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not realize that in part, the issue is attached to race, the economy, and social stratification. That is, the issue is not one per...

Canadas First Nations peoples find themselves at severe disadvantage in many distinct regards when compared with other Canadians. ...

Modern society rests on a balance between personal freedom and government restriction. That balance is something that has...

Dies, Who Decides," 2010). It is hard to dispute this observation. Yet, the other side of the coin contends that there are more bl...

Americans are "overrepresented" in the criminal justice system. There is a disparity between the number of blacks in the U.S. and ...

In theory, when a crime is committed in the US and a...

before the New London Superior Court, asserting that the "taking of their properties would violate the public use restriction in t...

half were single parents. An example of deductive logic in this study is the selection of the study hypothesis, i.e., the premises...

publications. Statistics, however, are not the most important thing when we are considering how to treat the problem. A prerequi...

"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...

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

as well. Nielsen and Perry (2000) state that we "must recognize that we are united in our diversity" (p. 4). This has...

all that terrific. What is wrong with this picture? Why would an elderly man put himself through such discomfort, simply to...

was to insure that prior to being released from prison, sex criminals received psychatric evaluation to insure they would not comm...

(Singer, 1996). The case was shocking for a number of reasons, but two stand out: Bosket was only 15; and he was already in care a...

as a serious crime. Still, it is usually the case that the prostitutes are arrested while their customers go free. In the case of ...

level, even working very long hours. They may have benefits, depending on the company, but they may depend on public transportatio...

only through the attainment of goals that one can truly know that everything that could be done had been done. Another question ...

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...

was reduced by about half, to reach an even keel with Caucasian arrest level, with a slightly higher percentage of arrests falling...

Security to legal resident aliens. It was, thankfully, defeated, but it opened up an angry dialogue between the sisters on their d...

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

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

nations would "interact with one another in a zone of comity, cooperation and law" (see 142, 143). The Kantian theory, in fact, is...

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

houses between the juvenile leaving the correctional system and reentering the community. Juvenile delinquency is just one ...

for instigating change that will relegate injustice and discrimination to the countrys past. Williams (2001), in fact, contends t...

due process. The paper then examines these goals as they relate to the goals of the individual, those being social justice, equali...