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In five pages this comprehensive American history text is examined in terms of the author's detailed consideration of the U.S. cri...
In seven pages this report discusses contributing factors of juvenile delinquency and discusses how it is defined within the crimi...
be arrested, even though he was portrayed as basically a good kid. Jeff is a case study that commences this article which tugs at...
This paper examines what alternatives exist in the criminal justice system for youth offenders with the emphasis being on deterren...
job. Counseling is available to those who need it. The office may make home visits to catch the probationer by surprise. Mandat...
Hibbard (1996) suggests that drugs have created a title wave across the nation. Because of drugs, a great number of prisons have ...
The ways in which the system of criminal justice has been impacted by victimology are discussed with examples including the trial ...
A military action at first is successful, but then, the taking of Baghdad only seems loosely related to the terrorism that occurre...
terrorist acts? The practice of electronic surveillance was certainly nothing new. Two months prior to the attacks on the World ...
"who commit nonviolent drug possession offenses or who violate drug-related conditions of probation or parole" to receive treatmen...
bias in the system which seeks out blacks and instills upon them harsher sentences is a highly controversial topic. Inter...
stance. After all, the police officers can write tickets for small oversights, but a friendly attitude, without overly strict enfo...
a company rather than career corrections officers, they are underpaid, demoralized, and the turnover is high (Friedmann, 1999). Pr...
correlation between class and incarceration, as roughly 80 percent of those inmates incarcerated in 2002 could not afford an attor...
Rehabilitation is only one reason for punishment. Other reasons go to retribution, deterrence and social control. Prisons do provi...
and having managers responsible for planning the work while workers are responsible for carrying out those plans (Encyclopedia of ...
The result is that "there are not one, but fifty-five court systems in the United States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, a...
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...
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...
where promotions occur relative to the requirements put into place in other businesses. Law enforcement officers, then, would be ...
but business does have a way of behaving unethically and even criminally where regulations against specific behaviors do not exist...
range of the problem is quantified 2. What is Mental Illness? 2.1 Definitions of Mental Illness The difficulty with defining me...
a serious drug and mental health problems when they were incarcerated. These juveniles have serious problems with hallucinogens, ...
the criminal justice system has to protect society and seek to gain a balance between the required protection for each group. In...
would be incurred if we were to rehabilitate drug and alcohol users rather than put them in the penitentiary. The view...
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...
was not always this way (Mocete, 1997). The prison system persists in its newfound role most likely due to the fact that there i...
evidence in a large amount of literature that there is a link between mental illness and crimes (Drake and Pathe, 2004). T...
any given day, there are myriad reports of crime and violent acts purportedly committed by persons of color, origin and ethnic bac...
conclusion as to what is the best way of going about treating drug addicted offenders. The important question is: What is the bes...