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Drug Rehabilitation v Prison

pockets of those buying. Incentives exist for each of these groups. For one group the economic incentives are a positive factor ...

Problems in the Administration of Justice

profiling is used to "compensate for a lack of evidence and represents poor police work" (Hajjar, 2006). Police simply round up "s...

Criminal Justice Are Humans Inherently Good or Evil?

IS THAT WE ARE NOT INHERENTLY MORAL AND WE HAVE TO WORK TO ACHIEVE OUR MORALITY. PART OF THAT WORK HAS BEEN THE DEFINITION OF VAR...

Climate Change

change in the ozone due to emissions of various chemicals (Nodvin and Vranes). B. Humans are not causing global warming, it is jus...

Ebbers Behind Bars

prosecution witness and is "crucial to the prosecutions case," since he is the only witness who said that "he spoke directly to Mr...

Sentencing and Armed Robbery

sentences imposed throughout the U.S., data from the Department of Justice indicates that recidivism rates are extremely high, as ...

The Need for Reform and Three-Strikes Sentencing

not violate the Eighth Amendment, which prohibits cruel and unusual punishment (Samaha, 2011). Ewing was sentence to 25 years to l...

Repentance and Criminal Sentencing

According to Rogers (2007) moral retributivism is distinct from retributivism. In the latter, the infliction of suffering on thos...

Should Juveniles be Sentenced to Death?

The death penalty has consequently been in and...

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...

Management of Sentencing, Corrections, and Probation

of what he chooses to do in life. Psychologists likely would say that Loser harbors immense hatred for women in that he chooses t...

Arbitrary Definition and Current Capital Punishment Sentences

- at least sometimes - just as culpable as adults" (Taylor, 2005, p. PG). Capital punishment was not only utilized as a...

Qualitative Study Death Sentence' to 'Good Cancer' Couples' Transformation of a Prostate Cancer Reviewed

objective in conducting their study was to "describe the experience of men who are diagnosed with prostate cancer and their wives,...

Use Of Shaming In Criminal Sentencing

and overlook the possible social benefits associated with alternative sentencing...If federally imposed mandatory minimum sentence...

3 Strikes Law and Sentencing

10,500 juvenile facilities, which represents an over-capacity rate of 186% (24). Prisoners are doubling-up in cells. They are sl...

California and Mandatory Minimum Drug Sentences

In fifteen pages this paper examines California's aggressive efforts in the ongoing war on drugs in a consideration of laws that m...

Whites, Blacks, Mentally Ill, and Criminal Sentencing

are mentally ill. One of the questions that then arises from this data is, are the white mentally ill sentenced to incarceration ...

Discussion of Criminal Sentencing of Whites, Blacks, and the Mentally Ill

In eight pages this paper examines the high percentage of people of color who are currently incarcerated along with those presentl...

Business Cycle Dating; Purposes of the Fed

This is a high-level view, and one that works only in retrospect. As example, it is difficult to accurately proclaim when the nat...

Budgeting Questions

well as the facilities to store the equipment not in use. Where there are a large level of physical assets the assets will also ne...

Environmental and Energy Tax Provisions

the fact that a "tax credit reduces tax dollar-for-dollar," while a deduction "only removes a percentage of the tax that is owed" ...

Gilmer v. Interstate/Johnson Lane Corporation

law and made arbitration significantly stronger. In an interpretation, the ADR Institute explains the effect of Gilmer this way: ...

Environmental Policy: Should It be Made at the State or Federal Level?

Its therefore up to California to pass laws that deal with the problem, but before doing so, it only makes sense that California w...

Tax on Goods

new cars. The federal excise taxes include a "gas guzzler" tax that is "imposed on new cars that fail to meet federal fuel economy...

Special Education Legislation And Impact

something to fear" (Forest and Pearpoint, n.d.). What we do know is that it costs about twice as much to educate a child with dis...

Some Legal Aspects of Hoover Dam

lived nearby. Rationale for Hoover Dam The benefits that a dam on the Colorado River could bring to the southwestern United...

In Pursuit of Small Government

to negotiate with governmental powers ultimately ended in the form of the Revolutionary War in which the colonies won their indepe...

Law, Policy, Research and Results in Domestic Violence

the use or attempted use of physical force or the threatened use of a deadly weapon (Section 922 (g)[9])" (Federal Domestic Violen...

Global Warming/Consensus in Newspaper Accounts

50 years" ("Global Warming"). In 2001, a similar UN report said that human activity had "likely played a role" in global warming...

California: Emergency Response by Law Enforcement at State and Federal Levels

(Ghilarducci and Guerin, 1999). SEMS incorporates the following: the "Incident Command System," which is the "field level" respo...