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Drug Offenders and Treatment Alternatives

conclusion as to what is the best way of going about treating drug addicted offenders. The important question is: What is the bes...

Changing an Unfair Criminal Justice System

heading of the United States Department of Justice (Glover 92). The U.S. Marshalls, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the D...

U.S. System of Criminal Justice, Ethnicity, and Race

perspective is that OJ Simpson was tried by a jury of his peers. There was an Asian judge and a jury made up of minorities. The pr...

Criminal Justice VII

would be that such a thing would never happen in the US without great public outcry, but that was before passage of the Patriot Ac...

American Criminal Justice and the Constitution

The result is that "there are not one, but fifty-five court systems in the United States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, a...

Minority Populations and Arrest Data Within Louisiana's Criminal Justice System

was reduced by about half, to reach an even keel with Caucasian arrest level, with a slightly higher percentage of arrests falling...

Criminal Justice and Treating Juvenile Crime as Adult Offenses

does not treat all of its juvenile offenders as adults. Indeed, the state is one of the most progressive in the nation in terms o...

North Carolina and Criminal Justice Management

improvement in regards to the criminal justice management system, and, secondly, that there are ways by which this can occur at th...

Law Enforcement's Use of Force and the Effects of Race

While the prevalence of the association between racism and the use of force by police is a highly debated topic, there are instanc...

Criminal Justice System and the Film One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

in public opinion toward those who are mentally ill and toward those who have been incarcerated. The question that it brought up w...

Objectives of the U.S. Criminal Justice System

Prosecution Myriad aspects comprise the component of prosecution, not the least of which included the interrogation process...

Criminal Justice System in Australia and Migrant Injustices

for instigating change that will relegate injustice and discrimination to the countrys past. Williams (2001), in fact, contends t...

Goals of the Criminal Justice System

due process. The paper then examines these goals as they relate to the goals of the individual, those being social justice, equali...

Criminal Justice System and Minorities' Overrepresentation

that the African American and Hispanic youths were generally treated far more harshly than the white criminal youth (Poe-Yamagata;...

Criminal Justice and Social Engineering

was not always this way (Mocete, 1997). The prison system persists in its newfound role most likely due to the fact that there i...

Options for Addressing the Problem of Juvenile Crime

houses between the juvenile leaving the correctional system and reentering the community. Juvenile delinquency is just one ...

Criminal Justice System and Discrimination

fact, that although blacks represent only thirteen percent of our national population they represent some thirty percent of those ...

Martin Scorsese's Goodfellas, Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather and Their Depiction of Crime and Punishment

He seems to have made up his mind at the very beginning of the saga. He has become a part of the military...

Domestic Violence and its Societal Impact

hesitant about coming forward to name their abusers, because the system did not seem to either believe them about the scope of the...

Criminal Justice and Victim's Rights

106th Congress aimed at preventing violence against women, "one of the most blatant manifestations of patriarchy" (Mananzan, 1995,...

Selected Incapacitation in the Criminal Justice System

of incapacitation we see that it can fall into various categories: "Incapacitation may be selective (aimed at particular offender...

Fact or Fiction with Regard to Racial Profiling

a disproportionate percentage of the crimes. While it might be easy to point to racial profiling as the reason for the...

Police Brutality and a 2004 Australian Article Sociological Assessment

engine ("Brit music"). After police stopped the car, a man in his twenties had been arrested ("Brit music"). The article report...

4 Questions on Criminal Justice

II. HOW EFFECTIVE IS PUNISHMENT IN CONTROLLING CRIME? WHY? Warehousing of prisoners is perhaps the most prevalent of all ap...

System of Criminal Justice and Impact of Homeland Security

availability mentioned above, every part of the criminal justice system is or has been affected in some way by the threat of domes...

Criminal Justice System and the Importance of Societal Understanding

give a greater equality to those who do not have the political or economic power (Reiman, 2000). The role if position is im...

Societal Changes and the Future of Law Enforcement

public reprisal. What happens is that when a suspect is unfortunately shot in the course of illegal activity, the officer is scrut...

U.S. and Austria's Systems of Criminal Justice

manner by which offenders were being sidelined from real punishment; however, their collective voices were not strong enough to de...

The Positive Aspects of the Chain Gang

not leniency, indeed it is stiffened penalties for criminal behavior. A very important component of those penalties is the use of...

Criminal Justice and Parole

the observance of special restrictions (1999). In other words, they are not free to come and go. They have their rights truncated...