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Unit 8 Seminar

Unit 8 Seminar . CJ343 Comparative Justice Systems Matthew Call. Global Sentencing. A look across the world…. The U.S. and Capital Punishment Three jurisdictional capital punishment statutes Federal State Military. How much does it cost?. What do you think:

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Unit 8 Seminar

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  1. Unit 8 Seminar CJ343 Comparative Justice Systems Matthew Call

  2. Global Sentencing

  3. A look across the world… • The U.S. and Capital Punishment • Three jurisdictional capital punishment statutes • Federal • State • Military

  4. How much does it cost? • What do you think: • Does it cost more to execute or incarcerate? Respond:

  5. Capital punishment by the numbers $7.4 billion: 2006-06 budget for the California Corrections Department.$250 million: Average cost of 11 executions in 27 years.$114 million: Costs of death penalty to taxpayers.$34,150: Average annual cost of housing an inmate in state prison

  6. Breaking the numbers down with simple arithmetic shows that life in prison is much cheaper than executing an individual. If you take the $250,000,000.00 it cost the State of California to execute 11 offenders and divide that sum by the quantity you will see that it cost the State of California $22,727,272.00 to execute each offender. Now if you take an offender and we will say he is going to be sentenced to life in prison and lets take an extreme example and say he will live 80 years after he is sentenced, then we multiply the average cost of incarceration per year of $34,150.00 by 80, we will see that it will only cost $2,732,000.00 to incarcerate the individual. This equates to a savings of $19,995,272.00 per execution.

  7. Citations MSNBC)2006) California postpones execution indefinitely. Retrieved Mar. 25, 2006, from Crime and Punishment Web site: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11472172/. DPIC (2006) Death Penalty in California is Very Costly. (2006). Retrieved Mar. 25, 2006, from News and Developments Web site: http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/newsanddev.php?scid=7.

  8. Grounds for applying the death penalty: Treason: Nine states—Arkansas, California, Colorado, Georgia, Illinois, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, and Washington—and the federal government. Aggravated kidnapping: Five states—Colorado, Idaho, Illinois, Missouri, and Montana. Child rape: Five states: Florida, Louisiana, Montana, Oklahoma and South Carolina as of 2006-JUN. Drug trafficking: Two states, Florida and Missouri, and the federal government. Aircraft hijacking: Two states, Georgia and Mississippi. Placing a bomb near a bus terminal: One state: Missouri. Espionage: One state: New Mexico. Aggravated assault by incarcerated, persistent felons or murderers: One state: Montana. Reference:Robinson, B.A. 2006.  Execution; the death penalty.  Widening the scope of the death penalty beyond murder.  Retrieved from http://www.religioustolerance.org/executk.htm.

  9. China • Executes more people than any other country. • Offenses punishable by death in China • Drug Offenses • Violent Crimes • Tax Fraud • Embezzlment

  10. Corporal Punishment • Definition: • Any kind of punishment of or inflicted on the body. • Examples?

  11. Examples Flogging Wiping Stoning Branding Dismembering Disfiguring

  12. Unit 9 Essay • Trafficking in Illegal Drugs and Persons • How does Canada, Iran and France adjudicate and sentence offenders fir these crimes? • 5-6 pages NOT including cover and reference page.

  13. Questions?

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