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Justice for All or Just for Some?

and 1.2% of non-Hispanic whites. This paper examines some of the factors that may account for the disproportional representation o...

Basic Legal Rights For Juveniles In The U.S.

emergency and routine health-related issues must be made available to the juvenile, including dental, medical and behavioral by th...

Behavioral Profiling

as to who they might be. Obviously, such irrefutable evidence as fingerprint or DNA evidence is the most desirable in crime scene...

African-American Juveniles and the Criminal Justice System

although blacks make up only 12% of Sacramentos drug users, "52% of those arrested in Sacramento are African-American" (Schiraldi,...

Children's Book Illustrators

"pencil or pen and ink"; however, for her finished pieces, Potter worked primarily in watercolor, adding touches of pen and ink wh...

The Detriments of Isolation

become even more out of control as there are fewer eyes watching them. A well known study done at Stanford University tested behav...

The Factors that Influence Behavior in Criminal Justice Work

the persons subjective view of the situation are important (More, Wegener and Vito, 2005, p. 56). This perspective suggests tha...

Forensic Procedures: Criminal Profiling

profiling methods is the ample numbers in which they exist, making identification a much more accessible venture. Because of the ...

"To Kill A Mockingbird" - Accuracy Of Criminal Justice Activities

how it was back in the early part of the century. In the 1930s, the criminal justice system had a veritable open door policy when...

Criminal Policies

(Purpura, 1996). "The crime control model stress the importance of protecting society through efficient and effective law enforce...

Problems in the Administration of Justice

profiling is used to "compensate for a lack of evidence and represents poor police work" (Hajjar, 2006). Police simply round up "s...

John Gotti and Theories of Crime

in the Cosa Nostra (John Gotti, 2009). He stood trial several times but was always acquitted, earning him the nickname the "Teflon...

PROCESSING A CRIMINAL CASE

state, or state to federal, the process involves the stages of investigation, interrogation, arrest, complaint/indictment, arraign...

Alcohol and Drug Use/Juvenile Crime

health and well-being (Neff and Waite, 2007). While illicit substance usage peaked in the late 1970s, recent statistics indicate t...

The Interconnected Society

fair to say that few Americans, if any, are going to agree with the way Congressional members vote themselves hefty raises in the ...

How Our Criminal Justice System Reflects the U.S. Constitution

as US citizens are protected even at the point where the system has essentially labeled us as a criminal. Due process is, in fact...

Overview Of Several Facets of Criminal Justice

that continue to plague law enforcement, it is likely services will for the most part be provided by the private industry, a reali...

Criminal Justice as a Career Choice

Best Buy and for Circuit City; I also taught computers to the children at Boys and Girls Clubs. I also love mysteries and solving ...

ARTICLE REVIEW: MINORITY THREAT AND POLICE BRUTALITY

the Department of Justices Police Brutality Study 1985-1990; Uniform Crime Reports during the same period and the 1990 U.S. Census...

Developing an Appropriate Leadership Approach for Public Service Department

the expectation of fairness and as such there is also likely to be a high level of applications of concepts such as employee equit...

Iranian Law and Criminal Justice

place in about the third century; it lasts until the 20th. Iran went through a number of revolutions in the 20th century, includi...

Predicting the Future

After the American Revolution, "state legislatures standardized common-law crimes such as murder, burglary, arson and rape by putt...

COMMUNICATIONS AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE

To keep order in the court. Job rationale, many times, is not specifically stated, but is implied - the fact that the bailiff migh...

Racism in the Criminal Justice System

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

The Criminal Justice System, Discrimination and Disparity

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

Do Blacks Receive Harsher Criminal Sentences?

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

Locke’s State of Nature v the Social Contract

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

Parental Accountability for Children's Crimes

another excellent point in favor of the parents. So a valid argument would be that parents are not responsible for the actions of...

William Shakespeare's King Lear and Conflicts of Divine vs. Earthly Justice

In six pages the types of justice as defined in this Shakespearean tragedy are considered with the human 'earthly justice' compare...

The Alchemist by Coehlo

kill him; but most of all he fears that he will not find his treasure-this might all be for nothing (Coehlo, 1995, p. 130). The A...