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The National Crime and Punishment: Plea Bargains & Conditional Sentencing (Part 1 of 2)
Most people believe in the saying "if you do the crime, you do the time". However, some criminals are managing to avoid jail time as a result of lawyers negotiating plea bargains and conditional sentencing. How and why these practices have been used is the subject of much controversy, a case in point being the infamous Bernado and Homolka trial. ...
- 2000
- 00:24:04
- 15-17
- Added on: 06/14/2013
News in Review - May 2000 Conditional Sentencing: Effective or Not?
Punishment, rehabilitation, or revenge? In an enlightened society, it is presumed that prisons will redress wrongs in the best interests of society as a whole. The perplexing issue of prison sentences is whether they accomplish what they are intended to. Do they change sociopathic human behaviour and allow a criminal member of society to reintegrate into the mainstream population and ...
- 2000
- 00:11:54
- 13-14
- Added on: 05/15/2000
