The film, Bernie, is about a single, middle aged, Christian, white man named Bernie Tiede who has an occupation as a mortician. Bernie is beloved by everyone in his small town of Carthage, Texas. He is fantastic at his job, a great friend, generous, and an overall kind and caring person. It is believed by some people in the town that he might be gay because he has never had a girlfriend, and he is mostly very friendly to older women, but there is no confirmation about his sexual identity throughout the film. There is no background given on Bernie’s family or his upbringing.…
PART 1: SHORT RESPONSE 1. The steps in which the defendant is found guilty is a process of eleven steps. The first step there will be an investigation, shortly after the second step would be too arrest the suspect. When the suspect is escorted to the police station he/she will going through the third step booking into the system. After he/she is booked they will go through the fourth process of attending an initial appearance.…
The initial consensus is that it is an enormous difference between training a male athlete and a female athlete physical ability. Due to the difference in physical statche of men and woman, muscle mass, and body fat percentage difference. In this essay, there will be a review of what was learn after listening to the Podcast with Diane Vives The Difference Between Training Men and Women.…
1 a) There are significant charges that could be laid against Alfred, Emily, and Buzfuz. The charges of failure to preserve their child’s life are laid against Alfred and Emily because the parents showed disregard for the safety of their son Job. Alfred and Emily have a duty imposed by the law as parents to provide the necessaries of life to their son under “s. 215(1)” to ensure that their young son Job receives his daily insulin injections in order to benefit his health. This implies that the failure to implement the duty disregards the health of their son to whom the duty is owed, and causes Job to be in a state of unconsciousness. The charges of manslaughter by criminal negligence [s. 222(5)(b)] will also be laid against Alfred and Emily due to their reckless disregard against their son Job.…
In this essay I will discuss two approaches to punishment which are retributivism, also known as non-consequentialism, and utilitarianism, also known as consequentialism. I will then analyse three justifications of punishment within the utilitarian approach which are reform and rehabilitation, individual and general deterrence and incapacitation. Retributivism is a sociological perspective of crime which looks at the different forms and changes in punishment. It is a backward thinking approach as it does not look at future consequences of punishment and is mostly concerned with offences already committed and getting ‘justice’. This approach is considered similar to ‘an eye for an eye’ as it is based on the idea that if we inflict harm on another…
Why do people commit crimes? The answer to that question reflects the complexity of human beings. Multiple theories have been devised with the intention of untangling the sophisticated nature of criminal mind. Beccaria (1764) in his “On Crime and Punishments” essay argues that as a result of our egoistic nature “no man ever freely sacrificed a portion of his personal liberty merely in behalf of the common good” (p. 277).…
The need principle states that the psychologist must assess criminogenic needs and the psychologist must target these needs in treatment (Andrews & Bonta, 2007). The responsivity principle tests the offender’s ability to learn from the treatment plan given to them. Often times it is conducted by providing cognitive behavioral approaches (Andrews & Bonta, 2007). One of the strengths to the RNR model is that most treatment plans are tailored to the ability of the offender’s, such as the offender’s ability in learning, personality and biosocial (Andrews & Bonta, 2007).…
1. Although criminal justice requires the correct label to be attached to the defendant’s misconduct, the wide scope of behaviour covered by the Homicide Act 1957 often results in the unfair, and thus harsh, labelling of offenders. This essay will sought to prove that the law of homicide is often too harsh in its assignation of labels to those who cause the death of others, by concentrating on the examples of murder with oblique intent, involuntary manslaughter and the partial defence of infanticide. It will conclude by determining the extent to which the existing law assigns the correct labels to those who commit a homicide, and whether there is thus a need for reform within the law.…
Humans, being the complex creatures that they are, are fully capable of making cognizant, rational, intentional decisions. However, in some instances, a person is unable to form or control his or her own thoughts because he or she suffers from a mental illness. Moreover, in today’s pop culture, persons with mental illnesses are portrayed as villainous.…
A society expects to be protected and safe in their nation, and when a crime is committed we seek the justice system in hopes of punishment. Next, for a crime to be punishable men’s rea must be present. Mens rea is the criminal intent of a crime meaning that the criminal is aware that they are violating the law. Lastly, actus rea is the…
Effects of wrongful conviction are commonly underrepresented in the Criminal Justice System. According to the Innocence project (2014), more than 1,300 individuals in the United States that were convicted of crimes have been exonerated and cleared of all charges brought against them. Errors consist of misleading eyewitness testimony, confessions that are coerced, criminal investigators getting tunnel vision, and corruption of prosecutors. Of the many difficulties exonerates face compensation, due to the state, impacted against them is often understated. Many face difficulties with finding employment, healthcare, and housing.…
Guilt is powerful on one's decision to confess or not to confess and further extends the characterization of a…
“The sentiment of justice, in that one of its elements which consists of desire to punish is thus, I conceive, the natural feeling of retaliation or vengeance, rendered by intellect and sympathy applicable to those injuries, that is, to those hurts,…
The four Philosophies of Punishment (1) Retribution: It is a hypothesis of equity that considers proportionate punishment an adequate reaction to wrongdoing. This retribution theory essentially fit the ethical gravity of a wrongdoing committed and, to a lesser degree, the qualities of the guilty party. Furthermore, it is utilized as the premise for discipline which includes compulsory sentencing strategies and sentencing rules frameworks. These disciplines are a social articulation of the individual retaliation the criminal 's casualties feels, reasonably kept to what is best for society all in all. This basically suggests "eye for eye" judgments.…
Introduction My argument is that the law of intention is clear, simple, and still fit for purpose. Intention is one of the categories falling under the mens rea of murder. The law uses intention as one of the main methods of classifying offences, such as deciding between murder or manslaughter. The presence or absence of intention is what the law is interested in, not the motive behind the actions in question.…