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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...
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...
improvement in regards to the criminal justice management system, and, secondly, that there are ways by which this can occur at th...
is the same: someone has been killed at the hands of another. Steinbock bristles at the idea that one form of murder should be v...
an ends justify the means ideology. To Machiavelli, justice has to do with an end. One can take Machiavellis concept a bit furthe...
Unburdend crawl toward death", states King Lear in the opening act. Having decided to step down from the throne, King Lear has pos...
evidence in a large amount of literature that there is a link between mental illness and crimes (Drake and Pathe, 2004). T...
a democracy. Plato contended that it would be impossible within a democracy to have the kind of harmony and societal unit...
perhaps the most prevalent of all approaches to criminal punishment utilized in the United States, the nation that holds the dubio...
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...
was not always this way (Mocete, 1997). The prison system persists in its newfound role most likely due to the fact that there i...
the social justice advocates and academicians who claim that this isnt necessarily the case, as well see in this paper. Be...
and technical assistance to increase the knowledge and skills of all personnel in the criminal justice system (WV Div. of Criminal...
would be incurred if we were to rehabilitate drug and alcohol users rather than put them in the penitentiary. The view...
differed so that the young offender will have time to make amends. Other forms of mediation are found within the prisons themselve...
be a state trooper whose jurisdiction covers and entire state, and not just one single town. Then there is law enforcement individ...
ethical, philosophical, and moral issues that characterize the one delivery mechanism also characterize the other. A particular c...
structure to the ubiquitous bad guy, "society." It was only a number of years later that we began admitting that there is a...
are fair, and just-and that in turn suggests that when things are unjust in society, the entire interlocking mechanism of sustaina...
the challenge of numerous social problems throughout its history (Jansson, 2000). During the colonial period, indentured servants ...
behavior. Letting them go, or sanctioning them with only community service, may be too lenient. Even so, some small gestures will ...
is great interest. Plato looks at all of these things in his book The Republic. In Book I, justice is discussed and it is deemed ...
and having managers responsible for planning the work while workers are responsible for carrying out those plans (Encyclopedia of ...
is "attributed to a person who has control over or responsibility for another who negligently causes an injury or otherwise would ...
vital option again during the 1980s and early 1990s for several reasons, the first of which was the existence of a general sociopo...
cases from the point of view that the person on trial is guilty. There is no presumption of innocence until proven guilty-he start...
correlation between class and incarceration, as roughly 80 percent of those inmates incarcerated in 2002 could not afford an attor...