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The Enron and Martha Stewart Cases Compared

those codified into law ...and creating societal pressures for reform" (p. 167). Indeed, the world is changing and more attention...

The F.B.I. and Its Efforts to Combat Organized Crime

This 5 page paper discusses the measures that the FBI is taking to combat organized crime. The writer discusses such policies as h...

Juveniles and Adult Criminal Sentencing

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

The Civil War and Black Americans Who Fought

6 pages and 6 sources. This paper cosiders the African American experience in the American Civil War. This paper relates the exp...

'The Color Line' as Perceived by W.E.B. Du Bois

purely social we can be separate as the five fingers, and yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress" (quoted ...

A Perspective on the Value of Juvenile Offenders Being Sentenced as Adults

out harsher sentences to juvenile offenders. For particularly violent crimes, in fact, one of the most effective means of crime c...

Arguing in Support of Violent Juvenile Offender Sentencing as Adults

As a consequence there has been a growing tendency within our criminal justice system to try juveniles who commit such atrocities ...

Three Strikes Law in California

of those that opponents to the law point to as evidence its injustice. In 1995, Andrade was arrested for shoplifting $84 worth of ...

Analyzing the Case of Marcus Dixon

does not have a good track record in terms of sexual encounters. In defense of the verdict, Rainey (2004) notes that those who op...

Arguing in Favor of Adult Sentences for Certain Juvenile Offenders

by firearms is the number one cause of death among black males between the ages of fifteen and thirty-four (Lovett, 1997). The is...

4 Questions on Criminal Justice

II. HOW EFFECTIVE IS PUNISHMENT IN CONTROLLING CRIME? WHY? Warehousing of prisoners is perhaps the most prevalent of all ap...

The Practice of Trying Juveniles As Adults

by the managers and administrators when a juvenile is reminded to an adult facility. Conclusion: Provides a summary of the points...

Natural and Legal Crime

that "natural crime" is a crime against the laws that were given to all men by God, whereas "legal crime" is "an act that violates...

Whites, Blacks, Mentally Ill, and Criminal Sentencing

are mentally ill. One of the questions that then arises from this data is, are the white mentally ill sentenced to incarceration ...

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...

U.S. Crime

publication from the University of Maryland, the authors note that one of the reasons for discrepancies in crime statistics is tha...

Neonaticide

The writer discusses the crime of neonaticide (killing of infants) with specific reference to the case of Amy Grossberg and Brian ...

Primary Crime Data Sources: Compare/Contrast

rural, urban, gender, culture and age (Bureau of Justice, 2001). NCVS modified its methodology in the late 1980s to improve upon ...

“Natural Crimes” and “Legal Crimes”

be charged with statutory rape even if the girl consents, provided she is not of age. If she wants to make love with her boyfriend...

Investigating Different Crimes

Over the last decade, there have been numerous high-profile, huge scams from organizations. These are called white-collar crimes a...

Federal Sentencing Guidelines

The law, as well intended as it is, can vary in regard to its application. The law is not always black and white in terms...

The Heart in The Story of an Hour

the end, of her heart and a possible "condition" and so the reader may well dismiss this fact in a first reading. But, at the same...

The Evolution of Punishment in Criminal Justice

The evolution of punishment strategy has gone hand in hand with the evolution of society as a whole. Harris (1996), for example, ...

Parole And Minimum Sentencing

load of inmates weighing down the penal system. By contrast, a significant drawback is the pressure to place a convicted criminal...

'Light' Sentences and Juvenile Crime

In about six pages this paper examines the controversy regarding 'light' sentences that are often unfairly received for juvenile o...

A Description of Grammar

This paper of five pages analyzes the essential noun and verb components through the descrption of a sentence that discusses modif...

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...

Why Study Computer Crime?

damage caused by incidence of computer crime. This includes virus attacks, spam, worms, denial of service (DOS) attacks or other ...

Supermassive Black Holes

2005). Black holes are thought to have originated from the collapse of very large stars, but it is also hypothesized that mini bla...