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Is There Evidence of Inequality In The US Criminal Justice System?

poverty. There is always a potential bias in any system that has the danger of becoming an inequality. The basis of the law and...

Sentencing and the American Criminal Justice System

toward determinate sentencing models that go along with a tough on crime stance. Of course, juvenile justice has to some extent b...

Community Policing in the United States

stance. After all, the police officers can write tickets for small oversights, but a friendly attitude, without overly strict enfo...

An Evaluation of the American Response to Terrorism

A military action at first is successful, but then, the taking of Baghdad only seems loosely related to the terrorism that occurre...

Does Oedipus Receive Justice?

the way; at the same time, the "old man," who was watching carefully, "struck me from his carriage, / full on the head with his tw...

Hamlet and Oedipus as Avengers

both royalty, they have both been told by an outside agency to look for a murderer in their midst, and in both cases, the agency t...

Criminal Justice and Intelligence

on, and intelligence gained is assumed to be from open source information unless otherwise specified. For the argument to be in ...

Criminal Justice System and Discrimination

fact, that although blacks represent only thirteen percent of our national population they represent some thirty percent of those ...

The Republic by Plato and Justice According to Socrates

with sickness, or the pilot who helps friends against "the perils of the sea" (Plato Book I). He then inquires into "what sort of ...

Conservative and Liberal U.S. Supreme Court Cases

Chicago vs. Jesus Morales; Palmer vs City of Euclid, Ohio and Connecticut Department of Public Safety vs. Doe. All three of these ...

Injustice in "Les Miserables"

because he had to feed starving children; despite this, he was given a five-year sentence. Two things immediately spring to mind: ...

William H. Rehnquist, U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice

his Masters from Harvard in 1950 (Barrett, 1995). Returning to Stanford for his law degree, Rehnquist graduated first in his clas...

Justice and the O.J. Simpson Double Murder Case

he received All-American honors at the University of Southern California, won the Heisman Trophy in 1968 and set several National ...

Legal Problems/Family as Public and Private

1992). Women are those primarily affected by the private sphere support group, however in order to be eligible for support, certai...

Global Criminal Justice

and Israel. These are four distinct countries found in different parts of the world. II. Criminal Justice in the United States ...

Criminal Justice System and Women's Needs

penal system. First, it should be noted that this topic is very important due to the increasing female population in prison syst...

English System of Criminal Justice from 1700 Until 1850 and Class Rule

he can make an Old Bailey case of it, he takes the Boy up, because he gets his expenses, or something, I believe, for his trouble ...

Understanding What it Means to be a Social Justice Educator

individual who naturally believes in true equality and empowerment across the entire population. The reasons it becomes so confusi...

Justice, Philosophy, and Ethics of Health Care Rationing

dilemma of a single woman who is part of what the politicians and social scientists refer to as a member of the "working poor" soc...

Ancient Greeks and Politics

basically a war between Athens and Sparta (Thucydides, 1881). This came about as a result of the growth of the Athenian Empire, a...

Criminal Justice System Deterrence

There are pros and cons to deterrence programs and some are far more effective than others. Comparing and contrasting these aspec...

Justice Theory of Plato

a humans body. It sought to find pleasure and to find sustenance. "These appetites should not be allowed, to enslave the other ele...

Criminal Justice System and the Treatment of Children as Children and Not Adults

children as young as ten will fall under the juvenile court jurisdiction (1997) It is true that some children seem to deserve th...

Multicultural Society, the Law, and Liberalism

In fourteen pages this paper discusses jurisprudence in a consideration of how contradictions can emerge in a multicultural societ...

The Concepts of Justice and Truth in Cervantes' Don Quixote

Quixote does hold some hope for the future. Cervantes was also disgruntled with the political systems as well. Just as Don Quixote...

Criminal Justice and Fetal Alcohol Syndrome

unborn child. The National Organization on Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (NOFAS) defines fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS) as "a lifel...

The Lasting Implications of Miranda v Arizona

caused within the United States poor communities speak to the ongoing issue of racial divide, with one of the most striking exampl...

Professional Counseling and the Value of Morals

last thing they want to think about is whether or not their therapist is going to take advantage of the situation. However, as wi...

Commonwealth Caribbean Jurisprudence, Natural Justice, and Fairness

of justice within the judicial system itself. The Law of Natural Justice Natural justice in the legal system today is considered ...

Lawmaking and the ECJ

House of Lords, where there is the ability for input before the law is passed. This is seen as reducing the ambiguity, and also co...