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Ann Jones/ "Women Who Kill"

be viewed within its historical context in order to be fully understood. For example, rather than viewing the Salem Witch Trials a...

Criminal Justice and Treating Juvenile Crime as Adult Offenses

does not treat all of its juvenile offenders as adults. Indeed, the state is one of the most progressive in the nation in terms o...

Connectivity, External and Internal Drive Bays

front panel." Kozierok (2001) also explains that the term "external drive bay" is a "bit of a misnomer" in that the term ex...

Juvenile and Adult Courts: A Comparative Study:

vary somewhat from state to state, juvenile justice typically has a similar protocol. At the time a juvenile is arrested, a decis...

Justice Defined

the group prosper (147). First of all, before considering what constitutes justice within a community, it is first necessary to ...

Organized Crime Syndicates and Commercial Burglaries

but commercial burglaries are up (Star Tribune 02B). For many reasons, burglars find commercial establishments a better target th...

American Criminal Justice System: Three Important Issues

that are sent to them by the courts" (Jerin, 2004). What serves as a viable alternative, however, is highly suspect to being infl...

Conflict And Crime Control Models Versus Consensus And Due Process Models

crime speaks to how competition and inequitable distribution of norms and values play a significant role in why race and crime are...

U.S. System of Criminal Justice, Ethnicity, and Race

perspective is that OJ Simpson was tried by a jury of his peers. There was an Asian judge and a jury made up of minorities. The pr...

American Criminal Justice and the Constitution

The result is that "there are not one, but fifty-five court systems in the United States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, a...

Origanizational Communication And Miranda v. Arizona

constitutional rights prior to taking them into custody or while interrogating them, a reality that -- had Miranda v. Arizona neve...

Life on the Outside by Gonnerman

careful not to reveal her real feelings. Gonnerman (2004) emphasizes the problems with the Rockefeller drug laws. For example, Gon...

Basic Legal Rights For Juveniles In The U.S.

emergency and routine health-related issues must be made available to the juvenile, including dental, medical and behavioral by th...

Justice for All or Just for Some?

and 1.2% of non-Hispanic whites. This paper examines some of the factors that may account for the disproportional representation o...

Justice for All or Just for Some?

and 1.2% of non-Hispanic whites. This paper examines some of the factors that may account for the disproportional representation o...

Problems And Benefits Of Parole And Pardons

productive person, such programs still struggle to be instrumental in realigning otherwise maladjusted individuals while at the sa...

The Evolution of the Criminal Justice System

enlightenment philosophy? What form did those ideas take in classical criminological thought?" First, a look at each of the named...

U.S. Criminal Justice System Law Enforcement, Judicial And Corrections

Watch in 1636, New York Citys Shout and Rattle Watch was implemented in 1651 and Philadelphia created ten separate patrol areas th...

How Our Criminal Justice System Reflects the U.S. Constitution

as US citizens are protected even at the point where the system has essentially labeled us as a criminal. Due process is, in fact...

The Interconnected Society

fair to say that few Americans, if any, are going to agree with the way Congressional members vote themselves hefty raises in the ...

Grisham Indicts the Criminal Justice System

cannot find the murderer; five years later, an author starts to question the police methods in another case (Cornell, 2006). Stung...

Impact Of Crime On Society

hundred thirty-four people; pertinent to the gathered data are such aspects as rate of recurrence, attributes and outcome of crimi...

Overview Of Several Facets of Criminal Justice

that continue to plague law enforcement, it is likely services will for the most part be provided by the private industry, a reali...

COMMUNICATIONS AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE

To keep order in the court. Job rationale, many times, is not specifically stated, but is implied - the fact that the bailiff migh...

Alternative Punishments in the Justice System

for three offenses, no matter how slight each one is. The idea behind the punishment is to deter criminals, but it doesnt always w...

Iranian Law and Criminal Justice

place in about the third century; it lasts until the 20th. Iran went through a number of revolutions in the 20th century, includi...

Prejudices, Criminal Justice System, and Overrepresentation of Minorities

any given day, there are myriad reports of crime and violent acts purportedly committed by persons of color, origin and ethnic bac...

Drug Offenders and Treatment Alternatives

conclusion as to what is the best way of going about treating drug addicted offenders. The important question is: What is the bes...

Changing an Unfair Criminal Justice System

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

Issues of Social Justice from a Historical Perspective

quo (Ruddell and Urbina, 2004). In his analysis of the history of incarceration in the US, Vogel (2003) charts a relationship be...