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Illinois Corruption and Commutation of Death Sentences by Gov. George Ryan

corruption in Illinois enjoyed its hey day it seems during the administration of recent ex-Governor Ryan. This corruption manifes...

US System of Juvenile Justice and its Problems

is unusual. All too often children are led through a troubled system that simply does not know how to treat young offenders. I...

Criminological Theory

People commit crimes for a diversity of reasons. A considerable body of research has been devoted to explaining those...

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...

Blind Faith Book Review

In a paper consisting of ten pages a criminal justice perspective is employed in this book review in which the argument that the s...

Life or Death and Cost Effectiveness

This research paper adresses the fact thaty it is far more costly to house and feed criminals for life than it is to sentence them...

Repeat Offenders and Mandatory Sentences

This paper consists of fifteen pages and examines theories of criminal justice in a consideration of shortcomings and limitations ...

Criminal Sentencing

Justice Statistics, 1996 was the first year State and Federal courts convicted a combined total of over 1 million adults of feloni...

Forensic Psychiatric Nursing

endeavor. Nursing in any context requires a detailed knowledge of individual patients. Specifically, a forensic nurse will have a...

Black Films and Hip Hop Music Videos: Race Representation

is a mixed bag. In films that parody the past like Undercover Brother and in music videos, the most watched genre of film today by...

'The Color Line' as Perceived by W.E.B. Du Bois

purely social we can be separate as the five fingers, and yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress" (quoted ...

The Civil War and Black Americans Who Fought

6 pages and 6 sources. This paper cosiders the African American experience in the American Civil War. This paper relates the exp...

"Native Son" And American History X" - Dual Racial Intolerance

indication of just how racial intolerance has guided history. Wrights (1987) "popular and perennial African-American characters" ...

E.B. White/Once More to the Lake

fond remembrances of what the lake was like during his childhood and how he would get up quietly, dress and "start out in the cano...

Repentance and Criminal Sentencing

According to Rogers (2007) moral retributivism is distinct from retributivism. In the latter, the infliction of suffering on thos...

Judges, Juries, and Sentencing in Criminal Justice

The American legal system revolves around two primary players when it comes to criminal sentencing. These players are the...

Criminal Sentencing and Racial Disparity

because one man is black and the other white. While such racial disparity often occur at many stages of the criminal justice syste...

English Criminal Law and Whether Mandatory Sentences Are Justified

is punished with the loss of their freedom. Therefore, retribution may be seen as basis for punishment. There are many that believ...

Use Of Shaming In Criminal Sentencing

and overlook the possible social benefits associated with alternative sentencing...If federally imposed mandatory minimum sentence...

Juveniles and Adult Criminal Sentencing

and administrative changes have transformed the juvenile court from an initial rehabilitative social welfare agency into a scaled...

Discrimination Based on Color

Race and color continue to be used to gauge acceptability in American culture. This paper examines racial and color factors, both ...

Black Maids Serving White Families in Imitation of Life and The Thursday Ladies

In five pages the parallels of these two works and the differences that exist despite the similar scenario of black maids serving ...

The Struggle of Assimilation

In a paper consisting of 6 pages the struggles encountered by a Korean man and a black man in white community assimilation are exa...

August Wilson's Race Reversal of Romeo and Juliet

work seems to mirror much of his own life struggles, as well as his journey to accepting himself and, perhaps, his father who aban...

Urban America and Cultural Wars

In nine pages this research paper discusses how social scientists define the inner city urban culture of African Americans and how...

Florida and Education Prior to and Following the U.S. Civil War

In five pages education in Florida during the nineteenth century is examined in terms of the implications of social, economic, and...

Second World War Newsreels

In five pages the Second World War's black and white newsreels are examined in terms of their historical importance and also discu...

Harriet Jacobs' Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

In five pages this text is compared with Olaudah Equiano's novel and analyzed in terms of answering questions pertaining the audie...

Various Racial Perceptions Regarding Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin

In eleven pages this paper contrasts and compares past and present reactions to Uncle Tom's Cabin by blacks and whites alike. Twe...

Reviewing Cornel West's Race Matters

In five pages a discussion of race relations in America is examined as seen through the eyes of Cornel West who believes white Ame...