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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...

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...

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...

John Roberts' U.S. Supreme Court Confirmation Battle

on the bench, he needs a majority vote in the Senate. Therefore, his views are very important. Based on past decisions and stateme...

Widmar v. Vincent and Free Speech

an issue that directly impacted on Cornerstone, but could equally impact on any religious group wanting to use any public grounds,...

Liberals and Conservatives, Pro and Con

varies considerably from the twentieth century definition quoted above. Regulation, of course, is typically implemented by govern...

Criminal Justice and an Investigation of Differences IV

but business does have a way of behaving unethically and even criminally where regulations against specific behaviors do not exist...

Criminal Justice Aspects

prison. In the United States Judicial System, courts specify when handing down the sentence the amount of time that must be serv...

Legal Strategies Regarding Social Movements

to domestic legal strategies. One of the principle reasons has to do with why legal strategies are sought in the first place, whi...

United Kingdom's System of Criminal Justice and Mental Illness

range of the problem is quantified 2. What is Mental Illness? 2.1 Definitions of Mental Illness The difficulty with defining me...

Steve Christian's 'Out of Lock-UP: Now What?', Juvenile Crime and Drug Use

a serious drug and mental health problems when they were incarcerated. These juveniles have serious problems with hallucinogens, ...

Successful Mediatioin Case Study and Chris Paul

differed so that the young offender will have time to make amends. Other forms of mediation are found within the prisons themselve...

Systems Management, Human Relations, and Scientific Management Styles

and having managers responsible for planning the work while workers are responsible for carrying out those plans (Encyclopedia of ...

Arguing in Favor of Reallocating Funds for Programs Involving Drug Abuse and Alcohol Treatment

would be incurred if we were to rehabilitate drug and alcohol users rather than put them in the penitentiary. The view...

United Kingdom's Criminal Justice System, Crime, and Mental Illness

the criminal justice system has to protect society and seek to gain a balance between the required protection for each group. In...

State Government Website Assessment

and one flowchart. The logo, shown in Figure 1, is quite striking and pointedly appropriate for juvenile justice. It provides of...

African-American Juveniles and the Criminal Justice System

although blacks make up only 12% of Sacramentos drug users, "52% of those arrested in Sacramento are African-American" (Schiraldi,...

The Detriments of Isolation

become even more out of control as there are fewer eyes watching them. A well known study done at Stanford University tested behav...

Problems and Solutions for the Troubled American Prison System

Rehabilitation is only one reason for punishment. Other reasons go to retribution, deterrence and social control. Prisons do provi...

Political Questions

U.S. Constitution makes the President, a civilian leader, the Commander-in-Chief of the Army, Navy and Militia. While the Presiden...

The Juvenile Justice System

behavior. Letting them go, or sanctioning them with only community service, may be too lenient. Even so, some small gestures will ...

PROCEDURAL JUSTICE AND PROGRESSIVE DISCIPLINE: THE PROCESS

example, a religious institution. In this scenario, an employee was put on probation because of an inability to meet certain expec...

AB 2989: Outdoor Environmental Education And Recreation Program

to outdoor environmental education and recreation programs in the quest to reacquaint them with appropriate social behaviors in an...

Problems in the Administration of Justice

profiling is used to "compensate for a lack of evidence and represents poor police work" (Hajjar, 2006). Police simply round up "s...

PROCESSING A CRIMINAL CASE

state, or state to federal, the process involves the stages of investigation, interrogation, arrest, complaint/indictment, arraign...

Origanizational Communication And Miranda v. Arizona

constitutional rights prior to taking them into custody or while interrogating them, a reality that -- had Miranda v. Arizona neve...

Life on the Outside by Gonnerman

careful not to reveal her real feelings. Gonnerman (2004) emphasizes the problems with the Rockefeller drug laws. For example, Gon...

Basic Legal Rights For Juveniles In The U.S.

emergency and routine health-related issues must be made available to the juvenile, including dental, medical and behavioral by th...