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Recommendations of Lord Justice Auld on Oral Evidence in Court

in a trial. These have all received a high level of coverage in the press. However, one of the lesser considered areas has been th...

The Lasting Implications of Miranda v Arizona

caused within the United States poor communities speak to the ongoing issue of racial divide, with one of the most striking exampl...

Selected Incapacitation in the Criminal Justice System

of incapacitation we see that it can fall into various categories: "Incapacitation may be selective (aimed at particular offender...

Fact or Fiction with Regard to Racial Profiling

a disproportionate percentage of the crimes. While it might be easy to point to racial profiling as the reason for the...

Intelligence Profession and Code of Practice Compiling

profession, these objectives might address such processes as searches (search warrants and consent searches) and acceptable types ...

Criminal Justice System and Discretion in Law Enforcement

Discretion, 2003). In his acclaimed study of discretion, University of Chicago law professor Kenneth Culp Davis discovered that p...

Martin Scorsese's Goodfellas, Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather and Their Depiction of Crime and Punishment

He seems to have made up his mind at the very beginning of the saga. He has become a part of the military...

Domestic Violence and its Societal Impact

hesitant about coming forward to name their abusers, because the system did not seem to either believe them about the scope of the...

Criminal Justice and Victim's Rights

106th Congress aimed at preventing violence against women, "one of the most blatant manifestations of patriarchy" (Mananzan, 1995,...

Turkey's System of Criminal Justice

security forces enjoyed, and the issue of human rights abuses connected with police methodologies. The State Department noted that...

US System of Juvenile Justice and its Problems

is unusual. All too often children are led through a troubled system that simply does not know how to treat young offenders. I...

Criminal Justice and Intelligence

on, and intelligence gained is assumed to be from open source information unless otherwise specified. For the argument to be in ...

Criminal Justice System and Discrimination

fact, that although blacks represent only thirteen percent of our national population they represent some thirty percent of those ...

Parole and Probation in the Future

crimes. Allowing violent criminals to be released is ludicrous. Parole reform is necessary to ensure a safe society. While the law...

Minor Drug Offenses and Incarceration Alternatives

In ten pages this paper discusses the alternatives to incarceration that might be available to minor drug offenders in the crimina...

Punishment and Its Effectiveness

works. Yerkes demonstrated the principal in a simple T-shaped maze, as in one of the places, the experimenter placed a strip of s...

Due Process Model and Packer's Crime Control

models of the criminal justice system in order to better depict how these two different viewpoints "compete for priority in the op...

Criminal Justice as a Career Choice

support at various law enforcement agencies (1993). There are a variety of jobs necessary at the federal level because areas such ...

Policies of Criminal Justice and Drug Issues

tend to have sufficient social and economic power to transcend even law enforcement agencies themselves. If profits from the drug ...

US and Canadian Systems of Criminal Justice

(Dowd PG). Organizations such as the Dai Huen Jai or Big Circle Boys have created a business from planned home invasion robberies ...

Societal Changes and the Future of Law Enforcement

public reprisal. What happens is that when a suspect is unfortunately shot in the course of illegal activity, the officer is scrut...

U.S. and Austria's Systems of Criminal Justice

manner by which offenders were being sidelined from real punishment; however, their collective voices were not strong enough to de...

Criminal Justice and Parole

the observance of special restrictions (1999). In other words, they are not free to come and go. They have their rights truncated...

The Positive Aspects of the Chain Gang

not leniency, indeed it is stiffened penalties for criminal behavior. A very important component of those penalties is the use of...

Criminal Justice System and the Importance of Societal Understanding

give a greater equality to those who do not have the political or economic power (Reiman, 2000). The role if position is im...

Sweden's System of Criminal Justice

three years. The age of accountability in Sweden is fifteen years of age, whereas in the United States the age of accountability t...

Criminal Justice Programs, Punishment, and Evaluation Subjectivity

perhaps the most prevalent of all approaches to criminal punishment utilized in the United States, the nation that holds the dubio...

Options for Addressing the Problem of Juvenile Crime

houses between the juvenile leaving the correctional system and reentering the community. Juvenile delinquency is just one ...

Cultural Impact on Brazil's Criminal Justice System

place great emphasis upon "inclusive definitions, neat conceptual distinctions, and broad general rules" (Scuro, 2003) rather than...

Objectives of the U.S. Criminal Justice System

Prosecution Myriad aspects comprise the component of prosecution, not the least of which included the interrogation process...