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four will be examined: A definition of the problem; a description of the offender population; a description of community involveme...
strangles his wife thinking that hes squeezing a grapefruit." There were those who painted him as an all American type young man, ...
liberties that are guaranteed to Americans in the Constitution are not lost in the process of addressing this problem. Commentator...
their behaviors or lack thereof. Also, Georges wife, Mary, is not a decision maker but she no doubt has an influence on the decisi...
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...
correlation between class and incarceration, as roughly 80 percent of those inmates incarcerated in 2002 could not afford an attor...
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...
A 17 page paper discussing environmental justice, policy and environmental law as the concepts apply to Altgeld Gardens, a low inc...
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 ...
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...
was a knight, he was essentially required to meet challenges and learn how to be chivalrous, often through mistakes. As such the Q...
the challenge of numerous social problems throughout its history (Jansson, 2000). During the colonial period, indentured servants ...
behavior. Letting them go, or sanctioning them with only community service, may be too lenient. Even so, some small gestures will ...
of research is that quantitative research designs depend on "quantities," on the use of statistic data that is collected, while qu...
and one flowchart. The logo, shown in Figure 1, is quite striking and pointedly appropriate for juvenile justice. It provides of...
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...
there are also some commonalities in the way that the law has been developed and the way it is implemented. In each case the evo...
bias in the system which seeks out blacks and instills upon them harsher sentences is a highly controversial topic. Inter...
a company rather than career corrections officers, they are underpaid, demoralized, and the turnover is high (Friedmann, 1999). Pr...
"who commit nonviolent drug possession offenses or who violate drug-related conditions of probation or parole" to receive treatmen...
stance. After all, the police officers can write tickets for small oversights, but a friendly attitude, without overly strict enfo...
likely to go to a full jury trial * have considerable impact on the public perception (too much?) (Chapter Topics, 2007). An exa...
The governor wanted to eliminate parole and one conservative legislator was looking for input from people involved in the system (...
are victims of hate crimes. Other special victims may be disabled, gay, HIV-infected, prisoners or students (Wallace, 2007). These...
poverty. There is always a potential bias in any system that has the danger of becoming an inequality. The basis of the law and...
toward determinate sentencing models that go along with a tough on crime stance. Of course, juvenile justice has to some extent b...