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Criminal Law and Strict Liability

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...

Crime, Gangs, and Law Enforcement Strategies That are Ethnic and Race Specific

contend, is fueled by nothing but a lot of "hot air and rhetoric" (Berry, 1995, p. PG). The cycle is not difficult to comprehend:...

Law Enforcement's 'Knock and Announce' Rule

that the subject is violent or inclined to use the weapons (Bulsomi). However, in the vast majority of drug cases and in cases inv...

Burglary, Common Law and Criminal Statute

law been as effective as the outcome of a criminal statute? Yes, the outcome of common law is as effective as the outcome of a cr...

U.S. Presidency and Criminal Law

In six pages this paper considers the case of President Bill Clinton in the presentation of a constitutional law argument that sup...

U.S. Criminal Law and the Massachusetts 'Au Pair' Trial

In twelve pages this research paper examines what can be learned by American criminal law by studying the case of the Commonwealth...

Law Enforcement and Photography

In five pages this paper discusses the importance of photography in law enforcement in an examination of criminal evidence gatheri...

Law Enforcement Officials and the Problem of Biker Gangs

In twenty two pages this research paper analyzes the criminal behavior of so called 'biker gangs' in terms of history and certain ...

David Phillips's 'No Heroes, No Villains, The Story of a Murder Trial'

This is a novel overview in 5 pages that explains how the significance of evidence collecting and the practice of criminal law is ...

UK Criminal Liability Law

from time to time laid down, are sufficiently injurious to the public to warrant the application of criminal procedure to deal wit...

The Evolution of Forensic Psychology

This paper addresses the origins and advances in the field of forensic psychology. The author focuses on how forensic psychologis...

Criminal Profitability at the Victim's Expense

In eight pages victims rights and restricting a criminal from profiting off of crime and victimization is discussed in a considera...

Post Train Crash Liability

The first aspect is to consider if a tort has occurred in the accident. to proceed we need to ensure that it is recognised for any...

'Blame Game' and Criminal Law

is the blame in this particular scenario -- especially if the evidence overwhelmingly points toward the defendants guilt? And isn...

Six Argument Schemas

employed. PREMISE 2: Self-defense must correlate with reasonableness. PREMISE 3: Both law and morality must play a role in the e...

England's Crime and Crime and Punishment from 1800 to 1850

times when social change occurred (Emsley , 1987). In many ways the examination of the way those who are accused of committing cri...

Culpability in Criminal Justice

For an act to be punished as a criminal offense it has to not only be against a specified law...

Insuring Criminal Justice

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

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...

Overview of Customary Law

to a time when the only law was Trial by Combat . This was how the Anglo-Saxons saw the role of justice in solving their problems ...

Judiciary and the Role of Statutory Interpretation

of Britain. He suggested that these powers were separated in the following way Legislative - law creation. Executive - executing t...

Three Questions of British Commercial Law

A three part English law paper addressing three specific questions relating to insolvency law, agency, and contract law. The auth...

Research in Criminal Justice

internal and external stressors. b. Repeat offenders repeat their crimes because there are no other options. B. Incapacitation 1....

One Problem in Criminal Justice

terms of their parole (Pew Center, 2010). Nobody knows exactly what kinds of prison programs would definitely reduce recidivism r...

Review of Freedom Road by Howard Fast

to Howard Fasts 1944 novel Freedom Road that until the publications of this novel, it was a widely held opinion among the mainstre...

DNA A Tool in Criminal Justice

Practically since its discovery DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) has had phenomenal implications for the criminal justice system. With...

An Urban Planning/Criminal Justice Case Study

In other words, problem-oriented policing takes into consideration the social conditions and problems that are specific to a commu...

Slavery in America

Although Reconstruction began during the war, the time period traditionally associated with it is 1862-1877. The political, socia...

African Americans and the Civil War's Effects

Lincoln, and Northerners in general, are popularly seen as advocates for the black race. However, what is less well-known is that ...

New Yorkers Walt Whitman, Frederick Law Olmsted and the NYC Military's Contributions

in colonial America and grew impressively after the Revolution, with ship production centering on the East River (NY Maritime Cult...