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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;...

U.S. System of Criminal Justice and Minority Inequality

This paper argues in five pages that the U.S. system of criminal justice exhibits minority biases in this consideration of inequal...

Minorities and the US Justice System

average offender what a thinking, compassionate, middle-class parent or brother or son would do for someone in their family, were ...

The Criminal Justice System and the Issue of Racism

a great deal of ignorance and disrespect for that individual; just because someone is a member of a certain race does not mean tha...

Corporate America and Minority Leadership

This paper examines the current state of minority leadership in the US. This twelve page paper has ten sources listed in the bib...

Criminal Justice System and Fairness

amazed that Bostick consented to the search. The United States Supreme Court held that Bostick had the ability to refuse. ...

ARTICLE REVIEW: MINORITY THREAT AND POLICE BRUTALITY

the Department of Justices Police Brutality Study 1985-1990; Uniform Crime Reports during the same period and the 1990 U.S. Census...

Racial Discrimination Within the US Criminal Justice System

This paper examines various ways in which the US criminal justice system treats minorities unfairly. This eleven page paper has t...

Prison Overcrowding, as a Flaw in Criminal Justice

This paper focuses on prison overcrowding as an ethical issue that affects the American criminal justice system Three pages in len...

English Legal System and Inquisitorial and Adversarial Approaches

may be more equal than others, having the funds to hire the most experiences and persuasive lawyers that will not only be able to ...

The Transformation of the US Military

which examined the issued of all-volunteer force in 1970 had relative little to say about women in the services, as they comprise...

Purposes of Criminal Justice

offender population. Rehabilitation refers to "changing either the offenders objective circumstances or his value system in ways t...

Juvenile and Adult Courts: A Comparative Study:

vary somewhat from state to state, juvenile justice typically has a similar protocol. At the time a juvenile is arrested, a decis...

Aspects of Crime

things in life is to deviate from what is considered by the masses to be normal; in fact, Morpheus points out that it is often con...

Criminal Law Considered in 4 Questions

fair and sensible legal procedure based primarily upon morality and justice. Alexander the Great was the instrumental force behin...

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...

Minority Women In The Criminal Justice Field

aides handed her a note telling her that U.S. Senator David Boren, a Democrat from Oklahoma, was holding on the telephone in her o...

Racism in the US Justice System

Attorney Patricia Smoot. "My purpose is to prosecute those who have committed crimes against the citizens of the District of Colum...

Racism in the Criminal Justice System

Dies, Who Decides," 2010). It is hard to dispute this observation. Yet, the other side of the coin contends that there are more bl...

The Criminal Justice System, Discrimination and Disparity

Americans are "overrepresented" in the criminal justice system. There is a disparity between the number of blacks in the U.S. and ...

Overview of the Juvenile Justice System

this development, the Gun-Free Schools Act of 1994 was passed, which encouraged a policy of "zero tolerance" as it criminalized s...

Is There Evidence of Inequality In The US Criminal Justice System?

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

Criminal Justice, Discrimination, and Political Deviance

In five pages this paper discusses the U.S. criminal justice system's practice of discrimination and the social and political devi...

Mentally Ill Individuals and Ethical Treatment

In eight pages the U.S. justice system's treatment of mentally ill individuals is discussed in terms of what should be proper ethi...

Cultural Impact on Brazil's Criminal Justice System

place great emphasis upon "inclusive definitions, neat conceptual distinctions, and broad general rules" (Scuro, 2003) rather than...

US System of Juvenile Justice and its Problems

is unusual. All too often children are led through a troubled system that simply does not know how to treat young offenders. I...

Voices from the Cell Block

the federal courts to mandate minimum rights for prisoners" (Platt, 1999, p. 237). But by the 1990s, prison reform had died out a...

Louisiana's Prosecution System

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares Louisiana's prosecution system with that of the collective U.S. Ten sources are l...

Checks, Balances, and the American Government

In seven pages this paper discusses the checks and balances governmental system of the US. Eight sources are cited in the bibliog...

Unfair Treatment of Minorities in the Criminal Justice System

This paper examines the ways in which blacks and Latinos are unfairly discriminated against in the US criminal justice system. Th...