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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...

likely to go to a full jury trial * have considerable impact on the public perception (too much?) (Chapter Topics, 2007). An exa...

The governor wanted to eliminate parole and one conservative legislator was looking for input from people involved in the system (...

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

"who commit nonviolent drug possession offenses or who violate drug-related conditions of probation or parole" to receive treatmen...

there are also some commonalities in the way that the law has been developed and the way it is implemented. In each case the evo...

bias in the system which seeks out blacks and instills upon them harsher sentences is a highly controversial topic. Inter...

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...

toward determinate sentencing models that go along with a tough on crime stance. Of course, juvenile justice has to some extent b...

stance. After all, the police officers can write tickets for small oversights, but a friendly attitude, without overly strict enfo...

huge influx of immigrants to the city, and that made the residents nervous and fearful that they would lose their positions to the...

open itself up to unyielding vulnerability. Madison addressed the inherent need for mans activities to remain under some semblanc...

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

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...

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

significant alteration of their position when an organizational change occurs (Wiersema 25). Also, integrating technologies into a...

four will be examined: A definition of the problem; a description of the offender population; a description of community involveme...

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

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

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

strangles his wife thinking that hes squeezing a grapefruit." There were those who painted him as an all American type young man, ...

liberties that are guaranteed to Americans in the Constitution are not lost in the process of addressing this problem. Commentator...

When examining ethical theory and philosophies of hope, happiness is often at the forefront. It seems that the goal of most people...

seven years in areas closed to slavery; Illinois was a free state and the Missouri Compromise of 1820 had closed the Wisconsin Ter...

The evolution of punishment strategy has gone hand in hand with the evolution of society as a whole. Harris (1996), for example, ...

terrorist acts? The practice of electronic surveillance was certainly nothing new. Two months prior to the attacks on the World ...

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