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The Factors that Influence Behavior in Criminal Justice Work

the persons subjective view of the situation are important (More, Wegener and Vito, 2005, p. 56). This perspective suggests tha...

African-American Juveniles and the Criminal Justice System

although blacks make up only 12% of Sacramentos drug users, "52% of those arrested in Sacramento are African-American" (Schiraldi,...

Forensic Science in the Twenty-First Century

security surrounding physical evidence is just as important as the security surrounding the criminals themselves from a forensic p...

Behavioral Profiling

as to who they might be. Obviously, such irrefutable evidence as fingerprint or DNA evidence is the most desirable in crime scene...

Problems in the Administration of Justice

profiling is used to "compensate for a lack of evidence and represents poor police work" (Hajjar, 2006). Police simply round up "s...

John Gotti and Theories of Crime

in the Cosa Nostra (John Gotti, 2009). He stood trial several times but was always acquitted, earning him the nickname the "Teflon...

PROCESSING A CRIMINAL CASE

state, or state to federal, the process involves the stages of investigation, interrogation, arrest, complaint/indictment, arraign...

The Detriments of Isolation

become even more out of control as there are fewer eyes watching them. A well known study done at Stanford University tested behav...

Forensic Procedures: Criminal Profiling

profiling methods is the ample numbers in which they exist, making identification a much more accessible venture. Because of the ...

Criminal Policies

(Purpura, 1996). "The crime control model stress the importance of protecting society through efficient and effective law enforce...

Terrorism: Prosecuting Terrorists Under International Law

affairs; if and when this body of rules is either ignored or blatantly disregarded, such disrespect for all other countries involv...

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...

A Career in Criminal Justice

attention and (showing) respect for visitors entering the classroom" (Johnson 21). Among the general skills and competencies neede...

Challenges to Criminal Justice

liberties that are guaranteed to Americans in the Constitution are not lost in the process of addressing this problem. Commentator...

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...

Criminal Behavior: Psychological And Personality Theories

the inherent connection between why some people engage in criminal activity and others do not (Barondess, 2000). III. DIFFERENTIA...

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 ...

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...

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 ...

Legal Analyses

copyright an idea itself (Methods, 2008). Copyrights are most usually found protecting theatrical works, literary works, musical s...

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 ‘Biology’ of Cloning: Its Importance and Potential Impacts

Today, plant research scientists accomplish cloning through the manipulation of a limited number of vectors. The Ti plasmid (a pl...

Criminal Profiling

Many people in the law enforcement community regard criminal profiling as a useful and accurate tool as the use of this strategy ...

ADJUSTING TO TERRORISM

small group, or individual, that would premeditate an attack against a building or government employee (Mosley, 2003). This was th...

Judge Dee's Most Famous Cases

reader learns there are ways of old which at times served a greater purpose than anything we have currently. In several of the...

"To Kill A Mockingbird" - Accuracy Of Criminal Justice Activities

how it was back in the early part of the century. In the 1930s, the criminal justice system had a veritable open door policy when...

Illegal Tactics y Law Enforcement In Alabama V. Billy Bob

which Friday took his strategy, this case would likely not have ever seen the inside of a courtroom; however, the intricate web of...

Forensics And Cyber Crime

with computers and electronic data."2 However, the actual hands-on aspect of collecting evidence presents a far greater challenge...

Criminal Justice And Effective Communication

of authority, there can be no sense of stability where people are arbitrarily applying their own interpretation. Nowhere is this ...