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3 Strikes Law and Sentencing

10,500 juvenile facilities, which represents an over-capacity rate of 186% (24). Prisoners are doubling-up in cells. They are sl...

Sentencing and the American Criminal Justice System

toward determinate sentencing models that go along with a tough on crime stance. Of course, juvenile justice has to some extent b...

Three Strikes Law in California

of those that opponents to the law point to as evidence its injustice. In 1995, Andrade was arrested for shoplifting $84 worth of ...

An Overview of an Unjust Law California's Three Strikes Law

committed the act, if their felony falls into certain categories, if they were deemed mature enough to understand their sentence a...

3 Strikes Law, Crime, and Punishment

In eight pages this student posed hypothetical scenario examines the implementation of Hawaii's 'three strikes' law as it impacts ...

Criminal Justice System and Its Current State

ineffective as a crime deterrent. The rising rate of the prison population attests to this fact. Although the prison syste...

Three Strikes Law Evaluated

A hypothetical situation submitted by a student forms the basis for this paper consisting of eight pages in which Hawaii's 'three ...

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. ...

Australia and Changing Laws on Rape

it - leading the women involved in acquaintance rape where alcohol is involved to being required to assume an element of blame. A...

Federal Sentencing Guidelines

The law, as well intended as it is, can vary in regard to its application. The law is not always black and white in terms...

Criminal JusticeIV

Another advantage of plea bargaining is that it allows prosecutors to dispatch cases quickly, freeing time and resources to fully ...

Labor Strikes and the Workplace Fairness Act

(http://www.ilafl-cio.org/BKCB .HTM). The "Workplace Fairness Act," recently renamed the "Cesar Chavez Workplace Fairness Act" i...

Judicial Appeal for a Minimum Municipal Court Light Sentence

at the wrong time"), it would be counterproductive both to my brother and to the community to remove him completely from any oppor...

Considering Three Strikes

ten years older.) (Allenye, 1996; Reynolds, 1995). It is commonly believed by those who frown upon the Three Strikes Law that alm...

The Need for Reform and Three-Strikes Sentencing

not violate the Eighth Amendment, which prohibits cruel and unusual punishment (Samaha, 2011). Ewing was sentence to 25 years to l...

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, ...

Crime, Drugs, and California Legislation

attempting to curb activity until such a time as when other social policies provide a more amenable application? Indeed, the stud...

Strikes In the Agricultural Sector in South Africa

The writer looks at the strikes which took place South Africa by the farmer workers in 2012 and 2013, the result of those strikes...

Management at GM

make amazing strides in the level of manufacturing output of those factories while producing at a higher level of quality. After ...

1919's Boston Police Strike

This paper consists of eight pages and presents an overview of the 1919 Boston Police Strike and examines the reasons of pay, work...

The Fragile Bridge

which was eager to join with the silk workers in their fight against the oppression of the factories. The Wobblies were a radic...

Holding the Line

The writer examines the Barbara Kingsolver book Holding the Line, which discusses the 1983 mining strike in Arizona. The book reve...

1983 Miners' Strike in Arizona

In a paper consisting of five pages the strike is examined in terms of contributing factors, economic and political influences, un...

3 Strikes Legislation and its Ineffectiveness

1. Please explore the policy implications of the three strikes law to the criminal justice system. The current policy does no...

Congress and How a Bill is Passed

In five page this paper examines the process a bill undergoes in the U.S. Congress in order to be passed with the child molestatio...

Effectiveness of Labor Strikes

In six pages this paper evaluates labor strike effectiveness in a consideration of potential damage such as the 1877 Buffalo rail ...

Management, Labor, and Strikes

$6.00 per week (Columbia Encyclopedia, 2004). In 1806, the Philadelphias Journeymen Cordwainers union called a strike, however, th...

'Cruel and Unusual Punishment' and the 8th Amendment

punishment.iv It was a close vote of 4 to 3, which means that not all justices on that court believed electrocution to be cruel an...

Proposition 184

drug. Said former Drug Enforcement Agency Administrator Robert Bonner, "A very, very large percentage of those dealing in crack c...

The Three Strikes Law

a transcript of the Congressional testimony of Patrick Tolan toward the efficacy of the violence prevention programs, namely the T...