YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Are Judges an Anachronism to the Criminal Justice System
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any given day, there are myriad reports of crime and violent acts purportedly committed by persons of color, origin and ethnic bac...
heading of the United States Department of Justice (Glover 92). The U.S. Marshalls, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the D...
the elements that concern those who work with the output of the criminal justice system. The inconsistencies of the judiciary and ...
that jurors, witnesses and attorneys are not prohibited from writing books after a case ends, and this could substantially impact ...
where promotions occur relative to the requirements put into place in other businesses. Law enforcement officers, then, would be ...
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...
that the African American and Hispanic youths were generally treated far more harshly than the white criminal youth (Poe-Yamagata;...
by and large, remove a good deal of the criminal element from the streets. However, it can be said that while the criminal element...
evidence in a large amount of literature that there is a link between mental illness and crimes (Drake and Pathe, 2004). T...
itself in context, it is perhaps helpful to begin with a brief overview of the development of correctional policies in the UK: not...
was reduced by about half, to reach an even keel with Caucasian arrest level, with a slightly higher percentage of arrests falling...
toward determinate sentencing models that go along with a tough on crime stance. Of course, juvenile justice has to some extent b...
Women who commit acts of extreme violence are considered an anomaly in our society. Those who do commit such acts, consequently, ...
four will be examined: A definition of the problem; a description of the offender population; a description of community involveme...
terrorist acts? The practice of electronic surveillance was certainly nothing new. Two months prior to the attacks on the World ...
are victims of hate crimes. Other special victims may be disabled, gay, HIV-infected, prisoners or students (Wallace, 2007). These...
"who commit nonviolent drug possession offenses or who violate drug-related conditions of probation or parole" to receive treatmen...
equipped to penetrate any computer system with the intent to take, destroy or manipulate the information found upon that system; i...
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...
only through the attainment of goals that one can truly know that everything that could be done had been done. Another question ...
A military action at first is successful, but then, the taking of Baghdad only seems loosely related to the terrorism that occurre...
stance. After all, the police officers can write tickets for small oversights, but a friendly attitude, without overly strict enfo...
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...
18 white youths were arrested for dealing drugs in 1980 while as many as 86 black youths were arrested for the same crime ("Civil,...
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 ...
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...
The result is that "there are not one, but fifty-five court systems in the United States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, a...