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due process. The paper then examines these goals as they relate to the goals of the individual, those being social justice, equali...
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....
presence; however, the propensity for crime to occur despite a greater incidence of police patrol has been documented, as well. I...
each community and asking about individual "safety concerns and security needs" (Greene, 2000, pp. 299-370). One particular commu...
four will be examined: A definition of the problem; a description of the offender population; a description of community involveme...
Women who commit acts of extreme violence are considered an anomaly in our society. Those who do commit such acts, consequently, ...
terrorist acts? The practice of electronic surveillance was certainly nothing new. Two months prior to the attacks on the World ...
are victims of hate crimes. Other special victims may be disabled, gay, HIV-infected, prisoners or students (Wallace, 2007). These...
toward determinate sentencing models that go along with a tough on crime stance. Of course, juvenile justice has to some extent b...
"who commit nonviolent drug possession offenses or who violate drug-related conditions of probation or parole" to receive treatmen...
equipped to penetrate any computer system with the intent to take, destroy or manipulate the information found upon that system; i...
well as how he grew up to become a seemingly fine citizen (Chua-Eoan, 2007). The joke usually is that the most heinous offenders s...
respect to adult drug possession ("The Florida Drug Treatment Initiative," 2008). In that same year, of that 100,000, close to 36,...
In the case of Baze v. Reese, Kentucky inmates who have been sentenced to death are claming that the states three-drug cocktail pr...
perspective is that OJ Simpson was tried by a jury of his peers. There was an Asian judge and a jury made up of minorities. The pr...
The result is that "there are not one, but fifty-five court systems in the United States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, a...
a critical component of todays campus environment; not only has it become necessary to provide this heretofore unwarranted protect...
where promotions occur relative to the requirements put into place in other businesses. Law enforcement officers, then, would be ...
range of the problem is quantified 2. What is Mental Illness? 2.1 Definitions of Mental Illness The difficulty with defining me...
riotous behavior inasmuch as students contend their rights are being violated by the limitation. The issue at hand, points ...
use is a prevalent factor in the school setting is intrinsically related to social elements, a point the authors illustrate by exa...
the criminal justice system has to protect society and seek to gain a balance between the required protection for each group. In...
that the African American and Hispanic youths were generally treated far more harshly than the white criminal youth (Poe-Yamagata;...
by and large, remove a good deal of the criminal element from the streets. However, it can be said that while the criminal element...
make it more likely that he or she will be convicted. If in fact the person is wrongly arrested due to the color of his skin or so...
evidence in a large amount of literature that there is a link between mental illness and crimes (Drake and Pathe, 2004). T...
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...
any given day, there are myriad reports of crime and violent acts purportedly committed by persons of color, origin and ethnic bac...
heading of the United States Department of Justice (Glover 92). The U.S. Marshalls, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the D...
a great deal of ignorance and disrespect for that individual; just because someone is a member of a certain race does not mean tha...