YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Justice for All or Just for Some
Essays 421 - 450
In 1899, the first juvenile court case was heard in Chicago as authorized by the Illinois Juvenile Court Act (Penn, 2001). The ju...
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...
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...
doctrine established in Plessy v Ferguson in 1896 that kept the black and white races legally separate for 70 years. The aparthei...
pursue justice with or without her sisters assistance. With an impressive strength that demonstrates her unwavering commitment to...
perspective on processes comes from criminal justice once again, but takes a very different perspective. (The article is Australi...
brings up the question as to "What kind of society could justify locking up so many of its young men," who are the principle demo...
In five pages this research paper discusses criminal law and its current trends with the three major issues that have recently dev...
quo (Ruddell and Urbina, 2004). In his analysis of the history of incarceration in the US, Vogel (2003) charts a relationship be...
Another advantage of plea bargaining is that it allows prosecutors to dispatch cases quickly, freeing time and resources to fully ...
into embarrassing intellectual difficulties. It becomes, most often, a term of art whose operational meaning is, We need a law aga...
involved has been the object of old prohibitions against effecting no changes within study populations. The very presence of rese...
the international community to see the perpetrators of the atrocity brought to justice. The trials that have taken place have re...
but business does have a way of behaving unethically and even criminally where regulations against specific behaviors do not exist...
prison. In the United States Judicial System, courts specify when handing down the sentence the amount of time that must be serv...
to domestic legal strategies. One of the principle reasons has to do with why legal strategies are sought in the first place, whi...
when it is expressed as a love of virtue, and justice when it is considered as one of many virtues. For Hobbes, self-interest "ta...
range of the problem is quantified 2. What is Mental Illness? 2.1 Definitions of Mental Illness The difficulty with defining me...
When Hamlet returns home, he is greeted with what he is convinced is his fathers ghost. After identifying himself, the ghost prom...
varies considerably from the twentieth century definition quoted above. Regulation, of course, is typically implemented by govern...
abiding citizen. He is a horse trader and is targeted by the government much in the same way a citizen of the United States may be...