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The Use of Discretion in Police Work

2004). Also, it is important to note that sometimes the public wants certain rules enforced and at other times, it does not ("Poli...

Law Enforcement's Paramilitary Structure

way, the hierarchical structure creates a culture on one hand, of perfection or at least an aim towards perfection, but on the oth...

PA Act 33 and Juvenile Justice

In ten pages juvenile justice is considered in an overview of whether state laws assist or prevent justice with Miranda Rights fed...

Criminal Justice as a Career Choice

support at various law enforcement agencies (1993). There are a variety of jobs necessary at the federal level because areas such ...

Criminal Justice System and Discretion in Law Enforcement

Discretion, 2003). In his acclaimed study of discretion, University of Chicago law professor Kenneth Culp Davis discovered that p...

Aspects of Crime

things in life is to deviate from what is considered by the masses to be normal; in fact, Morpheus points out that it is often con...

Community Policing in the United States

stance. After all, the police officers can write tickets for small oversights, but a friendly attitude, without overly strict enfo...

Criminal Justice Ethics

for a differentiation in the purpose of the crime, and once policing agents were called, the legal process was started. Police ...

The Role of the Police Director in the Ivory Coast

(Camerer, 1997). This study will look specifically at the issue of the question of the ethics of these behaviors in the National ...

Law Enforcement Models

Four decades ago, police departments began considering other models of policing that would bring them closer to the people. Team p...

Tracking Juvenile Crime

adult arrests, which was only 33 percent for this period (Snyder, 2003). The juvenile population of the US in 2001 was 78 percen...

Six Country Comparison of Police Force Organization

as long as there is "some consensus about the proper parameters of social protests," as well as how the police and public should r...

Criminal Law Considered in 4 Questions

fair and sensible legal procedure based primarily upon morality and justice. Alexander the Great was the instrumental force behin...

Juvenile Justice and Juvenile Offenders to Adult Offenders

see needs that should be filled. Barber has been in the justice system for many years and she finally began to realize that many o...

The Juvenile Justice System and Violent Juvenile Offenders

The latter part of the Twentieth Century was characterized by a growing concern over what was perceived as a growing propensity...

Irish Police Culture

biased toward the unionist side and, therefore, this generated sympathy for the IRA (Clark, 2008). The British government, therefo...

Should Juveniles Be Tried as Adults?

Juveniles are responsible for an astounding percentage of the crime in this country. Even more disturbing is the degree of violen...

History of Juvenile Boot Camps

2007).by the year of 1996 there were ten states that had juvenile boot camps (Schnurer; Lyons, 2007). The states were "Alabama, Ca...

Street Gangs and Juvenile Delinquency

not career criminals. While the label does have a negative connotation, it is not the same as calling someone a murderer or a thie...

Community Profile: Juvenile Threat

gang activity in Los Angeles is to realize how gang mentality universally displayed in this racially and ethnically homogeneous su...

Core Concepts of Juvenile Delinquency

is trying to help and the psychologist. Social learning theories : The social learning approach to explaining juvenile delinque...

Programs Targeting Juvenile Crime

gets into trouble in the future, however, they are subject to sentencing as an adult (Montagne, 2000). There are certain ...

A Criminology Overview

(Henry and Lanier 2). The field itself is a branch of social science, in which criminologists endeavor to better understand crime...

Juvenile Justice, Due Process, and Social Control

Juveniles present an interesting consideration in criminal justice. Police officers are in a position to make a very real differe...

Juvenile Justice Bulletin: Key Points

2001 findings, with 43% black and 55% white juveniles arrested for violent crimes when the overall juvenile population that year r...

Organizational Justice and Motivation

that this will impact on behavior. As seen in the Mayos Hawthorne studies, where employees had a good employment relationship with...

'Letter from Birmingham Jail' by Martin Luther King Jr. and Social Justice

the United States. Its ugly record of brutality is widely known. Negroes have experienced grossly unjust treatment in the courts...

Solving Juvenile Crime Problems

by juveniles. Tragedies such as Jonesboro, Arkansas; Bethel, Alaska and Paducah, Kentucky have shocked the world as young people h...

Problems and Solutions Regarding Juvenile Crime

In five pages a speech discussing juvenile crime problems proposes some radical solutions by President Bill Clinton in a considera...

Juvenile Corrections and Probation

in group settings, these community-based probation programs ensure public protection in ways not possible using standard casework ...