Criminal Justice Issue! (1 Viewer)

[SKA]

help.. does ne 1 know any criminal justcie issues that would be good to use???

 

[~*HSC 4 life*~]

technology and DNA is a popular one

 

[SKA]

its all good peoples.. i decided on mandatory sentencing..

 

[SKA]

oh yeh.. btw ..thanks hsc4life

 

[~*HSC 4 life*~]

lol no worries SKA

 

[adamj]

Cybercrime is a good one. It is very difficult to enforce.

 

[santaslayer]

mandatory sentencing has been repealed in the ACT hasnt it?

 

[Ziff]

Mandatory sentencing operated in WA and NT but it was removed when the new Labor government took power in 2001.

 

[~*HSC 4 life*~]

Originally posted by adamj
Cybercrime is a good one. It is very difficult to enforce.

Ooh...anyone seen the documentary on the wonderland club? it's very...moving

 

[= Jennifer =]

for my half yearly they asked for a criminal justice issue i chose gang rape/sexual assault and the sentencing on bilal skaf is this right??

 

[santaslayer]

yea u could give examples of the 55 yr sentence on the gang rapoist leader.....
]but what specifically are you going to talk about?

 

[santaslayer]

Originally posted by Ziff
Mandatory sentencing operated in WA and NT but it was removed when the new Labor government took power in 2001.

:uhhuh: so would it still be relavent then?

 

[santaslayer]

so for me, if i was to do it, i would choose something really specific, like aboriginal youth sentence mechanisms, the nature of the adversarial system as opposed to the inquisitorial approach in acheiving justice, or maybe even on the necessity for a trial by jury....

 

[adamj]

Originally posted by = Jennifer =
for my half yearly they asked for a criminal justice issue i chose gang rape/sexual assault and the sentencing on bilal skaf is this right??

Very interesting one.

The term 'rape' no longer exists, it was used as a common law definition of assualt motivated by sexual intent. When we introduce 'gang rape', we open a new definition. The issue of Skaf is highly contriversial one at this stage.

The Appeal de novo if passed by the Supreme Court of Appeal will mean see some emotions flaire.

 

[dezzy]

CORPORAL PUNISHMENT!

 

[Ziff]

I like the idea of sending people to work in camps.

 

[adamj]

One of the many aspects of corporal punishment. There are different applications.

 

[TheBirdMustFly]

I'm doin the Bilal Skaf case but finding it hard to find info like Reports, I looked on Lawlink.com.au but they only had the decision on the recent appeal

 

[santaslayer]

i think media/newspaper articles would convey more of the 'socities expectations' side more effectivley

 

[Ziff]

Originally posted by santaslayer
i think media/newspaper articles would convey more of the 'socities expectations' side more effectivley

Yes and no. Often this is over-exaggerated or really only displaying the expectations of certain parts of society or of the newspaper (e.g. extreme right-wing/conservative bias). Like talkback radio, you can't really use that as a gauge of real public standards and expectations because often it is only the most racist and bigotted views which are broadcast.