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Alcohol and Drug Use/Juvenile Crime

health and well-being (Neff and Waite, 2007). While illicit substance usage peaked in the late 1970s, recent statistics indicate t...

Criminal Profiling

Many people in the law enforcement community regard criminal profiling as a useful and accurate tool as the use of this strategy ...

Trying Juveniles as Adult and Injustice

the juveniles who are punished through the adult court (Urbina and White, 2009, p. 122). Ostensibly, the purpose of transferring y...

Criminal Law, Brief Overview

the foundation for the legal system that was established during the colonial era (Lippman, 2010). Today, criminal statutes typical...

Nathan McCalls' Makes Me Wanna Holler/Social Control Theory

grow ups and is exemplified when an individual feels that has a stake in their society as a whole. From the beginning of McCall...

Social Justice, Wealth Inequality/A Catholic Perspective

a telling story related by economist Hannah Arendt that concisely conveys the basic philosophy of the Catholic Church in regards t...

Vandana Shiva/Earth Democracy

same name to refer to the worldview of Native American and other indigenous peoples throughout the world who have "understood and ...

A Case Involving the Pregnant Discrimination Act

Discrimination Act (PDA) of 1978 amends Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 in order to "prohibit sex discrimination on the ...

Kelo v. New London

before the New London Superior Court, asserting that the "taking of their properties would violate the public use restriction in t...

Processing Human Remains

and Planz (2008) explore the research question of whether or not improved processing capabilities in mitochondrial DNA and STR tha...

Building Blocks of Scientific Study

reality rather than the expectations of the experimenters (Wolf, 2002). The scientific method for determining the nature and cau...

Political Questions

U.S. Constitution makes the President, a civilian leader, the Commander-in-Chief of the Army, Navy and Militia. While the Presiden...

Anthropology and Social Justice

into embarrassing intellectual difficulties. It becomes, most often, a term of art whose operational meaning is, We need a law aga...

Anthropology and Social Justice Convergence

involved has been the object of old prohibitions against effecting no changes within study populations. The very presence of rese...

Legal Strategies Regarding Social Movements

to domestic legal strategies. One of the principle reasons has to do with why legal strategies are sought in the first place, whi...

Affirmative Action, Justice, and Philosopher John Rawls

Nozicks Theory of Justice presents a strong argument for the libertarian view. This view honors property rights, that is, that in...

Justice as it Respects Hobbes and Plato

that was determined by human will, in that people choose whether or not to keep their promises (Hobbes, 1982). Those that keep th...

U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Marshall

In ten pages this research paper discusses Justice Marshall's Supreme Court achievements with the emphasis upon single opinion, ju...

Human Nature as it Relates to Education and Justice According to Aristotle

In a research paper consisting of eight pages Aristotle's concept of human nature is examined along with the roles education and j...

Juvenile Corrections and Probation

in group settings, these community-based probation programs ensure public protection in ways not possible using standard casework ...

America's System of Justice and Women

to those of the mid-1980s. Two of those appointed judges are more notable than many of the rest, however. Constance Baker Motley...

American Blacks and Political and Social Justice

In four pages this research paper chronicles the history of blacks in the United States in a consideration of their quest for soci...

Social Pluralism and the US

A pluralist society is the focus of this research paper consisting of eight pages in which the US is examined regarding its provis...

Infamous 'Scottsboro Boys' Trial

In seven pages this paper discusses the way in which justice fell short in this infamous case and also considers how to expand res...

US Juvenile Justice System

(Emerge, 1998; p. 48). Just nine months prior, on January 1, 1997, the state of Michigan had implemented its aggressive "get toug...

A Stem Cell Research Ethical Analysis

such as genetic engineering and cloning, activities which are not only significantly misunderstood but which also have the potenti...

Liberty Principle of John Rawls

is that these constructors of the new society are completely ignorant of their own racial, social and economic position within th...

Justice in Measure for Measure by William Shakespeare

Claudio has officially erred, he truly loves Juliet and fully intends to marry her. His sin of fornication clearly does not warran...

Media Coverages of Juvenile Sniper John Lee Malvo's Trial

are known, as well as any new information. While, ostensibly, these accounts are straight journalistic accounts, which are presuma...

Legal Problems/Family as Public and Private

1992). Women are those primarily affected by the private sphere support group, however in order to be eligible for support, certai...