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Law Enforcement, Cultural diversity and Community

of ones skin or the culture one has grown up with. Diversity, it can be said is as individual as the way in which one approaches p...

Police Brutality and a 2004 Australian Article Sociological Assessment

engine ("Brit music"). After police stopped the car, a man in his twenties had been arrested ("Brit music"). The article report...

Prejudices, Criminal Justice System, and Overrepresentation of Minorities

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

Criminal Justice and Treating Juvenile Crime as Adult Offenses

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...

Australia's System of Criminal Justice and Mental Illness

evidence in a large amount of literature that there is a link between mental illness and crimes (Drake and Pathe, 2004). T...

Minority Populations and Arrest Data Within Louisiana's Criminal Justice System

was reduced by about half, to reach an even keel with Caucasian arrest level, with a slightly higher percentage of arrests falling...

Criminal Justice System in Australia and Migrant Injustices

for instigating change that will relegate injustice and discrimination to the countrys past. Williams (2001), in fact, contends t...

Goals of the Criminal Justice System

due process. The paper then examines these goals as they relate to the goals of the individual, those being social justice, equali...

Criminal Justice and Social Engineering

was not always this way (Mocete, 1997). The prison system persists in its newfound role most likely due to the fact that there i...

Options for Addressing the Problem of Juvenile Crime

houses between the juvenile leaving the correctional system and reentering the community. Juvenile delinquency is just one ...

Criminal Justice System and Minorities' Overrepresentation

that the African American and Hispanic youths were generally treated far more harshly than the white criminal youth (Poe-Yamagata;...

Incarceration Rates and What They Say About Racism in Maryland

18 white youths were arrested for dealing drugs in 1980 while as many as 86 black youths were arrested for the same crime ("Civil,...

Arizona System of Criminal Justice and the Twenty First Century

by and large, remove a good deal of the criminal element from the streets. However, it can be said that while the criminal element...

Problems and Solutions for the Troubled American Prison System

Rehabilitation is only one reason for punishment. Other reasons go to retribution, deterrence and social control. Prisons do provi...

Criminal Justice

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

The Implementation and Monitoring of a Criminal Justice Program

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

Systems Management, Human Relations, and Scientific Management Styles

and having managers responsible for planning the work while workers are responsible for carrying out those plans (Encyclopedia of ...

United Kingdom's Criminal Justice System, Crime, and Mental Illness

the criminal justice system has to protect society and seek to gain a balance between the required protection for each group. In...

Arguing in Favor of Reallocating Funds for Programs Involving Drug Abuse and Alcohol Treatment

would be incurred if we were to rehabilitate drug and alcohol users rather than put them in the penitentiary. The view...

United Kingdom's System of Criminal Justice and Mental Illness

range of the problem is quantified 2. What is Mental Illness? 2.1 Definitions of Mental Illness The difficulty with defining me...

Steve Christian's 'Out of Lock-UP: Now What?', Juvenile Crime and Drug Use

a serious drug and mental health problems when they were incarcerated. These juveniles have serious problems with hallucinogens, ...

Criminal Justice and an Investigation of Differences IV

but business does have a way of behaving unethically and even criminally where regulations against specific behaviors do not exist...

Issues of Social Justice from a Historical Perspective

quo (Ruddell and Urbina, 2004). In his analysis of the history of incarceration in the US, Vogel (2003) charts a relationship be...

Criminal Justice Issues

brings up the question as to "What kind of society could justify locking up so many of its young men," who are the principle demo...

Drug Offenders and Treatment Alternatives

conclusion as to what is the best way of going about treating drug addicted offenders. The important question is: What is the bes...

Changing an Unfair Criminal Justice System

heading of the United States Department of Justice (Glover 92). The U.S. Marshalls, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the D...

African-American Juveniles and the Criminal Justice System

although blacks make up only 12% of Sacramentos drug users, "52% of those arrested in Sacramento are African-American" (Schiraldi,...

The Ashley Alexandra Dupre Story: A Look at Female Prostitution in the Twenty-First Century

as a serious crime. Still, it is usually the case that the prostitutes are arrested while their customers go free. In the case of ...

Article Analysis/Effects of Parenting

half were single parents. An example of deductive logic in this study is the selection of the study hypothesis, i.e., the premises...

Singer: Recriminalizing Delinquency

(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...