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Statistical Testing of Criminal Justice Data

the critical level, this the score against which the test statistic will be assessed to determine whether to accept or reject the ...

Capital Punishment Today

This paper provides a brief history of the death penalty and its application in today's society. Many states are moving away from...

Serial Killer Richard Ramirez

Nine year old Mei Leung was the first identified victim of Richard Ramirez, the serial killer the media...

The 1995 Short Story Winner

This paper discusses and analyses a short story. An alternative ending is written for the story. The writer discusses the main the...

College Students and Underage Drinking, A Proposal

This paper presents a research proposal that is written in a sentence outline format. The research study it describes would invest...

The Need for Reform and Three-Strikes Sentencing

not violate the Eighth Amendment, which prohibits cruel and unusual punishment (Samaha, 2011). Ewing was sentence to 25 years to l...

Judges, Juries, and Sentencing in Criminal Justice

The American legal system revolves around two primary players when it comes to criminal sentencing. These players are the...

Repentance and Criminal Sentencing

According to Rogers (2007) moral retributivism is distinct from retributivism. In the latter, the infliction of suffering on thos...

3 Strikes Law and Sentencing

10,500 juvenile facilities, which represents an over-capacity rate of 186% (24). Prisoners are doubling-up in cells. They are sl...

California and Mandatory Minimum Drug Sentences

In fifteen pages this paper examines California's aggressive efforts in the ongoing war on drugs in a consideration of laws that m...

Whites, Blacks, Mentally Ill, and Criminal Sentencing

are mentally ill. One of the questions that then arises from this data is, are the white mentally ill sentenced to incarceration ...

Discussion of Criminal Sentencing of Whites, Blacks, and the Mentally Ill

In eight pages this paper examines the high percentage of people of color who are currently incarcerated along with those presentl...

Qualitative Study Death Sentence' to 'Good Cancer' Couples' Transformation of a Prostate Cancer Reviewed

objective in conducting their study was to "describe the experience of men who are diagnosed with prostate cancer and their wives,...

Management of Sentencing, Corrections, and Probation

of what he chooses to do in life. Psychologists likely would say that Loser harbors immense hatred for women in that he chooses t...

Arbitrary Definition and Current Capital Punishment Sentences

- at least sometimes - just as culpable as adults" (Taylor, 2005, p. PG). Capital punishment was not only utilized as a...

Should Juveniles be Sentenced to Death?

The death penalty has consequently been in and...

Sentencing and Armed Robbery

sentences imposed throughout the U.S., data from the Department of Justice indicates that recidivism rates are extremely high, as ...

Use Of Shaming In Criminal Sentencing

and overlook the possible social benefits associated with alternative sentencing...If federally imposed mandatory minimum sentence...

Business Cycle Dating; Purposes of the Fed

This is a high-level view, and one that works only in retrospect. As example, it is difficult to accurately proclaim when the nat...

Environmental and Energy Tax Provisions

the fact that a "tax credit reduces tax dollar-for-dollar," while a deduction "only removes a percentage of the tax that is owed" ...

Budgeting Questions

well as the facilities to store the equipment not in use. Where there are a large level of physical assets the assets will also ne...

Tax on Goods

new cars. The federal excise taxes include a "gas guzzler" tax that is "imposed on new cars that fail to meet federal fuel economy...

Special Education Legislation And Impact

something to fear" (Forest and Pearpoint, n.d.). What we do know is that it costs about twice as much to educate a child with dis...

Gilmer v. Interstate/Johnson Lane Corporation

law and made arbitration significantly stronger. In an interpretation, the ADR Institute explains the effect of Gilmer this way: ...

Environmental Policy: Should It be Made at the State or Federal Level?

Its therefore up to California to pass laws that deal with the problem, but before doing so, it only makes sense that California w...

Global Warming/Consensus in Newspaper Accounts

50 years" ("Global Warming"). In 2001, a similar UN report said that human activity had "likely played a role" in global warming...

Law, Policy, Research and Results in Domestic Violence

the use or attempted use of physical force or the threatened use of a deadly weapon (Section 922 (g)[9])" (Federal Domestic Violen...

The Federal Enterprise Architecture (FEA); Impact on CIO's and Agencies

segments to be developed independently at ensuring they are capable of integration. In developing information technology architect...

Canadian Aboriginal Schools as Cultural Genocide

system, the rationale for establishing the system was unabashedly one of assimilation. Nicholas F. Davin, who proposed the system ...

US Economy, 2008

trillion as the forecast GDP in both February and March 2008, and a slight increase to $14.403 trillion in April 2008 (U.S. Gross ...