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Thoreau and Civil Disobedience

it is immoral to allow oneself to be associated with a gross injustice. In his essay, Thoreau refers particularly to the Mexican W...

Singer: Recriminalizing Delinquency

(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...

US Constitution’s Influence on the American Criminal Justice System

In the case of Baze v. Reese, Kentucky inmates who have been sentenced to death are claming that the states three-drug cocktail pr...

The Ashley Alexandra Dupre Story: A Look at Female Prostitution in the Twenty-First Century

as a serious crime. Still, it is usually the case that the prostitutes are arrested while their customers go free. In the case of ...

Article Analysis/Effects of Parenting

half were single parents. An example of deductive logic in this study is the selection of the study hypothesis, i.e., the premises...

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...

Article Analysis: Budgeting for California's Criminal Justice System

"who commit nonviolent drug possession offenses or who violate drug-related conditions of probation or parole" to receive treatmen...

Issues of Concern to Prison Inmates

a company rather than career corrections officers, they are underpaid, demoralized, and the turnover is high (Friedmann, 1999). Pr...

Three Ways in Which the U.S. Constitution Has Influenced the American Criminal Justice System

terrorist acts? The practice of electronic surveillance was certainly nothing new. Two months prior to the attacks on the World ...

An Evaluation of the American Response to Terrorism

A military action at first is successful, but then, the taking of Baghdad only seems loosely related to the terrorism that occurre...

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 ...

Criminal Justice and Social Engineering

was not always this way (Mocete, 1997). The prison system persists in its newfound role most likely due to the fact that there i...

Criminal Justice System in Australia and Migrant Injustices

for instigating change that will relegate injustice and discrimination to the countrys past. Williams (2001), in fact, contends t...

Goals of the Criminal Justice System

due process. The paper then examines these goals as they relate to the goals of the individual, those being social justice, equali...

Criminal Justice System and Minorities' Overrepresentation

that the African American and Hispanic youths were generally treated far more harshly than the white criminal youth (Poe-Yamagata;...

Incarceration Rates and What They Say About Racism in Maryland

18 white youths were arrested for dealing drugs in 1980 while as many as 86 black youths were arrested for the same crime ("Civil,...

Arizona System of Criminal Justice and the Twenty First Century

by and large, remove a good deal of the criminal element from the streets. However, it can be said that while the criminal element...

North Carolina and Criminal Justice Management

improvement in regards to the criminal justice management system, and, secondly, that there are ways by which this can occur at th...

Criminal Justice

correlation between class and incarceration, as roughly 80 percent of those inmates incarcerated in 2002 could not afford an attor...

Problems and Solutions for the Troubled American Prison System

Rehabilitation is only one reason for punishment. Other reasons go to retribution, deterrence and social control. Prisons do provi...

The Implementation and Monitoring of a Criminal Justice Program

only through the attainment of goals that one can truly know that everything that could be done had been done. Another question ...

Forensics and the CSI Effect

Forensic sciences have been employed since ancient times. In the twenty-first century, however, forensic sciences began a rapid...

Categorizing Crime

This paper distinguishes between criminologists and criminalists as well as other less than obvious points of distinction in the c...

Corruption Within Criminal Justice System

This research paper presents a project proposal that will examine the topic of corruption in criminal justice system, emphasizing ...

Prison Overcrowding

This research paper pertains to overcrowding in prisons and asserts that this constitutes the most significant challenge facing th...

Church in the Middle Ages

This paper discusses our issues about the separation of Church and state. It also discusses the power of the church in the middle ...

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...

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...

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...