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the hands of Congress because they contain sensitive information concerning military and other global activities falling strictly ...
issues (Young, 2001). Many have multiple problems. Gahr (2001) explains that "juvenile crime is decreasing in some categories--li...
was brought under section 15 and not section 16, where workman told a householder work needed to be undertaken when it did not, a...
we can also see that there maybe some acts which we feel to be immoral or unethical, but they do not constitute criminal acts, whe...
America, the concept of the antihero was revised to better reflect the attitudes of its citizens, and was defined to be an individ...
the moral aspect needs to be remembered, but the case is made on the law and on the facts surrounding the case, not on moral indig...
was reduced by about half, to reach an even keel with Caucasian arrest level, with a slightly higher percentage of arrests falling...
was not always this way (Mocete, 1997). The prison system persists in its newfound role most likely due to the fact that there i...
juveniles in adult prison are at a far greater risk for abuse than are the adults in prison. The following presents some of those ...
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...
make it more likely that he or she will be convicted. If in fact the person is wrongly arrested due to the color of his skin or so...
(Hugo). As this demonstrates, the only effect that nineteen years of mistreatment has had on Valjean is to turn this kind-hearted ...
and technical assistance to increase the knowledge and skills of all personnel in the criminal justice system (WV Div. of Criminal...
emotion yet little fact, and 2. That based on fact. The purpose of this paper will be to review the latter....
extending from an increasing prison population and the struggles of the government to address this problem (Brann, 1993). Casa (1...
by many experts to be a "breakthrough" book - for the most part, while studies of victimization of adults of crime have been print...
Aspects such as hair, eye, and skin color, height, weight, bone structure are only a few example of the physical characteristics w...
might encompass the criminals perception of societal views if criminal activity and how that view would extend to them if they wer...
different elements, conduct, consequences and circumstances. However, some crimes may be purely seen as a result of the conduct, o...
evidence in a large amount of literature that there is a link between mental illness and crimes (Drake and Pathe, 2004). T...
operation of prisons by the private sector became a vital option again during the 1980s and early 1990s for several reasons, the f...
direct violation of a defendants Sixth Amendment rights (AkRepublicans.com, 2005). In effect Blakely v. State of Washington resul...
While the statistics obviously support the contention that there is a disproportionate representation of blacks as compared to whi...
has formulated a computer program that analyzes crime locations and statistical information about criminal behavior in order to he...
is valuable where the safety of the community is concerned. In relationship to the board, there are nine board members who are ...
conclusion as to what is the best way of going about treating drug addicted offenders. The important question is: What is the bes...
theory (which considers social factors, disorganization, control and the learning process)and the rational choice theory (which co...
heading of the United States Department of Justice (Glover 92). The U.S. Marshalls, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the D...