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

houses between the juvenile leaving the correctional system and reentering the community. Juvenile delinquency is just one ...

the criminal justice system has to protect society and seek to gain a balance between the required protection for each group. In...

would be incurred if we were to rehabilitate drug and alcohol users rather than put them in the penitentiary. The view...

and having managers responsible for planning the work while workers are responsible for carrying out those plans (Encyclopedia of ...

Rehabilitation is only one reason for punishment. Other reasons go to retribution, deterrence and social control. Prisons do provi...

but business does have a way of behaving unethically and even criminally where regulations against specific behaviors do not exist...

range of the problem is quantified 2. What is Mental Illness? 2.1 Definitions of Mental Illness The difficulty with defining me...

a serious drug and mental health problems when they were incarcerated. These juveniles have serious problems with hallucinogens, ...

stance. After all, the police officers can write tickets for small oversights, but a friendly attitude, without overly strict enfo...

A military action at first is successful, but then, the taking of Baghdad only seems loosely related to the terrorism that occurre...

a company rather than career corrections officers, they are underpaid, demoralized, and the turnover is high (Friedmann, 1999). Pr...

"who commit nonviolent drug possession offenses or who violate drug-related conditions of probation or parole" to receive treatmen...

bias in the system which seeks out blacks and instills upon them harsher sentences is a highly controversial topic. Inter...

only through the attainment of goals that one can truly know that everything that could be done had been done. Another question ...

half were single parents. An example of deductive logic in this study is the selection of the study hypothesis, i.e., the premises...

effect of showing mercy to the Manson murderers when they exhibited no mercy towards their innocent victims. According to Charlo...

faculties, they "won admirers by their eloquence" (Norton et al 33). The Jesuits drew on science to predict "solar and lunar eclip...

brings up the question as to "What kind of society could justify locking up so many of its young men," who are the principle demo...

aides handed her a note telling her that U.S. Senator David Boren, a Democrat from Oklahoma, was holding on the telephone in her o...

an individual may initiate a private lawsuit, that is, in regards to "contracts, injuries, real and personal property and family r...

The concept of restorative justice is something that is intriguing people from all...

since the latter 1800s facilitated greater and greater industrialization. With that industrialization the ethic of hard work beca...

seems perfect in its design. Of course, nothing is perfect, and one criticism of it is that it is old. It is no longer applicable ...

and whites (Overview of the uninsured ..., 2005). The picture is somewhat better for African-Americans. They comprise 12% of the...

a lifetime of prison sentences], a flame still burned in Clarence Earl Gideon. He had not given up caring about life or freedom; ...