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Reforming Juvenile Justice

as well. Nielsen and Perry (2000) state that we "must recognize that we are united in our diversity" (p. 4). This has...

Community Policing in the United States

stance. After all, the police officers can write tickets for small oversights, but a friendly attitude, without overly strict enfo...

Restitution in the Criminal Justice System

are victims of hate crimes. Other special victims may be disabled, gay, HIV-infected, prisoners or students (Wallace, 2007). These...

Is There Evidence of Inequality In The US Criminal Justice System?

poverty. There is always a potential bias in any system that has the danger of becoming an inequality. The basis of the law and...

Sentencing and the American Criminal Justice System

toward determinate sentencing models that go along with a tough on crime stance. Of course, juvenile justice has to some extent b...

Issues of Concern to Prison Inmates

a company rather than career corrections officers, they are underpaid, demoralized, and the turnover is high (Friedmann, 1999). Pr...

Samuel Walker, the Wedding Cake, and Criminal Justice

likely to go to a full jury trial * have considerable impact on the public perception (too much?) (Chapter Topics, 2007). An exa...

Time to Dig Out (Case Study Analysis)

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

Article Analysis: Budgeting for California's Criminal Justice System

"who commit nonviolent drug possession offenses or who violate drug-related conditions of probation or parole" to receive treatmen...

Islamic Law, Aboriginal Customary Law and Queensland Law; a Comparison of Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Systems

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...

Racial Disparity in Criminal Sentencing

bias in the system which seeks out blacks and instills upon them harsher sentences is a highly controversial topic. Inter...

Banned Books In California: K-12

attempt to limit access to so-called sensitive issues and concepts, radical right wing supporters have pushed their weight around ...

Should The United States Become A Member Of The International Criminal Court?

open itself up to unyielding vulnerability. Madison addressed the inherent need for mans activities to remain under some semblanc...

Three Ways in Which the U.S. Constitution Has Influenced the American Criminal Justice System

terrorist acts? The practice of electronic surveillance was certainly nothing new. Two months prior to the attacks on the World ...

"Arc of Justice" - Justifiable Homicide

huge influx of immigrants to the city, and that made the residents nervous and fearful that they would lose their positions to the...

Challenges to Criminal Justice

liberties that are guaranteed to Americans in the Constitution are not lost in the process of addressing this problem. Commentator...

Selling Kidneys In India: Exploiting The Poor

India grounded down by the hopelessness of poverty" (India Kidney Trade). At the center of this issue is the notion of rights an...

Injustice in "Les Miserables"

because he had to feed starving children; despite this, he was given a five-year sentence. Two things immediately spring to mind: ...

Does Oedipus Receive Justice?

the way; at the same time, the "old man," who was watching carefully, "struck me from his carriage, / full on the head with his tw...

An Evaluation of the American Response to Terrorism

A military action at first is successful, but then, the taking of Baghdad only seems loosely related to the terrorism that occurre...

Hamlet and Oedipus as Avengers

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...

Justice and What it Means

In twelve pages this paper examines how the meaning of justice is conveyed in the theories of Plato, John Locke, Friedrich Engels ...

Past and Present Political Tradition Principles

In ten pages this paper refers to the writings of Thucydides, Aristotle, and Plato in a consideration of past and present politica...

Justice Theory of John Rawls

In five pages this paper discusses the justice theory of John Rawls in a consideration of their individualism. Three other source...

Original Position of Philosopher John Rawls

In eight pages justice and fairness as conceptualized by philosopher and theorist John Rawls are examined with the emphasis being ...

Summaries of Articles by Rawls, Mills, and Dworkin

special vulnerability to prejudice or hostility or stereotype..." (Dworkin 56). II. MILLS Mills poses the question that is of in...

William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice and the Concepts of Justice and Law

In five pages this paper discusses how the concepts of law and justice are featured in the play's famous courtroom scene. There a...

Social Pluralism and the US

A pluralist society is the focus of this research paper consisting of eight pages in which the US is examined regarding its provis...

The Republic by Plato, Morality and Logic

In five pages The Republic by Plato is examined in a consideration of Books I and II in a discussion of Socrates' extended dialogu...

Supreme Court Justice Earl Warren

In twelve pages Earl Warren's life and role as Supreme Court Justice are discussed with a consideration of whether the President c...