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Criminal Justice System and the Effects of Technology

details. Digital enhancement of such evidence has made the retrieval and identification of even the tiniest and most illegible ev...

Abolishing the Right to Remain Silent

of checks and balances. The system was seen as sound as if a defendant was guilt the prosecution should be able to build a strin...

Aspects of Crime

things in life is to deviate from what is considered by the masses to be normal; in fact, Morpheus points out that it is often con...

A Restorative Justice Examination

issues concern youth and the treatment of youth as adults. Acknowledging that there is a difference between youth and adult offend...

Comparing Retributive Justice and Restorative Justice

aligned with a degree of sensibility. There must be a notion that not only is retributive justice something that makes the society...

Steve Bogira's Courtroom 302

beating two black individuals. These black youth had entered into the neighborhood of the white boys and this was the motive of th...

Plea Bargaining

This 12-page paper deals with the effect of plea bargaining on the criminal justice system. It argues that the relatively new pra...

12 Angry Men/TV's Law and Order

entitled "House of Cards," the detectives and attorneys who are featured in the show similarly face what seems like a case of cert...

Restorative Justice, Alternative Punishment And In-Home Monitoring

eighty percent rate that is currently representative of juvenile re-arrest in this country, only sixty percent find their way back...

Criminal Justice Policy Change: Open-System

each community and asking about individual "safety concerns and security needs" (Greene, 2000, pp. 299-370). One particular commu...

America's System of Justice and the Influence of the British Examples

during the seventeenth century, where jurors were disqualified from judging if they had a precious knowledge of that case (Smith ...

A Jury Selection Experiment and Prejudice

A paper that contains eight pages considers a student submitted case study in which a white man is found not guilty and an Hispani...

Prejudice and a Jury Experiment

the control and experimental groups and what exactly was accomplished. A student will want to point out that an attempt to explain...

1984 Case on Burning the American Flag Texas v. Johnson

In three pages this paper examines the reasons why a Chief Justice overturned the ruling of the judge in this important 1984 flag ...

U.S. Judicial System and Prejudice

our limitations. If an individual is judging who is guilty of a crime with a choice of two people, and has the knowledge of the ...

An Article Analysis of Jury Selection and Affirmative Action

In a paper consisting of ten pages the article 'A Quota Jury: Affirmative Action in Jury Selection' by Hiroshi Fukurai is discusse...

A Prejudice Experiment

In eight pages a student supplied hypothetical experiment is used in order to discuss how juries are selected in an instance where...

Disparities & Discrimination in Criminal Justice

suggests that judges frequently use ethnic stereotypes and "racialized attributions to fill in the knowledge gaps created by limit...

GUILT, PUNISHMENT AND PLEA BARGAINING

The purpose of Bjerks (2007) article entitled Guilt Shall Not Escape or Innocence Suffer? The Limits of Plea Bargaining When Defen...

Effectiveness/Judges and Justices

are the prominent and well-known judges in the criminal justice system of the United States, they are not precisely typical, as fe...

Criminological Theory

People commit crimes for a diversity of reasons. A considerable body of research has been devoted to explaining those...

Juvenile Delinquency Theories - Choice And Criminal Atavism

very distinct physical characteristics (Clinton Community College, n.d.). Examples include a flattened nose, very large jaws, stro...

Policy Analysis of Alaska Senate Bill 56

direct violation of a defendants Sixth Amendment rights (AkRepublicans.com, 2005). In effect Blakely v. State of Washington resul...

Life or Death and Cost Effectiveness

This research paper adresses the fact thaty it is far more costly to house and feed criminals for life than it is to sentence them...

Criminal Sentencing

Justice Statistics, 1996 was the first year State and Federal courts convicted a combined total of over 1 million adults of feloni...

Society, Criminals, and Mandatory Drug Sentencing

emotion yet little fact, and 2. That based on fact. The purpose of this paper will be to review the latter....

Illinois Corruption and Commutation of Death Sentences by Gov. George Ryan

corruption in Illinois enjoyed its hey day it seems during the administration of recent ex-Governor Ryan. This corruption manifes...

English Criminal Law and Whether Mandatory Sentences Are Justified

is punished with the loss of their freedom. Therefore, retribution may be seen as basis for punishment. There are many that believ...

Putting Together a Mitigation

to injure his assistant to this extent. When we consider the findings of the sentencing advisory panel there is also an indicati...

Magistrates of Australia and Options for the Sentencing of Youth

or not a specific practice reduces recidivism or has some constructive impact on those who are addressed by the criminal justice s...