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any given day, there are myriad reports of crime and violent acts purportedly committed by persons of color, origin and ethnic bac...

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...

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...

penal system. First, it should be noted that this topic is very important due to the increasing female population in prison syst...

1999). Manson, the infamous cult leader serving time for the Sharon Tate murders of the 1970s, reaps big profits from a song name...

There are pros and cons to deterrence programs and some are far more effective than others. Comparing and contrasting these aspec...

children as young as ten will fall under the juvenile court jurisdiction (1997) It is true that some children seem to deserve th...

several Christian societies which still use the Bible as a basis for their arguments for the death penalty. Largely, however even ...

caused within the United States poor communities speak to the ongoing issue of racial divide, with one of the most striking exampl...

the observance of special restrictions (1999). In other words, they are not free to come and go. They have their rights truncated...

on, and intelligence gained is assumed to be from open source information unless otherwise specified. For the argument to be in ...

fact, that although blacks represent only thirteen percent of our national population they represent some thirty percent of those ...

of incapacitation we see that it can fall into various categories: "Incapacitation may be selective (aimed at particular offender...

106th Congress aimed at preventing violence against women, "one of the most blatant manifestations of patriarchy" (Mananzan, 1995,...

hesitant about coming forward to name their abusers, because the system did not seem to either believe them about the scope of the...

security forces enjoyed, and the issue of human rights abuses connected with police methodologies. The State Department noted that...

availability mentioned above, every part of the criminal justice system is or has been affected in some way by the threat of domes...

In six pages this paper discusses how racism by the media and the criminal justice system is reflected in the novels Native Son, A...

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

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

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

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

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

by and large, remove a good deal of the criminal element from the streets. However, it can be said that while the criminal element...

by many experts to be a "breakthrough" book - for the most part, while studies of victimization of adults of crime have been print...

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...

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

improvement in regards to the criminal justice management system, and, secondly, that there are ways by which this can occur at th...

Prosecution Myriad aspects comprise the component of prosecution, not the least of which included the interrogation process...

of ones skin or the culture one has grown up with. Diversity, it can be said is as individual as the way in which one approaches p...