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Criminal Justice and an Investigation of Differences IV

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

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...

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...

State Government Website Assessment

and one flowchart. The logo, shown in Figure 1, is quite striking and pointedly appropriate for juvenile justice. It provides of...

Problems and Solutions for the Troubled American Prison System

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

Criminal Justice VII

would be that such a thing would never happen in the US without great public outcry, but that was before passage of the Patriot Ac...

Issues of Social Justice from a Historical Perspective

quo (Ruddell and Urbina, 2004). In his analysis of the history of incarceration in the US, Vogel (2003) charts a relationship be...

U.S. System of Criminal Justice, Ethnicity, and Race

perspective is that OJ Simpson was tried by a jury of his peers. There was an Asian judge and a jury made up of minorities. The pr...

Drug Offenders and Treatment Alternatives

conclusion as to what is the best way of going about treating drug addicted offenders. The important question is: What is the bes...

Changing an Unfair Criminal Justice System

heading of the United States Department of Justice (Glover 92). The U.S. Marshalls, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the D...

Criminal Justice and Treating Juvenile Crime as Adult Offenses

does not treat all of its juvenile offenders as adults. Indeed, the state is one of the most progressive in the nation in terms o...

Minority Populations and Arrest Data Within Louisiana's Criminal Justice System

was reduced by about half, to reach an even keel with Caucasian arrest level, with a slightly higher percentage of arrests falling...

Australia's System of Criminal Justice and Mental Illness

evidence in a large amount of literature that there is a link between mental illness and crimes (Drake and Pathe, 2004). T...

Options for Addressing the Problem of Juvenile Crime

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

Criminal Justice System in Australia and Migrant Injustices

for instigating change that will relegate injustice and discrimination to the countrys past. Williams (2001), in fact, contends t...

Goals of the Criminal Justice System

due process. The paper then examines these goals as they relate to the goals of the individual, those being social justice, equali...

Criminal Justice System and Minorities' Overrepresentation

that the African American and Hispanic youths were generally treated far more harshly than the white criminal youth (Poe-Yamagata;...

Incarceration Rates and What They Say About Racism in Maryland

18 white youths were arrested for dealing drugs in 1980 while as many as 86 black youths were arrested for the same crime ("Civil,...

Criminal Justice and Social Engineering

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

British Law and Criminal Justice System and the Offender as a Victim

In forty five pages this paper discusses the British system of criminal justice in an assessment of the 'offender as victim' conce...

Is a Criminal Justice System Necessary in Australia?

In eleven pages this paper questions whether or not Australia needs a criminal justice system and includes that it, like every oth...

'The Maximum Security Adolescent' by Margaret Talbot

be arrested, even though he was portrayed as basically a good kid. Jeff is a case study that commences this article which tugs at...

Criminal Justice Theories of Cesare Beccaria

In nine pages the utility theory of Cesare Beccaria is considered as it applies to criminal justice and crime and its influence up...

System of Criminal Justice and Juvenile Delinquency

In seven pages this report discusses contributing factors of juvenile delinquency and discusses how it is defined within the crimi...

Due Process and Miranda Rights For Juvenile Defendants

This paper examines pertinent issues regarding the due process and Miranda rights of minors in the US criminal justice system. Th...

Drug Offenders and the Criminal Justice System

Hibbard (1996) suggests that drugs have created a title wave across the nation. Because of drugs, a great number of prisons have ...

Youth Offenders and the Criminal Justice System

This paper examines what alternatives exist in the criminal justice system for youth offenders with the emphasis being on deterren...

Harris County, Texas' Criminal Justice System and Adult Probation

job. Counseling is available to those who need it. The office may make home visits to catch the probationer by surprise. Mandat...

Cherokee Influences on Colonial Settlers

This paper addresses Native American Culture and its impact on colonial American society. The author discusses various ways in wh...

Criminal Trial of O.J. Simpson and its Legacy

judicial system. 1.) This case showed us how money can help turn the cards in someones favor-- O.J. might have never "gotten off...