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Illinois Corruption and Commutation of Death Sentences by Gov. George Ryan

corruption in Illinois enjoyed its hey day it seems during the administration of recent ex-Governor Ryan. This corruption manifes...

High Profile Criminal Cases and the Influence of the Media

be true of this case, but the danger of an overzealous media is that it turns the public into heroes. Perhaps not wanting to be em...

Reforming the Los Angeles Police Department

and trickle down to the very last beat cop in order for there to be any improvement in how the LAPD approaches its racial inequity...

'Blame Game' and Criminal Law

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

Criminal Procedure And Evidence

evidence, such as a written contract that proves the terms of the agreement. This type of evidence is validated by a witness or so...

Al Qaeda and Bin Laden's Hacker Terrorism Models

term. He points out that "There is no organized body of legislation one might call the law of terrorism, and there is no inherent ...

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...

Thrill-Seeking and Crime

(p.229). Whether people channel this desire to engage in risk-whether that desire is normal or related to something they lacked i...

Juvenile And Adult Court: Comparison

5) have a court transcript proceedings and 6) appeal (Dane County Clerk of Courts, 2006). The one most distinguishing difference b...

Opposition To Drunk Driving

or being victim to - an automobile accident, particularly when such a catastrophe is caused by a drunk driver. Not only does it i...

Police Work in the O.J. Simpson Murder Case

vehicle the night before, then reopened the wound after breaking a glass in reaction to his ex-wifes murder (Linder, 2000). Altho...

Sex Offenders and the Correctional System

Even within the segregated unit there is a hierarchy: "People charged with rape and other sex crimes will attack child sex predato...

Criminal Behavior: Psychological And Personality Theories

the inherent connection between why some people engage in criminal activity and others do not (Barondess, 2000). III. DIFFERENTIA...

Trying Juveniles as Adult and Injustice

the juveniles who are punished through the adult court (Urbina and White, 2009, p. 122). Ostensibly, the purpose of transferring y...

Helping the Victims of Crime

victims of violent crime. Victim assistance is something that has been gaining more emphasisi in only the last few decades. The c...

Alcohol and Drug Use/Juvenile Crime

health and well-being (Neff and Waite, 2007). While illicit substance usage peaked in the late 1970s, recent statistics indicate t...

Cyer Law Privacy v. Security

Businesses have an interest in free information flows. Businesses are also under a threat from cyber criminals and terrorists. Whi...

Relationships Between Crime and Drug Abuse

community. This is when inner cities begin to influence public policy to such a point that "efforts to reverse drug prohibition f...

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 ...

A Case study Criminal Liability, Provocation, and Psychological Injury

a level of provocation which would warrant a threatening and violent response. It would appear from the description in the ca...

Investigations That Are Intelligence Based

extending from an increasing prison population and the struggles of the government to address this problem (Brann, 1993). Casa (1...

Hypothetical Criminal Intelligence Unit Examined

the Criminal Investigations Bureau but it is also identified as "a support function for the Special Weapons and Tactics Team (SWAT...

Criminal Reframing in Government

operation of prisons by the private sector became a vital option again during the 1980s and early 1990s for several reasons, the f...

Various Types of Crime Theories

might encompass the criminals perception of societal views if criminal activity and how that view would extend to them if they wer...

Failure to Act and UK Criminal Liability

different elements, conduct, consequences and circumstances. However, some crimes may be purely seen as a result of the conduct, o...

Society, Criminals, and Mandatory Drug Sentencing

emotion yet little fact, and 2. That based on fact. The purpose of this paper will be to review the latter....

DNA Database Crime Laboratory Necessity

Aspects such as hair, eye, and skin color, height, weight, bone structure are only a few example of the physical characteristics w...

Injustice Theme of Victor Hugo's Les Miserables

(Hugo). As this demonstrates, the only effect that nineteen years of mistreatment has had on Valjean is to turn this kind-hearted ...

Technology and Criminal Investigators

the latest technological innovations and how this information is being applied. These articles uniformly indicate that police inve...

President Richard M. Nixon's Failure to Protect the Presidential Office

the hands of Congress because they contain sensitive information concerning military and other global activities falling strictly ...