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While the statistics obviously support the contention that there is a disproportionate representation of blacks as compared to whi...

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

is valuable where the safety of the community is concerned. In relationship to the board, there are nine board members who are ...

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

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

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

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...

initiated by the police, who have more freedom and a wider range of choices in how to proceed when dealing with a juvenile than wi...

would be that such a thing would never happen in the US without great public outcry, but that was before passage of the Patriot Ac...

The result is that "there are not one, but fifty-five court systems in the United States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, a...

along pertinent information. And because upper management is in a constant state of inaccessibility, these symptoms of negativity...

a critical component of todays campus environment; not only has it become necessary to provide this heretofore unwarranted protect...

the structure of civil society. He comments that "the characteristic concerns have been the exploration of differences between pol...

where promotions occur relative to the requirements put into place in other businesses. Law enforcement officers, then, would be ...

Based upon the information found in this crime data report that illustrates a significant discrepancy between blacks and Hispanics...

a crime has occurred. One of the most valuable tools available to help ascertain this information is through an arson investigati...

perspective on processes comes from criminal justice once again, but takes a very different perspective. (The article is Australi...

and technical assistance to increase the knowledge and skills of all personnel in the criminal justice system (WV Div. of Criminal...

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

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...

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

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

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

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...

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

The evolution of punishment strategy has gone hand in hand with the evolution of society as a whole. Harris (1996), for example, ...

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

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

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