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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,...

Pros and Cons of Capital Punishment

several Christian societies which still use the Bible as a basis for their arguments for the death penalty. Largely, however even ...

Garrett and A Criminal-Addict's Story

define his identity that eclipsed the influence and importance of his home or his school. Durkheim was one of the first experts ...

'The Maximum Security Adolescent' by Margaret Talbot

be arrested, even though he was portrayed as basically a good kid. Jeff is a case study that commences this article which tugs at...

Crime and Punishment in American History by Lawrence Meir Friedman

In five pages this comprehensive American history text is examined in terms of the author's detailed consideration of the U.S. cri...

Global Criminal Justice

and Israel. These are four distinct countries found in different parts of the world. II. Criminal Justice in the United States ...

The Ashley Alexandra Dupre Story: A Look at Female Prostitution in the Twenty-First Century

as a serious crime. Still, it is usually the case that the prostitutes are arrested while their customers go free. In the case of ...

The Detriments of Isolation

become even more out of control as there are fewer eyes watching them. A well known study done at Stanford University tested behav...

Problems in the Administration of Justice

profiling is used to "compensate for a lack of evidence and represents poor police work" (Hajjar, 2006). Police simply round up "s...

PROCESSING A CRIMINAL CASE

state, or state to federal, the process involves the stages of investigation, interrogation, arrest, complaint/indictment, arraign...

Prosecutors' Roles

reputation, sometimes loss of their job, extreme emotional and psychological distress and extreme anxiety (Banks, 2009). Prosecu...

Recidivism and Sexual Offenders

was to insure that prior to being released from prison, sex criminals received psychatric evaluation to insure they would not comm...

Arguing in Favor of Reallocating Funds for Programs Involving Drug Abuse and Alcohol Treatment

would be incurred if we were to rehabilitate drug and alcohol users rather than put them in the penitentiary. The view...

Locke’s State of Nature v the Social Contract

Modern society rests on a balance between personal freedom and government restriction. That balance is something that has...

Poverty and Crime Among Canada’s First Nations

Canadas First Nations peoples find themselves at severe disadvantage in many distinct regards when compared with other Canadians. ...

Steve Christian's 'Out of Lock-UP: Now What?', Juvenile Crime and Drug Use

a serious drug and mental health problems when they were incarcerated. These juveniles have serious problems with hallucinogens, ...

Criminal Justice and an Investigation of Differences IV

but business does have a way of behaving unethically and even criminally where regulations against specific behaviors do not exist...

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...

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...

Deontological and Teleological Ethics, Difference

This essay offers a discussion of the difference between teleological and deontological ethics, especially in regards to law and t...

Prison Overcrowding

This research paper pertains to overcrowding in prisons and asserts that this constitutes the most significant challenge facing th...

Church in the Middle Ages

This paper discusses our issues about the separation of Church and state. It also discusses the power of the church in the middle ...

Justice System and the Impact of Victimology

The ways in which the system of criminal justice has been impacted by victimology are discussed with examples including the trial ...

Due Process and Miranda Rights For Juvenile Defendants

This paper examines pertinent issues regarding the due process and Miranda rights of minors in the US criminal justice system. Th...

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...

Law Enforcement, Cultural diversity and Community

of ones skin or the culture one has grown up with. Diversity, it can be said is as individual as the way in which one approaches p...

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...

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...