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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...

Culpability in Criminal Justice

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

Strengthening the Juvenile Criminal Justice System

cruelty, and shoplifting. These programs are utilized to give youth another chance instead of throwing them in juvenile detention ...

The Use of Technology in the Criminal Justice System

forewarned of an emergency call. However, the police have no privacy when they use scanners. MDTs on the other hand provide the po...

Budget Analysis for One Criminal Justice Agency

The budget reflected a decrease from the previous fiscal year and very close to the same personnel costs as 2007/2008. The data ar...

LEADING GROUPS IN A CRIMINAL JUSTICE ORGANIZTION: CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES

departments (and elsewhere, for that matter), leaders are "expected to be competent managers who inspire their followers to do eff...

Discrimination and Disparity in the Criminal Justice System

The difference between the terms discrimination and disparity is discussed. There are five sources listed in the bibliography of t...

Racism in Criminal Justice?

black men were imprisoned in 2006 (MacDonald, 2008)! This compares to only one in 79 Hispanic men and one in 205 white men (MacDon...

Communication And The Criminal Justice System

program before ever placing themselves in a position to make informed critiques immediately cast an ill-earned negative connotatio...

Criminal Justice Are Humans Inherently Good or Evil?

IS THAT WE ARE NOT INHERENTLY MORAL AND WE HAVE TO WORK TO ACHIEVE OUR MORALITY. PART OF THAT WORK HAS BEEN THE DEFINITION OF VAR...

Civil Law Countries and Their Criminal Justice Systems

as if the major difference between the nations of Europe, with the exception of Great Britain that is entrenched in the common law...

American Criminal Justice System: Three Important Issues

that are sent to them by the courts" (Jerin, 2004). What serves as a viable alternative, however, is highly suspect to being infl...

Challenges for the Criminal Justice Administrator

executive officer (CEO) of a small corporation (Dennis, 1999). For example, a "typical medium security prison houses 1,300 inmates...

How Women are treated in the Criminal Justice System

is certainly a major challenge. Because of this, women have greater and different health care needs. If a woman is pregnant in pri...

Work Perspectives In Criminal Justice

ii. Help employees stay afloat in an often slow or burned out economy D. Shared Vision...

Criminal Justice and the Feminist Movement

However, women continue to be restrained by social expectation by being routinely invalidated in popular culture. The road to gen...

Rape and England's Youth Justice and Criminal Evidence Act

challenges after challenges, which have ended up weakening the act, rather than strengthening it. When it comes to the law...

The Criminal Justice System

by Fisher and Sirianni, would not only give more visibility to the law enforcement officers in an area, but would engage the activ...

African Americans and the U.S. System of Criminal Justice

the largest percentage of ethnicity in the prison population were whites. Then, there was a huge jump in the numbers with an incre...

Two Articles on Criminal Justice Critically Analyzed

effectiveness, although difficult to prove, seemed to be less than that of traditional options. Recidivism rates, the rate at whic...

Criminal Justice System and Plea Bargaining

In six pages this essay argues against the option of plea bargaining for sex offenders and violent criminals with the Megan Kanka ...

Criminal Justice System in Canada and Rehabilitation

In a paper consisting of six pages Canada's rehabilitation programs are examined in terms of the lack of public policy and establi...

21st Century Corrections Changes and the Criminal Justice System

confronting corrections in the 21st century are prison overcrowding, limited funds, and protecting society from criminals by impri...

Criminal Justice System and 2 Studies on False Confessions and Eyewitness Importance

In eighteen pages this paper examines 2 studies on this topic with methodologies' proposals and review of relevant literature prov...

Higher Education For Police Officers

upon a combination of myriad elements that work in a synergistic way to address the criminal mind. The aspects of psychology and ...

Forensic Pathology Of Sudden Unexplained Death

and process evidence with the intent of catching the perpetrator. While not all sudden unexpected death is of a criminal nature, ...

Creation of Violent Criminals

unseasoned violent offenders" to gather data (Athens 23). From this data, Athens formulated an experiential process that he argue...

Terrorism and Wartime criminal law

an individual may initiate a private lawsuit, that is, in regards to "contracts, injuries, real and personal property and family r...

Criminal Law, Identity And Culture

Social Control theories are two in particular where crime, culture and identity intersect, the former of which asserts how everyon...

Actual Innocence

wrongly jailed" (Boyer). The first case they discuss is that of Marion Coakley, who "served more than two years in prison becaus...