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While the statistics obviously support the contention that there is a disproportionate representation of blacks as compared to whi...
any given day, there are myriad reports of crime and violent acts purportedly committed by persons of color, origin and ethnic bac...
is valuable where the safety of the community is concerned. In relationship to the board, there are nine board members who are ...
conclusion as to what is the best way of going about treating drug addicted offenders. The important question is: What is the bes...
heading of the United States Department of Justice (Glover 92). The U.S. Marshalls, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the D...
evidence in a large amount of literature that there is a link between mental illness and crimes (Drake and Pathe, 2004). T...
houses between the juvenile leaving the correctional system and reentering the community. Juvenile delinquency is just one ...
for instigating change that will relegate injustice and discrimination to the countrys past. Williams (2001), in fact, contends t...
due process. The paper then examines these goals as they relate to the goals of the individual, those being social justice, equali...
that the African American and Hispanic youths were generally treated far more harshly than the white criminal youth (Poe-Yamagata;...
18 white youths were arrested for dealing drugs in 1980 while as many as 86 black youths were arrested for the same crime ("Civil,...
by and large, remove a good deal of the criminal element from the streets. However, it can be said that while the criminal element...
place great emphasis upon "inclusive definitions, neat conceptual distinctions, and broad general rules" (Scuro, 2003) rather than...
improvement in regards to the criminal justice management system, and, secondly, that there are ways by which this can occur at th...
perhaps the most prevalent of all approaches to criminal punishment utilized in the United States, the nation that holds the dubio...
was not always this way (Mocete, 1997). The prison system persists in its newfound role most likely due to the fact that there i...
a DNA test reveals that Mr. Smith, who is later proven innocent of the crime hes being investigated for, is the father of Mrs. Bro...
addressed. I believe that as a family lawyer, I can help people with mental illness by becoming an advocate for people like my si...
bias in the system which seeks out blacks and instills upon them harsher sentences is a highly controversial topic. Inter...
court that was supervised by the judge. Another group where sentences could be given that would include fines or warnings and fina...
are victims of hate crimes. Other special victims may be disabled, gay, HIV-infected, prisoners or students (Wallace, 2007). These...
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...
likely to go to a full jury trial * have considerable impact on the public perception (too much?) (Chapter Topics, 2007). An exa...
The governor wanted to eliminate parole and one conservative legislator was looking for input from people involved in the system (...
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...
half were single parents. An example of deductive logic in this study is the selection of the study hypothesis, i.e., the premises...
effect of showing mercy to the Manson murderers when they exhibited no mercy towards their innocent victims. According to Charlo...