Sentencing Essay

the high court in Toronto, Neha Naqvi sentenced Michelle Omoruyi - aged 43 to life imprisonment after the accused is found guilty of human smuggling and trafficking of nine individuals: five children and four adults on April 19 at 21 hours. On sentencing, Neha Naqvi made the following statement in court: “I find it difficult to understand how, why a privileged woman would resort to such inhumane acts of which you have been found guilty. The nine individuals were helpless; they were detracted from

Should 12 year old Nathaniel Brazill, who commit first or second degree murder receive a Mandatory sentence of life without parole? No, I do not agree that Nathaniel Brazil should receive a mandatory life sentence, because he is still just a young Teenager learning from what's right or wrong in life. Teenagers like Nathaniel Brazill, are still developing their brains, so they don't think Before they do something and can't control themselves and stop themselves at the moment they're doing something

Families Against Mandatory Minimum also known as FAMM advocate for smart sentencing such as individualized and fair criminal sentencing that protect the public. FAMM is nonprofit supported by attorneys, judges, criminal justice experts and concerned citizens. Their objectives include: uncrowding jails, which use citizens tax money, shift resources from uncrowded jails due to excessive incarceration to other departments such as law enforcement and additional programs whose aims include reducing crime

considerable increase incarceration rate in state and federal prisons. This is due to the public demanding more castigatory laws along with harsher sentencing policies. In the United State there 2.3 million people are incarcerated in prisons and jails which make the United States the lead in the incarceration rate (Wright, 2010). Truth in sentencing law made it essential that offenders serve a significant portion of the prison sentenced handed down by the court before he or she can be considered

Does selling drugs once warrant a broad, minimum sentence of five years that would be similarly assigned to one who regularly sells drugs? A typical court-ordered sentence for selling drugs is much less than a five-year sentence, but with mandatory minimum sentences, judges are required to sentence those found guilty to a minimum of five years behind bars. The primary problem with mandatory minimum sentences is that they inherently sentence an individual solely based on the type of crime as opposed

Introduction Sentencing disparities as a result of an individual’s race or ethnic background, has been one of the most frequently investigated topics in criminological research. (Mitchell, Mackenzie 2004). Several studies have attempted to understand the impact of the offenders’ race on criminal sentencing but there has been variation in the results- some of studies concluded race does effect sentencing regardless of the legal variables; some studies revealed it does not; while other studies concluded

Lessons from the 1970 Repeal of Mandatory Minimums” (2008), Molly Gill states, “Many of the offenders are not murderers, robbers, or rapists, but drug users, addicts, or sellers” (Gill, 2008, p. 55). When charting the history of mandatory minimum sentencing, from 1951, to their repeal in 1970, and their reinstatement in the mid 1980’s, much of the evidence regarding its successes is questionable. Mandatory minimums fail with respect to reducing drug use and drug crime. The Boggs Act, in the 1950’s

This weeks topic talks about reasonable sentencing, one that follows the guidelines set by the United States Sentencing Commission (Lane, 2007), and unreasonable sentencing, one that does not fall within those guidelines and is not justified by the judge (Lane, 2007). Many factors are taken into account when determining the sentence issued by the judge. Some of these factors are drug involvement, criminal history, premeditation, amount of harm or damage done, and whether or not the accused accepts

minimum mandatory sentences violate section 12 of the Charter. This essay will look at R. v. Latimer in depth, as well as briefly explore some additional issues that mandatory minimum sentences place on Canadian Citizens. The elemental purpose of sentencing is to contribute to, along with crime prevention initiatives, the idealistic view of a safe society and respect for the law by imposing precedents that have one or more of the following objectives: denouncing unlawful conduct, deterring the offender

It’s Time to Re-think Mandatory Minimums During the mid-1980’s an epidemic of cocaine and crack swept the nation leaving many wondering what could be done to eliminate this problem that reached everywhere from small town middle America to the larger metropolitan areas. It has always been the common acceptance that by putting more offenders in jail, crime statistics will decrease. This belief led congress to enact the anti-drug abuse act of 1986. At first, it was believed that this seemed to work