Discretion

Thomas Claburn’s article is intended for individuals who are both hiring and looking to be hired. The purpose of this article is to inform the readers of the significance of hiring the most qualified applicants versus those who may share mutual interests. Claburn discusses the advantages of using computers to evaluate applicants such as increasing how long employees will remain employed with them. A study was conducted by former students of the University of Toronto, Yale University and Harvard Business

Police discretion is a decide make by an officer to enforce the law or to give a warning. For instance, Sandy Cheeks was driving home from her best friend Brain wedding ceremony and Sandy were stop by a police detective for not wearing her seatbelt. The police detective decides to given sandy a warning instance of giving her a ticket and tell her to wear a seatbelt. Mr. Green was driving reckless in an I-95 and a state trooper pull over Mr. Green and found open beer bottles and three pound of bag

al (2005) the majority of police-citizen encounters arise in the absence of supervision meaning that on an individual level, police officers have a large amount of discretion within the decision making process. The decision of a police officer to upgrade or down grade their behavior toward at citizen is based solely on the discretion of the officer. Other situational factors such as the mental health of a suspect and citizen requests have a much stronger effect on officer behavior than officer

mandatory minimum sentence law is enforced on judges, but not prosecutors. However, under the circumstance, it is considered that prosecutors who would gain professionally from successful convictions, do not have sufficient incentive to exercise their discretion responsibly. While it is apparent why companies involved in the prison industry would support or even push for such a law, they are not the sole cause of the making of this law. There are three main groups outside the prison industry who, due to

Introduction Over the past decade within Australia, the issue of one-punch violence has remained at the forefront of media and public scrutiny. Many acts of unprovoked violence resulting in death have generated considerable action from communities, organisations and legislators. This national moral panic has resulted in an influx of legislation across the states. The Victorian State Government has recently imposed the Sentencing Amendment (Coward 's Punch Manslaughter and Other Matters) Act 2014

force of nature or a force to be reckoned with? As empowered free liberated women, how do we balance personal discretion and our myriad of choices? “At this stage in my life,” I said trying to remind him of my advanced age, “I just can’t afford to be impetuous,” He asked me to define impetuous, so I did. “Being impetuous is my nature, but I have learned to control it and use discretion.” He repeated my words back to himself as if he needed greater clarity. I knew I needed to tell him there was

It is with the most discretion that I write about the events that I witnessed yesterday on January the 14th of 2016. Yesterday it was brought to my attention that one of our fellow employees has not been acting in a professional manner with one of Dr. Maung patients. This patient describe to me that she felt that she was not able to communicate with the employee in question, she also mentioned that she felt scared to speak or move because of the way our fellow co-worker carried themselves when doing

Police discretion is widely considered a vague term that has an appropriately vague definition. It is defined as the decision-making power afforded to police officers that allows these individuals to decide if they want to pursue police procedure or simply let someone off with a warning (Beckett, 2016). It is an important enforcement option in policing and plays a key role in our criminal justice system here in Canada. Examples of when discretion is used include: traffic violations, youth crime,

suspicious or illegal happening. Police discretion is defined as having the power to make decision, and choosing how to respond to a given situation depending on the circumstances. Even though, there are law in place it is still up to a police officer own discretion. Ultimately, police officers have the choice to enforce the law and how to carry it out in public. In the text book “Policing America” by Ken Peak he states that there are two criminal law in discretion. “the formality and the reality. The

Police discretion is a subject of controversy. Officers are charged with interpreting the law and making a decision based on their knowledge and expertise along with the circumstance of the crime. The quick decisions officers are tasked with often come into question and are given an unfair review. Often times the review is a lengthy process in which supervisory staff, citizens and other experts in the matter are given all the details of the incident. In addition to details that may have not been