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publications. Statistics, however, are not the most important thing when we are considering how to treat the problem. A prerequi...
as well. Nielsen and Perry (2000) state that we "must recognize that we are united in our diversity" (p. 4). This has...
half were single parents. An example of deductive logic in this study is the selection of the study hypothesis, i.e., the premises...
bias in the system which seeks out blacks and instills upon them harsher sentences is a highly controversial topic. Inter...
"who commit nonviolent drug possession offenses or who violate drug-related conditions of probation or parole" to receive treatmen...
a company rather than career corrections officers, they are underpaid, demoralized, and the turnover is high (Friedmann, 1999). Pr...
stance. After all, the police officers can write tickets for small oversights, but a friendly attitude, without overly strict enfo...
al Qahtani was held in intense isolation for months on end, to the point where he began to hallucinate; strip searched and made to...
before the New London Superior Court, asserting that the "taking of their properties would violate the public use restriction in t...
(Singer, 1996). The case was shocking for a number of reasons, but two stand out: Bosket was only 15; and he was already in care a...
as a serious crime. Still, it is usually the case that the prostitutes are arrested while their customers go free. In the case of ...
was not always this way (Mocete, 1997). The prison system persists in its newfound role most likely due to the fact that there i...
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...
houses between the juvenile leaving the correctional system and reentering the community. Juvenile delinquency is just one ...
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...
improvement in regards to the criminal justice management system, and, secondly, that there are ways by which this can occur at th...
is the same: someone has been killed at the hands of another. Steinbock bristles at the idea that one form of murder should be v...
In 1899, the first juvenile court case was heard in Chicago as authorized by the Illinois Juvenile Court Act (Penn, 2001). The ju...
review may be sought, this was seen in the case of Council of Civil Service Unions v Minister for the Civil Service [1985] AC 374...
does not treat all of its juvenile offenders as adults. Indeed, the state is one of the most progressive in the nation in terms o...
evidence in a large amount of literature that there is a link between mental illness and crimes (Drake and Pathe, 2004). T...
structure to the ubiquitous bad guy, "society." It was only a number of years later that we began admitting that there is a...
nations would "interact with one another in a zone of comity, cooperation and law" (see 142, 143). The Kantian theory, in fact, is...
on the bench, he needs a majority vote in the Senate. Therefore, his views are very important. Based on past decisions and stateme...
conclusion as to what is the best way of going about treating drug addicted offenders. The important question is: What is the bes...
heading of the United States Department of Justice (Glover 92). The U.S. Marshalls, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the D...
an issue that directly impacted on Cornerstone, but could equally impact on any religious group wanting to use any public grounds,...
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...