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

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

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

The ways in which the system of criminal justice has been impacted by victimology are discussed with examples including the trial ...

A military action at first is successful, but then, the taking of Baghdad only seems loosely related to the terrorism that occurre...

"who commit nonviolent drug possession offenses or who violate drug-related conditions of probation or parole" to receive treatmen...

bias in the system which seeks out blacks and instills upon them harsher sentences is a highly controversial topic. Inter...

stance. After all, the police officers can write tickets for small oversights, but a friendly attitude, without overly strict enfo...

a company rather than career corrections officers, they are underpaid, demoralized, and the turnover is high (Friedmann, 1999). Pr...

(Singer, 1996). The case was shocking for a number of reasons, but two stand out: Bosket was only 15; and he was already in care a...

as a serious crime. Still, it is usually the case that the prostitutes are arrested while their customers go free. In the case of ...

half were single parents. An example of deductive logic in this study is the selection of the study hypothesis, i.e., the premises...

adult arrests, which was only 33 percent for this period (Snyder, 2003). The juvenile population of the US in 2001 was 78 percen...

although blacks make up only 12% of Sacramentos drug users, "52% of those arrested in Sacramento are African-American" (Schiraldi,...

become even more out of control as there are fewer eyes watching them. A well known study done at Stanford University tested behav...

profiling is used to "compensate for a lack of evidence and represents poor police work" (Hajjar, 2006). Police simply round up "s...

state, or state to federal, the process involves the stages of investigation, interrogation, arrest, complaint/indictment, arraign...

emergency and routine health-related issues must be made available to the juvenile, including dental, medical and behavioral by th...

enlightenment philosophy? What form did those ideas take in classical criminological thought?" First, a look at each of the named...

productive person, such programs still struggle to be instrumental in realigning otherwise maladjusted individuals while at the sa...

constitutional rights prior to taking them into custody or while interrogating them, a reality that -- had Miranda v. Arizona neve...

careful not to reveal her real feelings. Gonnerman (2004) emphasizes the problems with the Rockefeller drug laws. For example, Gon...

cannot find the murderer; five years later, an author starts to question the police methods in another case (Cornell, 2006). Stung...

To keep order in the court. Job rationale, many times, is not specifically stated, but is implied - the fact that the bailiff migh...

Watch in 1636, New York Citys Shout and Rattle Watch was implemented in 1651 and Philadelphia created ten separate patrol areas th...

as US citizens are protected even at the point where the system has essentially labeled us as a criminal. Due process is, in fact...

fair to say that few Americans, if any, are going to agree with the way Congressional members vote themselves hefty raises in the ...

that continue to plague law enforcement, it is likely services will for the most part be provided by the private industry, a reali...

for three offenses, no matter how slight each one is. The idea behind the punishment is to deter criminals, but it doesnt always w...

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