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Prison: Keep Them Public Or Make Them Private?

wherewithal to actually decrease prison populations while at the same time increase community safety is found in the way public fa...

Higher Education For Police Officers

upon a combination of myriad elements that work in a synergistic way to address the criminal mind. The aspects of psychology and ...

Sworn Strength And Its Impact Upon Crime: Times Have Changed

- cowardly - that he is compelled to go along with the illegal activities of others of his group, is not qualified to wear a badge...

The Computer In Criminalistics

connect him or her to a particular cyber crime. Indeed, policing tactics have vastly improved over the years to include such aspe...

The Use Of Nonlethal Force By Police

in order to achieve the same results; beanbag shotguns, tasers, stun guns, pepper spray and light blindness are just some of the a...

Criminal Justice Policy Change: Open-System

each community and asking about individual "safety concerns and security needs" (Greene, 2000, pp. 299-370). One particular commu...

Conflict Of Interest: Part of Police Department Culture

For a South Florida investigative reporter, the realization of how South Florida police officers can disregard inherent citizen ri...

California: Police Organization And Trends

as both judge and jury as they physically assault alleged perpetrators and prematurely fire upon suspects. What comes from the re...

Criminal Justice System and Its Current State

ineffective as a crime deterrent. The rising rate of the prison population attests to this fact. Although the prison syste...

California and Mandatory Minimum Drug Sentences

In fifteen pages this paper examines California's aggressive efforts in the ongoing war on drugs in a consideration of laws that m...

Minorities and Prisons

at a full 25% above their capacity (McMurry, 1997). Though some have blamed increased recidivism rates and decreasing prison effe...

Disregard for Law and Prison Gangs

In fourteen pages this paper discusses how prison gangs blatantly disregard the law in a consideration of member recruitment, empl...

Prison Reform and the Confusion of Conflicting Laws

In five pages the ways in which conflicting laws contribute to confusion regarding prison reform are examined within the context o...

'Cruel and Unusual Punishment' and the 8th Amendment

punishment.iv It was a close vote of 4 to 3, which means that not all justices on that court believed electrocution to be cruel an...

Truth in Poetry

truth that was eventually revealed. While we may argue he could have looked for the truth, rather than running from it, thereby sp...

Philippines' Sex Industry and Economics

money legally from licensing fees and taxes on hotels, bars, and restaurants ("Sex industry," 1998). There is a feminist advocac...

US as Global Law Enforcer, Responsibilities and Rights

American nationalism is an ideology which has shaped the face of the world as we see it today. The United States itself first pro...

Arguing Against Racial Profiling

voice, it can be present in attitude, or behavior and no matter its vehicle, it is painful to those on the receiving end....

Practices of Interrogation and Police Officers

Court decision Miranda v. Arizona, which imposed carefully define limits on how far police interrogations could go. According to ...

New Jersey and the Administration of Stop and Frisk

up the incident. While the precedent makes for an exciting police drama, the reality is that corruption does exist and New Jersey ...

Force Used by Law Enforcement

definition of excessive force is, "the use of any more force than a highly skilled officer should find necessary to use in that pa...

Psychological Testing and Preemployment Law Enforcement Background Screening

job" (Brewer and Wilson, 1995, p. 189). Members of the community feel betrayed when those they look to for protection are, themse...

DNA Testing and Joseph Wambaugh's The Blooding

tights, underpants and shoes were in a rolled-up heap about ten or fifteen feet away.2 She was naked from the waist down, with her...

Force and Law Enforcement Organization

unnecessary force are minority members. According to this report, police have employed lethal force to subdue unarmed suspects fle...

Law Enforcement and Communication

a crime. Even a convicted criminal cannot be the subject of punishment meted out by officers whose emotions get out of control. I...

Media and Law Enforcement

people closer to the processes of arresting suspects and investigating crime scenes than ever before (Getty, 2001). Law enforceme...

Prison Society and Culture

considered weak and pathetic. In particular, those who are pedophiles stand a very real chance of being killed, maimed, raped and ...

Punishment and Prisons in England During the Victorian Age in Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

accountable. In one of his most memorable works, Great Expectations (1860-1861), Dickens tackled the social hypocrisy that was ru...

Criminal Justice System and Discretion in Law Enforcement

Discretion, 2003). In his acclaimed study of discretion, University of Chicago law professor Kenneth Culp Davis discovered that p...

Police Officer Recruitment

done a good job. James Champy (1998) of reengineering fame goes so far as to say that the annual bonus is about as motivating as ...