responsible, and stable type of employment, and involves several main career options. Paralegals have responsibilities that differ from those of a lawyer because they cannot represent clients in court. At the same time, paralegals can do technically sophisticated work,...
Legal textualism is a formalist theory that bases the interpretation of the law based on the text of the law. The main task of textualism is the rejection of intentionalism, that is, the analysis of the legislator’s intentions, which he had when he created this norm (Smith, 2019). Textualism omits...
Laws constitute the backbone of every society and help people to organize their institutions and enforce the order. The United States has one of the most exemplary legal systems on the planet, which makes it interesting to explore all of the aspects of how it functions. The House and Senate...
Case Citation In this case, several main parties are involved in resolving the current conflict. First of all, this is the operator of the nursing facility, who is appealing against the revocation of his license, which he was deprived of after the verdict in the case of Nepa v. Commonwealth...
Serving a sentence of imprisonment or restriction of liberty is a huge stress and ordeal for everyone. Young girls and women in the justice system are victims of bias, disadvantage, and neglect because of their gender and age. It has a strong negative impact on people going through the stage...
The Supreme Court, which the United States Constitution founded, began to take shape with the passage of the Judiciary Act and has a long history. The anniversary of the federal court system’s independence from the state court system is September 24; it was a ground-breaking innovation in 1789 that has...
The Florida court system comprises county and circuit courts at the trial level, district courts of appeal, and a Supreme Court at the appellate level. County and circuit court judges are elected. The Governor appoints district court judges and Supreme Court justices. However, when a judicial vacancy occurs in a...
Introduction It is no secret that today a wide range of ideas and concepts allows one to succeed and prosper in supervisory from a criminal justice perspective. Knowledge and understanding of them are necessary for effective and productive activities in the framework of the protection of citizens, prosecution of an...
Introduction Many jurisdictions have policies and regulations intended to tackle the problematic issue of truancy. Societies tend to have children who are unwilling to attend school through continued absenteeism. This challenge is common among high, elementary, and middle school learners. While the law does not identify truancy as a criminal...
Introduction The analysis of specific litigation is an essential aspect in understanding the lawsuit as a whole. It helps to define the utilization of terminology, understand the decision-making process, and analyze the application of fundamental judicial rules. The analysis demonstrates the work of a judge, namely, making a decision based...
A system of rules and laws is important in these times. They must regulate not only the relationships between people, but provide for all possible scenarios that are expected to occur, both in normal life and in the event of their violation. People are confronted virtually every day with someone...
It is hard to disagree that various crimes have always been an integral part of people’s lives. Therefore, in order to protect citizens who follow the law from those who break it, the criminal justice system and the judicial branch were created. When there is a need to punish a...
I think the Justice system in Canada is one of the world’s most thriving and fair systems. For me, it is also exceptional in the way that it combines common law and civil law and operates in two languages – English and French. However, as in every justice system in...
When someone commits an unlawful act, one may or may not feel guilty. Two types of the latter are known: legal and factual. Legal guilt can be defined as the fact justified to be true by law (Reichel, 2018). On the other hand, factual guilt is an apparent situation that...
Introduction Government institutions experienced an unexpected shock from the COVID-19 coronavirus disease’s arrival in late 2019 and took a wide range of measures to mitigate its health, socioeconomic, and work-related risks. The World Health Organization (WHO) declared the COVID-19 disease a public health emergency of global concern on January 30,...
This case is connected with cases of violation of the trustee’s obligations to the money entrusted to them and legal ways to compensate for the damage caused to the trust. In particular, we are talking about two different trusts that suffered serious financial damage due to selfish and irresponsible policies...
Police chiefs have resorted to applying legitimacy and procedural justice as new management styles, as they do to policing, in an attempt to curb crimes successfully. Legitimacy refers to the trust given to police by the people to use the authority vested in them to maintain order, control conflicts, and...
Information Stress is a feeling of emotional or physical tension, and it can come from any event or thought that makes a person feel frustrated, angry, or nervous. Stress is the reaction the body makes to a challenge or demand. Work-related stress is the response individuals may have when faced...
Introduction The item that was chosen for the analysis is an article “A dark day for human rights: Roe vs Wade overturned” written by Sophie King-Hill as a guest blogger for the College of Social Sciences in Birmingham. The main argument of it is that the restriction of the right...
The police department has a set of rules that explain the responsibilities of each employee and how that duty is to be carried out. The use of excessive force, the conduct of police operations, and the wearing of police uniforms within police stations are all restricted by particular standards. When...
Introduction Police professionalization is a contentious and ongoing process, with disagreements over what police work should involve from the top down. Police officers work in a hazardous environment, making quick judgments that occasionally have life-or-death consequences. Although it is often a community that is hostile to its activities, its objective...
The Issue and the position One of the main problems in paralegal research is the discrepancy between the duties of paralegals and their contribution to their assessment. There are many complex ethical issues and considerations in the work of a paralegal. Paralegals face a wide range of ethical dilemmas in...
Proposed Amendment The U.S. detention system shall be completely nationalized and operated by the government, with no place for privately-owned penitentiary institutions. The administration of justice shall be performed impartially, without any room for the considerations of profitability. Introduction Private prisons’ existence represents the commodification of imprisoned individuals and punishment,...
Search and seizure of items during an arrest is a sensitive matter since some of the surrendered items can have extremely personal information on them. It is exceptionally true for electronic devices, especially cell phones which have become the staple of the modern world. Mobile phones are recognized by the...
Introduction The discussed case is Faragher v. City of Boca Raton, which was decided by the U.S. Supreme Court on June 26, 1998. It implied applying the Title VII of the Civil Right Act of 1964, saying that any employer may be liable for supervisory employees creating a hostile work...
Introduction The Clarence Gideon case began in June 3, 1961, when an unknown person broke into a Panama City pool hall and committed a minor theft. On the same day, a witness told police that he saw Clarence Gideon outside the billiard room at approximately 5:30 a.m. with a bottle...
Issue Description South Fulton’s prosecution system is unique as it is almost exclusively led by Black women and actively uses political engagement as the means of correction. In his article on criminal justice policy, Pratt (2018) reviews and analyzes this city’s approach to punishment allocation. The issues of correction and...
Case Name, Citation and Year Decided Terminiello v. Chicago, 337 U.S. 1 (1949) Parties In Terminiello v. Chicago, 337 U.S. 1 (1949) case, the appellant was Father Arthur Terminiello. The Supreme Court refused the state court’s decision, as well as Justice Douglas; he drew particular attention to the legality of...
Introduction I studied and systematized the theoretical foundations of the concept of the rule of law, and traced the phenomenon of the formation of the rule of law. Moreover, the main problems on the way to the formation of the rule of law and its relationship with justice in modern...
Introduction Advocates’ immunity safeguards lawyers against litigations by their clients on claims of negligence. The immunity prevents clients from filing lawsuits against their barristers or solicitors for neglectful advice or conduct who may have adversely affected the outcomes of their cases. Recently, the doctrine of advocates’ immunity has been abolished...
When it comes to resolving the gun control-right to carry policy, how will reforms to the departmental policy benefit the agency and the parties involved? If the department adheres to and adopts the recommendations, it will assist new workers in the short term by providing knowledge and education about how...
If government faces threats to national security, it is valuable to balance the need to preserve security with civil liberties. When dealing with emerging issues, the government often violated civil liberties with the surveillance practice. The government surveillance of the civil rights activists, such as Cesar Estrada Chavez, the leader...
For people to observe morality and have a sense of justice, public opinion is necessary. Since the laws and the police act by the law, the moral misconduct of a person should be universally condemned. If a person has committed a dishonest act, he cannot be punished with the help...
Introduction Can one be sure that in the case of trial, he/she will be judged fairly by the jury? The evidence suggests that not all U.S. citizens can be equally guaranteed the basic right established by the Sixth Amendment. Many scholars argue that the current community cross-section system may be...
Introduction One of the primary forms of evidence collection and prosecution used by law enforcement has always been eyewitness testimony and identification of suspects. Historically, this has been a highly convincing form of evidence, with only a signed confession being more valuable in court. Until the advent of DNA testing...
Description of the Case In human resource management, some cases bring attention to the managing team, especially if they affect the working time, productivity, and other metrics. In this case study, the managing director (MD) is torn between whether to execute punitive actions against employees who have shown various concerns...
Summary of the Case The legal claim concerned the liberty to privacy and the need for a legal basis to enter the premises. Arthur Lange asserted his right to a warrant and claimed an unlawful invasion. A California state court sided with the police officer and ruled that he could...
Introduction Sergeant Maynard is a young police supervisor who is tasked to practice adequate police supervision. Officers MaCallister and Timons have behavioral problems, which must be rectified before they lose their jobs. MaCallister is depressed as he acts out of order while Timons is eager to fight crime. Therefore, Maynard...
Introduction A courtroom is an important entity of the trial process where the parties voice their arguments, and the judges make decisions regarding the case. The energy that the listeners feel during the speeches of the representatives can affect the decision-making process. This factor explains why it is important to...
Setting a precedent and, therefore, establishing the framework that would, later on, be used as the default for determining the outcomes of court cases is one of the characteristics of the U.S Court that relies heavily on the unbiased nature of the proceedings. However, at the early stage of the...
Case:Â Mitchell v. Wisconsin (2019). Facts: The parties are represented by Gerald Mitchell and the state of Wisconsin. The case features a case of driving under the influence of alcohol. However, as Mitchell was stopped by a police officer, he could not undergo the blood test due to his lethargic state....
Case:Â STATE of North Carolina v. Paul Dennis McCLENDON, Jr. (1999) Facts: Paul McClendon was driving a station wagon on Interstate 85 in Greensboro. He was closely following a minivan, with both exceeding the speed limit by 7mph. A patrolling officer Sergeant T.L. Cardwell approached the vehicles, making eye contact with...
Introduction Zoning is a planning control tool used by the municipality and other city governments to divide lands into segments in which the statutory authority permits the use of certain lands. The use of this tool is significant as it allows the authority to control and ensure complementary use of...
Background The law plays an imperative role in society because it serves as a control tool for nations. It provides appropriate rules and regulations that dictate required behavior among citizens of a country while maintaining an equal practice of power within the three arms of government (Markovits, 2020). Republics are...
In every society worldwide, agencies exist which are tasked with the provision of correctional services and administering justice by managing individuals convicted by courts. In the United States, the corrections system is a branch of the criminal justice system which ensures that criminals’ sentences are carried out properly and timely....
Turning to the consideration of the due process of law, it should be noted that this is not one but a whole set of doctrines. They together act as key guarantees of judicial protection of individual rights, implemented through the mechanism of constitutional review. The doctrine of the due process...
Introduction The judicial system was established to create harmony in the society by protecting the rights of each and every citizen. Laws were set up to ensure that the country can run effectively. The system has been constantly modified and new systems have been put in place to ensure that...
In any law practice, the confidentiality of information forms an integral part of solving legal cases amicably. Legal stakeholders ought to keep their information confidential and above board so that, third parties do not take the privilege of it and ruin their motives. Attorney-client privilege is a situation that sees...
Introduction Administering justice is often a very complicated task in some cases. Many nations have over time developed different ways of ensuring that they have a better way of compensating the victims of crime and punishing the perpetrators. Italy is considered the motherland of criminology since its justice system has...
Introduction Historically, legal dispute resolution and protection of rights of citizens and enterprises have always been the responsibility of the strong and independent branch of the judicial system. Moreover, in any law-abiding country, there is need for properly organized and efficient court system. Accessibility to the courts is obligatory within...
