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Options for Addressing the Problem of Juvenile Crime

houses between the juvenile leaving the correctional system and reentering the community. Juvenile delinquency is just one ...

Criminal Justice System and Minorities' Overrepresentation

that the African American and Hispanic youths were generally treated far more harshly than the white criminal youth (Poe-Yamagata;...

Comparison of Juvenile and Adult Courts

In 1899, the first juvenile court case was heard in Chicago as authorized by the Illinois Juvenile Court Act (Penn, 2001). The ju...

North Carolina and Criminal Justice Management

improvement in regards to the criminal justice management system, and, secondly, that there are ways by which this can occur at th...

Justice System and Sentencing for Drunk Drivers

is the same: someone has been killed at the hands of another. Steinbock bristles at the idea that one form of murder should be v...

System of Criminal Justice and Impact of Homeland Security

availability mentioned above, every part of the criminal justice system is or has been affected in some way by the threat of domes...

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor

talks of having a bobcat and javelinas as pets (Marie, 1985). She rode horseback and even learned to drive a car by the age of se...

4 Questions on Criminal Justice

II. HOW EFFECTIVE IS PUNISHMENT IN CONTROLLING CRIME? WHY? Warehousing of prisoners is perhaps the most prevalent of all ap...

Law Enforcement, Cultural diversity and Community

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...

Police Brutality and a 2004 Australian Article Sociological Assessment

engine ("Brit music"). After police stopped the car, a man in his twenties had been arrested ("Brit music"). The article report...

Welfare State, Power Transformation, and Managerialism

for various programs and those who are involved in these programs. Most of the incentives fall for the department themselves, shif...

Law Enforcement's Use of Force and the Effects of Race

While the prevalence of the association between racism and the use of force by police is a highly debated topic, there are instanc...

Criminal Justice System and the Film One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

in public opinion toward those who are mentally ill and toward those who have been incarcerated. The question that it brought up w...

Pros and Cons of Capital Punishment

several Christian societies which still use the Bible as a basis for their arguments for the death penalty. Largely, however even ...

Life and Career of Former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor

B, however, would prove enduring and she would return to continue her education at the age of 13. In her childhood memoir, OConno...

Criminal Justice and Victim's Rights

106th Congress aimed at preventing violence against women, "one of the most blatant manifestations of patriarchy" (Mananzan, 1995,...

Justice System and the Poor Speech Example

Today in America there is a great but subtle poison that has worked its way into the minds of those who recline nightly in their c...

Criminal Justice and Intelligence

on, and intelligence gained is assumed to be from open source information unless otherwise specified. For the argument to be in ...

Selected Incapacitation in the Criminal Justice System

of incapacitation we see that it can fall into various categories: "Incapacitation may be selective (aimed at particular offender...

Fact or Fiction with Regard to Racial Profiling

a disproportionate percentage of the crimes. While it might be easy to point to racial profiling as the reason for the...

Turkey's System of Criminal Justice

security forces enjoyed, and the issue of human rights abuses connected with police methodologies. The State Department noted that...

Martin Scorsese's Goodfellas, Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather and Their Depiction of Crime and Punishment

He seems to have made up his mind at the very beginning of the saga. He has become a part of the military...

Domestic Violence and its Societal Impact

hesitant about coming forward to name their abusers, because the system did not seem to either believe them about the scope of the...

The Positive Aspects of the Chain Gang

not leniency, indeed it is stiffened penalties for criminal behavior. A very important component of those penalties is the use of...

Criminal Justice and Parole

the observance of special restrictions (1999). In other words, they are not free to come and go. They have their rights truncated...

Criminal Justice System, Capitalism, and Victimization

1999). Manson, the infamous cult leader serving time for the Sharon Tate murders of the 1970s, reaps big profits from a song name...

William H. Rehnquist, U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice

his Masters from Harvard in 1950 (Barrett, 1995). Returning to Stanford for his law degree, Rehnquist graduated first in his clas...

Global Criminal Justice

and Israel. These are four distinct countries found in different parts of the world. II. Criminal Justice in the United States ...

Criminal Justice System and Women's Needs

penal system. First, it should be noted that this topic is very important due to the increasing female population in prison syst...

English System of Criminal Justice from 1700 Until 1850 and Class Rule

he can make an Old Bailey case of it, he takes the Boy up, because he gets his expenses, or something, I believe, for his trouble ...