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Crime and Punishment in American History by Lawrence Meir Friedman

In five pages this comprehensive American history text is examined in terms of the author's detailed consideration of the U.S. cri...

System of Criminal Justice and Juvenile Delinquency

In seven pages this report discusses contributing factors of juvenile delinquency and discusses how it is defined within the crimi...

'The Maximum Security Adolescent' by Margaret Talbot

be arrested, even though he was portrayed as basically a good kid. Jeff is a case study that commences this article which tugs at...

Youth Offenders and the Criminal Justice System

This paper examines what alternatives exist in the criminal justice system for youth offenders with the emphasis being on deterren...

Harris County, Texas' Criminal Justice System and Adult Probation

job. Counseling is available to those who need it. The office may make home visits to catch the probationer by surprise. Mandat...

Drug Offenders and the Criminal Justice System

Hibbard (1996) suggests that drugs have created a title wave across the nation. Because of drugs, a great number of prisons have ...

Justice System and the Impact of Victimology

The ways in which the system of criminal justice has been impacted by victimology are discussed with examples including the trial ...

An Evaluation of the American Response to Terrorism

A military action at first is successful, but then, the taking of Baghdad only seems loosely related to the terrorism that occurre...

Three Ways in Which the U.S. Constitution Has Influenced the American Criminal Justice System

terrorist acts? The practice of electronic surveillance was certainly nothing new. Two months prior to the attacks on the World ...

Article Analysis: Budgeting for California's Criminal Justice System

"who commit nonviolent drug possession offenses or who violate drug-related conditions of probation or parole" to receive treatmen...

Racial Disparity in Criminal Sentencing

bias in the system which seeks out blacks and instills upon them harsher sentences is a highly controversial topic. Inter...

Community Policing in the United States

stance. After all, the police officers can write tickets for small oversights, but a friendly attitude, without overly strict enfo...

Issues of Concern to Prison Inmates

a company rather than career corrections officers, they are underpaid, demoralized, and the turnover is high (Friedmann, 1999). Pr...

Criminal Justice

correlation between class and incarceration, as roughly 80 percent of those inmates incarcerated in 2002 could not afford an attor...

Problems and Solutions for the Troubled American Prison System

Rehabilitation is only one reason for punishment. Other reasons go to retribution, deterrence and social control. Prisons do provi...

Systems Management, Human Relations, and Scientific Management Styles

and having managers responsible for planning the work while workers are responsible for carrying out those plans (Encyclopedia of ...

American Criminal Justice and the Constitution

The result is that "there are not one, but fifty-five court systems in the United States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, a...

U.S. System of Criminal Justice, Ethnicity, and Race

perspective is that OJ Simpson was tried by a jury of his peers. There was an Asian judge and a jury made up of minorities. The pr...

Criminal Justice VII

would be that such a thing would never happen in the US without great public outcry, but that was before passage of the Patriot Ac...

System of Criminal Justice

where promotions occur relative to the requirements put into place in other businesses. Law enforcement officers, then, would be ...

Criminal Justice and an Investigation of Differences IV

but business does have a way of behaving unethically and even criminally where regulations against specific behaviors do not exist...

United Kingdom's System of Criminal Justice and Mental Illness

range of the problem is quantified 2. What is Mental Illness? 2.1 Definitions of Mental Illness The difficulty with defining me...

Steve Christian's 'Out of Lock-UP: Now What?', Juvenile Crime and Drug Use

a serious drug and mental health problems when they were incarcerated. These juveniles have serious problems with hallucinogens, ...

United Kingdom's Criminal Justice System, Crime, and Mental Illness

the criminal justice system has to protect society and seek to gain a balance between the required protection for each group. In...

Arguing in Favor of Reallocating Funds for Programs Involving Drug Abuse and Alcohol Treatment

would be incurred if we were to rehabilitate drug and alcohol users rather than put them in the penitentiary. The view...

Criminal Justice and Treating Juvenile Crime as Adult Offenses

does not treat all of its juvenile offenders as adults. Indeed, the state is one of the most progressive in the nation in terms o...

Criminal Justice and Social Engineering

was not always this way (Mocete, 1997). The prison system persists in its newfound role most likely due to the fact that there i...

Australia's System of Criminal Justice and Mental Illness

evidence in a large amount of literature that there is a link between mental illness and crimes (Drake and Pathe, 2004). T...

Prejudices, Criminal Justice System, and Overrepresentation of Minorities

any given day, there are myriad reports of crime and violent acts purportedly committed by persons of color, origin and ethnic bac...

Drug Offenders and Treatment Alternatives

conclusion as to what is the best way of going about treating drug addicted offenders. The important question is: What is the bes...