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US System of Juvenile Justice and its Problems

is unusual. All too often children are led through a troubled system that simply does not know how to treat young offenders. I...

Criminal Justice System and Discrimination

fact, that although blacks represent only thirteen percent of our national population they represent some thirty percent of those ...

Drug Offenders and Treatment Alternatives

conclusion as to what is the best way of going about treating drug addicted offenders. The important question is: What is the bes...

Ethics of Crime and Punishment

theory (which considers social factors, disorganization, control and the learning process)and the rational choice theory (which co...

Changing an Unfair Criminal Justice System

heading of the United States Department of Justice (Glover 92). The U.S. Marshalls, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the D...

Criminal Profilers : A Comparison of Three Professionals

has formulated a computer program that analyzes crime locations and statistical information about criminal behavior in order to he...

Profiling Art and Australian Serial killer Ivan Milat

American television show called Numbers demonstrates that sometimes random killings are not really random at all and location can ...

Criminal Justice and Treating Juvenile Crime as Adult Offenses

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...

Operant Conditioning, B.F. Skinner, and Criminal Behavior

pigeons to coin the now infamous term "operant conditioning" to describe the phenomenon of learning occurring in response to an or...

Website Objectivity, Accuracy, and Authorship Evaluation

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

Forensic Science and DNA Testing

RFLP is no smaller than a quarter, while with PCR Analysis the sample can be no bigger than a few skin cells. This seemingly insi...

Evaluating The 'Criminal Justice is Not Racist' Assertion

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

Prejudices, Criminal Justice System, and Overrepresentation of Minorities

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

Criminal Investigator Characteristics

skills and abilities for three different types of crimes that a criminal investigator would need to consider. General Characterist...

Criminal Prosecution and Safety in the Workplace

national markets developed to heighten the exploitation of American natural resources (Rosner, 2000). Coal and iron were in parti...

The Lack of Relevant Variables Represented by Previous Criminal Records and Seriousness of Crime

not as readily realized is that black Americans also represent the highest number of homicide victims between the two races. In t...

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:...

Criminality Theoretical Development

just tell a child hes good, and hes well, hes fine, does not produce anything, nor does it increase the childs self-esteem. Child...

Overview of the Texas Board of Criminal Justice

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

Political Commentaries of Tacitus's Annals and Ben Jonson's Sejanus His Fall

after this fall, which resulted in abuse of the Roman legalistic process and which also served to illustrate the cruelty of Tiberi...

Dead Man Walking by Sister Helen Prejean

due to biblical passages describing how divine vengeance was "meted out to guilty and innocent alike" in "the Great Flood, the des...

Reviewing the International Criminal Court

a pivotal player in the precursors to the ICC. The Geneva Convention, signed into effect in 1864, was one of these precursors. I...

Comparisons Between Criminal Justice and Juvenile Justice

idea that juvenile offenders needed to be handled different from adult offenders; as the goal was to retrain the child toward more...

Policy Analysis of Alaska Senate Bill 56

direct violation of a defendants Sixth Amendment rights (AkRepublicans.com, 2005). In effect Blakely v. State of Washington resul...

John Gotti and Theories of Crime

in the Cosa Nostra (John Gotti, 2009). He stood trial several times but was always acquitted, earning him the nickname the "Teflon...

PROCESSING A CRIMINAL CASE

state, or state to federal, the process involves the stages of investigation, interrogation, arrest, complaint/indictment, arraign...

Problems in the Administration of Justice

profiling is used to "compensate for a lack of evidence and represents poor police work" (Hajjar, 2006). Police simply round up "s...

Forensic Procedures: Criminal Profiling

profiling methods is the ample numbers in which they exist, making identification a much more accessible venture. Because of the ...

Criminal Policies

(Purpura, 1996). "The crime control model stress the importance of protecting society through efficient and effective law enforce...

ADJUSTING TO TERRORISM

small group, or individual, that would premeditate an attack against a building or government employee (Mosley, 2003). This was th...