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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...

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 military action at first is successful, but then, the taking of Baghdad only seems loosely related to the terrorism that occurre...

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

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

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

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

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...

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

Rehabilitation is only one reason for punishment. Other reasons go to retribution, deterrence and social control. Prisons do provi...

the expectation of fairness and as such there is also likely to be a high level of applications of concepts such as employee equit...

Watch in 1636, New York Citys Shout and Rattle Watch was implemented in 1651 and Philadelphia created ten separate patrol areas th...

the federal courts to mandate minimum rights for prisoners" (Platt, 1999, p. 237). But by the 1990s, prison reform had died out a...

place in about the third century; it lasts until the 20th. Iran went through a number of revolutions in the 20th century, includi...

Best Buy and for Circuit City; I also taught computers to the children at Boys and Girls Clubs. I also love mysteries and solving ...

cannot find the murderer; five years later, an author starts to question the police methods in another case (Cornell, 2006). Stung...

hundred thirty-four people; pertinent to the gathered data are such aspects as rate of recurrence, attributes and outcome of crimi...

that continue to plague law enforcement, it is likely services will for the most part be provided by the private industry, a reali...

To keep order in the court. Job rationale, many times, is not specifically stated, but is implied - the fact that the bailiff migh...

for three offenses, no matter how slight each one is. The idea behind the punishment is to deter criminals, but it doesnt always w...

After the American Revolution, "state legislatures standardized common-law crimes such as murder, burglary, arson and rape by putt...

of authority, there can be no sense of stability where people are arbitrarily applying their own interpretation. Nowhere is this ...

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

constitutional rights prior to taking them into custody or while interrogating them, a reality that -- had Miranda v. Arizona neve...

emergency and routine health-related issues must be made available to the juvenile, including dental, medical and behavioral by th...

careful not to reveal her real feelings. Gonnerman (2004) emphasizes the problems with the Rockefeller drug laws. For example, Gon...

notes, do not abide by this same economic equation; in fact, their productivity versus ever-growing taxpayer-funded resources more...