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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

impossible for her to ever derive any enjoyment from the sexual act. This practice is suppose to ensure that women remain chaste a...

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...

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

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

evidence in a large amount of literature that there is a link between mental illness and crimes (Drake and Pathe, 2004). T...

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

and technical assistance to increase the knowledge and skills of all personnel in the criminal justice system (WV Div. of Criminal...

the social justice advocates and academicians who claim that this isnt necessarily the case, as well see in this paper. Be...

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

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

a democracy. Plato contended that it would be impossible within a democracy to have the kind of harmony and societal unit...

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

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

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

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

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

for working farms and it provided Southern states with a rationale for not rebuilding prisons after the war. In some cases, many s...