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crime. In so many ways they are simply victims and yet are incarcerated because of this. Belknap seems to argue that much of this ...

of the frequency of their transgressions, as opposed to seriousness, it is also true that only certain types of juveniles are like...

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

strangles his wife thinking that hes squeezing a grapefruit." There were those who painted him as an all American type young man, ...

When examining ethical theory and philosophies of hope, happiness is often at the forefront. It seems that the goal of most people...

because he had to feed starving children; despite this, he was given a five-year sentence. Two things immediately spring to mind: ...

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

the way; at the same time, the "old man," who was watching carefully, "struck me from his carriage, / full on the head with his tw...

open itself up to unyielding vulnerability. Madison addressed the inherent need for mans activities to remain under some semblanc...

huge influx of immigrants to the city, and that made the residents nervous and fearful that they would lose their positions to the...

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

as, in this case, devising symbols for replacing long strings of tallies. In this section of the book, the authors present math ...

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

their behaviors or lack thereof. Also, Georges wife, Mary, is not a decision maker but she no doubt has an influence on the decisi...

that a ten year old can be prosecuted for murder. In contemplating this issue, it pays to take a look at the juvenile justice syst...

A 17 page paper discussing environmental justice, policy and environmental law as the concepts apply to Altgeld Gardens, a low inc...

was a knight, he was essentially required to meet challenges and learn how to be chivalrous, often through mistakes. As such the Q...

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

U.S. Constitution makes the President, a civilian leader, the Commander-in-Chief of the Army, Navy and Militia. While the Presiden...

fundamental importance in the Republic of the metaphor of descent and its connection to the two great themes of birth and death, a...

in that area, only fifteen miles down the road, accepting that level of emission as long as the plant is staffed only by Mexican w...

the prison system. This is something that has concerned the public and the same problem is found in juvenile detention centers as ...

the challenge of numerous social problems throughout its history (Jansson, 2000). During the colonial period, indentured servants ...

is great interest. Plato looks at all of these things in his book The Republic. In Book I, justice is discussed and it is deemed ...

behavior. Letting them go, or sanctioning them with only community service, may be too lenient. Even so, some small gestures will ...

after hearing of the deaths of the children and the illness in the community (Trevino, 2000). Today it has been proven that there ...

virtue, i.e., justice, but it is also included under Aquinas discussion of love, specifically under love of ones neighbor, for Go...

would rush forward to announce they had made a mistake. The Amiraults found, immediately after the first accusation, that talk or...

the criminal justice system has to protect society and seek to gain a balance between the required protection for each group. In...

seems perfect in its design. Of course, nothing is perfect, and one criticism of it is that it is old. It is no longer applicable ...