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Essays 271 - 300
a critical component of todays campus environment; not only has it become necessary to provide this heretofore unwarranted protect...
the structure of civil society. He comments that "the characteristic concerns have been the exploration of differences between pol...
where promotions occur relative to the requirements put into place in other businesses. Law enforcement officers, then, would be ...
Based upon the information found in this crime data report that illustrates a significant discrepancy between blacks and Hispanics...
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...
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...
quo (Ruddell and Urbina, 2004). In his analysis of the history of incarceration in the US, Vogel (2003) charts a relationship be...
was reduced by about half, to reach an even keel with Caucasian arrest level, with a slightly higher percentage of arrests falling...
itself in context, it is perhaps helpful to begin with a brief overview of the development of correctional policies in the UK: not...
supports the claim with well documented research, that non-violent criminals can pay their debt to society in many ways which are ...
does not treat all of its juvenile offenders as adults. Indeed, the state is one of the most progressive in the nation in terms o...
"file not found" page. Even the link to the authors own home page returns only an error message. Searching for Dr. Greek...
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...
Discretion, 2003). In his acclaimed study of discretion, University of Chicago law professor Kenneth Culp Davis discovered that p...
of incapacitation we see that it can fall into various categories: "Incapacitation may be selective (aimed at particular offender...
a disproportionate percentage of the crimes. While it might be easy to point to racial profiling as the reason for the...
profession, these objectives might address such processes as searches (search warrants and consent searches) and acceptable types ...
availability mentioned above, every part of the criminal justice system is or has been affected in some way by the threat of domes...
between offender and staff and reductions in recidivism, then, are central to acknowledging a variety of new correctional approach...
II. HOW EFFECTIVE IS PUNISHMENT IN CONTROLLING CRIME? WHY? Warehousing of prisoners is perhaps the most prevalent of all ap...
of ones skin or the culture one has grown up with. Diversity, it can be said is as individual as the way in which one approaches p...
engine ("Brit music"). After police stopped the car, a man in his twenties had been arrested ("Brit music"). The article report...
modern society and the expansion of the meaning of class through an integrated view of individuals separation within a culture. ...
While the prevalence of the association between racism and the use of force by police is a highly debated topic, there are instanc...
in public opinion toward those who are mentally ill and toward those who have been incarcerated. The question that it brought up w...