SEARCH RESULTS

YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :A Federal Sentencing Guidelines Overview

Essays 241 - 270

Discussion of Criminal Sentencing of Whites, Blacks, and the Mentally Ill

In eight pages this paper examines the high percentage of people of color who are currently incarcerated along with those presentl...

Criminal Sentencing

Justice Statistics, 1996 was the first year State and Federal courts convicted a combined total of over 1 million adults of feloni...

Juveniles and Adult Criminal Sentencing

and administrative changes have transformed the juvenile court from an initial rehabilitative social welfare agency into a scaled...

Abolishing Patrole as an Option

This research paper argues that patrole as a sentencing option should be abolished. This five page paper ahs three sources in the ...

Law Enforcement Work Stress and a Psychological Outlook

oath of service and protection. This makes law enforcement officers very vulnerable. A willingness to serve and protect carries ...

The Short Story Voice of Alice Walker

In this paper consisting of five pages the 'voice' Walker uses in constructing her short stories as expressed in sentence structur...

Comparative Analysis of 'The Rocking Horse Winner' by D.H. Lawrence and 'The Destructors' by Graham Greene

effect, there is a cause and for every cause, there is an effect. Paul is greatly effected by what his mother does and how she fe...

Creative Writing Exercise on Beating Hearts and Flowers

In five pages this exercise in creative writing explores the drama of a hospital room with the utilization of grammatical elements...

Writing and Observation

In six pages this essay discusses how observation can be artistically represented through skilled writing in a third person descri...

Comparing Novel and Film Versions of Like Water for Chocolate

ever since Garcia Marquez won the Nobel Prize" (Simon 64). The novel was an attention grabber and did have it elements of superna...

The Giver by Lois Lowry

In 5 pages this young adult novel and its theme regarding responsibility, love, and suffering are considered. There are 2 sources...

Writing in Second Grade

In five pages this paper discusses how students in 2nd grade can be taught sentence structural components. There are 5 sources ci...

Failed Reconstruction Following the US Civil War

two was difficult. Healing did not come quickly or easily. Hatred between the two entities continued to exist. The South did no...

California and Mandatory Minimum Drug Sentences

In fifteen pages this paper examines California's aggressive efforts in the ongoing war on drugs in a consideration of laws that m...

Research Paper on Human Genome

In five pages ten of the fifteen books contained in this bibliography are summarized in four sentence synopses. There are a total ...

Cases and Sentences of Mothers Who Kill Their Own Children

In six pages the cases of Darlie Routier from Texas and Susan Smith from South Carolina are examined in a consideration of mothers...

A Speech Inspired by Anna Sewell's Black Beauty

In this paper consisting of three pages an animal fable speech that mirrors the literary style of the novel features similar word ...

Capital Punishment Today

This paper provides a brief history of the death penalty and its application in today's society. Many states are moving away from...

The Problem of Sexual Predators

these miscreants. However, it is often the case that the punishment is not enough. Sexual predators-until more credible research i...

Should Juveniles be Sentenced to Death?

The death penalty has consequently been in and...

Do Blacks Receive Harsher Criminal Sentences?

In theory, when a crime is committed in the US and a...

Social Disorganization and Organized Crime

concerning problems of our time. It has both direct and indirect impacts on the physical and philosophical infrastructural featur...

Repentance and Criminal Sentencing

According to Rogers (2007) moral retributivism is distinct from retributivism. In the latter, the infliction of suffering on thos...

Are Judges an Anachronism to the Criminal Justice System?

For all of its faults and shortcomings, the American legal system is the best in the world. That system revolves around two prima...

Criminological Theory

People commit crimes for a diversity of reasons. A considerable body of research has been devoted to explaining those...

Intermediate Sanctions - A Grant Proposal

resources represents a major problem in many areas of the United States. As legislation becomes more complicated, more prisoners a...

Judges, Juries, and Sentencing in Criminal Justice

The American legal system revolves around two primary players when it comes to criminal sentencing. These players are the...

Standard and Reform in Sentencing

abuse, as there is not upper or lower limit on sentencing. Slide 3 Determinate sentencing models... ...provide clear guideline...

Legal Ambiguities and their Import

can be difficult to make a proper ruling, even with established guidelines that purport to cover all contingencies. In such a case...

Inside by Michael Santos

by working as prostitutes within the jail (Santos 17). However, horrible conditions and high violence are not indicative of all ja...