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a company rather than career corrections officers, they are underpaid, demoralized, and the turnover is high (Friedmann, 1999). Pr...

"who commit nonviolent drug possession offenses or who violate drug-related conditions of probation or parole" to receive treatmen...

poverty. There is always a potential bias in any system that has the danger of becoming an inequality. The basis of the law and...

toward determinate sentencing models that go along with a tough on crime stance. Of course, juvenile justice has to some extent b...

stance. After all, the police officers can write tickets for small oversights, but a friendly attitude, without overly strict enfo...

bias in the system which seeks out blacks and instills upon them harsher sentences is a highly controversial topic. Inter...

there are also some commonalities in the way that the law has been developed and the way it is implemented. In each case the evo...

likely to go to a full jury trial * have considerable impact on the public perception (too much?) (Chapter Topics, 2007). An exa...

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...

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

both royalty, they have both been told by an outside agency to look for a murderer in their midst, and in both cases, the agency t...

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 ...

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

seven years in areas closed to slavery; Illinois was a free state and the Missouri Compromise of 1820 had closed the Wisconsin Ter...

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

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

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

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

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

important because school systems have not kept pace with society. Change is needed and sometimes reform and renewal are vital elem...

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...

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

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

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

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

cases from the point of view that the person on trial is guilty. There is no presumption of innocence until proven guilty-he start...

justice has been entrenched in three areas which are offender accountability, victim restoration, and the reintegration of the of...