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Deterring Crime: The Effect of Truth in Sentencing

This 5 page paper examines those elements in current literature that suggest truth in sentencing may deter crime. The writer provi...

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...

Neonaticide

The writer discusses the crime of neonaticide (killing of infants) with specific reference to the case of Amy Grossberg and Brian ...

Blacks and Unfair Crime Sentencing

In eleven pages the sentencing of crimes committed by blacks is examined in terms of disparity between this and white crime senten...

Criminal Sentencing

Justice Statistics, 1996 was the first year State and Federal courts convicted a combined total of over 1 million adults of feloni...

Organized Crime Syndicates and Commercial Burglaries

but commercial burglaries are up (Star Tribune 02B). For many reasons, burglars find commercial establishments a better target th...

Applying the Concept of the Truth to Organizational Research

The writer looks at how the concept of the truth is perceived and the role of the truth in research. The concept of the truth is e...

Insuring Criminal Justice

Criminal justice has benefitted tremendously from recent scientific and technological improvements. Crime scene investigators no ...

The Bernie Madoff Scandal

Bernie Madoff is in prison serving a sentence that will see him there for the rest of his natural life. His crimes are explored as...

Increasing the Prison Term for Armed Robbery

Sciences reviewed all the existing research on deterrence and concluded that the evidence did not answer the question one way or t...

Imposing Sentence in an Identity Theft Crime for Monetary Gain Case

states laws regarding identity theft can be quite different with penalties varying significantly (Perl, 2003). Whether or not the...

Controversy Regarding Guidelines for Legislative Sentencing

In twelve pages this research paper discusses crime sentencing, politics, and the controversy surrounding legislative guidelines r...

Connectivity, External and Internal Drive Bays

front panel." Kozierok (2001) also explains that the term "external drive bay" is a "bit of a misnomer" in that the term ex...

Gun Crime 'Getting Tough' Laws and Their Lack of Success

checks and a five-day waiting period before purchasing a gun (Miller, 2005). The Clinton administration was encouraged by the pas...

Social Disorganization and Organized Crime

concerning problems of our time. It has both direct and indirect impacts on the physical and philosophical infrastructural featur...

Nietzsche And Heidegger: Art & Aesthetics

myriad philosophies by which people live their lives that help to maintain order and a sense of direction where otherwise there wo...

Plea Bargaining: Unfair Advantage For Criminals

perpetrator to go free without any legal recourse speaks to the need for another option whereby the alleged criminal serves time, ...

Bertrand Russell: Manifestation Of Tenet

interpretive element of mans world construed - and misconstrued - at will; that something so intangible to human designation yet s...

Criminal JusticeIV

Another advantage of plea bargaining is that it allows prosecutors to dispatch cases quickly, freeing time and resources to fully ...

Juvenile Crime Court Approaches and Other Options

disappear in the next few decades. A full exploration of the issues is thus critical to allowing us to turn around our juvenile j...

Criminal Justice: Goal And Policy Implementation

presence; however, the propensity for crime to occur despite a greater incidence of police patrol has been documented, as well. I...

Argument: Carrying Concealed Firearms Helps Society

violent crime. They also state plainly that carrying concealed handguns has its "greatest deterrent effect in the highest crime co...

Forced Drug Testing

"those who were tested for heroin use and placed in drug treatment in addition to other supervision services, and those who were s...

Social Engineering and Predatory Crime

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

CRIMINOLOGY THEORY AND SOCIAL POLICY

"branches," these include the social learning theory, social control theory and social reaction theory. Accordihng to Siegel, the ...

Crime Deterrence Through Harsher Punishment

these facts: * Homicide rates increased sharply beginning about 1965 or 1966. The number of executions plummeted from 47 in 1962 t...

Judicial Appeal for a Minimum Municipal Court Light Sentence

at the wrong time"), it would be counterproductive both to my brother and to the community to remove him completely from any oppor...

Crime and Hate

the curtailment of hate speech would be beneficial to such a goal. And indeed, such a solution sounds simple enough : Point an ac...

Capital Punishment Does Not Effectively Deter Crime

This paper consists of five pages and argues that the death penalty does not effectively deter criminal acts. Eight sources are c...

Thomas King's Truth and Bright Water

Thomas King's novel Truth and Bright Water and its thematic duality are discussed in five pages....