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Thrill-Seeking and Crime

(p.229). Whether people channel this desire to engage in risk-whether that desire is normal or related to something they lacked i...

Challenges to Criminal Justice

liberties that are guaranteed to Americans in the Constitution are not lost in the process of addressing this problem. Commentator...

Opposition To Drunk Driving

or being victim to - an automobile accident, particularly when such a catastrophe is caused by a drunk driver. Not only does it i...

The Evolution of Punishment in Criminal Justice

The evolution of punishment strategy has gone hand in hand with the evolution of society as a whole. Harris (1996), for example, ...

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...

The Implementation and Monitoring of a Criminal Justice Program

only through the attainment of goals that one can truly know that everything that could be done had been done. Another question ...

Implementing Change in the Organization

significant alteration of their position when an organizational change occurs (Wiersema 25). Also, integrating technologies into a...

A System Analysis in the context of Criminal Justice

four will be examined: A definition of the problem; a description of the offender population; a description of community involveme...

Criminal Justice

correlation between class and incarceration, as roughly 80 percent of those inmates incarcerated in 2002 could not afford an attor...

Forensics

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

Problems and Solutions for the Troubled American Prison System

Rehabilitation is only one reason for punishment. Other reasons go to retribution, deterrence and social control. Prisons do provi...

Are Criminals Born or Made?

that Samenow also addresses. However, Samenow does not often accept that many behaviors are attributable to psychopathy. While gen...

Plea Bargaining

This 12-page paper deals with the effect of plea bargaining on the criminal justice system. It argues that the relatively new pra...

An Evaluation of the American Response to Terrorism

A military action at first is successful, but then, the taking of Baghdad only seems loosely related to the terrorism that occurre...

Three Ways in Which the U.S. Constitution Has Influenced the American Criminal Justice System

terrorist acts? The practice of electronic surveillance was certainly nothing new. Two months prior to the attacks on the World ...

Sex Offenders and the Correctional System

Even within the segregated unit there is a hierarchy: "People charged with rape and other sex crimes will attack child sex predato...

Criminal Behavior: Psychological And Personality Theories

the inherent connection between why some people engage in criminal activity and others do not (Barondess, 2000). III. DIFFERENTIA...

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...

Criminal Justice II

ended at the boundaries of the Catholic church which was barely recognized by Anglicans. Not until the mid-18th century was...

Political Commentaries of Tacitus's Annals and Ben Jonson's Sejanus His Fall

after this fall, which resulted in abuse of the Roman legalistic process and which also served to illustrate the cruelty of Tiberi...

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...

Criminal Justice VI

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Criminal Justice Issues

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...

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...

Criminologists and Practitioners of Criminal Justice

Based upon the information found in this crime data report that illustrates a significant discrepancy between blacks and Hispanics...