1. In your Interactive Notebook: Unit. Day 3
In your Interactive Notebook: Unit.Day 3.11 Restorative & Juvenile Justice
ON YOUR DESK: 1) laptop (warming up)
2) Interactive NB
3) (Completed) Study guide
WARM UP
What are the best ways to reduce crime?
How can we help people who have committed a crime make better choices and contribute to society?
Today’s OBJECTIVE(S) -- WRITE THESE DOWN:
I can evaluate the fairness and effectiveness of our criminal justice system

2. Updates & Deadlines SUBMIT By Today: EXAM TOMORROW Today’s Agenda
Study Guide: through 3.10
Tort Story (if not completed yesterday)
PRACTICE TESTS
EXAM TOMORROW
Today’s Agenda
SG through 3.8
Video clips & reflections
Letter Writing
Review Game
Current events
End of class quiz

3. Sentencing Decision is made about what your punishment will be
Made worse if you are a repeat offender
3 Strikes Three time felons usually get a much more severe punishment

4. Sentencing Guidelines
Laws that say how long judges should imprison people based on the crime they committed
Limits the authority of judges BUT the judge is final decision maker on length of the sentence
Racial implications:
Crack v. powder cocain

5. Juveniles and Delinquents
Juvenile ~ Anyone under age 18 in most states that is not yet considered a legal adult
Juvenile Delinquent ~ young people who commit crimes
Textbook p. 375

6. Purpose of the Juvenile Court
Primary goal is to rehabilitate or correct a young person’s behavior
Juvenile courts handle two types of cases:
Neglect
Delinquency
Juveniles do NOT have the right to jury trials
Judges attempt to keep proceedings and the identity of juveniles secret
Textbook pp

8. North Carolina Funding choices:
$8,433 – annual amount per student NC spends on education
$23,575 – annual amount NC spends to incarcerate each min. security prisoner
$32,262--annual amount NC spends to incarcerate each max. security prisoner
$7,600 – average cost per-student in Head Start
$23,362 – cost of in-state tuition, room, and board at UNC-Chapel Hill

9. Restorative Justice Aim is to focus on healing the victim
Offenders reflect on their act and focus on its effects on those who were hurt by it
Less focused on punishment
Punishment can cause the offender to feel victimized by the system; punishment therefore can get in the way of healing

10. Writing Prompt
Write a letter to Dr. Logan, the Superintendant, or a Board of Ed. Member
Address the following issues:
Is the disciplinary system at Hillside effective?
Why or why not?
Would Hillside benefit from a peer jury and restorative justice program?