The Columbine High School Massacre and criminal justice system response: an exploratory case study

2002 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-29 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matt DeLisi
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Criminal Justice ◽  
Criminal Justice System ◽  
Justice System ◽  
System Response ◽  
Exploratory Case Study ◽  
Columbine High School

‘Coercive confinement’: An idea whose time has come?

Incarceration ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 263266632093644 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ian O’Donnell ◽  
Eoin O’Sullivan
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Justice ◽  
Criminal Justice System ◽  
Asylum Seekers ◽  
Justice System ◽  
Psychiatric Hospitals ◽  
The State ◽  
Carceral State ◽  
National Programme

This article argues in favour of ‘coercive confinement’ as a useful addition to the criminological lexicon. It suggests that to properly understand a country’s level of punitiveness requires consideration of a range of institutions that fall outside the remit of the formal criminal justice system. It also requires a generous longitudinal focus. Using Ireland as a case study, such an approach reveals that since the foundation of the state, the prison has gradually become ascendant. This might be read to imply a punitive turn. But when a broader view is taken to include involuntary detention in psychiatric hospitals, confinement in Magdalen homes and mother and baby homes, and detention in industrial and reformatory schools, the trajectory is strongly downward. This might be read to imply a national programme of decarceration. (In recent years, asylum seekers have been held in congregate settings that are experienced as prison-like and they must be factored into the analysis.) While some of these institutions may have been used with peculiar enthusiasm in Ireland, none are Irish inventions. It would be profitable to extend the idea of ‘coercive confinement’ to other nations with a view to adding some necessary nuance to our understanding of the reach and grip of the carceral state.

scholarly journals Analysis Of Judicial Policy In Deciding Criminal Acts Based Alternative Indictment (Case Study Decision Number 82 / Pid.B / 2019 / PN.Blora)

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 147
Author(s):  
Nur Dwi Edie W ◽  
Gunarto Gunarto
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Justice ◽  
Criminal Justice System ◽  
Field Observation ◽  
Justice System ◽  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Criminal Code ◽  
Observation Methods ◽  
Case Number

In the criminal justice system process the judge plays a role in implementing the decision in which the decision was taken in consideration of the indictments by the prosecutors. In alternative indictments each indictment is mutually exclusive. The judge will choose one of the charges proven according to his conviction. Therefore the alternative indictment is also called the indictment of choice (keuze telastelgging). This research formed the formulation of the problem namely how is the juridical implication of alternative forms of indictment in case number 82 / Pid.B / 2019 / PN.Blora and what is the basis of the judge's judgment in deciding case Number 82 / Pid.B / 2019 / PN.Blora with alternative indictment. This research uses juridical sociological methods with descriptive analysis research specifications. The data used for this study are secondary data with field observation methods and literature and document studies. Based on the research it was concluded (1) the preparation of the indictment in the case of verdict number 82 / Pid.B / 2019 / PN Bla based on Article 378 of the Criminal Code, with an alternative Article 372 of the Criminal Code. In this case, the element that eliminates one another is about the "existence" of the goods in the possession of the defendant. (2) In decision number 82 / Pid.B / 2019 / PN Bla, the judge considers that based on the legal facts revealed in the trial the defendant violated the criminal provisions as in the Second Indictment of alternative charges Article 378 of the Criminal Code Jo Article 64 paragraph 1 of the Criminal Code.�Keywords: Judge Policy; Criminal Decisions; Alternative Indictments.

scholarly journals The State’s Economic Protection by the Criminal Justice System Corruption: A Case Study

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 59-69
Author(s):  
Kamri Ahmad ◽  
Hambali Thalib ◽  
Mursyid Muchtra
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Justice ◽  
Criminal Justice System ◽  
Justice System ◽  
Economic Security ◽  
Public Prosecutor ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Supreme Court ◽  
Nickel Mining ◽  
Financial Losses

This study aims to identify efforts to protect the state's economic security through the criminal justice system in the case of nickel mining in Malapulu Block, Kabaena Island, Southeast Sulawesi, Indonesia. The Supreme Court has decided the case with decision number 2633 K/Pid/Sus/2018. This research was conducted with a qualitative approach through analysis of the description of the prosecutor's indictment and the judge's decision. The results obtained in the study show that the KPK Prosecutor made a mistake by withdrawing the appeal that had been made. This condition results in the lack of consideration made by judges in decision making. Secondly, legal experts do not provide a difference in the meaning of economic and financial losses for the state in judex factie and judex jurist. Third, the indictment by the public prosecutor has not described the form of crime committed as an extraordinary crime. Fourth, there is negligence in the corporate sentence.

scholarly journals "Case Study 7.2 Data to Bring Justice: Addressing Disparities in the Criminal Justice System"

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pamela Oliver
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Justice ◽  
Criminal Justice System ◽  
Public Engagement ◽  
Justice System ◽  
Public Sociology ◽  
Community Groups ◽  
Professional Sociology ◽  
System P ◽  
Research Action

Pamela Oliver "Case Study 7.2 Data to Bring Justice: Addressing Disparities in the Criminal Justice System" Preprint of chapter in Philip Nyden. Leslie Hossfelt, and Gwen Nyden (eds.) 2011 Public Sociology: Research Action and Change. Pine Forge Press. https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/public-sociology/book234763 This is a case study of my racial disparities work that overlaps somewhat with other presentations I have made of the same material. My work has involved doing descriptive statistical analyses of racial patterns of imprisonment and making public presentations on these patterns, as participating in many meetings of boards and committees working on these issues. Part 1 of this article describes the background of my work and how I got involved, partly through connections with community groups and partly through luck. Part 2 describes my public engagement, including giving talks and participating in many meetings as well as doing analyses at the request of community groups. Part 3 is reflections on the differences and tensions between public and professional sociology.

scholarly journals Social Representations of Homicide Investigations by Judges, Prosecutors and Police: A Case Study from the Metropolitan Area of Brasilia

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 85-99
Author(s):  
Bruno Amaral Machado ◽  
Maria Stela Grossi Porto
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Justice ◽  
Focus Group ◽  
Human Resources ◽  
Criminal Justice System ◽  
Working Conditions ◽  
Metropolitan Area ◽  
Justice System ◽  
Social Representations ◽  
Police Chiefs

This article examines homicide in the Metropolitan Area of Brasilia (MAB), analysing social representations from elites in the criminal justice system, including police chiefs, prosecutors and judges. It draws on the theory of social representations (TSR) to explore the imaginaries constructed around the criminal justice system’s inability to adequately investigate the rise in homicides. The representations from focus group participants highlight a lack of resources, infrastructure, equipment and human resources, as well as unsatisfactory working conditions. In seeking to understand and situate themselves in new realities and contexts, these elite criminal justice actors ultimately place themselves within the available reserve of knowledge, in which they claim that ‘nothing works’. Hence, this enables these powerful actors to justify themselves and blame others, while denying their inability to adequately investigate homicides. A hidden rationale emerges that represents the homicide victims of drug crimes and gang feuds as unworthy of investigation.

Risk-taking Behaviour in South African Correctional Centres: A Case Study of the Leeuwkop Correctional Centre

2013 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 207-231
Author(s):  
Willem F.M. Luyt ◽  
Gomolemu M. Moshoeu
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Substance Abuse ◽  
Criminal Justice ◽  
Criminal Justice System ◽  
South African ◽  
Risk Taking ◽  
Justice System ◽  
The South ◽  
Correctional System

Risk-taking behaviour is a global phenomenon that shows increased presence in certain institutional circles. Various forms of risk-taking behaviours are deeply rooted in the South African correctional system and other branches of the criminal justice system. South Africa needs new approaches to deal with matters related to risk-taking behaviour in the criminal justice system (particularly inside correctional centres), for example, HIV infection, inmate rape and a growing problem concerning substance abuse. This investigation looks into risk-taking behaviour behind prison walls. The Leeuwkop correctional complex, a microcosm of the South African correctional system, was chosen for the investigation.

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