My assignment was to write about Resoritive justice. I was asked to research Resoritive justice and determine the effectiveness, the meaning, how it is applied and how it would affect the future of crime. Studies have shown that the are both pro’s and con’s to Resoritive justice. None, although, have given a true, one hundred percent answer to rather Resoritive justice is a fully accurate or inaccurate tactic that the law uses today.
Resoritive justice is being applied to many trials as a plea bargain or in some cases, as a sentence. To give you an example of Resoritive justice , imagine your on trail for robbing an old lady, now picture your attorney and the court offering you a plea bargain or a Resoritive justice deal. You have now just relieved yourself from a four to five year sentence to simply having to serve some community service time and maybe house arrest. Ill let you ponder on that idea awhile. NNow imagine you have been accused of domestic violence against a loved one. Imagine yourself in court and the jury announcing you have been found guilty of all charges brought against you. Your sentence is to serve a year of probation and four months of house arrest/ now lets dig deeper into the crimes of today. Imagine yourself as a sex offender. Pretend you have been accused of molesting a small child and a woman. The court, jury and family of both victims want you to get a hard sentence, possibly prison time. Evidently your attorney has opened up the talk of your right to receive a sentence falling under Resoritive justice. The judge, and jury have came to a quick decisions that with using the Resoritive justice law you can get away with four years probation, year and a half of house arrest, having to register as a sex offender and an ankle bracelet to monitor your activity. With that being said imagine all the criminals that have gotten away with using Resoritive justice, that are still walking the streets today.
Now that we know what Resoritive justice is and how it is applied, lets decide if it is indeed effective or not. After viewing some statistics, I can indefinitely agree that in some cases Resoritive justice can be effective. To expand, I have seen and agreed that Resoritive justice is effective in the cases of adolescence and in young children offenders. For example imagine an adolescence with no current record, robbed someone because their family was in need. On the other hand, imagine a child with a background of abuse and violence, beat someone nearly to death. Obviously Resoritive justice is acceptable for both examples given. Now let us dig deep and investigate some cases where Resoritive justice is not an enough sentence to receive justice. In some cases such as domestic violence, harassment and verbal disagreements might be acceptable crimes for Resoritive justice. Offences such as molestation, offences done by well minded and well equip adults and most heinous offences are not acceptable for Resoritive justice. If a man receives house arrest for molesting a child just as well a man that gets in a fight at a bar and is charged with domestic violence is simply unfair and unjust. In my personal opinion, suspects or offenders should only be allowed Resoritive justice if their crimes are not as serious as others and if the offender is not well minded, well off or has not fully developed mentally.
The way I see it, the way that Resoritive justice is going it is only making the rate of crime increase. If children continue to learn that if they act badly and get off with a deal and live their life normally, they will jus increase in violence and crime. I believe the rate of violence, murder, molestation, rape and murder will see a major increase. The law needs to change immediately. Many crimes and offenders are being dropped and ignored because of the over crowd in prisons. Lf that is the problem then more penitentiaries, detention centers and halfway house need to rise and be built.
In my opinion, there is no excuse for a crime to be unseen. There is not an offender in a world that should not be tried fairly. There is not a soul, offender or man in this world that can erase their bad decisions or choices and pretend it never happened. It is the duty of the court, jury, community, and judge to give justice and lock away those whom deserve it and to give “a break” to those who need it.
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