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vital option again during the 1980s and early 1990s for several reasons, the first of which was the existence of a general sociopo...

cases from the point of view that the person on trial is guilty. There is no presumption of innocence until proven guilty-he start...

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...

that a ten year old can be prosecuted for murder. In contemplating this issue, it pays to take a look at the juvenile justice syst...

correlation between class and incarceration, as roughly 80 percent of those inmates incarcerated in 2002 could not afford an attor...

the prison system. This is something that has concerned the public and the same problem is found in juvenile detention centers as ...

U.S. Constitution makes the President, a civilian leader, the Commander-in-Chief of the Army, Navy and Militia. While the Presiden...

Rehabilitation is only one reason for punishment. Other reasons go to retribution, deterrence and social control. Prisons do provi...

was a knight, he was essentially required to meet challenges and learn how to be chivalrous, often through mistakes. As such the Q...

is great interest. Plato looks at all of these things in his book The Republic. In Book I, justice is discussed and it is deemed ...

fundamental importance in the Republic of the metaphor of descent and its connection to the two great themes of birth and death, a...

Supreme Court disallows the death penalty for juveniles. This decision was made primary due to the fact that young brains are stil...

key to the way that Dworkin is criticising it. To look at this we need to put the ideas of Dworkin into a broader context. Some, ...

al Qahtani was held in intense isolation for months on end, to the point where he began to hallucinate; strip searched and made to...

attention and (showing) respect for visitors entering the classroom" (Johnson 21). Among the general skills and competencies neede...

before the New London Superior Court, asserting that the "taking of their properties would violate the public use restriction in t...

effect of showing mercy to the Manson murderers when they exhibited no mercy towards their innocent victims. According to Charlo...

half were single parents. An example of deductive logic in this study is the selection of the study hypothesis, i.e., the premises...

for a differentiation in the purpose of the crime, and once policing agents were called, the legal process was started. Police ...

be viewed within its historical context in order to be fully understood. For example, rather than viewing the Salem Witch Trials a...

its suggested that a criminal justice agency or organization consider investing in a computer system that can link into data netwo...

(Singer, 1996). The case was shocking for a number of reasons, but two stand out: Bosket was only 15; and he was already in care a...

In the case of Baze v. Reese, Kentucky inmates who have been sentenced to death are claming that the states three-drug cocktail pr...

as this deal with damage to property during public disorder where property is damaged, but this time it may be purposefully, but i...

that Rawls equates justice with equality. Justice is, in a manner of speaking, treating others as an individual would wish to be ...

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...

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

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

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