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Culpability in Criminal Justice

For an act to be punished as a criminal offense it has to not only be against a specified law...

Criminal Law; Physical Harm Case

There is little doubt that the acts in both cases. Stan said he did not mean to hurt Helen, only frighten her, so as there is the ...

John Wayne Gacy: A Victim of the Criminal Justice System

well as how he grew up to become a seemingly fine citizen (Chua-Eoan, 2007). The joke usually is that the most heinous offenders s...

Budget Analysis for One Criminal Justice Agency

The budget reflected a decrease from the previous fiscal year and very close to the same personnel costs as 2007/2008. The data ar...

LEADING GROUPS IN A CRIMINAL JUSTICE ORGANIZTION: CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES

departments (and elsewhere, for that matter), leaders are "expected to be competent managers who inspire their followers to do eff...

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...

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...

Business and Criminal Law

that are not well thought out. White collar crimes are crimes that involve a level of sophistication. They usually implicate cri...

Criminal Justice and Community Relations

is called Cab Watch, something that prompts taxi drivers in New York City to report crime (Miller & Hess, 2005). This is actually ...

Peoples: "Basic Criminal Procedures"

"good faith exception" of U.S. v. Leon (Peoples, 2006). Using this as a starting point, this paper considers the Exclusionary Rule...

“Victim or Vamp: Images of Violent Women in the Criminal Justice System”

Women who commit acts of extreme violence are considered an anomaly in our society. Those who do commit such acts, consequently, ...

Plea Bargaining: Unfair Advantage For Criminals

perpetrator to go free without any legal recourse speaks to the need for another option whereby the alleged criminal serves time, ...

The Reduction in Criminal Offences After Adolescence

of the frequency of their transgressions, as opposed to seriousness, it is also true that only certain types of juveniles are like...

Modification or Repeal of Criminal Law

can only survive as an emergency measure, inasmuch as the problem with prison overcrowding will soon reach epidemic proportions. ...

Cases in Australasian Criminal Law

determining whether or not there was consent, the mens rea. However, this was also gender specific, needing there to be penetratio...

Report Compilation in Criminal Investigation

course, depends on the specifics of the crime. Some of the types of observations that might be made are expected and others are s...

Italian and Irish Criminal Groups

may be witnesses who refuse to talk. In fact, because most witnesses realize that their lives could be threatened, a witness prote...

Effects of Child Abuse/Study Summary

various measures, the first step that the researchers took was to compare maltreatment items that were administered in the lab ses...

Criminal Justice: Goal And Policy Implementation

presence; however, the propensity for crime to occur despite a greater incidence of police patrol has been documented, as well. I...

Criminal Sexual-type Conduct Data

There have been a number of laws passed and numerous court cases regarding sexual harassment in the workplace. These span more tha...

An Urban Planning/Criminal Justice Case Study

In other words, problem-oriented policing takes into consideration the social conditions and problems that are specific to a commu...

Criminal Offenses and Substance Abuse

with 0 meaning definitely not and 100 meaning definitely. A definite score indicating mental illness caused the person to commit t...

Criminal Trends in the Past 40 Years

and programming designed to support the conviction of violent and dangerous criminals led to an increased level of incarceration f...

Research in Criminal Justice

internal and external stressors. b. Repeat offenders repeat their crimes because there are no other options. B. Incapacitation 1....

One Problem in Criminal Justice

terms of their parole (Pew Center, 2010). Nobody knows exactly what kinds of prison programs would definitely reduce recidivism r...

DNA A Tool in Criminal Justice

Practically since its discovery DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) has had phenomenal implications for the criminal justice system. With...

Statistical Testing of Criminal Justice Data

the critical level, this the score against which the test statistic will be assessed to determine whether to accept or reject the ...

Criminal Justice and the Practice of Deontological Ethics

words, the private behavior of individuals may well be governed by simple emotional reactions to ethical scenarios. The actions of...

Overview of Canadian Criminal Justice Articles

This paper provides summary of three articles that report on a new Canadian law that increases the victim surcharge penalty and ma...