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Are Judges an Anachronism to the Criminal Justice System?

For all of its faults and shortcomings, the American legal system is the best in the world. That system revolves around two prima...

Do Blacks Receive Harsher Criminal Sentences?

In theory, when a crime is committed in the US and a...

Social Disorganization and Organized Crime

concerning problems of our time. It has both direct and indirect impacts on the physical and philosophical infrastructural featur...

Double Lives in Charles Dickens' Great Expectations

illustrating how misery is a product of human actions. This book can be said to have more dark overtones than those of some of h...

Reforms in Sentencing

of each county in which the offense occurred. In other words, in some states, there is a mandatory life sentence for drug traffick...

Legal Concept of Double Jeopardy

after acquittal (Double Jeopardy, 2002). * A second prosecution for the same offense after conviction (Double Jeopardy, 2002). * M...

Putting Together a Mitigation

to injure his assistant to this extent. When we consider the findings of the sentencing advisory panel there is also an indicati...

Duties of a Paralegal Involving Sentencing Issues

calculations, as one can see, do not seem to be standardized from one state to the next. There have been proposals to standardize ...

Forensic Psychology and Juvenile Justice

Abstract This paper provides an overview of the multitude of roles forensic psychologist play...

The Juvenile Justice System and Violent Juvenile Offenders

The latter part of the Twentieth Century was characterized by a growing concern over what was perceived as a growing propensity...

Inside by Michael Santos

by working as prostitutes within the jail (Santos 17). However, horrible conditions and high violence are not indicative of all ja...

The Bernie Madoff Scandal

Bernie Madoff is in prison serving a sentence that will see him there for the rest of his natural life. His crimes are explored as...

Juvenile Crime and the Death Penalty

believes he can take the life of another without reciprocal discipline is a concept many find difficult to grasp, a point well tak...

Arguing in Support of Violent Juvenile Offender Sentencing as Adults

As a consequence there has been a growing tendency within our criminal justice system to try juveniles who commit such atrocities ...

Sentencing That is Indeterminate v. Determinate

minimums with the Comprehensive Crime Control Act of 1984 (1994). Since that time, stiffening or adding to mandatory minimums has ...

Three Strikes Law in California

of those that opponents to the law point to as evidence its injustice. In 1995, Andrade was arrested for shoplifting $84 worth of ...

Production and Liability

corporations are self-policing themselves for more accountability -- and how this action will likely carry over into the 2000s. Op...

Justice and the O.J. Simpson Double Murder Case

he received All-American honors at the University of Southern California, won the Heisman Trophy in 1968 and set several National ...

John Locke, Sex Offenders, and Mandatory Minimum Sentencing

You will then be able to extract supporting information as done here, and this example paper will indicate how to cite such source...

Last Minute Death Sentence Commutation by Illinois Governor George Ryan

recent ex-Governor Ryan. This corruption manifested in a number of ways including various arms of corruption within the Chicago p...

Illinois Corruption and Commutation of Death Sentences by Gov. George Ryan

corruption in Illinois enjoyed its hey day it seems during the administration of recent ex-Governor Ryan. This corruption manifes...

English Criminal Law and Whether Mandatory Sentences Are Justified

is punished with the loss of their freedom. Therefore, retribution may be seen as basis for punishment. There are many that believ...

Christianity as a U.S. Double Edged Sword

of the supposed "truth" of some Christian believers to cut through the sin of the real world for the sake of the individual soul o...

The Short Story Voice of Alice Walker

In this paper consisting of five pages the 'voice' Walker uses in constructing her short stories as expressed in sentence structur...

Abolishing Patrole as an Option

This research paper argues that patrole as a sentencing option should be abolished. This five page paper ahs three sources in the ...

1976 Film The Town that Dreaded Sundown

it outlines all of the major action of the film. It is also one of the most positive reviews on this movie, as the author actually...

The Double Edged Sword of Globalization

being one which either should or will result in a complete homogenization of culture and the formation of a unified global communi...

Differences Between Crack and Cocaine Use and Sentencing Guidelines

is crack. Clearly, crack is cocaine in a slightly different form. Yet, the law treats these as different entities. Of course, it ...

A Speech Inspired by Anna Sewell's Black Beauty

In this paper consisting of three pages an animal fable speech that mirrors the literary style of the novel features similar word ...

Criminal Sentencing

Justice Statistics, 1996 was the first year State and Federal courts convicted a combined total of over 1 million adults of feloni...