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California Foster Care Agencies and the Criminal Justice System

for operating in isolation, or for the establishment of laws that are seen as disconnected from the reality of everyday experience...

The Criminal Justice System and Nonverbal Communication

communication is all the more difficult. Studies have indicated that individuals use a huge variety of nonverbal responses in orde...

Discrimination and Disparity in the Criminal Justice System

The difference between the terms discrimination and disparity is discussed. There are five sources listed in the bibliography of t...

Criminal Justice System and Discretion in Law Enforcement

Discretion, 2003). In his acclaimed study of discretion, University of Chicago law professor Kenneth Culp Davis discovered that p...

African Americans and the U.S. System of Criminal Justice

the largest percentage of ethnicity in the prison population were whites. Then, there was a huge jump in the numbers with an incre...

Strengthening the Juvenile Criminal Justice System

cruelty, and shoplifting. These programs are utilized to give youth another chance instead of throwing them in juvenile detention ...

The Use of Technology in the Criminal Justice System

forewarned of an emergency call. However, the police have no privacy when they use scanners. MDTs on the other hand provide the po...

How Women are treated in the Criminal Justice System

is certainly a major challenge. Because of this, women have greater and different health care needs. If a woman is pregnant in pri...

Civil Law Countries and Their Criminal Justice Systems

as if the major difference between the nations of Europe, with the exception of Great Britain that is entrenched in the common law...

Communication And The Criminal Justice System

program before ever placing themselves in a position to make informed critiques immediately cast an ill-earned negative connotatio...

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...

School System Cultural Wealth Increases

that spans generations. This observation also implies that there is no easy fix. In some way, Martins views on cultural wealth ar...

Afghanistan Development - Review And Recommendations

nations employ many Afghans. On April 29-30, 2007, Afghanistan held the Fourth Afghanistan Development Forum (ADF) in Kabul (Afg...

Analysis of "Are Prisons Obsolete?"

10). The fact is that we do indeed lock away two million American citizens and in so doing have come to be the...

A Comparison of Juvenile and Adult Courts

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...

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...

Racism in Contemporary America

investigations that "successfully demonstrate the unfairness that only Affirmative Action can begin to redress" (Bradley 450). Spe...

Criminal Law, Identity And Culture

Social Control theories are two in particular where crime, culture and identity intersect, the former of which asserts how everyon...

Racism in the United States

This researech paper offers an overview of American racism, describing several famous incidents that portray the nature of racism ...

Higher Education and the Problem of Racism

This research paper investigates Spanish/Hispanic racism within the context of the nation's institutions fo higher education. This...

Malcolm X's Autobiography

At first, Malcolm X viewed the living conditions in Roxbury as favorable, and perceived a shift in the social order towards more e...

Southern Baptist Church Burnings and Racism

In four pages this essay examines the KKK's role in burning Southern baptist churches in a consideration of how racism still exist...

Racism, Imagination, and Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye

segments correlates with the seasons. The section about "See Jane," is really about Pecola, as opposite a presentation from the w...

African Americans and Racism

of the African Americans, up until just before the Second World War, the United States was also apparently guilty of trying to eng...

John Rawls, Utilitarianism, and Distributive Justice

In five pages utilitarianism and distributive justice as depicted by political philosopher John Rawls in A Theory of Justice are d...

A Case Study of Criminal Mapping

based on the evaluation of three elements: motivation, suitability of the target, and guardianship (Conklin, 2010). Essentially,...

The Canadian Justice System and Fitness to Stand Trial

In a paper of eleven pages, the writer looks at the Canadian justice system. Fitness to stand trial is examined in respect to a nu...

Legal Strategies Regarding Social Movements

to domestic legal strategies. One of the principle reasons has to do with why legal strategies are sought in the first place, whi...

'Letter from Birmingham Jail' by Martin Luther King Jr. and Social Justice

the United States. Its ugly record of brutality is widely known. Negroes have experienced grossly unjust treatment in the courts...

Organizational Justice and Motivation

that this will impact on behavior. As seen in the Mayos Hawthorne studies, where employees had a good employment relationship with...