Criminal Law Research Paper

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Criminal Law is, and always will be, different everywhere around the world. Either it being from the law system we use here in the United States or it can be the more cruel "An Eye for an Eye", or even just a mixture of the two, all places hold their own views on crimes in there own manner. For the United States it is important to know what punishment is necessary for each Crime that happens to occur; however for "An eye for an Eye", it can be a very simple yet very complicated procedure of just punishing the guy with the same thing he has done, as well as have far more consequences for falsely accused suspects in the Criminal Law.

To begin with, according to the examples of the prompt, "a thief might expect to lose a hand if he or she is caught stealing with it, or someone takes a human life might expect to give up his or her own in return." meaning that no matter what crime happens to occur, this has potential to lead to many more casualties in crimes than it needed to be. An example of how harsh this process can be is when a thief gets caught stealing something as small as a fruit from a food court, they will be expected to have the thief
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One of the focuses is to punish what has been counted as a "crime" by there society and are both brought upon the goal to punish the one who commits the crime. It could be a small crime or a massive crime, they are focused on methods of punishing those that do wrong. But the differences come in on how they bring there known way of Criminal Justice into play, as well as the fact that some people may receive a punishment they possibly didn't even deserve, or even if the crime was falsely accused but the punishment has already been dealt out, with no way to return ones hand or even there life. The Criminal Law can be compared in a way that there doing right, but even then one is clearly able to be logically reasoned over the