Criminal Justice

  Criminal Justice Hide Submission Folder Information Submission Folder Week #4: Drop Box Instructions During a criminal trial, mitigating and/or aggravating circumstances may impact sentencing if the defendant is found guilty. Mitigating are beneficial and aggravating are detrimental to the defendant during the sentencing phase. For example, a subject kills another and returns to the scene to commit further crimes to the body- A possible mitigating circumstance is a child Killing their parent as result of ongoing child abuse. What if the courts dismiss the relevancy of the mitigating and aggravating circumstances involved in criminal offenses, and instead, render mandatory sentences based solely upon the crime itself? How might this approach take justification and excuse defenses out of the defense model? No matter the circumstances of a crime, individuals will be sentenced the same. I would recommend researching actual cases to enhance the paper. Write a 4 page paper addressing the above questions. The paper should be completed in APA format. I do not require an abstract. Only the body is counted towards the 4 page requirement- A minimum of 5 academic references are required to assist in substantiating your thoughts. Academic references do not include websites on the Internet unless it originates from a government website. The Internet sources can be used to supplement the paper as long as they are credible.