October 28 2022

Core Competency Self Assesment – Law 12

Critical and Reflective Thinking:

Should our criminal justice system be more punitive or rehabilitative? Why? I think it should be more rehabilitative, or at least less punitive. I think that some of the sentences are than they should be for a small offence. It’s also expensive to supply prisons, so if we rehabilitate people, then there’ll be less money spent on prisons. I know that the money would go to the rehabilitating, but to me, that’s better than making harsher sentences, making there be more people in prison.

I can analyze evidence to make judgements. During the Unit Test and the “How The Grinch Stole Law Class” assignment, we had to read something and then find the evidence within the paragraph, in order to figure out and decide what someone was guilty of.