how long has criminal justice been around?
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For as long as there have been criminals. I believe the first was Cain.
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In Michigan we do not have capitol punishment. We have not had it since 1842. Life in prison with out possibility of parole means just that and we do not have any more crime then Texas. In fact probably less.
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I think it's been around about 1 or 2 years now.
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Wow was it that long ago?\n1970
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quite a long time ago
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search \n"on this day"\n\n\nSupreme Court weakens 70-year-old "exclusionary rule"-evidence seized with defective court warrants can now be used in criminal trials \nhttp://www.brainyhistory.com/years/1984.html
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Criminal cases are those in which the State (be it in the form of national, state, or local government) prosecutes a citizen for the violation of the social order. The defining point of criminal law is punishment -- if the citizen loses the State can throw him in jail, or fine him (or even take his life). Most criminal law (but not all, there are important exceptions) is statutory -- meaning it has been written down by a legislative body.\n\nCivil cases are those in which an individual (for the purposes of the law, partnerships and corporations are individuals too) asserts that one of their rights have (or is about to be) violated. (the government can be an individual in many cases also). These cases include suing someone for hitting you (asserting your right not to be hit), or suing a corporation for violating an anti-trust statute (asserting a right to fair competition).\n\nIt is inaccurate to say that equity is another or specific kind of civil case. In truth, cases aren't either "equitable" or "legal" anymore; many cases have bits of both involved. The distinction comes from the origin of the American legal system. Back in the 1600's and 1700's in England, there are different courts for different things. There were "courts legal" which doled out remedies (money) for certain specific "writs" (one such writ was for trespass to chattels -- basically theft or larceny today). The Chancellery courts were empowered, on the other hand, to determine cases according to "justice" -- basically however the chancellor saw fit.\n\nEven today there are distinctions between actions in equity and those "at law" although we no longer have different court systems (although that's not true in every state, Delaware has a court of the chancellery still). But all courts are today governed by the rules of "res judicata" and "stare decisis," (basically those mean that whatever the court has decided in the past should be applied to new cases instead of being changed much) although a court "sitting in equity" has more freedom to come to judgments based on what it thinks is "fair" and "equitable."\n\nHowever, for the most part the distinction is purely academic today, and interests only people who do this sort of thing for a living and like to keep using 200 year-old terms to confuse people.
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Humm... are you the burglar?  Did they finally catch up with you?  I doubt if the commission of a crime has ANY statute of limitations and even if they find you 20 years later you are still hooked.  A number of criminal cases have been solved decades after they were committed and the perpetrator got hauled off to jail.  The BTK killer was one recent example.
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Yes, since 1994.  However, like most states with 3-strikes laws, it is probably largely ignored in sentencing.
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Yes, criminals are people too, all 2.2 million of them, and every year more than 600,000 of them are released from various state and federal prisons throughout the nation. As a former criminal, released from prison on Dec. 9, 1968, I have learned during the past nearly 36 years how to remake myself, with God's help and direction, from a criminal to a contributor to society.\nThis change is our only hope for reducing crime, and the ever-growing prison population in our country. The US prison population constitutes 25% of all prisoners in the world, and we imprison a higher percentage of our population than an other developed country in the world.\nMany, many more people must learn how to help criminals make the arduous trek from crime to contribution, But be warned, this is not work for the naive or the fainthearted, because personal change is the world's hardest work. I believe we must do the following:\n1. Work closely with a group I refer to as the FLOC--Families and Loved Ones of Criminals, and help them learn how to really help the people they love make that significant transition--from crime to contribution.\n2. Work with employers, and teach them how to recognize evidence of change because going to work is one of the first steps in this transition from crime to contribution.\n3. Begin this work with the FLOC and with criminals at least three years before they're released from prison, so we can identify those who are ready to change.\n4. Make the willingness and the work of change a condition of release.\nThis is only a partial answer, but I believe it provides key principles that will help us reduce crime in the our nation because the only people who can truly reduce crime are those who do it.
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I heard that some executioners were, themselves, convicted criminals. They were allowed to remain alive as long as they executed other convicted criminals. I think the executioners that I heard this about were actually hangmen in the American West 1700-1900.
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http://www.justice.vic.gov.au/__ca2569020010c266.nsf/All/55b384fd4a06bbe8ca256e4d0014ff67?OpenDocument&Click=\n\n\nI found this site, it has some statistics for you.
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I think life is 14 yrs but it depends on how many life sentences they get usually it mounts up to how many things there getting charged with i think.
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Several years ago. Around 2000.
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Anywhere a crime has been committed.
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There are courses you can take. The best bet would be to start somewhere in CJ (Criminal Justice).
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Three years ago would have been a better time, but it's never to late to start holding criminals accountable for their crimes.