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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,...

Ishmael Beah/A Long Way Gone, Memoirs of a Boy Soldier

verge of being reunited with his family, only to have this chance taken away by another rebel attack. He is changed by his experie...

Article 91 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice

a specific time and place to report for duty, and then claims the error is the E-4s fault. The senior NCO thus appears blameless a...

3 Law Questions

and arbitrary. His critics notwithstanding, Jefferson set out and ultimately accomplished what no political leader had considered...

Career in Criminal Justice/Forensics

A 9 page research paper that discusses what is involved in pursing a degree and career in criminal justice, with a specific focus ...

DNA and the University of North Texas Center for Human Identification Project

so-called cold cases and have been on the books for a year or more (Eisenberg and Planz, 2008). Under current policies, some huma...

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...

The Factors that Influence Behavior in Criminal Justice Work

the persons subjective view of the situation are important (More, Wegener and Vito, 2005, p. 56). This perspective suggests tha...

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...

Mark Twain and T.H. White's Literary Expertise

myths that surrounded the history of England. Most of these tales abounded with medieval kings and castles, dragons and wizards, ...

Carol Gilligan's 'In a Different Voice …'

This paper consists of 5 pages and considers women's moral development when contrasted with the masculine justice ethic as hypothe...

Iranian Law and Criminal Justice

place in about the third century; it lasts until the 20th. Iran went through a number of revolutions in the 20th century, includi...

Developing an Appropriate Leadership Approach for Public Service Department

the expectation of fairness and as such there is also likely to be a high level of applications of concepts such as employee equit...

Greek Style of Justice in the Fifth and Sixth Centuries

say that a given society defines its own justice. Correspondingly another society, might have a slightly different version. Anaxi...

Is a Criminal Justice System Necessary in Australia?

In eleven pages this paper questions whether or not Australia needs a criminal justice system and includes that it, like every oth...

The Inadequacy of the U.S. System of Public Defense and American Justice

In seven pages this report considers how money has tipped the scales of justice in terms of advantages within the American judicia...

British Law and Criminal Justice System and the Offender as a Victim

In forty five pages this paper discusses the British system of criminal justice in an assessment of the 'offender as victim' conce...

'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight,' Justice and Mercy

In 7 pages this paper examines the concepts of justice and mercy as they are portrayed in this anonymous poem of the 14th century....

'The Maximum Security Adolescent' by Margaret Talbot

be arrested, even though he was portrayed as basically a good kid. Jeff is a case study that commences this article which tugs at...

Criminal Justice Theories of Cesare Beccaria

In nine pages the utility theory of Cesare Beccaria is considered as it applies to criminal justice and crime and its influence up...

Justice and Society in Orestes' Story

In five pages this paper examines how within Eumenides by Aeschylus within Orestes' story rests Greek perspectives on society and ...

Overview of Environmental Justice

In three pages environmental justice is defined and the circumstances that may prove elusive. Three sources are cited in the bibl...

21st Century Juvenile Justice System in America

a responsive juvenile justice system is critical (Briscoe, 1997). In Texas, for example, children as young as ten will fall und...

Juvenile Crime Programs

Juvenile justice models are considered in an overview consisting of seven pages in which the community corrections approach to juv...

Mersault's Trial in The Stranger by Albert Camus

In this paper consisting of five pages the relevance of the evidence presented to the jury and how the concept of justice is shape...

US Juvenile Justice System

(Emerge, 1998; p. 48). Just nine months prior, on January 1, 1997, the state of Michigan had implemented its aggressive "get toug...

Ethics and Piety According to Socrates

In five pages Socrates' concepts of ethics, piety, and justice are discussed as they are represented in Plato's Crito and Euthyp...

Applied and Basic Criminal Justice Research

In six pages applied and basic methods of criminal justice research are discussed in a consideration of policy analysis incorporat...

Private Commerce and Criminal Justice Productivity Measures

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

How Our Criminal Justice System Reflects the U.S. Constitution

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