Arguments AGAINST current legislation regarding the disclosure of prior convictions by Miss Radford https://padlet.com/lradf0/40l1c3ajt763 Add one argument AGAINST en-us 2017-03-05 07:08:21 UTC 2026-02-10 21:28:05 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.com/lradf0/40l1c3ajt763/wish/157920267 Juries need to have all the information possible to reach a fair verdict (CBC News, 2008).

]]> 2017-03-06 04:42:49 UTC https://padlet.com/lradf0/40l1c3ajt763/wish/157920267 https://padlet.com/lradf0/40l1c3ajt763/wish/157920276 It is unfair that those who repeatedly re-offend should be treated in the same manner as those who have committed one offence; a singular offence could mark a mistake or accident in the defendant’s choices, but repeated criminal acts mark a habit and a lack of regret for past crimes. Failing to take past convictions into account can lead to many dangerous offenders being underestimated by the jury, and so released.]]> 2017-03-06 04:42:55 UTC https://padlet.com/lradf0/40l1c3ajt763/wish/157920276 https://padlet.com/lradf0/40l1c3ajt763/wish/157920279 juries need all information available (transparency) 
[3]CPS, ‘Justice for all’, The Stationary Office, July 2002.]]> 2017-03-06 04:42:57 UTC https://padlet.com/lradf0/40l1c3ajt763/wish/157920279 https://padlet.com/lradf0/40l1c3ajt763/wish/157920315 Juries need to have all the information possible in order to reach a fair verdict. 
CBC News, 'Getting Out of Jail', March 2008]]> 2017-03-06 04:43:25 UTC https://padlet.com/lradf0/40l1c3ajt763/wish/157920315 The current system is unfairly weighted in favor of criminals. https://padlet.com/lradf0/40l1c3ajt763/wish/157920348 child molesters have a particularly high rate of re-offending – expected to be even ‘larger than the reported 50 per cent’ - but ‘only a small proportion of sexual offences against children result in a conviction’. This conviction rate, however, does rise for ‘those with a history of prior sexual offences’]]> 2017-03-06 04:43:56 UTC https://padlet.com/lradf0/40l1c3ajt763/wish/157920348 https://padlet.com/lradf0/40l1c3ajt763/wish/157920350 Juriers need as much information as possible to reach a fair verdict. (Transparency; Justice, Fairness and Equality)

]]> 2017-03-06 04:43:58 UTC https://padlet.com/lradf0/40l1c3ajt763/wish/157920350 The current system is unfairly weight in favour of criminals. (Treating a criminal equally that has had 5 charges/convictions, to someone charged for one case). https://padlet.com/lradf0/40l1c3ajt763/wish/157920390 2017-03-06 04:44:31 UTC https://padlet.com/lradf0/40l1c3ajt763/wish/157920390 https://padlet.com/lradf0/40l1c3ajt763/wish/157920401 Defendants who are innocent will be protected (CPS, 2002).]]> 2017-03-06 04:44:44 UTC https://padlet.com/lradf0/40l1c3ajt763/wish/157920401 https://padlet.com/lradf0/40l1c3ajt763/wish/157920404 2017-03-06 04:44:47 UTC https://padlet.com/lradf0/40l1c3ajt763/wish/157920404 https://padlet.com/lradf0/40l1c3ajt763/wish/157920416 Jurors don’t need to research the defendants which may give unreliable information]]> 2017-03-06 04:44:55 UTC https://padlet.com/lradf0/40l1c3ajt763/wish/157920416 https://padlet.com/lradf0/40l1c3ajt763/wish/157920474 Victim is able to achieve more justice because the jurors know the offender they are dealing with. 

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