According to McCaw (2011), civil forfeiture has multiple benefits. One benefit of civil forfeiture is that it does not need a conviction to render a punishment (McCaw, 2011, p. 196). It allows the government to provide a lesser punishment when a criminal conviction is too harsh. For instance, if a juvenile is distributing pictures of underage classmates a prosecutor could decide to forfeit the cell phone instead of charging the juvenile with distribution of child pornography (McCaw, 2011, p. 198). This means that civil forfeitures can act as an alternative to incarceration. Specifically, it can increase revenue for the government through forfeiture funds without the cost of sending someone to prison (McCaw, 2011, p. 198). McCaw (2011) stated …show more content…
Doug Ducey, Governor of Arizona: He has the ability to veto or sign your planned bill. Ducey is in favor of increasing the transparency of forfeiture reports submitted by law enforcement. On March 23, 2015 Ducey required law enforcement agencies to submit quarterly civil forfeiture reports to county and city governments (Phillips & Mahoney, 2015). Originally, law enforcement agencies where only require to submit reports to the ACJC and the federal government (Phillips & Mahoney, 2015).
ACLU AB: The ACLU is a non-profit organization that aides in defending people’s constitutional rights. The organization is nationwide and has 50 offices that file state and federal cases (ACLU, n.d). Moreover, the ACLU has over one million “members, activists, and supporters across the country” (ACLU, n.d). The ACLU AB strongly opposes civil forfeiture. They took on Ms. Cox’s case because they believe that Arizona’s forfeiture laws violated her First Amendment rights, which is her ability to petition the government (ACLU, 2015b, p. 3). Moreover, they see citizen’s lack of ability to petition the government as an incentive for law enforcement to seize property (ACLU, 2015b, p. 5). Their solution is to abolish civil
The rights of Dwight Dexter in the Fifth Amendment were violated. The amendment prevents the government from prosecuting people unfairly. Accused cannot be jailed or have their property taken without due process
...d time involved but in the long run keeping children out of prison and the adult system in general will save more money.
Cost effectiveness is an example of how community corrections have more of a positive effect on the community. One benefit of probation and parole is that is has a much lower cost. It costs roughly $1,300 per person a year for probation or parole. Having a person on probation or parole also puts money into the community. Another good benefit that parole and probation has is increased employment. Inmates in prison have work-release programs but they have low-paying jobs that require little skill. Parole and probation allows ex-inmates the opportunity to get full-time j...
One of the Legal Rights the Charter of Rights and Freedoms protects is: The right to be free of imprisonment, search, and seizure without reasons backed by the law. “In a undisclosed school in Canada, there was a sudden police checking, in which police dogs roamed around the hallway of the school to see if there was any suspicious substance or object. During the checking, the police fo...
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During one of our class sessions we discussed the different areas within the criminal justice system. The topic of courts and sentencing specifically of juveniles was mentioned. As we get to know the inside students we learn some of their backstory of how they ended up at Joseph Harp Correctional Facility, many of them had their first contact with the criminal justice system as a juvenile. Several of the inside students expressed animosity toward the courts when it came to sentencing of juveniles. They thought that some of the ways juveniles are sentenced is too harsh.
all. To fully understand what the ACLU has done for the United States would take
“Most Supreme Court Cases regarding criminal justice try to strike a balance between the rights of the individual and the rights of the society. The Supreme Court has the difficult task of bringing balance between these two often conflicting goals.” (POLICE, 2011, p.181).
For county jails, the problem of cost and recidivism is exacerbated by budgetary constraints and various state mandates. Due to the inability of incarceration to satisfy long-term criminal justice objectives and the very high expenditures associated with the sanction, policy makers at various levels of government have sought to identify appropriate alternatives (Luna-Firebaugh, 2003, p.51-66). I. Alternatives to incarceration give courts more options. For example, it’s ridiculous that the majority of the growth in our prison populations in this country is due to people being slamming in jail just because they were caught using drugs. So much of the crime on the streets of our country is drug-related.
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Justice is often misconceived as injustice, and thus some essential matters that require more legal attentions than the others are neglected; ergo, some individuals aim to change that. The principles of civil disobedience, which are advocated in both “Civil Disobedience” by Henry David Thoreau and “Letter from Birmingham Jail” by Martin Luther King Jr. to the society, is present up to this time in the U.S. for that purpose.
Schultz, David, and John R. Vile. The Encyclopedia of Civil Liberties in America. 710-712. Gale Virtual Reference Library. Gale Virtual Reference Library, n.d. Web. 18 Mar. 2010. .
The benefits of corrections include deterrence, incapacitation, and rehabilitation or reform. Mrs. Prescott explained to me that she would “like to think there’s a link” between crime rates and the effectiveness of prisons. As part of the rehabilitation process, prisons like
...he certainty of restitution, by requiring monetary payment, takes the profit out of crime (Carson).
First, in 2015, the Iowa Court System collected $155.9 million in revenue from fines (xi). This revenue was then split between the state government (Iowa General Fund), cities and counties, prison infrastructure and several other projects. By following a system that has a higher collection rate for fines revenue will increase for state and local governments. There will be fewer people going to prison, jail or probation thus reducing the cost associated with building new jails and prisons, and the cost of maintaining and staffing the old prisons. The jail and prison cells will also be saved for more serious offenses. This increased revenue can go to various projects from transportation infrastructure to paying off the state deficit. This year the State of Iowa faced a budget deficit of $131 million dollars and as of 2015, the state was owed $682,720,000 in outstanding court fines (xiii). By implementing a system that takes into account a person's ability to pay a portion of this might have been repaid. Collecting just 19% of the outstanding fines would have allowed the state to pay for the budget deficit. This would have meant there would have been no slashing of funds going to cities, counties, and state universities and state