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

itself in context, it is perhaps helpful to begin with a brief overview of the development of correctional policies in the UK: not...

supports the claim with well documented research, that non-violent criminals can pay their debt to society in many ways which are ...

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...

"file not found" page. Even the link to the authors own home page returns only an error message. Searching for Dr. Greek...

While the statistics obviously support the contention that there is a disproportionate representation of blacks as compared to whi...

any given day, there are myriad reports of crime and violent acts purportedly committed by persons of color, origin and ethnic bac...

is valuable where the safety of the community is concerned. In relationship to the board, there are nine board members who are ...

and technical assistance to increase the knowledge and skills of all personnel in the criminal justice system (WV Div. of Criminal...

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

for working farms and it provided Southern states with a rationale for not rebuilding prisons after the war. In some cases, many s...

of drug addiction (alcohol included) and they engage in criminal activity to support that addiction. Statistics support this obs...

improvement in regards to the criminal justice management system, and, secondly, that there are ways by which this can occur at th...

perhaps the most prevalent of all approaches to criminal punishment utilized in the United States, the nation that holds the dubio...

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

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;...

18 white youths were arrested for dealing drugs in 1980 while as many as 86 black youths were arrested for the same crime ("Civil,...

by and large, remove a good deal of the criminal element from the streets. However, it can be said that while the criminal element...

crimes. Allowing violent criminals to be released is ludicrous. Parole reform is necessary to ensure a safe society. While the law...

models of the criminal justice system in order to better depict how these two different viewpoints "compete for priority in the op...

support at various law enforcement agencies (1993). There are a variety of jobs necessary at the federal level because areas such ...

tend to have sufficient social and economic power to transcend even law enforcement agencies themselves. If profits from the drug ...

(Dowd PG). Organizations such as the Dai Huen Jai or Big Circle Boys have created a business from planned home invasion robberies ...

public reprisal. What happens is that when a suspect is unfortunately shot in the course of illegal activity, the officer is scrut...

manner by which offenders were being sidelined from real punishment; however, their collective voices were not strong enough to de...

three years. The age of accountability in Sweden is fifteen years of age, whereas in the United States the age of accountability t...

and Israel. These are four distinct countries found in different parts of the world. II. Criminal Justice in the United States ...

penal system. First, it should be noted that this topic is very important due to the increasing female population in prison syst...