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Deterring Crime: The Effect of Truth in Sentencing

This 5 page paper examines those elements in current literature that suggest truth in sentencing may deter crime. The writer provi...

Community Notification on Reported Sex Offenders

is a great deal of difficulty resuming normal life. This is true for any convict, but it is especially difficult for the sex offen...

Drug Policies in California

under federal law" (Anderson, 2004). The California law allowing the medical use of...

Criminal Justice V

offender and his history at the time of his arrest. Protection of society. This goal of sentencing is to remove the offend...

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...

Drug Offenders and Treatment Alternatives

conclusion as to what is the best way of going about treating drug addicted offenders. The important question is: What is the bes...

Industrialized Nations, Violent Crime, and High US Violent Crime Rates

that the determinants of violence are socio-economic and cultural factors rather than the availability of any particular deadly in...

Community Corrections and Electronic Monitoring

The concept of "house arrest" is an old one and in the past was accomplished by placing armed guards outside the residence of the...

Richard Peck's 1985 Novel Remembering the Good Times

friendship. This is initially an easy friendship with each friend having their own characteristics and having their own share of ...

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 ...

Tuck Everlasting vs. Dreamspeaker

In nine pages these books for young adults are examined in terms of their similarities....

Adult Learning Theory

2006, p. 551). The assignment calls for students to relate how the topic can be applied in their academic life. This perspective...

Montessori Method: Children Develop At Their Own Pace

Each child is unique and develops at his own pace, an important realization adults must understand to keep from imposing undue pre...

Do Blacks Receive Harsher Criminal Sentences?

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

Racial Disparity in Criminal Sentencing

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

John Locke and Capital Punishment

be little doubt that the crime rate is higher now, simply by virtue of the fact that the population is larger. Locke would probabl...

Victim Compensation

Smith (2006) defines victim compensation as a "form of income redistribution designed to redistribute wealth from offenders to vic...

Stricter Gun Control Leaves People Vulnerable

that the average citizen is allowed to own a gun they are wary of breaking into peoples homes, or wary of committing crime in some...

Laws Regarding Sex Offenders and Their Constitutionality

a child sexual offender category but have committed an offense that is related to sexual abuse such as child pornography, solicita...

The Purpose of Prison is Punishment

This paper argues that the purpose of prison is punishment. Although some offenders go through the system and are rehabilitated, t...

Juvenile Crime and the Court System

juvenile crime and the juvenile justice system; often it seems like society is being overwhelmed by children who have turned into ...

Juvenile Delinquency and Sexual Abuse

want to prostitute themselves because they become especially interested in sex, or they simply engage in criminal activity as a wa...

Censoring Television Content is Wrong

to violence and to increase such adverse societal phenomenon as drug use and drinking. Those that support censorship of American ...

Is the UN Effective?

again determined that something had to be done to prevent further conflicts, and thus the United Nations was born. It began in 194...

Role of African Nationalists

In a research paper consisting of five pages the internal skirmishes and lacking international support are just two of the problem...

Juveniles and Capital Punishment

executes minors (Eckford). This may surprise some as the United States system of justice has always been looked up to compared wit...

Allowance of Police Chases at High Speed

In five pages this essay argues in favor of aggressive law enforcement in nearly all circumstances even if this means there may be...

Registries for Sex Offenders

In five pages this paper discusses the social and legal problems Megan's Law and registries present for individuals convicted of s...

Evaluating the Fairness of Megan's Law

headline: "High-Risk Sex Offenders Identified: Post Reporter, 2 Ridge Residents on List" (Sheppard, 1997, p. 37). On July 7, Mei...

The San Diego Border Patrol

The writer examines the Border Patrol in San Diego, the way they view themselves and the way citizens view them. The writer argues...