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High Performance Drugs: Social Consideration

is both famous and respected. However, it becomes difficult for the child or adolescent to understand the motivation behind such ...

“Victim or Vamp: Images of Violent Women in the Criminal Justice System”

Women who commit acts of extreme violence are considered an anomaly in our society. Those who do commit such acts, consequently, ...

Criminal Justice and Community Relations

is called Cab Watch, something that prompts taxi drivers in New York City to report crime (Miller & Hess, 2005). This is actually ...

Peoples: "Basic Criminal Procedures"

"good faith exception" of U.S. v. Leon (Peoples, 2006). Using this as a starting point, this paper considers the Exclusionary Rule...

Negative Impact Television Programs Have Upon Children's Behavior

a social ill that grows worse with each passing generation as children are exposed to cleverly marketed television commercials foc...

Dialectical Behavior Therapy

a juxtaposition of opposites" (Hannush, 2007, p. 7). II. THERAPEUTIC APPROACH Dialectical behavior therapy utilizes many of the ...

Business and Criminal Law

that are not well thought out. White collar crimes are crimes that involve a level of sophistication. They usually implicate cri...

Criminal Trends in the Past 40 Years

and programming designed to support the conviction of violent and dangerous criminals led to an increased level of incarceration f...

Criminal Offenses and Substance Abuse

with 0 meaning definitely not and 100 meaning definitely. A definite score indicating mental illness caused the person to commit t...

Research in Criminal Justice

internal and external stressors. b. Repeat offenders repeat their crimes because there are no other options. B. Incapacitation 1....

DNA A Tool in Criminal Justice

Practically since its discovery DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) has had phenomenal implications for the criminal justice system. With...

One Problem in Criminal Justice

terms of their parole (Pew Center, 2010). Nobody knows exactly what kinds of prison programs would definitely reduce recidivism r...

An Urban Planning/Criminal Justice Case Study

In other words, problem-oriented policing takes into consideration the social conditions and problems that are specific to a commu...

Strengthening the Juvenile Criminal Justice System

cruelty, and shoplifting. These programs are utilized to give youth another chance instead of throwing them in juvenile detention ...

The Use of Technology in the Criminal Justice System

forewarned of an emergency call. However, the police have no privacy when they use scanners. MDTs on the other hand provide the po...

Budget Analysis for One Criminal Justice Agency

The budget reflected a decrease from the previous fiscal year and very close to the same personnel costs as 2007/2008. The data ar...

LEADING GROUPS IN A CRIMINAL JUSTICE ORGANIZTION: CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES

departments (and elsewhere, for that matter), leaders are "expected to be competent managers who inspire their followers to do eff...

Discrimination and Disparity in the Criminal Justice System

The difference between the terms discrimination and disparity is discussed. There are five sources listed in the bibliography of t...

Criminal Justice Are Humans Inherently Good or Evil?

IS THAT WE ARE NOT INHERENTLY MORAL AND WE HAVE TO WORK TO ACHIEVE OUR MORALITY. PART OF THAT WORK HAS BEEN THE DEFINITION OF VAR...

CRIMINALS AND LEGAL RIGHTS

was denied (Escobedo v. Illinois, 2010). Escobedo ultimately was convicted of murder, but appealed the conviction, claiming the co...

Racism in Criminal Justice?

black men were imprisoned in 2006 (MacDonald, 2008)! This compares to only one in 79 Hispanic men and one in 205 white men (MacDon...

Considerations in Criminal Arrest

Probable cause may be based on a number of factors. The first of these is the personal experiences of the arresting officer. An ...

Thought Process of Criminals

indolence which refers to a desire to take the easiest path; cutoff of the ability to eliminate feelings of fear; power orientatio...

Criminal Sentencing and Racial Disparity

because one man is black and the other white. While such racial disparity often occur at many stages of the criminal justice syste...

Culpability in Criminal Justice

For an act to be punished as a criminal offense it has to not only be against a specified law...

Criminal Justice and the EPICS Program

the criminal justice system, some designed to help inmates, others to keep track of them. This paper discusses a program called "E...

Case Study Analyses in Criminal Justice

M. is a serious risk. Because there were few witnesses to the actual event, and there is only scant negative history, it is diffic...

Sex Addiction: Not Scientifically Supported

is a concept that seems to serve no other purpose than to relegate sexual expression to the level of shameful acts, except within ...

The Criminal Justice and Due Process Models

course, while due process is a given, some see murderers getting away with their deeds because of it. For example, the recent case...

Faulkner's Barn Burning

social factor to which he is excluded, Abners anger is compounded by the fact that the Negro servant does not acknowledge his whit...