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Discretion, 2003). In his acclaimed study of discretion, University of Chicago law professor Kenneth Culp Davis discovered that p...
In six pages this paper discusses how racism by the media and the criminal justice system is reflected in the novels Native Son, A...
profession, these objectives might address such processes as searches (search warrants and consent searches) and acceptable types ...
a disproportionate percentage of the crimes. While it might be easy to point to racial profiling as the reason for the...
Beaumont, 2000). In deciding this case the European court looked at both the general scheme of the EEC treaty and the spirit with ...
is only preserved as a term of reproach" (Plato). He illustrates how the figures of men and women and the third figure were round ...
Yet is it just to have such a rule in place? Furthermore is a just for a professional football team to be fined, simply because th...
offender accountability, victim restoration, and the reintegration of the offender into daily life once again. While not as harsh...
is unusual. All too often children are led through a troubled system that simply does not know how to treat young offenders. I...
with sickness, or the pilot who helps friends against "the perils of the sea" (Plato Book I). He then inquires into "what sort of ...
on, and intelligence gained is assumed to be from open source information unless otherwise specified. For the argument to be in ...
fact, that although blacks represent only thirteen percent of our national population they represent some thirty percent of those ...
Chicago vs. Jesus Morales; Palmer vs City of Euclid, Ohio and Connecticut Department of Public Safety vs. Doe. All three of these ...
Today in America there is a great but subtle poison that has worked its way into the minds of those who recline nightly in their c...
In a nutshell, forensic science is the use of science and technology to solve crimes (What is Forensic Science? 2003). The...
of incapacitation we see that it can fall into various categories: "Incapacitation may be selective (aimed at particular offender...
A military action at first is successful, but then, the taking of Baghdad only seems loosely related to the terrorism that occurre...
because he had to feed starving children; despite this, he was given a five-year sentence. Two things immediately spring to mind: ...
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...
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...
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...
a company rather than career corrections officers, they are underpaid, demoralized, and the turnover is high (Friedmann, 1999). Pr...
likely to go to a full jury trial * have considerable impact on the public perception (too much?) (Chapter Topics, 2007). An exa...
The governor wanted to eliminate parole and one conservative legislator was looking for input from people involved in the system (...
"who commit nonviolent drug possession offenses or who violate drug-related conditions of probation or parole" to receive treatmen...
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...
bias in the system which seeks out blacks and instills upon them harsher sentences is a highly controversial topic. Inter...