Matthew Barnett Robinson was born on 1970 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. In Boone, North Carolina, he is a professional in Criminology, operating at Appalachian State University (ASU). He earned his PhD at Florida State University’s Criminology & Criminal Justice School. Consequently, he timely honored a role as Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science and Criminal Justice at the same institution, ASU, in 1997. Currently, he is a fulltime professor at the Department of Government & Justice Studies. Matthew Barnett Robinson has also published various books discussing issues related to criminal justice, criminological theory, crime mapping, corporate misdemeanors, media exposure of crime, the battle against drugs, and capital …show more content…
His approaches are regarded as fair and balanced across the criminal justice system in United Stated. As a result, his work has been considered across various States by officials seeking to improve the criminal justice system.
For example, he authored the death penalty book illustrating five crucial facts about the criminal justice achieved through the death penalty punishment. Foremost, he asserted death penalty is rare. More so, he claimed death penalty is not disincentive to murder hence, more pricey than life incarceration. It can however be racially biased as well as threatening to innocent people (Matthew, 2014).
Matthew Barnett Robinson Contributions to the Criminal Justice
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As a result, people can be trained and motivated to be law abiding citizens. Consequently, they can learn to uphold and respect legal laws implemented to sustain law and order hence, national and global peace. This is because Robinson believes the criminal justice system ought to be active in maintain law and order. For example, the system ought to be keen, supportive, and active in the war on drugs. Consequently, the death penalty punishment ought to be effectively and efficiently undertaken to achieve and sustain justice. Thus, Robinson continually criticizes and analyzes various accepted theories and practices in order to offer new perspectives neither conflicting nor diminishing frequently held viewpoints and hypothesis in efforts to provide justice (Matthew & Marian,
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One can either be innocent or guilty. Likewise, one can choose to either condemn or empathize with the accused. These binaries prove amply important throughout Sherman Alexie's 1996 poem entitled "Capital Punishment," in which a prison cook recounts the day of an inmate's execution. Throughout the poem, the speaker parenthetically inserts on five separate occasions the phrase "I am not a witness," but near the conclusion of the poem, he contradicts his previous denials, proclaiming, "I am a witness." Readers of the poem may at first be puzzled by the speaker's repeated denial that he is a witness followed by his eventual declaration that he is, in fact, a witness; however, further examination reveals that the speaker, by progressing from condemnation
Capital punishment and bias in sentencing is among many issue minorities faced for many years in the better part of the nineteen hundreds. Now it continues to spill into the twenty first century due to the erroneous issues our criminal justice system has caused many people to suffer. In the book Just Mercy authored by Bryan Stevenson, Stevenson explains many cases of injustice. Stevenson goes into details of numerous cases of wrongfully accused people, thirteen and fourteen year olds being sentenced to death and sentences of life without parole for children. These issues Stevenson raises bring to question whether the death penalty is as viable as it should be. It brings to light the many issues our criminal justice system has today. There
Through the first chapter of this book the focus was primarily on the notion of controlling crime. The best way to describe crime policy used in this chapter is comparing it to a game of ‘heads I win, tails you lose’. This chapter also addresses the causes for decline in America’s
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In the R v. Hamilton Case, the trial judge recognized that not all circumstances are the same, and that there are other ways of treating criminals rather than imprisonment. He realized that each criminal is different, their motives for committing the crime are different and, as such, their punishment should vary. Although a “sentence is not an opportu...
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The governance of our present day public and social order co-exist within the present day individual. Attempts to recognize the essentiality of equality in hopes of achieving an imaginable notion of structure and order, has led evidence based practitioners such as Herbert Packer to approach crime and the criminal justice system through due process and crime control. A system where packer believed in which ones rights are not to be infringed defrauded or abused was to be considered to be the ideal for procedural fairness. “I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.” Thomas Jefferson pg 9 cjt To convict an individual because proper consideration was not taken will stir up social unrest rather then it’s initial intent, when he or she who has committed the crime is not punished for their doings can cause for a repetition and even collaboration with other’s for a similar or greater crime.
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New Century Foundation. (2005). The Color of Crime: Race, Crime and Justice in America. Retrieved from http://www.colorofcrime.com/colorofcrime2005.pdf
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Some of the most important historical developments that Beckett (1997) attributed to the politicization of criminal justice practices and policies were beginning with the civil rights movement. There was a tremendous amount of discourse occurring during this time about whether or not African Americans should have the same rights as whites. As well as, the thought that many African Americans were responsible for the increase in crime. Therefore, in the political sector we saw a power struggle between the Democrats and the Republicans. The Republicans wanted to portray the issues that crime and drug use were increasing rapidly due to the way the African Americans were raised.
The definition of justice and the means by which it must be distributed differ depending on an individual’s background, culture, and own personal morals. As a country of many individualistic citizens, the United States has always tried its best to protect, but not coddle, its people in this area. Therefore, the criminal justice history of the United States is quite extensive and diverse; with each introduction of a new era, more modern technologies and ideals are incorporated into government, all with American citizens’ best interests in mind.
Punishing the unlawful, undesirable and deviant members of society is an aspect of criminal justice that has experienced a variety of transformations throughout history. Although the concept of retribution has remained a constant (the idea that the law breaker must somehow pay his/her debt to society), the methods used to enforce and achieve that retribution has changed a great deal. The growth and development of society, along with an underlying, perpetual fear of crime, are heavily linked to the use of vastly different forms of punishment that have ranged from public executions, forced labor, penal welfare and popular punitivism over the course of only a few hundred years. Crime constructs us as a society whilst society, simultaneously determines what is criminal. Since society is always changing, how we see crime and criminal behavior is changing, thus the way in which we punish those criminal behaviors changes.