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Wacquant's Prisons of Poverty

not realize that in part, the issue is attached to race, the economy, and social stratification. That is, the issue is not one per...

Women and Children as Products in the Sex Industry

Women and children have been exploited throughout history by those that seek to profit in one way or another from that...

Prosecutors' Roles

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

The Criminal Justice System, Discrimination and Disparity

Americans are "overrepresented" in the criminal justice system. There is a disparity between the number of blacks in the U.S. and ...

Do Blacks Receive Harsher Criminal Sentences?

In theory, when a crime is committed in the US and a...

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. ...

The Juvenile Justice System, Pro and Con

of the problems with the system is that it is not standardized; each state has its own version. Funding mechanisms are different i...

The Justice Systems the United States of America and Iran

has eighteen agencies is supplemented by the notion that it may actually have more than eighteen ("Prosecutor says Iran has 18 la...

Iranian Law and Criminal Justice

place in about the third century; it lasts until the 20th. Iran went through a number of revolutions in the 20th century, includi...

Voices from the Cell Block

the federal courts to mandate minimum rights for prisoners" (Platt, 1999, p. 237). But by the 1990s, prison reform had died out a...

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...

Racism in the Criminal Justice System

Dies, Who Decides," 2010). It is hard to dispute this observation. Yet, the other side of the coin contends that there are more bl...

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 ...

US Constitution’s Influence on the American Criminal Justice System

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

Singer: Recriminalizing Delinquency

(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...

Kelo v. New London

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

Racial Disparity in Criminal Sentencing

bias in the system which seeks out blacks and instills upon them harsher sentences is a highly controversial topic. Inter...

Reforming Juvenile Justice

as well. Nielsen and Perry (2000) state that we "must recognize that we are united in our diversity" (p. 4). This has...

Problems with the Juvenile System in America

publications. Statistics, however, are not the most important thing when we are considering how to treat the problem. A prerequi...

Article Analysis/Effects of Parenting

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

Three Ways in Which the U.S. Constitution Has Influenced the American Criminal Justice System

terrorist acts? The practice of electronic surveillance was certainly nothing new. Two months prior to the attacks on the World ...

An Evaluation of the American Response to Terrorism

A military action at first is successful, but then, the taking of Baghdad only seems loosely related to the terrorism that occurre...

Community Policing in the United States

stance. After all, the police officers can write tickets for small oversights, but a friendly attitude, without overly strict enfo...

Issues of Concern to Prison Inmates

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

Article Analysis: Budgeting for California's Criminal Justice System

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

Criminal Justice

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

The Implementation and Monitoring of a Criminal Justice Program

only through the attainment of goals that one can truly know that everything that could be done had been done. Another question ...

State Government Website Assessment

and one flowchart. The logo, shown in Figure 1, is quite striking and pointedly appropriate for juvenile justice. It provides of...