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terrorist acts? The practice of electronic surveillance was certainly nothing new. Two months prior to the attacks on the World ...

open itself up to unyielding vulnerability. Madison addressed the inherent need for mans activities to remain under some semblanc...

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

their behaviors or lack thereof. Also, Georges wife, Mary, is not a decision maker but she no doubt has an influence on the decisi...

are victims of hate crimes. Other special victims may be disabled, gay, HIV-infected, prisoners or students (Wallace, 2007). These...

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

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

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

The governor wanted to eliminate parole and one conservative legislator was looking for input from people involved in the system (...

likely to go to a full jury trial * have considerable impact on the public perception (too much?) (Chapter Topics, 2007). An exa...

a company rather than career corrections officers, they are underpaid, demoralized, and the turnover is high (Friedmann, 1999). Pr...

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...

"who commit nonviolent drug possession offenses or who violate drug-related conditions of probation or parole" to receive treatmen...

vital option again during the 1980s and early 1990s for several reasons, the first of which was the existence of a general sociopo...

cases from the point of view that the person on trial is guilty. There is no presumption of innocence until proven guilty-he start...

important because school systems have not kept pace with society. Change is needed and sometimes reform and renewal are vital elem...

crime. In so many ways they are simply victims and yet are incarcerated because of this. Belknap seems to argue that much of this ...

significant alteration of their position when an organizational change occurs (Wiersema 25). Also, integrating technologies into a...

four will be examined: A definition of the problem; a description of the offender population; a description of community involveme...

seven years in areas closed to slavery; Illinois was a free state and the Missouri Compromise of 1820 had closed the Wisconsin Ter...

When examining ethical theory and philosophies of hope, happiness is often at the forefront. It seems that the goal of most people...

The evolution of punishment strategy has gone hand in hand with the evolution of society as a whole. Harris (1996), for example, ...

strangles his wife thinking that hes squeezing a grapefruit." There were those who painted him as an all American type young man, ...

liberties that are guaranteed to Americans in the Constitution are not lost in the process of addressing this problem. Commentator...

was a knight, he was essentially required to meet challenges and learn how to be chivalrous, often through mistakes. As such the Q...

correlation between class and incarceration, as roughly 80 percent of those inmates incarcerated in 2002 could not afford an attor...

A 17 page paper discussing environmental justice, policy and environmental law as the concepts apply to Altgeld Gardens, a low inc...

U.S. Constitution makes the President, a civilian leader, the Commander-in-Chief of the Army, Navy and Militia. While the Presiden...

in that area, only fifteen miles down the road, accepting that level of emission as long as the plant is staffed only by Mexican w...

Rehabilitation is only one reason for punishment. Other reasons go to retribution, deterrence and social control. Prisons do provi...