In addition to home detention curfew, community orders are set in place for sentencing. There are several different requirements set in place for community orders which include: an unpaid work, a prohibited activity requirement, a curfew requirement, an exclusion requirement and a supervision requirement. Unpaid work requirement is the most frequent used community order. The unpaid work order require the offender to work a certain amount of hours with the community on various projects. The hours an offender must worked is determined by the court. This type of sentencing aims as a payment back to society for committing an offense. Prohibited activity, exclusion, and supervision requirements are other sentencing tools. Prohibited activity …show more content…
An example would be If Dan got caught shoplifting in Dillard’s, Dan wouldn’t be allowed to go to Dillard’s due to the fact he will have a higher risk of shoplifting again. These types of sentences are enacted for rehabilitation of offenders and to ensure the safety of the public. Moreover, driving under the influence is a common offense committed. Driving under the influence of drugs and alcohol and careless driving can cause an offender to get disqualified from operating a motor vehicle. The offense determine the length of the disqualification from driving. These types of punishments aims to protect the public. Many people die daily from causes of drunk driving. Disqualification from driving reinforces that moral boundaries and reiterate that is unacceptable in society. A fine is another type of sentence imposed by the court system. Fines are determined on case to cases basis depending upon the offense. All fines given must be paid, if not there are consequences regarding nonpayment of fines. One consequence given is imprisonment. I know in the state of Alabama, if you’re not able to pay for your fines, the judge can put you on probation which is like a payment plan, and you’ll have to pay a probation fee along with your fine cost and if you don’t pay they will put a warrant out on you and that’s just for less serious offenses like traffic violations. Fines are imposed to ensure that the victim is paid for damaged done by the offender’s
Plain and simple, fines are defined as an amount of money demanded as a form of charge by a court of law or other source of authority. Fines are given out to act as a way for the offender to “pay back” society and to also ensure they show up to where they need to show up at. , such as trial. The deciders of the fine and distributer of it comes down to the court, whether it be federal or state. One of the benefits of fines, as previously mentioned, is the assurance that the offender will show up to their case. Another would be it’s presence as a deterrent, because no one wants to willingly give up money for making a wrong decision. An important factor to also mention about fines is their ability to vary in amount based on the crime, which allows it to be a very malleable and widely used as a form of
There are numerous community based corrections programs available in the juvenile justice system such as: drug court or substance abuse treatment, mentoring, independent living transition services, community service, mediation or restitution, group home placement, functional family therapy, job training or work programs, Electronic Monitoring System or Global Positioning System,
Corrections are a necessary tool to protect society from those who do harm to others or to others property. Depending on the type of crime that was committed, and if the crime is considered a state or federal charge, also depends on where the person sentenced will do his time. There are four main sentencing options available; prison, probation, probation and confinement, and prison and community split. When a person is sentenced to do their time in prison most likely they will go to a state or federal prison. If a person is ordered probation, it prevents them from going to jail but they have stipulations on their probation. This is called intermediate sanctions, which are the various new correctional options used as adjuncts to and part of probation. Some intermediate sanctions include restitution, fines, day fines, community service, intensive supervised probation, house arrest, electronic monitoring, and shock incarceration.
As an alternative to incarceration, intermediate sanctions are most often used for non-violent offenders. Intermediate sanctions is a new option of punishment that was develop to better match the punishment with the seriousness of the crime for non-violent offenders. With this new kind of punishment, comes new responsibility for the offender to become a contributing member of his or her community (textbook, 131). The main way that offenders accomplish this is by learning new job skills and holding a stable job (textbook, 131). Along with the responsibility of job, offenders are sometimes ordered to do additional sanctions which includes, paying any fines, getting an education or even getting treatment if needed (textbook, 131). Offenders are, at times, ordered to do all of these. Intermediate sanctions can be implemented in several ways. It can be implemented during arraignment or the initial sentencing, after the offender agrees to treatment and has shown improvement to comply, or it can be implemented as a means to reduce the population in the correctional system (textbook, 131). This brings up the question of whether intermediate sanctions should be used ...
As the need for increasingly punitive community-based sanctions grew, the demand for a greater variety of programs and services became apparent, as did the importance of a more seamless transition from total incapacitation to total freedom of prisoners re-entering society. A variety of community corrections methods have developed over the years, one being the institution of halfway houses. To adequately understand residential community corrections, one must consider the origins, components, and effectiveness of halfway houses.
Over the past century driving under the influence has caused many problems for crime and society in the United States and all over the world. According to the state of Utah’s statute driving under the influence is defined as “a person operating a motor vehicle that has been drinking and has an increased amount of alcohol in their system that can show up on a blood test or a breath test of .08 or greater at the time of the test (Wormdahl, 2012).” However, in the state of Utah also includes being under the influence of any type of controlled substance that prevents the driver from being able to operate the vehicle properly (Wormdahl, 2012). In the United States the legal drinking age is twenty-one years old. According to the North Carolina Department of Public Safety (2009b) the limit for drinking and driving differs depending on the type of vehicle if it is a commercialized vehicle the legal limit is .04 and if the driver is under the age of twenty-one anything above .00, requires a revoked license for thirty days. One thing that is different for Driving Under the Influence that differs from all other traffic infractions is that DUIs can result anywhere for example parking lots or even setting in your own driveway can result in you receiving a DUI charge (Wormdahl, 2012). There are two different terms that can be used to describe someone that is impaired or under the influence and they are Driving While Impaired and Driving under the Influence. In 1983, the state of North Carolina imposed the North Carolina Safe Road Act, which did away with all of the alcohol and drug laws while driving and combined them into what is now known as DWI or Driving While Impaired. The g...
Drunk driving is a severe offense around the world and if caught driving under the influence severe punishment follows. Taking cold showers or drinking water or strong coffee cannot remove the blood alcohol content in the body. Only time can remove all alcohol from the body. Most people that drive under the influence of alcohol are knowledgeable that they are intoxicated; however, they make themselves believe that they are stable enough to operate a motor vehicle. Many fatalities can be caused by drunk driving, such as becoming a paraplegic or even worse death.
Now, this can be classified as ‘prison pipelines’. Prison pipeline is the process in which a child is treated as a criminal, and getting more involved with juvenile and the police, that they slowly start becoming an actual criminal. They will tend to commit more serious crimes step-by-step. And the foundation for all their behavior would have started from a small act such as being out past curfew. Keep in mind, once a child has been involved with the police, court, or juvenile, it will stay on their permanent record which makes it harder for them to make it into a good college or to get a steady job. Is curfew violation really worth a child’s
Sentencing models are plans or strategies developed for imposing punishment for crimes committed. During the 19th century these punishments were normally probation, fines and flat sentences. When someone was given a flat sentence, he or she had to serve the entire sentence without parole or early release. However, by the end of the 19th century the new models were developed. These new models include indeterminate, determinate, advisory/voluntary guidelines, presumptive and mandatory minimum sentencing (Schmalleger & Smykla, 2011).
Drunk driving is when an individual drives a vehicle with a blood alcohol concentration (BAC) level over the legaly permited limit. Driving under the influence of alcohol is a major health problem in the United States as it accounts for a high number of road fatalities; hence, there is a need for stricter drunk driving rules in the United States in order to reduce drunken driving fatalities.
There are several types of punishment that can be inflicted upon an offender including, fines, community sanctions and imprisonment (The Judicial Conference of Australia, 2007). Punishment is described as a sanction which inflicts a certain amount of pain and loss on the offender, used for payback and deter (The Judicial Conference of Australia, 2007; Carlsmith, Darley, & Robinson, 2002). There are three ways society justifies punishing offenders, through the
Curfews, and Other Limits Many parents set up rules, and other boundaries, in which their teens must follow. These rules are usually placed over their teens to control, protect, and teach their teens. Even though most parents mean well, and some rules are necessary, it's easy to overwhelm teens with regulations. First of all, teens are not going to follow all of the rules, and secondly there are some things that certain teens will not do with, or without a specific rule on that subject.
Mandatory sentences are laws that provide certain sentences for certain crimes. Having drugs too close to a school, or having
Conditions for offenders, the probationer and parolee are similar in that they both may be required to be employed, imposed curfew, rehabilitative programs [A.A., drug programs, and anger management], electronic monitoring, restitution payments, and supervision.
Should teenagers be restricted to a curfew? That's a question many parents question themselves. What is my son up? What is my daughter doing? How do I know if they're safe? What time will he/she be home? When following curfews, teens tend to stay out of trouble more because criminal activity or high-risk behaviors is more likely to occur later in the evening when parental supervision is not present. Therefore teenagers need have a curfew, imposing curfews would help keep young teens out of trouble legally, set strict boundaries, and provides safety.