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of each county in which the offense occurred. In other words, in some states, there is a mandatory life sentence for drug traffick...
believes he can take the life of another without reciprocal discipline is a concept many find difficult to grasp, a point well tak...
is unusual. All too often children are led through a troubled system that simply does not know how to treat young offenders. I...
proposals to standardize this and other sentencing issues so as to increases in criminal activity in certain areas of the country ...
To tackle the question of the rights or wrongs of DNA testing at the point of arrest, it must be acknowledged up front that DNA ev...
by firearms is the number one cause of death among black males between the ages of fifteen and thirty-four (Lovett, 1997). The is...
does not have a good track record in terms of sexual encounters. In defense of the verdict, Rainey (2004) notes that those who op...
or not a specific practice reduces recidivism or has some constructive impact on those who are addressed by the criminal justice s...
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...
out harsher sentences to juvenile offenders. For particularly violent crimes, in fact, one of the most effective means of crime c...
Gottredson and Hirschis Self-Control Theory contends that criminal behavior is perpetuated to meet the perpetrators own self-inter...
theory could exist, if only individuals would work for the good of society instead of placing selfish aims above all else. Wells ...
direct violation of a defendants Sixth Amendment rights (AkRepublicans.com, 2005). In effect Blakely v. State of Washington resul...
(Overview, 2004). The age of majority, that is, the age at which the defendant is considered an adult differs from state to state....
makes it clear that the house is not a privilege, as a necessity. This is because if Remire lived in the camp, the other prisoners...
- at least sometimes - just as culpable as adults" (Taylor, 2005, p. PG). Capital punishment was not only utilized as a...
objective in conducting their study was to "describe the experience of men who are diagnosed with prostate cancer and their wives,...
10,500 juvenile facilities, which represents an over-capacity rate of 186% (24). Prisoners are doubling-up in cells. They are sl...
are mentally ill. One of the questions that then arises from this data is, are the white mentally ill sentenced to incarceration ...
In eight pages this paper examines the high percentage of people of color who are currently incarcerated along with those presentl...
In ten pages this paper considers the impact of these guidelines on the court system and offers some history as well as case law a...
The American legal system revolves around two primary players when it comes to criminal sentencing. These players are the...
not violate the Eighth Amendment, which prohibits cruel and unusual punishment (Samaha, 2011). Ewing was sentence to 25 years to l...
According to Rogers (2007) moral retributivism is distinct from retributivism. In the latter, the infliction of suffering on thos...
The death penalty has consequently been in and...
and overlook the possible social benefits associated with alternative sentencing...If federally imposed mandatory minimum sentence...
of what he chooses to do in life. Psychologists likely would say that Loser harbors immense hatred for women in that he chooses t...
sentences imposed throughout the U.S., data from the Department of Justice indicates that recidivism rates are extremely high, as ...
Nine pages and eight sources. This paper provides an overview of the Three Strikes Statute in California. This paper considers t...