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that the African American and Hispanic youths were generally treated far more harshly than the white criminal youth (Poe-Yamagata;...
by and large, remove a good deal of the criminal element from the streets. However, it can be said that while the criminal element...
was not always this way (Mocete, 1997). The prison system persists in its newfound role most likely due to the fact that there i...
houses between the juvenile leaving the correctional system and reentering the community. Juvenile delinquency is just one ...
evidence in a large amount of literature that there is a link between mental illness and crimes (Drake and Pathe, 2004). T...
was reduced by about half, to reach an even keel with Caucasian arrest level, with a slightly higher percentage of arrests falling...
be the individual to conduct the follow-up investigation. In other words, after the initial report is made, a detective may be ass...
In ten pages this paper discusses the alternatives to incarceration that might be available to minor drug offenders in the crimina...
three years. The age of accountability in Sweden is fifteen years of age, whereas in the United States the age of accountability t...
give a greater equality to those who do not have the political or economic power (Reiman, 2000). The role if position is im...
crimes. Allowing violent criminals to be released is ludicrous. Parole reform is necessary to ensure a safe society. While the law...
tend to have sufficient social and economic power to transcend even law enforcement agencies themselves. If profits from the drug ...
(Dowd PG). Organizations such as the Dai Huen Jai or Big Circle Boys have created a business from planned home invasion robberies ...
public reprisal. What happens is that when a suspect is unfortunately shot in the course of illegal activity, the officer is scrut...
manner by which offenders were being sidelined from real punishment; however, their collective voices were not strong enough to de...
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...
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...
not leniency, indeed it is stiffened penalties for criminal behavior. A very important component of those penalties is the use of...
correlation between class and incarceration, as roughly 80 percent of those inmates incarcerated in 2002 could not afford an attor...
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...
Rehabilitation is only one reason for punishment. Other reasons go to retribution, deterrence and social control. Prisons do provi...
only through the attainment of goals that one can truly know that everything that could be done had been done. Another question ...
conclusion as to what is the best way of going about treating drug addicted offenders. The important question is: What is the bes...
any given day, there are myriad reports of crime and violent acts purportedly committed by persons of color, origin and ethnic bac...
heading of the United States Department of Justice (Glover 92). The U.S. Marshalls, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the D...
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...
Hibbard (1996) suggests that drugs have created a title wave across the nation. Because of drugs, a great number of prisons have ...