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careful not to reveal her real feelings. Gonnerman (2004) emphasizes the problems with the Rockefeller drug laws. For example, Gon...

enlightenment philosophy? What form did those ideas take in classical criminological thought?" First, a look at each of the named...

II. MAIN CHARACTERISTICS OF JUVENILE JUSTICE CLASSIFICATION & TREATMENT PROGRAMS More than one hundred and seventy years ago, the...

constitutional rights prior to taking them into custody or while interrogating them, a reality that -- had Miranda v. Arizona neve...

accepting the fact that juvenile crime is increasing not decreasing and the seriousness of the types of crimes that are being comm...

that means reducing the comfort and well-being of others. Adam Smiths argument, that a free market with minimal intervention will ...

This paper describes an ethical problem and then discusses the principles of procedural justice. Three pages in length, one source...

This essay pertain to "The Accused," a 1988 film that focuses on a raped woman and trauma she suffers due to the criminal justice ...

This 4 page paper gives an overview of rectificatory justice according to Aristotle's Nichomachean Ethics. This paper includes dis...

This paper discusses the aspects of the juvenile justice system that are working effectively and those aspects that need improveme...

behavior. Letting them go, or sanctioning them with only community service, may be too lenient. Even so, some small gestures will ...

is great interest. Plato looks at all of these things in his book The Republic. In Book I, justice is discussed and it is deemed ...

fundamental importance in the Republic of the metaphor of descent and its connection to the two great themes of birth and death, a...

was a knight, he was essentially required to meet challenges and learn how to be chivalrous, often through mistakes. As such the Q...

that a ten year old can be prosecuted for murder. In contemplating this issue, it pays to take a look at the juvenile justice syst...

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

the prison system. This is something that has concerned the public and the same problem is found in juvenile detention centers as ...

A 17 page paper discussing environmental justice, policy and environmental law as the concepts apply to Altgeld Gardens, a low inc...

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

vital option again during the 1980s and early 1990s for several reasons, the first of which was the existence of a general sociopo...

cases from the point of view that the person on trial is guilty. There is no presumption of innocence until proven guilty-he start...

important because school systems have not kept pace with society. Change is needed and sometimes reform and renewal are vital elem...

crime. In so many ways they are simply victims and yet are incarcerated because of this. Belknap seems to argue that much of this ...

of the frequency of their transgressions, as opposed to seriousness, it is also true that only certain types of juveniles are like...

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

because he had to feed starving children; despite this, he was given a five-year sentence. Two things immediately spring to mind: ...

the way; at the same time, the "old man," who was watching carefully, "struck me from his carriage, / full on the head with his tw...

both royalty, they have both been told by an outside agency to look for a murderer in their midst, and in both cases, the agency t...

are victims of hate crimes. Other special victims may be disabled, gay, HIV-infected, prisoners or students (Wallace, 2007). These...

poverty. There is always a potential bias in any system that has the danger of becoming an inequality. The basis of the law and...