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This paper addresses how injustices within the English criminal justice system helped create the Criminal Cases Act of 1995. This...
this development, the Gun-Free Schools Act of 1994 was passed, which encouraged a policy of "zero tolerance" as it criminalized s...
make it more likely that he or she will be convicted. If in fact the person is wrongly arrested due to the color of his skin or so...
issues concern youth and the treatment of youth as adults. Acknowledging that there is a difference between youth and adult offend...
(Emerge, 1998; p. 48). Just nine months prior, on January 1, 1997, the state of Michigan had implemented its aggressive "get toug...
This is a 5 page critical review that criticizes the nation's system of juvenile justice and its many shortfalls, emphasizing the ...
rather noble institution and embraces the authority to encompass the most important duty imaginable which is to protect and reform...
beating two black individuals. These black youth had entered into the neighborhood of the white boys and this was the motive of th...
the Indiana County Police Academy in 1991. This was a comprehensive and intense program that included numerous areas of study [Tut...
In three pages this paper is a sample of a criminal justice graduate school application's personal statement that features a ficti...
initiated by the police, who have more freedom and a wider range of choices in how to proceed when dealing with a juvenile than wi...
Supreme Court disallows the death penalty for juveniles. This decision was made primary due to the fact that young brains are stil...
A 4 page article critique of a criminal justice study of juvenile behavior in regards to substance abuse pattern. No additional so...
may be more equal than others, having the funds to hire the most experiences and persuasive lawyers that will not only be able to ...
along pertinent information. And because upper management is in a constant state of inaccessibility, these symptoms of negativity...
a critical component of todays campus environment; not only has it become necessary to provide this heretofore unwarranted protect...
poverty. There is always a potential bias in any system that has the danger of becoming an inequality. The basis of the law and...
ineffective as a crime deterrent. The rising rate of the prison population attests to this fact. Although the prison syste...
at a full 25% above their capacity (McMurry, 1997). Though some have blamed increased recidivism rates and decreasing prison effe...
An 18 page paper which summarizes 3 separate textbooks which analyze fully restorative programs as they relate to the field of ju...
Criminal justice in the United States is a litmus-test issue for liberals and conservatives. This paper discusses the differences ...
In five pages this paper discusses the U.S. criminal justice system's practice of discrimination and the social and political devi...
place great emphasis upon "inclusive definitions, neat conceptual distinctions, and broad general rules" (Scuro, 2003) rather than...
While the statistics obviously support the contention that there is a disproportionate representation of blacks as compared to whi...
and "when athletes from different nations compete and their fans support them, there emerges a bond that can be understood only wi...
Juveniles are responsible for an astounding percentage of the crime in this country. Even more disturbing is the degree of violen...
has existed for more than a decade (Associated Content, Inc., 2006; Young and Gainsborough, 2000). In fact, the juvenile system ha...
the group prosper (147). First of all, before considering what constitutes justice within a community, it is first necessary to ...
Families are subject to a number of stressors that for the most part didnt exist just a few generations ago....
to the nature of the crime they are still classified as a juvenile for the purposes of this paper. The definition of mental illn...