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

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

only through the attainment of goals that one can truly know that everything that could be done had been done. Another question ...

was reduced by about half, to reach an even keel with Caucasian arrest level, with a slightly higher percentage of arrests falling...

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

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...

for instigating change that will relegate injustice and discrimination to the countrys past. Williams (2001), in fact, contends t...

due process. The paper then examines these goals as they relate to the goals of the individual, those being social justice, equali...

improvement in regards to the criminal justice management system, and, secondly, that there are ways by which this can occur at th...

was not always this way (Mocete, 1997). The prison system persists in its newfound role most likely due to the fact that there i...

houses between the juvenile leaving the correctional system and reentering the community. Juvenile delinquency is just one ...

evidence in a large amount of literature that there is a link between mental illness and crimes (Drake and Pathe, 2004). T...

would be that such a thing would never happen in the US without great public outcry, but that was before passage of the Patriot Ac...

perspective is that OJ Simpson was tried by a jury of his peers. There was an Asian judge and a jury made up of minorities. The pr...

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

The result is that "there are not one, but fifty-five court systems in the United States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, a...

where promotions occur relative to the requirements put into place in other businesses. Law enforcement officers, then, would be ...

but business does have a way of behaving unethically and even criminally where regulations against specific behaviors do not exist...

Hibbard (1996) suggests that drugs have created a title wave across the nation. Because of drugs, a great number of prisons have ...

The ways in which the system of criminal justice has been impacted by victimology are discussed with examples including the trial ...

In forty five pages this paper discusses the British system of criminal justice in an assessment of the 'offender as victim' conce...

Information about the juvenile system of criminal justice of these three centuries are compared and contrasted. There are 6 bibli...

In five pages this comprehensive American history text is examined in terms of the author's detailed consideration of the U.S. cri...

be arrested, even though he was portrayed as basically a good kid. Jeff is a case study that commences this article which tugs at...

This paper examines what alternatives exist in the criminal justice system for youth offenders with the emphasis being on deterren...

In five pages this paper discusses the criminal justice system and the problems posed by women in an overview of protocol and reha...

image of 33.5 million Black people. Theres something wrong with the picture, this stereotype" (p. 235). Despite the low number o...

define his identity that eclipsed the influence and importance of his home or his school. Durkheim was one of the first experts ...