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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:...

Overview of the Texas Board of Criminal Justice

is valuable where the safety of the community is concerned. In relationship to the board, there are nine board members who are ...

Drug Offenders and Treatment Alternatives

conclusion as to what is the best way of going about treating drug addicted offenders. The important question is: What is the bes...

Ethics of Crime and Punishment

theory (which considers social factors, disorganization, control and the learning process)and the rational choice theory (which co...

Changing an Unfair Criminal Justice System

heading of the United States Department of Justice (Glover 92). The U.S. Marshalls, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the D...

System of Criminal Justice and the Judge's Role

make it more likely that he or she will be convicted. If in fact the person is wrongly arrested due to the color of his skin or so...

Injustice Theme of Victor Hugo's Les Miserables

(Hugo). As this demonstrates, the only effect that nineteen years of mistreatment has had on Valjean is to turn this kind-hearted ...

Criminal Justice Planning Office Establishment

and technical assistance to increase the knowledge and skills of all personnel in the criminal justice system (WV Div. of Criminal...

Society, Criminals, and Mandatory Drug Sentencing

emotion yet little fact, and 2. That based on fact. The purpose of this paper will be to review the latter....

Investigations That Are Intelligence Based

extending from an increasing prison population and the struggles of the government to address this problem (Brann, 1993). Casa (1...

Technology and Criminal Investigators

the latest technological innovations and how this information is being applied. These articles uniformly indicate that police inve...

Criminal Justice System in Australia and Migrant Injustices

for instigating change that will relegate injustice and discrimination to the countrys past. Williams (2001), in fact, contends t...

Goals of the Criminal Justice System

due process. The paper then examines these goals as they relate to the goals of the individual, those being social justice, equali...

Criminal Justice System and Minorities' Overrepresentation

that the African American and Hispanic youths were generally treated far more harshly than the white criminal youth (Poe-Yamagata;...

Incarceration Rates and What They Say About Racism in Maryland

18 white youths were arrested for dealing drugs in 1980 while as many as 86 black youths were arrested for the same crime ("Civil,...

Arizona System of Criminal Justice and the Twenty First Century

by and large, remove a good deal of the criminal element from the streets. However, it can be said that while the criminal element...

Hardened Criminals and Juvenile Incarceration

juveniles in adult prison are at a far greater risk for abuse than are the adults in prison. The following presents some of those ...

Australia and Indigenous Female Convicts

16 years. In South Australia, however, a juvenile is a person aged between 10 and 17 years" (Australian Institute of Criminology, ...

What Can be Done About UK Money Laundering

have been written about money laundering, the problems with it and how to prevent it from happening. Yet it still continues on to ...

The Many Impacts of Domestic Violence

issues (Young, 2001). Many have multiple problems. Gahr (2001) explains that "juvenile crime is decreasing in some categories--li...

Criminal Behavior and the Impact of TV

in obscure settings where television was nonexistent. Then, another group with television was compared and contrasted to the origi...

Options for Addressing the Problem of Juvenile Crime

houses between the juvenile leaving the correctional system and reentering the community. Juvenile delinquency is just one ...

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...

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...