SEARCH RESULTS

YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Criminal Policies

Essays 841 - 870

CRIMINALS AND LEGAL RIGHTS

was denied (Escobedo v. Illinois, 2010). Escobedo ultimately was convicted of murder, but appealed the conviction, claiming the co...

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...

English Criminal Law and Whether Mandatory Sentences Are Justified

is punished with the loss of their freedom. Therefore, retribution may be seen as basis for punishment. There are many that believ...

Crime Prevention as a Social and Not Situational Response and a Criminal Career

and adults are weak" (Citizens Commission on Human Rights, 2002). The absence of a solid, beneficial, healthy relationship with a...

Criminal Offenses and Substance Abuse

with 0 meaning definitely not and 100 meaning definitely. A definite score indicating mental illness caused the person to commit t...

One Problem in Criminal Justice

terms of their parole (Pew Center, 2010). Nobody knows exactly what kinds of prison programs would definitely reduce recidivism r...

DNA A Tool in Criminal Justice

Practically since its discovery DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) has had phenomenal implications for the criminal justice system. With...

Statistical Testing of Criminal Justice Data

the critical level, this the score against which the test statistic will be assessed to determine whether to accept or reject the ...

Criminal Justice and the Practice of Deontological Ethics

words, the private behavior of individuals may well be governed by simple emotional reactions to ethical scenarios. The actions of...

Criminal Trends in the Past 40 Years

and programming designed to support the conviction of violent and dangerous criminals led to an increased level of incarceration f...

Research in Criminal Justice

internal and external stressors. b. Repeat offenders repeat their crimes because there are no other options. B. Incapacitation 1....

Criminal Sexual-type Conduct Data

There have been a number of laws passed and numerous court cases regarding sexual harassment in the workplace. These span more tha...

Overview of Canadian Criminal Justice Articles

This paper provides summary of three articles that report on a new Canadian law that increases the victim surcharge penalty and ma...

The Reduction in Criminal Offences After Adolescence

of the frequency of their transgressions, as opposed to seriousness, it is also true that only certain types of juveniles are like...

Cases in Australasian Criminal Law

determining whether or not there was consent, the mens rea. However, this was also gender specific, needing there to be penetratio...

Report Compilation in Criminal Investigation

course, depends on the specifics of the crime. Some of the types of observations that might be made are expected and others are s...

Italian and Irish Criminal Groups

may be witnesses who refuse to talk. In fact, because most witnesses realize that their lives could be threatened, a witness prote...

Plea Bargaining: Unfair Advantage For Criminals

perpetrator to go free without any legal recourse speaks to the need for another option whereby the alleged criminal serves time, ...

“Victim or Vamp: Images of Violent Women in the Criminal Justice System”

Women who commit acts of extreme violence are considered an anomaly in our society. Those who do commit such acts, consequently, ...

Criminal Justice and Community Relations

is called Cab Watch, something that prompts taxi drivers in New York City to report crime (Miller & Hess, 2005). This is actually ...

Peoples: "Basic Criminal Procedures"

"good faith exception" of U.S. v. Leon (Peoples, 2006). Using this as a starting point, this paper considers the Exclusionary Rule...

Business and Criminal Law

that are not well thought out. White collar crimes are crimes that involve a level of sophistication. They usually implicate cri...

Are Criminals Made Or Born?

the head, cheekbones and jaws which were enlarged, lips that protruded and abnormal teeth along with dark skin (Jones, 2006; Willi...

Manslaughter and Criminal Law

Actus reus will usual consist of three different elements, conduct, consequences and circumstances. However, some crimes may be pu...

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...

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...

The Beggar's Opera and the Criminal World of Moll Flanders Compared

them. There was no such thing as government agencies in those days that would provide help for these children. In this novel, Mo...

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...

Domestic Violence and Criminal Investigations

country on a regular basis, the good news is that many concerned people are trying very hard to fix the system. And, it is throug...

Criminal Woman by Cesare Lombroso and G. Ferrero

and Ferrero 107). He proposes that through analysis of the skulls, brains, and facial anthropometry of female criminals, including...