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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 ...

for a differentiation in the purpose of the crime, and once policing agents were called, the legal process was started. Police ...

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

effect of showing mercy to the Manson murderers when they exhibited no mercy towards their innocent victims. According to Charlo...

be viewed within its historical context in order to be fully understood. For example, rather than viewing the Salem Witch Trials a...

its suggested that a criminal justice agency or organization consider investing in a computer system that can link into data netwo...

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

Supreme Court disallows the death penalty for juveniles. This decision was made primary due to the fact that young brains are stil...

(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 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 ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

The evolution of punishment strategy has gone hand in hand with the evolution of society as a whole. Harris (1996), for example, ...

significant alteration of their position when an organizational change occurs (Wiersema 25). Also, integrating technologies into a...

four will be examined: A definition of the problem; a description of the offender population; a description of community involveme...

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

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

supports the claim with well documented research, that non-violent criminals can pay their debt to society in many ways which are ...

does not treat all of its juvenile offenders as adults. Indeed, the state is one of the most progressive in the nation in terms o...

"file not found" page. Even the link to the authors own home page returns only an error message. Searching for Dr. Greek...

While the statistics obviously support the contention that there is a disproportionate representation of blacks as compared to whi...

any given day, there are myriad reports of crime and violent acts purportedly committed by persons of color, origin and ethnic bac...

is valuable where the safety of the community is concerned. In relationship to the board, there are nine board members who are ...