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heading of the United States Department of Justice (Glover 92). The U.S. Marshalls, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the D...

idea that juvenile offenders needed to be handled different from adult offenders; as the goal was to retrain the child toward more...

direct violation of a defendants Sixth Amendment rights (AkRepublicans.com, 2005). In effect Blakely v. State of Washington resul...

The ways in which the system of criminal justice has been impacted by victimology are discussed with examples including the trial ...

Hibbard (1996) suggests that drugs have created a title wave across the nation. Because of drugs, a great number of prisons have ...

In five pages this paper discusses the U.S. criminal justice system's practice of discrimination and the social and political devi...

This paper consists of three pages and examines the similarities and differences that exist regarding gangs that are criminal, vio...

In five pages this paper considers government population statistics concerning crime and criminal characteristics. Four sources a...

This research paper adresses the fact thaty it is far more costly to house and feed criminals for life than it is to sentence them...

In twelve pages the use of fingerprinting in criminal investigations is examined in an historical overview that also includes the ...

must be aware. Alcohol & substance abuse are prevalent in todays society. It is important for the student of criminal justice to...

Before delving into proving the thesis, looking at relevant literature and statistics, it is important to look at drug use and its...

Criminal justice in the United States is a litmus-test issue for liberals and conservatives. This paper discusses the differences ...

In two pages this paper examines criminal deviance and the role the media plays in encouraging this behavior. Two sources are cit...

restroom ("New Jersey," 2004). When one of the girls was told by administrators to empty her purse, she complied, but marijuana w...

the latest technological innovations and how this information is being applied. These articles uniformly indicate that police inve...

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

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

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

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

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...

(Hugo). As this demonstrates, the only effect that nineteen years of mistreatment has had on Valjean is to turn this kind-hearted ...

and technical assistance to increase the knowledge and skills of all personnel in the criminal justice system (WV Div. of Criminal...

emotion yet little fact, and 2. That based on fact. The purpose of this paper will be to review the latter....

might encompass the criminals perception of societal views if criminal activity and how that view would extend to them if they wer...

by many experts to be a "breakthrough" book - for the most part, while studies of victimization of adults of crime have been print...

Aspects such as hair, eye, and skin color, height, weight, bone structure are only a few example of the physical characteristics w...

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

extending from an increasing prison population and the struggles of the government to address this problem (Brann, 1993). Casa (1...

evidence in a large amount of literature that there is a link between mental illness and crimes (Drake and Pathe, 2004). T...