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Discrimination and Disparity in the Criminal Justice System

The difference between the terms discrimination and disparity is discussed. There are five sources listed in the bibliography of t...

Racism in Criminal Justice?

black men were imprisoned in 2006 (MacDonald, 2008)! This compares to only one in 79 Hispanic men and one in 205 white men (MacDon...

Communication And The Criminal Justice System

program before ever placing themselves in a position to make informed critiques immediately cast an ill-earned negative connotatio...

Criminal Justice Are Humans Inherently Good or Evil?

IS THAT WE ARE NOT INHERENTLY MORAL AND WE HAVE TO WORK TO ACHIEVE OUR MORALITY. PART OF THAT WORK HAS BEEN THE DEFINITION OF VAR...

How Women are treated in the Criminal Justice System

is certainly a major challenge. Because of this, women have greater and different health care needs. If a woman is pregnant in pri...

Civil Law Countries and Their Criminal Justice Systems

as if the major difference between the nations of Europe, with the exception of Great Britain that is entrenched in the common law...

Work Perspectives In Criminal Justice

ii. Help employees stay afloat in an often slow or burned out economy D. Shared Vision...

American Criminal Justice System: Three Important Issues

that are sent to them by the courts" (Jerin, 2004). What serves as a viable alternative, however, is highly suspect to being infl...

Challenges for the Criminal Justice Administrator

executive officer (CEO) of a small corporation (Dennis, 1999). For example, a "typical medium security prison houses 1,300 inmates...

Forensic Pathology Of Sudden Unexplained Death

and process evidence with the intent of catching the perpetrator. While not all sudden unexpected death is of a criminal nature, ...

Higher Education For Police Officers

upon a combination of myriad elements that work in a synergistic way to address the criminal mind. The aspects of psychology and ...

The Concept of Criminal

This essay reports different definitions of the concept of criminal as it is used as a noun and has an adjective. One of the ways ...

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...

Creation of Violent Criminals

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

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'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 Law, Identity And Culture

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

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...

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...

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...

Criminal Behavior and Influential Factors

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

U.S. Foreign Criminal Rights

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

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...

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...

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 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...

Use Of Shaming In Criminal Sentencing

and overlook the possible social benefits associated with alternative sentencing...If federally imposed mandatory minimum sentence...