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Essays 961 - 990
open itself up to unyielding vulnerability. Madison addressed the inherent need for mans activities to remain under some semblanc...
because he had to feed starving children; despite this, he was given a five-year sentence. Two things immediately spring to mind: ...
terrorist acts? The practice of electronic surveillance was certainly nothing new. Two months prior to the attacks on the World ...
their behaviors or lack thereof. Also, Georges wife, Mary, is not a decision maker but she no doubt has an influence on the decisi...
huge influx of immigrants to the city, and that made the residents nervous and fearful that they would lose their positions to the...
The evolution of punishment strategy has gone hand in hand with the evolution of society as a whole. Harris (1996), for example, ...
only through the attainment of goals that one can truly know that everything that could be done had been done. Another question ...
seven years in areas closed to slavery; Illinois was a free state and the Missouri Compromise of 1820 had closed the Wisconsin Ter...
strangles his wife thinking that hes squeezing a grapefruit." There were those who painted him as an all American type young man, ...
When examining ethical theory and philosophies of hope, happiness is often at the forefront. It seems that the goal of most people...
liberties that are guaranteed to Americans in the Constitution are not lost in the process of addressing this problem. Commentator...
stance. After all, the police officers can write tickets for small oversights, but a friendly attitude, without overly strict enfo...
are victims of hate crimes. Other special victims may be disabled, gay, HIV-infected, prisoners or students (Wallace, 2007). These...
poverty. There is always a potential bias in any system that has the danger of becoming an inequality. The basis of the law and...
toward determinate sentencing models that go along with a tough on crime stance. Of course, juvenile justice has to some extent b...
A military action at first is successful, but then, the taking of Baghdad only seems loosely related to the terrorism that occurre...
both royalty, they have both been told by an outside agency to look for a murderer in their midst, and in both cases, the agency t...
a company rather than career corrections officers, they are underpaid, demoralized, and the turnover is high (Friedmann, 1999). Pr...
likely to go to a full jury trial * have considerable impact on the public perception (too much?) (Chapter Topics, 2007). An exa...
The governor wanted to eliminate parole and one conservative legislator was looking for input from people involved in the system (...
bias in the system which seeks out blacks and instills upon them harsher sentences is a highly controversial topic. Inter...
there are also some commonalities in the way that the law has been developed and the way it is implemented. In each case the evo...
"who commit nonviolent drug possession offenses or who violate drug-related conditions of probation or parole" to receive treatmen...
for three offenses, no matter how slight each one is. The idea behind the punishment is to deter criminals, but it doesnt always w...
After the American Revolution, "state legislatures standardized common-law crimes such as murder, burglary, arson and rape by putt...
of the problems with the system is that it is not standardized; each state has its own version. Funding mechanisms are different i...
hundred thirty-four people; pertinent to the gathered data are such aspects as rate of recurrence, attributes and outcome of crimi...
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...
is another matter. The Merit Systems Protection Board has a whole list of reasons for dismissal; and not performing on the job is ...