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Legal Ambiguities and their Import

can be difficult to make a proper ruling, even with established guidelines that purport to cover all contingencies. In such a case...

Inside by Michael Santos

by working as prostitutes within the jail (Santos 17). However, horrible conditions and high violence are not indicative of all ja...

Are Judges an Anachronism to the Criminal Justice System?

For all of its faults and shortcomings, the American legal system is the best in the world. That system revolves around two prima...

Criminal Sentencing and Racial Disparity

because one man is black and the other white. While such racial disparity often occur at many stages of the criminal justice syste...

Intermediate Sanctions - A Grant Proposal

resources represents a major problem in many areas of the United States. As legislation becomes more complicated, more prisoners a...

Climate Change

change in the ozone due to emissions of various chemicals (Nodvin and Vranes). B. Humans are not causing global warming, it is jus...

Response To Doubling Armed Robbery Sentence

as an emergency measure, inasmuch as the problem with prison overcrowding has already reached epidemic proportions. Two of the mo...

The Problem of Sexual Predators

these miscreants. However, it is often the case that the punishment is not enough. Sexual predators-until more credible research i...

Do Blacks Receive Harsher Criminal Sentences?

In theory, when a crime is committed in the US and a...

Ebbers Behind Bars

prosecution witness and is "crucial to the prosecutions case," since he is the only witness who said that "he spoke directly to Mr...

Sentencing for Identity Theft

sentencing, they generally provide a range within which the judge must remain when imposing sentence. Also, legal issues can affe...

Case Study, Pre-sentence Investigation Process

and determine that was low ("Rational" 322). In other words, she applied rational guidelines to the process of deciding the contex...

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...

Racial Disparity in Criminal Sentencing

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

History Of Educational Psychology - Emergence Of Cognitive Psychology

Both Plato and Aristotle discussed learning and education, the need for different types of education, the effects of the arts on l...

The Pre-Existent Divine Word Or Son Took On Human Nature

Father, as being from above, and other such phrases (Kasper, 1978, p. 173). Jesus was in all ways like us with one great exceptio...

High-Tech Crime: How The Criminal Justice System Has Had To Change Its Approach

equipped to penetrate any computer system with the intent to take, destroy or manipulate the information found upon that system; i...

Imposing Sentence

duality of his parents being responsible for paying back every dollar he misappropriated from the victim (restitution), as well as...

The 1995 Short Story Winner

This paper discusses and analyses a short story. An alternative ending is written for the story. The writer discusses the main the...

The Computer In Criminalistics

connect him or her to a particular cyber crime. Indeed, policing tactics have vastly improved over the years to include such aspe...

Differences Between Crack and Cocaine Use and Sentencing Guidelines

is crack. Clearly, crack is cocaine in a slightly different form. Yet, the law treats these as different entities. Of course, it ...

Use Of Shaming In Criminal Sentencing

and overlook the possible social benefits associated with alternative sentencing...If federally imposed mandatory minimum sentence...

Sentencing and Armed Robbery

sentences imposed throughout the U.S., data from the Department of Justice indicates that recidivism rates are extremely high, as ...

Repentance and Criminal Sentencing

According to Rogers (2007) moral retributivism is distinct from retributivism. In the latter, the infliction of suffering on thos...

Judges, Juries, and Sentencing in Criminal Justice

The American legal system revolves around two primary players when it comes to criminal sentencing. These players are the...

The Need for Reform and Three-Strikes Sentencing

not violate the Eighth Amendment, which prohibits cruel and unusual punishment (Samaha, 2011). Ewing was sentence to 25 years to l...

A Federal Sentencing Guidelines Overview

In ten pages this paper considers the impact of these guidelines on the court system and offers some history as well as case law a...

3 Strikes Law and Sentencing

10,500 juvenile facilities, which represents an over-capacity rate of 186% (24). Prisoners are doubling-up in cells. They are sl...

California and Mandatory Minimum Drug Sentences

In fifteen pages this paper examines California's aggressive efforts in the ongoing war on drugs in a consideration of laws that m...

Whites, Blacks, Mentally Ill, and Criminal Sentencing

are mentally ill. One of the questions that then arises from this data is, are the white mentally ill sentenced to incarceration ...