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Essays 1411 - 1440
In 1899, the first juvenile court case was heard in Chicago as authorized by the Illinois Juvenile Court Act (Penn, 2001). The ju...
increasing problem with native youths. The courts were dealing with increasing numbers of young offenders, with high level of re-o...
and technical assistance to increase the knowledge and skills of all personnel in the criminal justice system (WV Div. of Criminal...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
the social justice advocates and academicians who claim that this isnt necessarily the case, as well see in this paper. Be...
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...
as well. Nielsen and Perry (2000) state that we "must recognize that we are united in our diversity" (p. 4). This has...
a DNA test reveals that Mr. Smith, who is later proven innocent of the crime hes being investigated for, is the father of Mrs. Bro...
a company rather than career corrections officers, they are underpaid, demoralized, and the turnover is high (Friedmann, 1999). Pr...
"who commit nonviolent drug possession offenses or who violate drug-related conditions of probation or parole" to receive treatmen...
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...
bias in the system which seeks out blacks and instills upon them harsher sentences is a highly controversial topic. Inter...