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Serial Killers Kenneth Bianchi, Joseph Miller, and Ted Bundy

Bianchi was a serial killer but he did not work alone. Bianchi is one half of the duo called the Hillside Stranglers ("Angelo Buon...

Criminologists and Practitioners of Criminal Justice

Based upon the information found in this crime data report that illustrates a significant discrepancy between blacks and Hispanics...

Ages, Race, Capitalism, and Criminal Theories

manner by which ethnic populations are perceived as being subordinate to their white counterparts, thereby committing a crime mere...

Crime Data Predictors and Their Usage

a crime has occurred. One of the most valuable tools available to help ascertain this information is through an arson investigati...

Crime and Social Conditions

cases the social conditions can become such that the individual is led to criminal activity for one reason or another. A very co...

Psychology and Criminal Justice Processes

perspective on processes comes from criminal justice once again, but takes a very different perspective. (The article is Australi...

Social Engineering and Predatory Crime

social engineering. Judging from the rampant crime rate that afflicts our nation today, however, additional criminal law is very ...

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...

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...

Rely Tampons and White Collar Crime

shock syndrome.") In spite of this, tampon manufacturers did not conduct any research into TSS for five years (Kohen, 2001). In te...

Dentistry and Criminal Law

by a dental hygienist, freeing the dentist from complex surgical procedures on one hand and routine work on the other ("Dentist: 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...

Samuel Walker, the Wedding Cake, and Criminal Justice

likely to go to a full jury trial * have considerable impact on the public perception (too much?) (Chapter Topics, 2007). An exa...

Burden of Proof: Criminal Procedure

crime he did not commit still possesses a picture of one of the prosecutors in the case wherein this man, Jim Williams, sits at hi...

Time to Dig Out (Case Study Analysis)

The governor wanted to eliminate parole and one conservative legislator was looking for input from people involved in the system (...

Restitution in the Criminal Justice System

are victims of hate crimes. Other special victims may be disabled, gay, HIV-infected, prisoners or students (Wallace, 2007). These...

Is There Evidence of Inequality In The US Criminal Justice System?

poverty. There is always a potential bias in any system that has the danger of becoming an inequality. The basis of the law and...

Sentencing and the American Criminal Justice System

toward determinate sentencing models that go along with a tough on crime stance. Of course, juvenile justice has to some extent b...

Community Policing in the United States

stance. After all, the police officers can write tickets for small oversights, but a friendly attitude, without overly strict enfo...

Sex Offenders and the Correctional System

Even within the segregated unit there is a hierarchy: "People charged with rape and other sex crimes will attack child sex predato...

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...

The Breakfast Club/A View of Adolescence

"poor little rich girl or the princess," and is drive to school by her father in a BMW (The Breakfast Club, 1995). Allison is the ...

Are Criminals Born or Made?

that Samenow also addresses. However, Samenow does not often accept that many behaviors are attributable to psychopathy. While gen...

Does The High Profile Status Of A Criminal Case Affect Investigators' Decisions?

complete ban of courtroom photography and radio broadcasting. It was some fifteen years later that the ban was to also include th...

Plea Bargaining

This 12-page paper deals with the effect of plea bargaining on the criminal justice system. It argues that the relatively new pra...

Should The United States Become A Member Of The International Criminal Court?

open itself up to unyielding vulnerability. Madison addressed the inherent need for mans activities to remain under some semblanc...

Police Work in the O.J. Simpson Murder Case

vehicle the night before, then reopened the wound after breaking a glass in reaction to his ex-wifes murder (Linder, 2000). Altho...

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 ...

Opposition To Drunk Driving

or being victim to - an automobile accident, particularly when such a catastrophe is caused by a drunk driver. Not only does it i...

An Overview of the Sixth Amendment

is the right that some reporters claim allows for cameras in the courtroom. Certainly, even if cameras are not allowed by the judg...