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Overview of Canadian Criminal Justice Articles

This paper provides summary of three articles that report on a new Canadian law that increases the victim surcharge penalty and ma...

Criminal Justice and the Practice of Deontological Ethics

words, the private behavior of individuals may well be governed by simple emotional reactions to ethical scenarios. The actions of...

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...

Statistical Testing of Criminal Justice Data

the critical level, this the score against which the test statistic will be assessed to determine whether to accept or reject the ...

The Criminal Justice and Due Process Models

course, while due process is a given, some see murderers getting away with their deeds because of it. For example, the recent case...

CRIMINAL JUSTICE AGENCY (JAILS) AND ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE

When it comes to functional organizations, correctional institutes generally follow three models - the traditional model, the proj...

Case Study Analyses in Criminal Justice

M. is a serious risk. Because there were few witnesses to the actual event, and there is only scant negative history, it is diffic...

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...

The Death Penalty, Public Policy and the Criminal Justice System

there will not be the endless appeals that follow the death sentence (Neumann, 2009). In addition, Wanzenreid notes that capital...

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 ...

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, ...

Creation of Violent Criminals

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Actual Innocence

wrongly jailed" (Boyer). The first case they discuss is that of Marion Coakley, who "served more than two years in prison becaus...

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...

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 ...

Use Of Shaming In Criminal Sentencing

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