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Voices from the Cell Block

the federal courts to mandate minimum rights for prisoners" (Platt, 1999, p. 237). But by the 1990s, prison reform had died out a...

Recidivism and Sexual Offenders

was to insure that prior to being released from prison, sex criminals received psychatric evaluation to insure they would not comm...

Iranian Law and Criminal Justice

place in about the third century; it lasts until the 20th. Iran went through a number of revolutions in the 20th century, includi...

Poverty and Crime Among Canada’s First Nations

Canadas First Nations peoples find themselves at severe disadvantage in many distinct regards when compared with other Canadians. ...

Locke’s State of Nature v the Social Contract

Modern society rests on a balance between personal freedom and government restriction. That balance is something that has...

Do Blacks Receive Harsher Criminal Sentences?

In theory, when a crime is committed in the US and a...

Prosecutors' Roles

reputation, sometimes loss of their job, extreme emotional and psychological distress and extreme anxiety (Banks, 2009). Prosecu...

Women and Children as Products in the Sex Industry

Women and children have been exploited throughout history by those that seek to profit in one way or another from that...

Criminal Justice

correlation between class and incarceration, as roughly 80 percent of those inmates incarcerated in 2002 could not afford an attor...

The Implementation and Monitoring of a Criminal Justice Program

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

Poverty : Causes And Effects

the five states with the highest rates of poverty were New Mexico, Arkansas, West Virginia, Louisiana and Texas (Rodgers, Payne an...

Overrepresentation Of Minorities In Special Education

typically live in poor neighborhoods, which means their neighborhood schools will be mostly populated with other poor students. Ba...

Three Ways in Which the U.S. Constitution Has Influenced the American Criminal Justice System

terrorist acts? The practice of electronic surveillance was certainly nothing new. Two months prior to the attacks on the World ...

An Evaluation of the American Response to Terrorism

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

Issues of Concern to Prison Inmates

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

Article Analysis: Budgeting for California's Criminal Justice System

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

Community Policing in the United States

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

Racial Disparity in Criminal Sentencing

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

African-American Juveniles and the Criminal Justice System

although blacks make up only 12% of Sacramentos drug users, "52% of those arrested in Sacramento are African-American" (Schiraldi,...

The Detriments of Isolation

become even more out of control as there are fewer eyes watching them. A well known study done at Stanford University tested behav...

Human Resources Information Systems

same responsibilities it did before the entire face of business changed over the past generation. Rather than being only a cleari...

US Constitution’s Influence on the American Criminal Justice System

In the case of Baze v. Reese, Kentucky inmates who have been sentenced to death are claming that the states three-drug cocktail pr...

Singer: Recriminalizing Delinquency

(Singer, 1996). The case was shocking for a number of reasons, but two stand out: Bosket was only 15; and he was already in care a...

The Ashley Alexandra Dupre Story: A Look at Female Prostitution in the Twenty-First Century

as a serious crime. Still, it is usually the case that the prostitutes are arrested while their customers go free. In the case of ...

California Minority Arrests

Judicial Council Advisory Committee on Racial and Ethnic Bias in the Courts, 2006). "In California the rate for Latinos is 9.4 per...

United Kingdom's System of Criminal Justice and Mental Illness

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

Steve Christian's 'Out of Lock-UP: Now What?', Juvenile Crime and Drug Use

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

United Kingdom's Criminal Justice System, Crime, and Mental Illness

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

System of Criminal Justice

where promotions occur relative to the requirements put into place in other businesses. Law enforcement officers, then, would be ...