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and 1.2% of non-Hispanic whites. This paper examines some of the factors that may account for the disproportional representation o...
productive person, such programs still struggle to be instrumental in realigning otherwise maladjusted individuals while at the sa...
constitutional rights prior to taking them into custody or while interrogating them, a reality that -- had Miranda v. Arizona neve...
careful not to reveal her real feelings. Gonnerman (2004) emphasizes the problems with the Rockefeller drug laws. For example, Gon...
emergency and routine health-related issues must be made available to the juvenile, including dental, medical and behavioral by th...
state, or state to federal, the process involves the stages of investigation, interrogation, arrest, complaint/indictment, arraign...
profiling is used to "compensate for a lack of evidence and represents poor police work" (Hajjar, 2006). Police simply round up "s...
become even more out of control as there are fewer eyes watching them. A well known study done at Stanford University tested behav...
although blacks make up only 12% of Sacramentos drug users, "52% of those arrested in Sacramento are African-American" (Schiraldi,...
as a serious crime. Still, it is usually the case that the prostitutes are arrested while their customers go free. In the case of ...
(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...
In the case of Baze v. Reese, Kentucky inmates who have been sentenced to death are claming that the states three-drug cocktail pr...
A military action at first is successful, but then, the taking of Baghdad only seems loosely related to the terrorism that occurre...
"who commit nonviolent drug possession offenses or who violate drug-related conditions of probation or parole" to receive treatmen...
stance. After all, the police officers can write tickets for small oversights, but a friendly attitude, without overly strict enfo...
a company rather than career corrections officers, they are underpaid, demoralized, and the turnover is high (Friedmann, 1999). Pr...
bias in the system which seeks out blacks and instills upon them harsher sentences is a highly controversial topic. Inter...
half were single parents. An example of deductive logic in this study is the selection of the study hypothesis, i.e., the premises...
only through the attainment of goals that one can truly know that everything that could be done had been done. Another question ...
terrorist acts? The practice of electronic surveillance was certainly nothing new. Two months prior to the attacks on the World ...
Rehabilitation is only one reason for punishment. Other reasons go to retribution, deterrence and social control. Prisons do provi...
correlation between class and incarceration, as roughly 80 percent of those inmates incarcerated in 2002 could not afford an attor...
States was developed to contend with the operational responsibilities of dealing with the punishment of crimes commissioned by adu...
Americans are "overrepresented" in the criminal justice system. There is a disparity between the number of blacks in the U.S. and ...
In theory, when a crime is committed in the US and a...
Modern society rests on a balance between personal freedom and government restriction. That balance is something that has...
Canadas First Nations peoples find themselves at severe disadvantage in many distinct regards when compared with other Canadians. ...
Dies, Who Decides," 2010). It is hard to dispute this observation. Yet, the other side of the coin contends that there are more bl...
as US citizens are protected even at the point where the system has essentially labeled us as a criminal. Due process is, in fact...
fair to say that few Americans, if any, are going to agree with the way Congressional members vote themselves hefty raises in the ...