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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...
on, and intelligence gained is assumed to be from open source information unless otherwise specified. For the argument to be in ...
fact, that although blacks represent only thirteen percent of our national population they represent some thirty percent of those ...
106th Congress aimed at preventing violence against women, "one of the most blatant manifestations of patriarchy" (Mananzan, 1995,...
Today in America there is a great but subtle poison that has worked its way into the minds of those who recline nightly in their c...
of incapacitation we see that it can fall into various categories: "Incapacitation may be selective (aimed at particular offender...
a disproportionate percentage of the crimes. While it might be easy to point to racial profiling as the reason for the...
Discretion, 2003). In his acclaimed study of discretion, University of Chicago law professor Kenneth Culp Davis discovered that p...
In six pages this paper discusses how racism by the media and the criminal justice system is reflected in the novels Native Son, A...
of ones skin or the culture one has grown up with. Diversity, it can be said is as individual as the way in which one approaches p...
engine ("Brit music"). After police stopped the car, a man in his twenties had been arrested ("Brit music"). The article report...
during the seventeenth century, where jurors were disqualified from judging if they had a precious knowledge of that case (Smith ...
availability mentioned above, every part of the criminal justice system is or has been affected in some way by the threat of domes...
II. HOW EFFECTIVE IS PUNISHMENT IN CONTROLLING CRIME? WHY? Warehousing of prisoners is perhaps the most prevalent of all ap...
for various programs and those who are involved in these programs. Most of the incentives fall for the department themselves, shif...
While the prevalence of the association between racism and the use of force by police is a highly debated topic, there are instanc...
in public opinion toward those who are mentally ill and toward those who have been incarcerated. The question that it brought up w...
Prosecution Myriad aspects comprise the component of prosecution, not the least of which included the interrogation process...
although blacks make up only 12% of Sacramentos drug users, "52% of those arrested in Sacramento are African-American" (Schiraldi,...
where promotions occur relative to the requirements put into place in other businesses. Law enforcement officers, then, would be ...
become even more out of control as there are fewer eyes watching them. A well known study done at Stanford University tested behav...
there will not be the endless appeals that follow the death sentence (Neumann, 2009). In addition, Wanzenreid notes that capital...
profiling is used to "compensate for a lack of evidence and represents poor police work" (Hajjar, 2006). Police simply round up "s...
state, or state to federal, the process involves the stages of investigation, interrogation, arrest, complaint/indictment, arraign...
that are sent to them by the courts" (Jerin, 2004). What serves as a viable alternative, however, is highly suspect to being infl...
example, a religious institution. In this scenario, an employee was put on probation because of an inability to meet certain expec...
to outdoor environmental education and recreation programs in the quest to reacquaint them with appropriate social behaviors in an...
any given day, there are myriad reports of crime and violent acts purportedly committed by persons of color, origin and ethnic bac...