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security forces enjoyed, and the issue of human rights abuses connected with police methodologies. The State Department noted that...

was reduced by about half, to reach an even keel with Caucasian arrest level, with a slightly higher percentage of arrests falling...

itself in context, it is perhaps helpful to begin with a brief overview of the development of correctional policies in the UK: not...

This usually involves some type of probation arrangement or counseling/treatment (The Center for Young Womens Development Handbook...

is actually weak. It only pertains to the individual. The person is supposedly getting what he deserves, but is society really ben...

Nozicks Theory of Justice presents a strong argument for the libertarian view. This view honors property rights, that is, that in...

nations would "interact with one another in a zone of comity, cooperation and law" (see 142, 143). The Kantian theory, in fact, is...

resolve racial inequality, that inequality continues to exist in terms of economics in particular. Bell asserts that social class...

ethical, philosophical, and moral issues that characterize the one delivery mechanism also characterize the other. A particular c...

supports the claim with well documented research, that non-violent criminals can pay their debt to society in many ways which are ...

as a spoil of war. Her first husband had been killed by Agamemnon and her child killed in front of her. It can be said that she ha...

message and impression of unity. There had been a great deal of negative publicity and actions by the competing parties who did no...

has necessitated their decline in power. There had also been political instability accompanied by the need for economic reform. ...

While the statistics obviously support the contention that there is a disproportionate representation of blacks as compared to whi...

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

is valuable where the safety of the community is concerned. In relationship to the board, there are nine board members who are ...

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...

was not always this way (Mocete, 1997). The prison system persists in its newfound role most likely due to the fact that there i...

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...

is something which has frequently been reiterated by other civil rights activists: in his Letter from Birmingham Jail, for instanc...

houses between the juvenile leaving the correctional system and reentering the community. Juvenile delinquency is just one ...

or not a specific practice reduces recidivism or has some constructive impact on those who are addressed by the criminal justice s...

and as a result of this, there was a change in the way that the courts (read..judges) were to view juvenile offenders. For particu...

increasing problem with native youths. The courts were dealing with increasing numbers of young offenders, with high level of re-o...

In 1899, the first juvenile court case was heard in Chicago as authorized by the Illinois Juvenile Court Act (Penn, 2001). The ju...

perhaps the most prevalent of all approaches to criminal punishment utilized in the United States, the nation that holds the dubio...

structure to the ubiquitous bad guy, "society." It was only a number of years later that we began admitting that there is a...

Unburdend crawl toward death", states King Lear in the opening act. Having decided to step down from the throne, King Lear has pos...