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

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

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

during the seventeenth century, where jurors were disqualified from judging if they had a precious knowledge of that case (Smith ...

In six pages this paper discusses how racism by the media and the criminal justice system is reflected in the novels Native Son, A...

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

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

Today in America there is a great but subtle poison that has worked its way into the minds of those who recline nightly in their c...

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

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

There are pros and cons to deterrence programs and some are far more effective than others. Comparing and contrasting these aspec...

children as young as ten will fall under the juvenile court jurisdiction (1997) It is true that some children seem to deserve th...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

18 white youths were arrested for dealing drugs in 1980 while as many as 86 black youths were arrested for the same crime ("Civil,...

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

is the same: someone has been killed at the hands of another. Steinbock bristles at the idea that one form of murder should be v...

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

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

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

at a slow speed and the facilities are still run with the nine to five ideology in mind. In other words, while it is now known th...

was below $8 at the end of 1999; it last closed near $4.50, which represents an increase of nearly 100 percent. Revenues are repo...

In this five page paper the impact of accounting systems on small and medium sized businesses are assessed with such issues as the...