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Australia's System of Criminal Justice and Mental Illness

evidence in a large amount of literature that there is a link between mental illness and crimes (Drake and Pathe, 2004). T...

President Richard M. Nixon's Failure to Protect the Presidential Office

the hands of Congress because they contain sensitive information concerning military and other global activities falling strictly ...

Hypothetical Criminal Intelligence Unit Examined

the Criminal Investigations Bureau but it is also identified as "a support function for the Special Weapons and Tactics Team (SWAT...

Criminal Investigations and Forensic Psychology

To understand the growing importance of computers in criminal investigation consider the practically limitless applications of DNA...

Deception and English Criminal Law

was brought under section 15 and not section 16, where workman told a householder work needed to be undertaken when it did not, a...

Evidence, Law, the Burden of Proof, and EC's Human Rights

we can also see that there maybe some acts which we feel to be immoral or unethical, but they do not constitute criminal acts, whe...

The Films Taxi Driver and Angels with Dirty Faces and the Portrayals of Antiheros

America, the concept of the antihero was revised to better reflect the attitudes of its citizens, and was defined to be an individ...

Criminal Law and Strict Liability

the moral aspect needs to be remembered, but the case is made on the law and on the facts surrounding the case, not on moral indig...

Minority Populations and Arrest Data Within Louisiana's Criminal Justice System

was reduced by about half, to reach an even keel with Caucasian arrest level, with a slightly higher percentage of arrests falling...

Criminal Investigator Characteristics

skills and abilities for three different types of crimes that a criminal investigator would need to consider. General Characterist...

Criminal Prosecution and Safety in the Workplace

national markets developed to heighten the exploitation of American natural resources (Rosner, 2000). Coal and iron were in parti...

Evaluating The 'Criminal Justice is Not Racist' Assertion

While the statistics obviously support the contention that there is a disproportionate representation of blacks as compared to whi...

Prejudices, Criminal Justice System, and Overrepresentation of Minorities

any given day, there are myriad reports of crime and violent acts purportedly committed by persons of color, origin and ethnic bac...

The Lack of Relevant Variables Represented by Previous Criminal Records and Seriousness of Crime

not as readily realized is that black Americans also represent the highest number of homicide victims between the two races. In t...

Crime, Gangs, and Law Enforcement Strategies That are Ethnic and Race Specific

contend, is fueled by nothing but a lot of "hot air and rhetoric" (Berry, 1995, p. PG). The cycle is not difficult to comprehend:...

Website Objectivity, Accuracy, and Authorship Evaluation

"file not found" page. Even the link to the authors own home page returns only an error message. Searching for Dr. Greek...

Operant Conditioning, B.F. Skinner, and Criminal Behavior

pigeons to coin the now infamous term "operant conditioning" to describe the phenomenon of learning occurring in response to an or...

Criminal Justice and Corrections

supports the claim with well documented research, that non-violent criminals can pay their debt to society in many ways which are ...

A Case study Criminal Liability, Provocation, and Psychological Injury

a level of provocation which would warrant a threatening and violent response. It would appear from the description in the ca...

British Criminal Justice System and Repeat Offenses

itself in context, it is perhaps helpful to begin with a brief overview of the development of correctional policies in the UK: not...

Profiling Art and Australian Serial killer Ivan Milat

American television show called Numbers demonstrates that sometimes random killings are not really random at all and location can ...

Criminal Justice VII

would be that such a thing would never happen in the US without great public outcry, but that was before passage of the Patriot Ac...

The Social Problem of Gang Violence

111). Social conditions become problematic through systems of communication (Charon). This interactionist perspective is based ...

Social Class and Crime

findings incorporate the authors reference to philosopher David Hume in their quest to prove the association between the free mark...

American Criminal Justice and the Constitution

The result is that "there are not one, but fifty-five court systems in the United States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, a...

Issues of Social Justice from a Historical Perspective

quo (Ruddell and Urbina, 2004). In his analysis of the history of incarceration in the US, Vogel (2003) charts a relationship be...

Reviewing the International Criminal Court

a pivotal player in the precursors to the ICC. The Geneva Convention, signed into effect in 1864, was one of these precursors. I...

Comparisons Between Criminal Justice and Juvenile Justice

idea that juvenile offenders needed to be handled different from adult offenders; as the goal was to retrain the child toward more...

Dead Man Walking by Sister Helen Prejean

due to biblical passages describing how divine vengeance was "meted out to guilty and innocent alike" in "the Great Flood, the des...

U.S. System of Criminal Justice, Ethnicity, and Race

perspective is that OJ Simpson was tried by a jury of his peers. There was an Asian judge and a jury made up of minorities. The pr...