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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Alternative Punishments in the Justice System

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

Predicting the Future

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

COMMUNICATIONS AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE

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

The Cream of the Crime Crop

more dramatic than embezzlers, and the media is after ratings, so it uses the most sensational material it can. This means that wh...

Nathan McCalls' Makes Me Wanna Holler/Social Control Theory

grow ups and is exemplified when an individual feels that has a stake in their society as a whole. From the beginning of McCall...

How Our Criminal Justice System Reflects the U.S. Constitution

as US citizens are protected even at the point where the system has essentially labeled us as a criminal. Due process is, in fact...

The Interconnected Society

fair to say that few Americans, if any, are going to agree with the way Congressional members vote themselves hefty raises in the ...

Grisham Indicts the Criminal Justice System

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

Criminal Justice as a Career Choice

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

Impact Of Crime On Society

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

The Evolution of the Criminal Justice System

enlightenment philosophy? What form did those ideas take in classical criminological thought?" First, a look at each of the named...

Origanizational Communication And Miranda v. Arizona

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

Life on the Outside by Gonnerman

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

Justice for All or Just for Some?

and 1.2% of non-Hispanic whites. This paper examines some of the factors that may account for the disproportional representation o...

Justice for All or Just for Some?

and 1.2% of non-Hispanic whites. This paper examines some of the factors that may account for the disproportional representation o...

Problems And Benefits Of Parole And Pardons

productive person, such programs still struggle to be instrumental in realigning otherwise maladjusted individuals while at the sa...

Forensics And Cyber Crime

with computers and electronic data."2 However, the actual hands-on aspect of collecting evidence presents a far greater challenge...