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The Social Problem of Gang Violence

111). Social conditions become problematic through systems of communication (Charon). This interactionist perspective is based ...

Social Class and Crime

findings incorporate the authors reference to philosopher David Hume in their quest to prove the association between the free mark...

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...

Dead Man Walking by Sister Helen Prejean

due to biblical passages describing how divine vengeance was "meted out to guilty and innocent alike" in "the Great Flood, the des...

Crime Data Predictors and Their Usage

a crime has occurred. One of the most valuable tools available to help ascertain this information is through an arson investigati...

Crime and Social Conditions

cases the social conditions can become such that the individual is led to criminal activity for one reason or another. A very co...

Minorities and Low Income Groups and Investigation of Differences III

likelihood of ... overrepresentation in the criminal justice system" (Smith in Hanson, 2000; p. 77). Hispanics Point. Stud...

Criminology Case Study Analysis

she became a prostitute and fulfilled her role as a drug addict who would do anything to get a fix. Of course, labeling theory has...

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, ...

Comparing Retributive Justice and Restorative Justice

aligned with a degree of sensibility. There must be a notion that not only is retributive justice something that makes the society...

Trespass, False Pretenses, and Obscenity Laws

light and the case of Howl was essentially thrown out of court because the poem was deemed socially valuable in many respects (Min...

Marxist Viewpoint on Rational Choice

theories that serve to establish a basis upon which law enforcement and behavioral experts can better understand the reason for it...

Arguing in Favor of Reallocating Funds for Programs Involving Drug Abuse and Alcohol Treatment

would be incurred if we were to rehabilitate drug and alcohol users rather than put them in the penitentiary. The view...

Justice Defined

the group prosper (147). First of all, before considering what constitutes justice within a community, it is first necessary to ...

Steve Bogira's Courtroom 302

beating two black individuals. These black youth had entered into the neighborhood of the white boys and this was the motive of th...

Relationships Between Crime and Drug Abuse

community. This is when inner cities begin to influence public policy to such a point that "efforts to reverse drug prohibition f...

No Crueler Tyrannies Accusation, False Witness, And Other Terrors Of Our Times by Dorothy Rabinowitz

would rush forward to announce they had made a mistake. The Amiraults found, immediately after the first accusation, that talk or...

Forensic Science: Overview

presence of embalming fluid and the interaction with soil. Chapter 2 Obtaining evidence is not considered a free-for-all where f...

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...

Systems Management, Human Relations, and Scientific Management Styles

and having managers responsible for planning the work while workers are responsible for carrying out those plans (Encyclopedia of ...

Al Qaeda and Bin Laden's Hacker Terrorism Models

term. He points out that "There is no organized body of legislation one might call the law of terrorism, and there is no inherent ...

Law Enforcement's 'Knock and Announce' Rule

that the subject is violent or inclined to use the weapons (Bulsomi). However, in the vast majority of drug cases and in cases inv...

Should The United States Become A Member Of The International Criminal Court?

open itself up to unyielding vulnerability. Madison addressed the inherent need for mans activities to remain under some semblanc...

Police Work in the O.J. Simpson Murder Case

vehicle the night before, then reopened the wound after breaking a glass in reaction to his ex-wifes murder (Linder, 2000). Altho...

An Overview of the Sixth Amendment

is the right that some reporters claim allows for cameras in the courtroom. Certainly, even if cameras are not allowed by the judg...

Is There Evidence of Inequality In The US Criminal Justice System?

poverty. There is always a potential bias in any system that has the danger of becoming an inequality. The basis of the law and...

Sex Offenders and the Correctional System

Even within the segregated unit there is a hierarchy: "People charged with rape and other sex crimes will attack child sex predato...

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...

Does The High Profile Status Of A Criminal Case Affect Investigators' Decisions?

complete ban of courtroom photography and radio broadcasting. It was some fifteen years later that the ban was to also include th...

Plea Bargaining

This 12-page paper deals with the effect of plea bargaining on the criminal justice system. It argues that the relatively new pra...