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evidence in a large amount of literature that there is a link between mental illness and crimes (Drake and Pathe, 2004). T...
ethical, philosophical, and moral issues that characterize the one delivery mechanism also characterize the other. A particular c...
was not always this way (Mocete, 1997). The prison system persists in its newfound role most likely due to the fact that there i...
is something which has frequently been reiterated by other civil rights activists: in his Letter from Birmingham Jail, for instanc...
houses between the juvenile leaving the correctional system and reentering the community. Juvenile delinquency is just one ...
or not a specific practice reduces recidivism or has some constructive impact on those who are addressed by the criminal justice s...
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...
and as a result of this, there was a change in the way that the courts (read..judges) were to view juvenile offenders. For particu...
increasing problem with native youths. The courts were dealing with increasing numbers of young offenders, with high level of re-o...
In 1899, the first juvenile court case was heard in Chicago as authorized by the Illinois Juvenile Court Act (Penn, 2001). The ju...
and technical assistance to increase the knowledge and skills of all personnel in the criminal justice system (WV Div. of Criminal...
into embarrassing intellectual difficulties. It becomes, most often, a term of art whose operational meaning is, We need a law aga...
involved has been the object of old prohibitions against effecting no changes within study populations. The very presence of rese...
Theories of punishment indicate that the above is an invalid association. Certainly murder is serious, but it also - by definitio...
a product of how "own imperfect understanding of nature, of our ignorance of how to harmonize our activities with the worlds scrip...
the elements that concern those who work with the output of the criminal justice system. The inconsistencies of the judiciary and ...
doctrine established in Plessy v Ferguson in 1896 that kept the black and white races legally separate for 70 years. The aparthei...
the international community to see the perpetrators of the atrocity brought to justice. The trials that have taken place have re...
The result is that "there are not one, but fifty-five court systems in the United States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, a...
brings up the question as to "What kind of society could justify locking up so many of its young men," who are the principle demo...
In five pages this research paper discusses criminal law and its current trends with the three major issues that have recently dev...
quo (Ruddell and Urbina, 2004). In his analysis of the history of incarceration in the US, Vogel (2003) charts a relationship be...
Another advantage of plea bargaining is that it allows prosecutors to dispatch cases quickly, freeing time and resources to fully ...
an issue that directly impacted on Cornerstone, but could equally impact on any religious group wanting to use any public grounds,...
initiated by the police, who have more freedom and a wider range of choices in how to proceed when dealing with a juvenile than wi...
would be that such a thing would never happen in the US without great public outcry, but that was before passage of the Patriot Ac...