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the study results that support their position and ignore other research. Studies that compare homicide trends in states and countr...

who could argue with that idea? Of course, capital punishment is an ongoing debate and one that has been around for centuries. Als...

overpopulation. For a prisoner over the age of fifty-five years old, the upkeep can be as high as sixty thousand dollars per year...

The Death Penalty, 2002; p. 22). They offer up the following questions which plague the country in regards to capital punishment: ...

crime committed, there must be appropriate punishment possibilities in the system. For example, if the death penalty is available ...

murder. The families of murder victims often wait for a verdict of death and believe that should be the case. This is because they...

for the criminal, and again, victimizes the families. Advocates of the Death penalty offer that it costs too much to keep s...

but not all that many actual sentences carried out. Knowing the background of the death penalty in the nation, it comes as no sur...

This paper argues that taking another life is wrong regardless of what the individual has done. There are three sources listed in...

as the legal ramifications of these interactions. This section of the paper helps the student to provide a summary overview of t...

17). While this image is certainly chilling, the overall tone of the poem is one of "civility," which is actually expressed in lin...

5) have a court transcript proceedings and 6) appeal (Dane County Clerk of Courts, 2006). The one most distinguishing difference b...

While gangs are a part and parcel of the culture today, the concept of juvenile delinquency is rather elusive. Many do not dub chi...

disappear in the next few decades. A full exploration of the issues is thus critical to allowing us to turn around our juvenile j...

idea that juvenile offenders needed to be handled different from adult offenders; as the goal was to retrain the child toward more...

that a ten year old can be prosecuted for murder. In contemplating this issue, it pays to take a look at the juvenile justice syst...

has existed for more than a decade (Associated Content, Inc., 2006; Young and Gainsborough, 2000). In fact, the juvenile system ha...

2005). It would take until the 1980s before all youth were taken out of adult jails and removed to separate facilities (Krisberg, ...

is societally acceptable to that which is societally reprehensible. There is, of course, no one place to lodge the blame for juve...

effectiveness, although difficult to prove, seemed to be less than that of traditional options. Recidivism rates, the rate at whic...

by firearms is the number one cause of death among black males between the ages of fifteen and thirty-four (Lovett, 1997). The is...

and as a result of this, there was a change in the way that the courts (read..judges) were to view juvenile offenders. For particu...

and drug abuse violations at a rate of 1,447.1, 1032.7, 699.5 and 561.8 per 100,000 youth population (National Center for Juvenile...

he saw his little sister having sex, he might have been angry enough to throw something. However, whether or not he is guilty of t...

This usually involves some type of probation arrangement or counseling/treatment (The Center for Young Womens Development Handbook...

not been easy. It has been on the agenda for several years for congress (Voegtlin, 1998), and there has been an inclusion of the ...

contributing to delinquent behavior it may be nearly impossible to formulate an appropriate and meaningful intervention or treatme...

also by engaging in certain activities or behavior patterns (1999). Also, gangs are universally loyal to their neighborhood, and ...

use of military drill and strict discipline. The first of these was opened in the states of Georgia and Oklahoma in 1983 (54). A...

punishment under the law, however, and it has occurred a number of times. In fact, the death penalty has seen resurgence. ...