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for three offenses, no matter how slight each one is. The idea behind the punishment is to deter criminals, but it doesnt always w...
After the American Revolution, "state legislatures standardized common-law crimes such as murder, burglary, arson and rape by putt...
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...
The result is that "there are not one, but fifty-five court systems in the United States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, a...
along pertinent information. And because upper management is in a constant state of inaccessibility, these symptoms of negativity...
a critical component of todays campus environment; not only has it become necessary to provide this heretofore unwarranted protect...
the structure of civil society. He comments that "the characteristic concerns have been the exploration of differences between pol...
where promotions occur relative to the requirements put into place in other businesses. Law enforcement officers, then, would be ...
Based upon the information found in this crime data report that illustrates a significant discrepancy between blacks and Hispanics...
a crime has occurred. One of the most valuable tools available to help ascertain this information is through an arson investigati...
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...
that the African American and Hispanic youths were generally treated far more harshly than the white criminal youth (Poe-Yamagata;...
18 white youths were arrested for dealing drugs in 1980 while as many as 86 black youths were arrested for the same crime ("Civil,...
and technical assistance to increase the knowledge and skills of all personnel in the criminal justice system (WV Div. of Criminal...
was not always this way (Mocete, 1997). The prison system persists in its newfound role most likely due to the fact that there i...
evidence in a large amount of literature that there is a link between mental illness and crimes (Drake and Pathe, 2004). T...
was reduced by about half, to reach an even keel with Caucasian arrest level, with a slightly higher percentage of arrests falling...
itself in context, it is perhaps helpful to begin with a brief overview of the development of correctional policies in the UK: not...
heading of the United States Department of Justice (Glover 92). The U.S. Marshalls, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the D...
quo (Ruddell and Urbina, 2004). In his analysis of the history of incarceration in the US, Vogel (2003) charts a relationship be...
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...
initiated by the police, who have more freedom and a wider range of choices in how to proceed when dealing with a juvenile than wi...
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...
supports the claim with well documented research, that non-violent criminals can pay their debt to society in many ways which are ...
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...
"file not found" page. Even the link to the authors own home page returns only an error message. Searching for Dr. Greek...
While the statistics obviously support the contention that there is a disproportionate representation of blacks as compared to whi...
any given day, there are myriad reports of crime and violent acts purportedly committed by persons of color, origin and ethnic bac...
is valuable where the safety of the community is concerned. In relationship to the board, there are nine board members who are ...