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This 12-page paper deals with the effect of plea bargaining on the criminal justice system. It argues that the relatively new pra...

"poor little rich girl or the princess," and is drive to school by her father in a BMW (The Breakfast Club, 1995). Allison is the ...

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...

crime he did not commit still possesses a picture of one of the prosecutors in the case wherein this man, Jim Williams, sits at hi...

The governor wanted to eliminate parole and one conservative legislator was looking for input from people involved in the system (...

who are supposed to uphold this duty are the ones perpetuating the problem, the fine line that already exists between criminality ...

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...

social engineering. Judging from the rampant crime rate that afflicts our nation today, however, additional criminal law is very ...

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

which Friday took his strategy, this case would likely not have ever seen the inside of a courtroom; however, the intricate web of...

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

productive person, such programs still struggle to be instrumental in realigning otherwise maladjusted individuals while at the sa...

with computers and electronic data."2 However, the actual hands-on aspect of collecting evidence presents a far greater challenge...

it either way; the most sensible conclusion has to be that since he was tried by a jury which acquitted him, and since they sat th...

of authority, there can be no sense of stability where people are arbitrarily applying their own interpretation. Nowhere is this ...

Watch in 1636, New York Citys Shout and Rattle Watch was implemented in 1651 and Philadelphia created ten separate patrol areas th...

notes, do not abide by this same economic equation; in fact, their productivity versus ever-growing taxpayer-funded resources more...

than its quantitative counterpart, providing a greater level of understanding pertaining to quality - as with education - that can...

enlightenment philosophy? What form did those ideas take in classical criminological thought?" First, a look at each of the named...

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

grow ups and is exemplified when an individual feels that has a stake in their society as a whole. From the beginning of McCall...

very heart of causal processes (Bandura, 1986). Emphasizing the notion of learned expectations, this theory is closely associated...

as US citizens are protected even at the point where the system has essentially labeled us as a criminal. Due process is, in fact...

more dramatic than embezzlers, and the media is after ratings, so it uses the most sensational material it can. This means that wh...

fair to say that few Americans, if any, are going to agree with the way Congressional members vote themselves hefty raises in the ...