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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...

The Criminal Justice System, Discrimination and Disparity

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

Disparities & Discrimination in Criminal Justice

suggests that judges frequently use ethnic stereotypes and "racialized attributions to fill in the knowledge gaps created by limit...

Prison Overcrowding, as a Flaw in Criminal Justice

This paper focuses on prison overcrowding as an ethical issue that affects the American criminal justice system Three pages in len...

The Criminal Justice System and the Issue of Racism

a great deal of ignorance and disrespect for that individual; just because someone is a member of a certain race does not mean tha...

Criminal Justice System and Fairness

amazed that Bostick consented to the search. The United States Supreme Court held that Bostick had the ability to refuse. ...

Purposes of Criminal Justice

offender population. Rehabilitation refers to "changing either the offenders objective circumstances or his value system in ways t...

Technology and the Criminal Justice System

and foremost, its reliability for identification purposes (Technology and Human Values, 1997). In addition, it is widely used and...

A Recidivism Study

and is a significant problem, but while the problem remains, legal aid programs do little to help. An example of why this is the c...

Criminal Justice and Globalization

media, and especially the internet, policies must be created that deal with specific issues and threats. For example, scams that o...

Criminal Justice, Discrimination, and Political Deviance

In five pages this paper discusses the U.S. criminal justice system's practice of discrimination and the social and political devi...

Is There Evidence of Inequality In The US Criminal Justice System?

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

Racial Disparity in Criminal Sentencing

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

Overview of Recidivism

continue to rise" (Hanke, 1993, pp. 22). Baltimore set an unenviable record for the number of homicides in 1992 of 331, which...

Criminal Justice, Social Justice, and Morality

the right to be treated the same as others Conclusion Although we know that the US Constitution guarantees certain rights to its ...

Aspects of Crime

things in life is to deviate from what is considered by the masses to be normal; in fact, Morpheus points out that it is often con...

Criminal Law Considered in 4 Questions

fair and sensible legal procedure based primarily upon morality and justice. Alexander the Great was the instrumental force behin...

Criminal Justice and Computers

In five pages the criminal justice system is examined in terms of the significant impact of computers with FBI investigations of o...

Six Country Comparison of Police Force Organization

as long as there is "some consensus about the proper parameters of social protests," as well as how the police and public should r...

African Americans, Poverty, and the War on Drugs

This 5 page paper gives an overview of the criminal justice system in regards to multicultural problems. This paper includes the s...

Racism in the Criminal Justice System

Dies, Who Decides," 2010). It is hard to dispute this observation. Yet, the other side of the coin contends that there are more bl...

Criminal Justice System and Discrimination

fact, that although blacks represent only thirteen percent of our national population they represent some thirty percent of those ...

Criminal Justice System and the Effects of Technology

details. Digital enhancement of such evidence has made the retrieval and identification of even the tiniest and most illegible ev...

Islamic Law, Aboriginal Customary Law and Queensland Law; a Comparison of Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Systems

there are also some commonalities in the way that the law has been developed and the way it is implemented. In each case the evo...

Plea Bargaining

This 12-page paper deals with the effect of plea bargaining on the criminal justice system. It argues that the relatively new pra...

Comparisons Between Criminal Justice and Juvenile Justice

idea that juvenile offenders needed to be handled different from adult offenders; as the goal was to retrain the child toward more...

Theories of Justice, Ancient and Modern

even harder to achieve. This paper considers some of the principles of justice theories, how they differ from utilitarianism, how ...

Issues in Criminal Justice and the Criminal Justice System

know him as a real person, not just a symbol of authority. He was someone they could trust and who could help them solve problems....

Racial Discrimination Within the US Criminal Justice System

This paper examines various ways in which the US criminal justice system treats minorities unfairly. This eleven page paper has t...

Antitrust Issues and Internet Explorer of Microsoft

In five pages this paper examines the Department of Justice's antitrust case against Microsoft and issues regarding the Internet E...