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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,...
by and large, remove a good deal of the criminal element from the streets. However, it can be said that while the criminal element...
evidence in a large amount of literature that there is a link between mental illness and crimes (Drake and Pathe, 2004). T...
was reduced by about half, to reach an even keel with Caucasian arrest level, with a slightly higher percentage of arrests falling...
itself in context, it is perhaps helpful to begin with a brief overview of the development of correctional policies in the UK: not...
supports the claim with well documented research, that non-violent criminals can pay their debt to society in many ways which are ...
does not treat all of its juvenile offenders as adults. Indeed, the state is one of the most progressive in the nation in terms o...
"file not found" page. Even the link to the authors own home page returns only an error message. Searching for Dr. Greek...
While the statistics obviously support the contention that there is a disproportionate representation of blacks as compared to whi...
any given day, there are myriad reports of crime and violent acts purportedly committed by persons of color, origin and ethnic bac...
is valuable where the safety of the community is concerned. In relationship to the board, there are nine board members who are ...
conclusion as to what is the best way of going about treating drug addicted offenders. The important question is: What is the bes...
heading of the United States Department of Justice (Glover 92). The U.S. Marshalls, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the D...
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...
engine ("Brit music"). After police stopped the car, a man in his twenties had been arrested ("Brit music"). The article report...
on, and intelligence gained is assumed to be from open source information unless otherwise specified. For the argument to be in ...
between offender and staff and reductions in recidivism, then, are central to acknowledging a variety of new correctional approach...
II. HOW EFFECTIVE IS PUNISHMENT IN CONTROLLING CRIME? WHY? Warehousing of prisoners is perhaps the most prevalent of all ap...
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...
profession, these objectives might address such processes as searches (search warrants and consent searches) and acceptable types ...
Discretion, 2003). In his acclaimed study of discretion, University of Chicago law professor Kenneth Culp Davis discovered that p...
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...
modern society and the expansion of the meaning of class through an integrated view of individuals separation within a culture. ...
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...
for working farms and it provided Southern states with a rationale for not rebuilding prisons after the war. In some cases, many s...
Malden), the movie offers viewers a glimpse into the underworld dealings of crooked unions and the infiltration or organized crime...