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conclusion as to what is the best way of going about treating drug addicted offenders. The important question is: What is the bes...
heading of the United States Department of Justice (Glover 92). The U.S. Marshalls, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the D...
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,...
by and large, remove a good deal of the criminal element from the streets. However, it can be said that while the criminal element...
was not always this way (Mocete, 1997). The prison system persists in its newfound role most likely due to the fact that there i...
houses between the juvenile leaving the correctional system and reentering the community. Juvenile delinquency is just one ...
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...
evidence in a large amount of literature that there is a link between mental illness and crimes (Drake and Pathe, 2004). T...
was reduced by about half, to reach an even keel with Caucasian arrest level, with a slightly higher percentage of arrests falling...
constitutional rights prior to taking them into custody or while interrogating them, a reality that -- had Miranda v. Arizona neve...
careful not to reveal her real feelings. Gonnerman (2004) emphasizes the problems with the Rockefeller drug laws. For example, Gon...
emergency and routine health-related issues must be made available to the juvenile, including dental, medical and behavioral by th...
enlightenment philosophy? What form did those ideas take in classical criminological thought?" First, a look at each of the named...
and 1.2% of non-Hispanic whites. This paper examines some of the factors that may account for the disproportional representation o...
productive person, such programs still struggle to be instrumental in realigning otherwise maladjusted individuals while at the sa...
hundred thirty-four people; pertinent to the gathered data are such aspects as rate of recurrence, attributes and outcome of crimi...
fair to say that few Americans, if any, are going to agree with the way Congressional members vote themselves hefty raises in the ...
that continue to plague law enforcement, it is likely services will for the most part be provided by the private industry, a reali...
To keep order in the court. Job rationale, many times, is not specifically stated, but is implied - the fact that the bailiff migh...
for three offenses, no matter how slight each one is. The idea behind the punishment is to deter criminals, but it doesnt always w...
(Singer, 1996). The case was shocking for a number of reasons, but two stand out: Bosket was only 15; and he was already in care a...
as a serious crime. Still, it is usually the case that the prostitutes are arrested while their customers go free. In the case of ...
although blacks make up only 12% of Sacramentos drug users, "52% of those arrested in Sacramento are African-American" (Schiraldi,...
become even more out of control as there are fewer eyes watching them. A well known study done at Stanford University tested behav...
profiling is used to "compensate for a lack of evidence and represents poor police work" (Hajjar, 2006). Police simply round up "s...
state, or state to federal, the process involves the stages of investigation, interrogation, arrest, complaint/indictment, arraign...
not realize that in part, the issue is attached to race, the economy, and social stratification. That is, the issue is not one per...