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hundred thirty-four people; pertinent to the gathered data are such aspects as rate of recurrence, attributes and outcome of crimi...

that continue to plague law enforcement, it is likely services will for the most part be provided by the private industry, a reali...

To keep order in the court. Job rationale, many times, is not specifically stated, but is implied - the fact that the bailiff migh...

Americans are "overrepresented" in the criminal justice system. There is a disparity between the number of blacks in the U.S. and ...

In theory, when a crime is committed in the US and a...

Modern society rests on a balance between personal freedom and government restriction. That balance is something that has...

Canadas First Nations peoples find themselves at severe disadvantage in many distinct regards when compared with other Canadians. ...

States was developed to contend with the operational responsibilities of dealing with the punishment of crimes commissioned by adu...

productive person, such programs still struggle to be instrumental in realigning otherwise maladjusted individuals while at the sa...

the federal courts to mandate minimum rights for prisoners" (Platt, 1999, p. 237). But by the 1990s, prison reform had died out a...

place in about the third century; it lasts until the 20th. Iran went through a number of revolutions in the 20th century, includi...

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

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

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

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

constitutional rights prior to taking them into custody or while interrogating them, a reality that -- had Miranda v. Arizona neve...

careful not to reveal her real feelings. Gonnerman (2004) emphasizes the problems with the Rockefeller drug laws. For example, Gon...

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

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

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

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

(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...

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

bias in the system which seeks out blacks and instills upon them harsher sentences is a highly controversial topic. Inter...

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

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

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

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

and having managers responsible for planning the work while workers are responsible for carrying out those plans (Encyclopedia of ...

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