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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...

Criminal Justice and Fetal Alcohol Syndrome

unborn child. The National Organization on Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (NOFAS) defines fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS) as "a lifel...

Criminal Justice System and the Treatment of Children as Children and Not Adults

children as young as ten will fall under the juvenile court jurisdiction (1997) It is true that some children seem to deserve th...

'A Rose for Emily' by William Faulkner

was the case, but not in the manner which many would believe. I dont think there is any reason to believe that Emily was raging m...

Criminal Justice System Deterrence

There are pros and cons to deterrence programs and some are far more effective than others. Comparing and contrasting these aspec...

Pros and Cons of Capital Punishment

several Christian societies which still use the Bible as a basis for their arguments for the death penalty. Largely, however even ...

Criminal Justice and the Development of New Technology

three of the primary concerns with regard to DNA and paternity testing include the question of a "generally accepted scientific th...

Overview of the TX Dept. of Criminal Justice

2002). The Department does not only hire correctional officers. There are a vast array of jobs that include: Correctional Officer...

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...

Criminal Justice System and Minorities' Overrepresentation

that the African American and Hispanic youths were generally treated far more harshly than the white criminal youth (Poe-Yamagata;...

Incarceration Rates and What They Say About Racism in Maryland

18 white youths were arrested for dealing drugs in 1980 while as many as 86 black youths were arrested for the same crime ("Civil,...

Criminal Justice System in Australia and Migrant Injustices

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

Goals of the Criminal Justice System

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

System of Criminal Justice and the Judge's Role

make it more likely that he or she will be convicted. If in fact the person is wrongly arrested due to the color of his skin or so...

Arizona System of Criminal Justice and the Twenty First Century

by and large, remove a good deal of the criminal element from the streets. However, it can be said that while the criminal element...

Criminological Theory

People commit crimes for a diversity of reasons. A considerable body of research has been devoted to explaining those...

Restorative Justice and Traditional Cultures

The concept of restorative justice is something that is intriguing people from all...

Overview of a Criminal Justice Study on Marijuana Use

This research paper consists of an analysis of Green, et al's 2010 study, "Does heavy adolescent marijuana use lead to criminal in...

Aspects in Criminology

feel dehumanized or disconnected from the society (Stevens, 2004). 2. Criminal Careers Land and DUnger (2010) explain that the c...

Surveillance Cameras Preventing and Solving Crimes

Our world has evolved overnight into one in which we can seldom find privacy. The use of cameras to record our...

A Review of the California Foster Care System

--for more information on using this paper properly! The criminal justice system often receives criticism for operating ...

State and Federal Interaction in Criminal Justice

Governmental structure allows us as a society to define what is appropriate and what is inappropriate behavior as well as to...

The Evolution of Criminal Justice Policy

of criminal justice. This is to say that whenever budgets for criminal justice departments are determined, it is a matter determin...

California Foster Care Agencies and the Criminal Justice System

for operating in isolation, or for the establishment of laws that are seen as disconnected from the reality of everyday experience...

Criminal Justice - Difficult Questions

these agencies funded? Should administrators be concerned about financial waste or should they spend every budget dollar to demons...

Insuring Criminal Justice

Criminal justice has benefitted tremendously from recent scientific and technological improvements. Crime scene investigators no ...

Pharmaceutical Companies and the Trend of Online Marketing

the new advertising venues. This trend has been reflected in pharmaceutical companies as well, for whom online advertising has bee...

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...

Statistical Trend Analysis

of the school age population will primarily speak a language other than English (Flynn & Hill, 2005). Trends such as these can p...

Criminal Justice and Empiricism

new ideas that argued humans were intellectual beings who could control things. Positivism, which is based on science and empirici...