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The Detriments of Isolation

become even more out of control as there are fewer eyes watching them. A well known study done at Stanford University tested behav...

Forensic Science in the Twenty-First Century

security surrounding physical evidence is just as important as the security surrounding the criminals themselves from a forensic p...

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,...

Criminal Policies

(Purpura, 1996). "The crime control model stress the importance of protecting society through efficient and effective law enforce...

Forensic Procedures: Criminal Profiling

profiling methods is the ample numbers in which they exist, making identification a much more accessible venture. Because of the ...

ADJUSTING TO TERRORISM

small group, or individual, that would premeditate an attack against a building or government employee (Mosley, 2003). This was th...

Criminal Profiling

Many people in the law enforcement community regard criminal profiling as a useful and accurate tool as the use of this strategy ...

"To Kill A Mockingbird" - Accuracy Of Criminal Justice Activities

how it was back in the early part of the century. In the 1930s, the criminal justice system had a veritable open door policy when...

PROCESSING A CRIMINAL CASE

state, or state to federal, the process involves the stages of investigation, interrogation, arrest, complaint/indictment, arraign...

Problems in the Administration of Justice

profiling is used to "compensate for a lack of evidence and represents poor police work" (Hajjar, 2006). Police simply round up "s...

John Gotti and Theories of Crime

in the Cosa Nostra (John Gotti, 2009). He stood trial several times but was always acquitted, earning him the nickname the "Teflon...

President Richard M. Nixon's Failure to Protect the Presidential Office

the hands of Congress because they contain sensitive information concerning military and other global activities falling strictly ...

Deception and English Criminal Law

was brought under section 15 and not section 16, where workman told a householder work needed to be undertaken when it did not, a...

The Films Taxi Driver and Angels with Dirty Faces and the Portrayals of Antiheros

America, the concept of the antihero was revised to better reflect the attitudes of its citizens, and was defined to be an individ...

Criminal Law and Strict Liability

the moral aspect needs to be remembered, but the case is made on the law and on the facts surrounding the case, not on moral indig...

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 and Corrections

supports the claim with well documented research, that non-violent criminals can pay their debt to society in many ways which are ...

British Criminal Justice System and Repeat Offenses

itself in context, it is perhaps helpful to begin with a brief overview of the development of correctional policies in the UK: not...

Website Objectivity, Accuracy, and Authorship Evaluation

"file not found" page. Even the link to the authors own home page returns only an error message. Searching for Dr. Greek...

Crime, Gangs, and Law Enforcement Strategies That are Ethnic and Race Specific

contend, is fueled by nothing but a lot of "hot air and rhetoric" (Berry, 1995, p. PG). The cycle is not difficult to comprehend:...

Criminality Theoretical Development

just tell a child hes good, and hes well, hes fine, does not produce anything, nor does it increase the childs self-esteem. Child...

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...

Ethics of Crime and Punishment

theory (which considers social factors, disorganization, control and the learning process)and the rational choice theory (which co...

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...

Profiling Art and Australian Serial killer Ivan Milat

American television show called Numbers demonstrates that sometimes random killings are not really random at all and location can ...

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...

Operant Conditioning, B.F. Skinner, and Criminal Behavior

pigeons to coin the now infamous term "operant conditioning" to describe the phenomenon of learning occurring in response to an or...

Evaluating The 'Criminal Justice is Not Racist' Assertion

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

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 Investigator Characteristics

skills and abilities for three different types of crimes that a criminal investigator would need to consider. General Characterist...