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Actual Innocence

wrongly jailed" (Boyer). The first case they discuss is that of Marion Coakley, who "served more than two years in prison becaus...

Terrorism and Wartime criminal law

an individual may initiate a private lawsuit, that is, in regards to "contracts, injuries, real and personal property and family r...

Legal Foundations of Criminal Evidence

doctor believes that not communicating the information will result in mortal harm to the individual or another person. In terms o...

Issues in Criminal Evidence

event in question (Beitman, 2005). Secondly, physical evidence can be authenticated if a chain of custody can be established. Th...

Criminal Law, Identity And Culture

Social Control theories are two in particular where crime, culture and identity intersect, the former of which asserts how everyon...

Criminal Issues

that is raised by this example, then, is what would make Marias actions when entering Joes bedroom a case of attempted murder inst...

Creation of Violent Criminals

unseasoned violent offenders" to gather data (Athens 23). From this data, Athens formulated an experiential process that he argue...

Sovereignty & An International Court

inadmissible if a case is already being handled by a state with jurisdiction, unless it is deemed that the state in question is "g...

Forensics

While initially only visible fingerprints were collected and analyzed, the collection techniques quickly evolved so that fingerpri...

An Overview of the Sixth Amendment

is the right that some reporters claim allows for cameras in the courtroom. Certainly, even if cameras are not allowed by the judg...

David Phillips's 'No Heroes, No Villains, The Story of a Murder Trial'

This is a novel overview in 5 pages that explains how the significance of evidence collecting and the practice of criminal law is ...

Concept of Victim Offender Mediation

This paper examines criminal conflict in an historical overview and assessment of victim offender mediation in twelve pages. Ther...

Sixteenth Century Torture as Criminal Punishment

The book had been in continuous circulation for a period of over a hundred years. This was more "than any other book of similar sc...

Criminal Prosecutions and the Impact of the Exclusionary Rule

In eight pages this paper discusses how criminal prosecutions have been impacted by the exclusionary rule in this historical overv...

Criminal Conflict and the Victim Offender Medication Concept

Victim offender mediation is discussed in an overview of twelve pages that includes its history, a description, and an assessment ...

Structure and Analysis of DNA and Implications for Society

In twelve pages DNA is considered an overview of its composition, methodologies, and how this technology impacts upon contemporary...

Criminal Intent and Inter Vivos Trusts

the conviction of most crimes. The intent element is usually fulfilled if the defendant was generally aware that she or he was ve...

Unique Murderers and Criminological Explanations

an early incident sent Gacy to prison for molesting a teenager and then his wife divorced him (1997). After he served a short pris...

Overview of Fingerprinting

In twelve pages the use of fingerprinting in criminal investigations is examined in an historical overview that also includes the ...

Criminal Theory and Crime's Psychological Correlates

in the future. While the early years of forensic psychology were characterized more by mistakes in psychological diagnose...

U.S. Foreign Criminal Rights

countries and these rights have been written on an international standard. The principal international human rights laws protect t...

Jerry H. Ratcliffe's Damned if You Don't, Damned if You Do

crimes, this aggregate data may inadvertently taints certain areas which would then be determined at "greater risk" than other are...

Is Community Policing a Shaky Proposition?

been stretched into prevention efforts. Based on a wide range of viewpoints and actual criminal activity within each of th...

Battered Child and Battered Woman Syndrome Legal Overview

Lenore Walker which outlined the relationship between the defendants (Mrs. Ibn-Tamas) behavior and the characteristics of a "batte...

Criminal Profiles and Psychology

In sixty pages this paper discusses psychological profiling of criminals in an application of various principles to Jack the Rippe...

Criminal's Society Reentry and Various Influential Factors

Gottredson and Hirschis Self-Control Theory contends that criminal behavior is perpetuated to meet the perpetrators own self-inter...

Criminal Behavior and Influential Factors

resources on deterring individuals from crime. Socioeconomically disadvantaged and lesser educated individuals seem to be...

Criminal Investigation Design

synthesize this data in such a manner that it can be used to narrow the scope of the new investigation, to increase the likelihood...

Repentance and Criminal Sentencing

According to Rogers (2007) moral retributivism is distinct from retributivism. In the latter, the infliction of suffering on thos...

Stooping to Their Level: the FBI in “Mississippi Burning”

goes black as two more shots are heard. The reaction of the audience at this point is sheer disbelief as well as anger. The disb...