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stance. After all, the police officers can write tickets for small oversights, but a friendly attitude, without overly strict enfo...
toward determinate sentencing models that go along with a tough on crime stance. Of course, juvenile justice has to some extent b...
likely to go to a full jury trial * have considerable impact on the public perception (too much?) (Chapter Topics, 2007). An exa...
"who commit nonviolent drug possession offenses or who violate drug-related conditions of probation or parole" to receive treatmen...
The governor wanted to eliminate parole and one conservative legislator was looking for input from people involved in the system (...
a company rather than career corrections officers, they are underpaid, demoralized, and the turnover is high (Friedmann, 1999). Pr...
significant alteration of their position when an organizational change occurs (Wiersema 25). Also, integrating technologies into a...
four will be examined: A definition of the problem; a description of the offender population; a description of community involveme...
only through the attainment of goals that one can truly know that everything that could be done had been done. Another question ...
The evolution of punishment strategy has gone hand in hand with the evolution of society as a whole. Harris (1996), for example, ...
seven years in areas closed to slavery; Illinois was a free state and the Missouri Compromise of 1820 had closed the Wisconsin Ter...
vital option again during the 1980s and early 1990s for several reasons, the first of which was the existence of a general sociopo...
cases from the point of view that the person on trial is guilty. There is no presumption of innocence until proven guilty-he start...
important because school systems have not kept pace with society. Change is needed and sometimes reform and renewal are vital elem...
crime. In so many ways they are simply victims and yet are incarcerated because of this. Belknap seems to argue that much of this ...
of the frequency of their transgressions, as opposed to seriousness, it is also true that only certain types of juveniles are like...
correlation between class and incarceration, as roughly 80 percent of those inmates incarcerated in 2002 could not afford an attor...
A 17 page paper discussing environmental justice, policy and environmental law as the concepts apply to Altgeld Gardens, a low inc...
that a ten year old can be prosecuted for murder. In contemplating this issue, it pays to take a look at the juvenile justice syst...
is great interest. Plato looks at all of these things in his book The Republic. In Book I, justice is discussed and it is deemed ...
fundamental importance in the Republic of the metaphor of descent and its connection to the two great themes of birth and death, a...
is "attributed to a person who has control over or responsibility for another who negligently causes an injury or otherwise would ...
the challenge of numerous social problems throughout its history (Jansson, 2000). During the colonial period, indentured servants ...
U.S. Constitution makes the President, a civilian leader, the Commander-in-Chief of the Army, Navy and Militia. While the Presiden...
Rehabilitation is only one reason for punishment. Other reasons go to retribution, deterrence and social control. Prisons do provi...
behavior. Letting them go, or sanctioning them with only community service, may be too lenient. Even so, some small gestures will ...
in that area, only fifteen miles down the road, accepting that level of emission as long as the plant is staffed only by Mexican w...
the prison system. This is something that has concerned the public and the same problem is found in juvenile detention centers as ...
Americans are "overrepresented" in the criminal justice system. There is a disparity between the number of blacks in the U.S. and ...
Dies, Who Decides," 2010). It is hard to dispute this observation. Yet, the other side of the coin contends that there are more bl...