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Youth Violence in the United States

4,400 rapes, 57% by people under 16, 3% by females, and 67% by whites (Juvenile court statistics, 2005). There were 26,000 robberi...

Forensic Science in the Twenty-First Century

security surrounding physical evidence is just as important as the security surrounding the criminals themselves from a forensic p...

African-American Juveniles and the Criminal Justice System

although blacks make up only 12% of Sacramentos drug users, "52% of those arrested in Sacramento are African-American" (Schiraldi,...

Negative Effects of Media on Young People

and for acceptance in social group" (Deveny and Kelley). II. By the age of 18, most American children have witnessed 16,000 simul...

Conducting Drug-Use Research/Texas Prisoners

first institution listed in regards to male offenders, which is the James V. Allred prison unit, located just outside of Wichita F...

Criminal Justice Process Overview

agents is enough to impact the outcome of a case, and as such, the role of each actor must be carefully understood and limited. Fo...

State Gun Laws and Gun Violence Levels

states scored more than 50 percent of the 100 available points ("Gun control," 2000). The study also illustrated the extreme varie...

Trial by Jury - Inefficient and Biased or an Essential Check on Legislative Power?

principles within a constitution (Conrad, 1998). There has been long term support for the use of juries; in 1953 The Royal Commiss...

Secondary Prevention and Family Violence

facts concerning domestic violence. First of all, research data shows that domestic violence rates are high, as there is lifetime ...

Black Boy by Richard Wright

a thousand lynchings" (Wright, 1993, p. 74). One of the many odd jobs that Wright utilized to try to help support is impoverishe...

Hypersexuality in Sexual Offenders

In a four page paper, the author considers the issue of hypersexuality in sexual offenders. Many sexual predators have been the v...

Violence at Work: A Problem for Nurses

In a paper of six pages, the author writes about research on the problem of workplace violence against nurses. The studies used i...

Criminal Justice and Empiricism

of empiricism through three primary assumptions of an ontological, axiological, and methodological nature. This includes a realist...

Examining the Criminal Justice Process

justice process: pre-trial, trial, and appeals (Washington State Department of Corrections, 2011). These three phases play out in ...

The Role of the Police Director in the Ivory Coast

(Camerer, 1997). This study will look specifically at the issue of the question of the ethics of these behaviors in the National ...

Criminal Recidivism and High School Dropout

to make sense of, or interpret, phenomena in terms of the meanings people bring to them [by using] a holistic perspective which pr...

Are Genes Involved in Aggressive Behaviors

the links between genetics and environment in human behavior. This is why human behavioral genetics explores and analyzes the fami...

Criminal Surveillance: Pros and Cons

casual downtown shopping trip; they feel this constitutes an invasion of their privacy. For instance, the House Majority Leader at...

Past, Present, Future/Evaluating Learning

should adapt the following example answer to reflect the reality of the students past personal experience. On entering the degre...

Criminal Justice and Empiricism

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

Theme of Lynching in Black Boy

life as a background that makes it possible to discuss the personal characteristics that enabled African Americans growing up in t...

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...

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...

Insuring Criminal Justice

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

The Oklahoma City Bombing

In a paper of one page, the author creates a diagram of the Oklahoma City bombing, lead by Timothy McVeigh. This diagram helps to...

Cultural Perspectives on the Northern Ireland Troubles

Ulster to belong to the United Kingdom can be broadly aligned with their religious associations (Tonge, 2001). In Northern Irela...

Do Genes or Environment Determine Crime

Theories abound as to why people commit crime. One of these theories purports...

Innovative Approaches to Victim Assistance

Criminal justice is comprised of a variety of approaches to solving and preventing crime. Another...

Wacquant's Prisons of Poverty

not realize that in part, the issue is attached to race, the economy, and social stratification. That is, the issue is not one per...