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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...
both royalty, they have both been told by an outside agency to look for a murderer in their midst, and in both cases, the agency t...
is "attributed to a person who has control over or responsibility for another who negligently causes an injury or otherwise would ...
"who commit nonviolent drug possession offenses or who violate drug-related conditions of probation or parole" to receive treatmen...
The governor wanted to eliminate parole and one conservative legislator was looking for input from people involved in the system (...
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...
addressed. I believe that as a family lawyer, I can help people with mental illness by becoming an advocate for people like my si...
bias in the system which seeks out blacks and instills upon them harsher sentences is a highly controversial topic. Inter...
there are also some commonalities in the way that the law has been developed and the way it is implemented. In each case the evo...
a DNA test reveals that Mr. Smith, who is later proven innocent of the crime hes being investigated for, is the father of Mrs. Bro...
as well. Nielsen and Perry (2000) state that we "must recognize that we are united in our diversity" (p. 4). This has...
would be incurred if we were to rehabilitate drug and alcohol users rather than put them in the penitentiary. The view...
the criminal justice system has to protect society and seek to gain a balance between the required protection for each group. In...
seems perfect in its design. Of course, nothing is perfect, and one criticism of it is that it is old. It is no longer applicable ...
differed so that the young offender will have time to make amends. Other forms of mediation are found within the prisons themselve...
be a state trooper whose jurisdiction covers and entire state, and not just one single town. Then there is law enforcement individ...
and having managers responsible for planning the work while workers are responsible for carrying out those plans (Encyclopedia of ...
after hearing of the deaths of the children and the illness in the community (Trevino, 2000). Today it has been proven that there ...
virtue, i.e., justice, but it is also included under Aquinas discussion of love, specifically under love of ones neighbor, for Go...
would rush forward to announce they had made a mistake. The Amiraults found, immediately after the first accusation, that talk or...
justice has been entrenched in three areas which are offender accountability, victim restoration, and the reintegration of the of...
in a firm that specialized in antitrust lawsuits ("John Paul Stevens," 2006). In 1970, Stevens was appointed by President Nixon to...
crime. In so many ways they are simply victims and yet are incarcerated because of this. Belknap seems to argue that much of this ...
of the frequency of their transgressions, as opposed to seriousness, it is also true that only certain types of juveniles are like...
exclusively white legal society (Scherer 655). Political scientist Samuel Krislov agrees, adding that minority jurists reflect mi...
society exist without democracy? Many theorists today would think not, and while many enlightened individuals could argue that mer...
cases from the point of view that the person on trial is guilty. There is no presumption of innocence until proven guilty-he start...