The Bali Nine Case

Argumentative Essay on Capital Punishment in Australia Capital punishment is barbaric and inhumane and should not be re-introduced into Australia. Although capital punishment has been abolished, the debate on this topic has never abated. When a particularly heinous crime is committed, this debate arouses strong passions on both sides. Many who advocate the abolition of capital punishment consider the death penalty to be cruel and inhuman, while those who favor of punishment by death see it as a form of just retribution for the gravest of crimes.

The Australian Criminal Justice system has an intricate and diverse structure that makes it one of the most unique systems in the world. The Commonwealth of Australia was approved by the British Parliament in 1900 and came into existence on January 1, 1901. The federal constitution combined British and American practices, with a parliamentary government, but with two houses - the popularly elected House of Representatives and Senate representing the former colonies. This began the start of a new era of policing. (Findlay, Odgers, Yeo). The Commonwealth of Australia is a federalist government composed of a national government and six State governments. There are nine different criminal justice systems in Australia - six states, two territories, and one federal. The eight States and Territories have powers to enact their own criminal law, while the Commonwealth has powers to enact laws. Criminal law is administered principally through the federal, State and Territory police. (Chappell, Wilson, Heaton). In this essay an in depth analysis of the Australian criminal justice system will be given, along with a comparison to the United States criminal justice system throughout the essay. As well as an evaluation of the effectiveness of the system and finally a brief summary of how the Australian criminal justice system structure could be improved to better suit the evolving society. Australia has a complex and very intuitive system of policing that

The 2002 Bali Bombings were a series of suicide bombing attacks on the popular western tourist district of Kuta, Bali - an island of Indonesia. The attack occurred on October 12, 2002 and took the lives of 202 people; 88 of which were Australian nationals. This response will evaluate the legal and non-legal responses to the Bali Bombings according to the following criteria: resource efficiency, accessibility, enforceability, responsiveness, protection of individual rights, meeting society 's needs and the application of the rule of law, and aims to answer the question that, in this case, has justice been

The two systems being evaluated here are truly night and day. Their differences truly stem from the basic cultural roots of each country. Japan has a long history of an orderly society steeped with traditions and customs. South Africa is in a rebuilding phase after the fall of apartheid and is still finding its way in establishing a new image for New South Africa. Japan is an industrialized nation and South Africa is relatively poor which has an effect on how well the corrections system is managed and what type of resources are put towards it.

We cannot condone the fact that grandmothers such as 78-year-old Josephine Cesnik was beaten and threatened in her own home earlier this year. Mrs. Cesnik died nine days later, afraid of seeking help because she feared her attacker would return and kill her. We cannot condone the fact that eight-year-old Sofia Rodriguez Urrutia-Shu was raped and murdered in a Perth public toilet in June 2006. Mrs. Cesnik’s family was robbed of a loving grandmother, while the Urrutia-Shu family lost a sweet, quiet little girl. These cowards have completely shattered many lives, while the both the Howard and Rudd governments have the audacity and hypocrisy to allow 6 members of the Bali Nine to be executed by firing squad overseas! A twisted life allowed to continue cannot redeem the innocent life taken, nor can it repair the lives destroyed.

The Secretary-General has urged Indonesia to remove the death sentence on the men awaiting execution, including Chan and Sukumaran, suggesting that the death sentence on drug related crime should be permanently removed (United Nations 2015). Furthermore, interviews and documentaries provided agreeing evidence that Chan and Sukumaran had been rehabilitated and worked hard to improve the environment for other prisoners; yet, President Joko ignored the evidences and refused to reconsider (‘Joko Widodo: No foreign interference on death penalty’, 2015). Consequently, the justice of the Indonesian law relating to drug crime was

After abolition of capital punishment in Australia, the imprisonment is considered as severe penalty. Life imprisonment is imposed mostly in cases of murders after considering the severity and circumstances of crime. Prisoners are to serve long period of their lives in jail with no hope or less hope to be released. The term life imprisonment changes jurisdiction to jurisdiction or state to state, as it can be sentence until death, twenty years or indeterminate period. The uncertainty here becomes more cruel. A few dies in prison committing suicide or natural death in prisons due to stressful and unnatural environment of prison. A long term isolation also changes attitude and behaviour in such a way that these prisoners become incapable to survive in normal society. Offenders who serve long time in prisons are also discriminated in our society whether in relation to social activities in community or employment matters. In Australia aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders are victims of such discrimination and it can be the reason behind their growing population in Australian prisons. Thus life time sentencing has become an inhumane penalty and subject of important consideration at international level. Even harsh conditions results in higher rates of

Justice is the concept of moral rightness that is based on equality, access and fairness. This means that the law is applied equally, understood by all people and does not have a particularly harsh effect on an individual. In Australia, the adversary system is used as a means to achieve justice by proving the accused, beyond reasonable doubt, committed the crime. The criminal trial process has many features which aim to fulfill the requirements of achieving justice. These elements, though considers equality, fairness and access, are flawed in practice. Flaws such as the handling of evidence, jurors not understanding instructions, inadequate funds for legal

Being asked to come to a conclusion as to who killed JonBenet Ramsey is very challenging . This is due in part to the fact that there are multiple people who could have killed her. With that being said, I am going to do my best to demonstrate who I think had more of a motive to kill her. JonBenet Ramsey was a vibrant six year old beauty queen who was well advanced for age. I believe that one of John Ramsey’s employees at Access Graphics killed JonBenet. My justifications follow.

friends and family to come aid her in her time of distress. The ransom note clearly stated

A child pageant star was found asphyxiated with craniocerebral trauma in the basement of her own house on the day after Christmas in 1996. Her name was JonBenet Ramsey; she was a six year old girl who lived with her mother, father and brother in Boulder City, Colorado. Her death shocked the public and the murderer has yet to be found. Many blame the mistakes the detectives made during the investigation and her case has gained more recent popularity due to the fact that it has been approximately twenty years since her unfortunate demise.

Based on the research I conducted on the Ramsey case I would have to conclude the Patsy Ramsey is the one that killed her daughter. Here’s why I focus on Patsy Ramsey. First, the ransom note was found in the kitchen where Patsy went first thing every morning to fix herself a cup of coffee. How would a killer know this is where she would be going to first?

On the podcast serial we heard about the trial of Adnan Syed. After listening to the podcast voiced by Sarah Koenig, a lot of people wondered if Adnan actually had a fair trial, it interested people and left a cliffhanger which made this podcast so real and made people stay engaged. It changed the case for adnan by giving him a chance at a new trial but the real question is was his first trial any good and was it fair?

Mulrunji lived in a community highly populated of Indigenous and Torres Strait Islanders, this community also had a high amount of policing officers to control the area. Having such a large amount of visible policing officers in such a community is a means of social control, and another example of a factor that leads to such a large amount of Indigenous Australians in our criminal justice system. This overrepresentation may be interpreted to Indigenous Australians as a threatening move or an act of intimidation, which may result in an escalation of violence or unnecessary police action, as seen with Mulrunji’s case. This is very apparent in Mulrunji’s case, as he was making his way home seemingly not bothering anyone until the officers intercepted.

After Suharto ended his long dictatorial reign in 1998 there was a substantial increase in religious and ethnic conflict in Indonesia. Author Jacques Bertrand claims religious and ethnic conflict defined Indonesia’s national model. This resulted in three critical junctures during Suharto’s retirement of his sovereign rule. The three critical junctures defined Indonesia’s “terms of citizenship, and give meaning to the structure and procedures of an institution” (Bertrand, 20). When Suharto left as dictator, major political and social changes consumed Indonesia, which threatened the Indonesian realm. The people of Indonesia struggled to define their sense of nationalism.