About Past Criminal Record's Law in British and Australia (Ryosuke Okumura)

Ryosuke Okumura

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About Past Criminal Record’s Law in British and Australia

     The law which is a jury in a criminal do not investigate information about the defendant’s past criminal record in British and Australia. Some people are endorser of a foremost idea and they think that this law do not give the information for others because criminals have human rights as well as ordinary citizens. But other think that this law should be changed a new law that give all the past criminal information because these records help juror to grasp criminal’s personality in judgement. From my viewpoint, the aforementioned this law should not be changed a new one and I am an advocate of the law which dose not change.

     The first foremost an advantage of the idea of the law that is a jury in a criminal suggest past record of criminal is that juror is able to focus on judging criminal. For example, if jurors have defendant’s past criminal record, they are distracted by these informations. Moreover, they are not able to make a proper judgement. Therefore, information that is past criminal records do not need in judgement.

     In addition, another merits of the issue in question is that innocent criminal argument is vanished by information that is past criminal record. For instance, if criminal is innocent in this incident, past criminal information disturb in this incident because juror image that there is a possibility of a criminal. Thus, past criminal information records may cause mistakes about juror’s judgement.

     On the other hand, the drawback of the thesis in question is that past criminal records are able to help jurors who image criminal personality. For example, if jurors know criminal personality, they are able to grasp the tendency of crime. Therefore, these information help jurors to judge correctly.

     In conclusion, I agree with this idea that do not give information about past criminal records because, in my opinion, advantages of the law that is about past criminal records far outweighs its disadvantage. I concede that these information break in juror’s decision in the judgement, but jurors are able to grasp criminal personality to judge correctly from past criminal records. As a result, if juror are able to have past criminal’s records, these documents may afflict criminals to disturb correct judgement. But if juror do not misunderstand how to use these documents, these documents are able to help criminals in judgement.