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the largest percentage of ethnicity in the prison population were whites. Then, there was a huge jump in the numbers with an incre...
stance. After all, the police officers can write tickets for small oversights, but a friendly attitude, without overly strict enfo...
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...
perspective is that OJ Simpson was tried by a jury of his peers. There was an Asian judge and a jury made up of minorities. The pr...
would be that such a thing would never happen in the US without great public outcry, but that was before passage of the Patriot Ac...
become even more out of control as there are fewer eyes watching them. A well known study done at Stanford University tested behav...
range of the problem is quantified 2. What is Mental Illness? 2.1 Definitions of Mental Illness The difficulty with defining me...
The result is that "there are not one, but fifty-five court systems in the United States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, a...
but business does have a way of behaving unethically and even criminally where regulations against specific behaviors do not exist...
houses between the juvenile leaving the correctional system and reentering the community. Juvenile delinquency is just one ...
for instigating change that will relegate injustice and discrimination to the countrys past. Williams (2001), in fact, contends t...
due process. The paper then examines these goals as they relate to the goals of the individual, those being social justice, equali...
that the African American and Hispanic youths were generally treated far more harshly than the white criminal youth (Poe-Yamagata;...
18 white youths were arrested for dealing drugs in 1980 while as many as 86 black youths were arrested for the same crime ("Civil,...
Canadas First Nations peoples find themselves at severe disadvantage in many distinct regards when compared with other Canadians. ...
In theory, when a crime is committed in the US and a...
conclusion as to what is the best way of going about treating drug addicted offenders. The important question is: What is the bes...
heading of the United States Department of Justice (Glover 92). The U.S. Marshalls, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the D...
only through the attainment of goals that one can truly know that everything that could be done had been done. Another question ...
does not treat all of its juvenile offenders as adults. Indeed, the state is one of the most progressive in the nation in terms o...
was reduced by about half, to reach an even keel with Caucasian arrest level, with a slightly higher percentage of arrests falling...
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...
(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 ...
He seems to have made up his mind at the very beginning of the saga. He has become a part of the military...
hesitant about coming forward to name their abusers, because the system did not seem to either believe them about the scope of the...
106th Congress aimed at preventing violence against women, "one of the most blatant manifestations of patriarchy" (Mananzan, 1995,...