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that Rawls equates justice with equality. Justice is, in a manner of speaking, treating others as an individual would wish to be ...

al Qahtani was held in intense isolation for months on end, to the point where he began to hallucinate; strip searched and made to...

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

the way; at the same time, the "old man," who was watching carefully, "struck me from his carriage, / full on the head with his tw...

both royalty, they have both been told by an outside agency to look for a murderer in their midst, and in both cases, the agency t...

are victims of hate crimes. Other special victims may be disabled, gay, HIV-infected, prisoners or students (Wallace, 2007). These...

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

toward determinate sentencing models that go along with a tough on crime stance. Of course, juvenile justice has to some extent b...

stance. After all, the police officers can write tickets for small oversights, but a friendly attitude, without overly strict enfo...

A military action at first is successful, but then, the taking of Baghdad only seems loosely related to the terrorism that occurre...

because he had to feed starving children; despite this, he was given a five-year sentence. Two things immediately spring to mind: ...

their behaviors or lack thereof. Also, Georges wife, Mary, is not a decision maker but she no doubt has an influence on the decisi...

a company rather than career corrections officers, they are underpaid, demoralized, and the turnover is high (Friedmann, 1999). Pr...

The governor wanted to eliminate parole and one conservative legislator was looking for input from people involved in the system (...

likely to go to a full jury trial * have considerable impact on the public perception (too much?) (Chapter Topics, 2007). An exa...

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

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...

"who commit nonviolent drug possession offenses or who violate drug-related conditions of probation or parole" to receive treatmen...

vital option again during the 1980s and early 1990s for several reasons, the first of which was the existence of a general sociopo...

cases from the point of view that the person on trial is guilty. There is no presumption of innocence until proven guilty-he start...

important because school systems have not kept pace with society. Change is needed and sometimes reform and renewal are vital elem...

crime. In so many ways they are simply victims and yet are incarcerated because of this. Belknap seems to argue that much of this ...

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

A 17 page paper discussing environmental justice, policy and environmental law as the concepts apply to Altgeld Gardens, a low inc...

was a knight, he was essentially required to meet challenges and learn how to be chivalrous, often through mistakes. As such the Q...

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

significant alteration of their position when an organizational change occurs (Wiersema 25). Also, integrating technologies into a...

four will be examined: A definition of the problem; a description of the offender population; a description of community involveme...

seven years in areas closed to slavery; Illinois was a free state and the Missouri Compromise of 1820 had closed the Wisconsin Ter...

When examining ethical theory and philosophies of hope, happiness is often at the forefront. It seems that the goal of most people...