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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...

Judicial Appeal for a Minimum Municipal Court Light Sentence

at the wrong time"), it would be counterproductive both to my brother and to the community to remove him completely from any oppor...

Criminal Justice Aspects

prison. In the United States Judicial System, courts specify when handing down the sentence the amount of time that must be serv...

System of Criminal Justice and the Judge's Role

make it more likely that he or she will be convicted. If in fact the person is wrongly arrested due to the color of his skin or so...

Sentencing and the American Criminal Justice System

toward determinate sentencing models that go along with a tough on crime stance. Of course, juvenile justice has to some extent b...

Are Judges an Anachronism to the Criminal Justice System?

For all of its faults and shortcomings, the American legal system is the best in the world. That system revolves around two prima...

The Evolution of Punishment in Criminal Justice

The evolution of punishment strategy has gone hand in hand with the evolution of society as a whole. Harris (1996), for example, ...

Trial by Jury - Inefficient and Biased or an Essential Check on Legislative Power?

principles within a constitution (Conrad, 1998). There has been long term support for the use of juries; in 1953 The Royal Commiss...

Criminal Justice, Social Justice, and Morality

the right to be treated the same as others Conclusion Although we know that the US Constitution guarantees certain rights to its ...

Prison Overcrowding, as a Flaw in Criminal Justice

This paper focuses on prison overcrowding as an ethical issue that affects the American criminal justice system Three pages in len...

Controlling Jury Awards

One jury may contain accountants and business owners who do not like money to be given away freely. Other juries may be comprised ...

Criminal JusticeIV

Another advantage of plea bargaining is that it allows prosecutors to dispatch cases quickly, freeing time and resources to fully ...

Sentencing for Identity Theft

sentencing, they generally provide a range within which the judge must remain when imposing sentence. Also, legal issues can affe...

Imposing Sentence in an Identity Theft Crime for Monetary Gain Case

states laws regarding identity theft can be quite different with penalties varying significantly (Perl, 2003). Whether or not the...

Australia and Changing Laws on Rape

it - leading the women involved in acquaintance rape where alcohol is involved to being required to assume an element of blame. A...

Criminal Justice System and Fairness

amazed that Bostick consented to the search. The United States Supreme Court held that Bostick had the ability to refuse. ...

The Criminal Justice System and the Issue of Racism

a great deal of ignorance and disrespect for that individual; just because someone is a member of a certain race does not mean tha...

Antitrust Issues and Internet Explorer of Microsoft

In five pages this paper examines the Department of Justice's antitrust case against Microsoft and issues regarding the Internet E...

An Analysis of Harold Rothwax's Book, Guilty...

This paper analyzes Judge Rothwax's book, Guilty: The Collapse of Criminal Justice. This seven page paper has nine sources listed...

An Analysis of Harold J. Rothwax Critique of the Criminal Justice System

This paper analyzes Judge Rothwax's book Guilty, The Collapse of Criminal Justice. The author concludes that Rothwax's arguments a...

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...

Plea Bargaining: Unfair Advantage For Criminals

perpetrator to go free without any legal recourse speaks to the need for another option whereby the alleged criminal serves time, ...

Forensics and the CSI Effect

Forensic sciences have been employed since ancient times. In the twenty-first century, however, forensic sciences began a rapid...

Mersault's Trial in The Stranger by Albert Camus

In this paper consisting of five pages the relevance of the evidence presented to the jury and how the concept of justice is shape...

Repeat Offenders and Mandatory Sentences

This paper consists of fifteen pages and examines theories of criminal justice in a consideration of shortcomings and limitations ...

Blind Faith Book Review

In a paper consisting of ten pages a criminal justice perspective is employed in this book review in which the argument that the s...

US System of Juvenile Justice and its Problems

is unusual. All too often children are led through a troubled system that simply does not know how to treat young offenders. I...

Do Blacks Receive Harsher Criminal Sentences?

In theory, when a crime is committed in the US and a...

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...

Racial Disparity in Criminal Sentencing

bias in the system which seeks out blacks and instills upon them harsher sentences is a highly controversial topic. Inter...