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Criminological Theory

People commit crimes for a diversity of reasons. A considerable body of research has been devoted to explaining those...

Restorative Justice and Traditional Cultures

The concept of restorative justice is something that is intriguing people from all...

Overview of a Criminal Justice Study on Marijuana Use

This research paper consists of an analysis of Green, et al's 2010 study, "Does heavy adolescent marijuana use lead to criminal in...

Compensating the Victim in Crime and Tort Cases

Law provides both the rules by which we are expected to abide and legal remedies for situations in which one individual has wronge...

Judges, Juries, and Sentencing in Criminal Justice

The American legal system revolves around two primary players when it comes to criminal sentencing. These players are the...

Trial by Jury - Inefficient and Biased or an Essential Check on Legislative Power?

principles within a constitution (Conrad, 1998). There has been long term support for the use of juries; in 1953 The Royal Commiss...

Criminal Surveillance: Pros and Cons

casual downtown shopping trip; they feel this constitutes an invasion of their privacy. For instance, the House Majority Leader at...

Insuring Criminal Justice

Criminal justice has benefitted tremendously from recent scientific and technological improvements. Crime scene investigators no ...

The Evolution of Criminal Justice Policy

of criminal justice. This is to say that whenever budgets for criminal justice departments are determined, it is a matter determin...

California Foster Care Agencies and the Criminal Justice System

for operating in isolation, or for the establishment of laws that are seen as disconnected from the reality of everyday experience...

State and Federal Interaction in Criminal Justice

Governmental structure allows us as a society to define what is appropriate and what is inappropriate behavior as well as to...

Aspects in Criminology

feel dehumanized or disconnected from the society (Stevens, 2004). 2. Criminal Careers Land and DUnger (2010) explain that the c...

Criminal Justice - Difficult Questions

these agencies funded? Should administrators be concerned about financial waste or should they spend every budget dollar to demons...

Surveillance Cameras Preventing and Solving Crimes

Our world has evolved overnight into one in which we can seldom find privacy. The use of cameras to record our...

A Review of the California Foster Care System

--for more information on using this paper properly! The criminal justice system often receives criticism for operating ...

Police Brutality and a 2004 Australian Article Sociological Assessment

engine ("Brit music"). After police stopped the car, a man in his twenties had been arrested ("Brit music"). The article report...

Organizational Structure and the Perspectives of Frederick Taylor and Max Weber

modern society and the expansion of the meaning of class through an integrated view of individuals separation within a culture. ...

Law Enforcement, Cultural diversity and Community

of ones skin or the culture one has grown up with. Diversity, it can be said is as individual as the way in which one approaches p...

Genocide in East Timor?

the force deportations of the Ottoman empires Armenians and the families that had lived in the Cossack lands and the Ukraine where...

Process of Criminal Profiling

was actively used to achieve a successful conclusion. In the case of "The Mad Bomber," New York law enforcement officials t...

System of Criminal Justice and Impact of Homeland Security

availability mentioned above, every part of the criminal justice system is or has been affected in some way by the threat of domes...

PACTS Model and the Connection Between Counselors and Offenders

between offender and staff and reductions in recidivism, then, are central to acknowledging a variety of new correctional approach...

4 Questions on Criminal Justice

II. HOW EFFECTIVE IS PUNISHMENT IN CONTROLLING CRIME? WHY? Warehousing of prisoners is perhaps the most prevalent of all ap...

Alternatives and Assessment in a Judicial Review Case

and potential use of judicial review, and then at how it can be applied as well as the potential defences that may be cited by the...

Law Enforcement's Use of Force and the Effects of Race

While the prevalence of the association between racism and the use of force by police is a highly debated topic, there are instanc...

Criminal Justice System and the Film One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

in public opinion toward those who are mentally ill and toward those who have been incarcerated. The question that it brought up w...

Controversial Musical Artist R. Kelly

him or helping him . . . and why. What is likely to happen is that well see what weve pretty much always seen; which is that famo...

Should the U.S. Participate in the International Criminal Court and the World Trade Organization?

the organization gives unfair trade advantages to some of the countries that need those advantages the least. Even without the im...

Policy Implications of the Film Cool Hand Luke

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

Criminal Justice and Alcoholism

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