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Reiman's "The Rich Get Richer And The Poor Get Prison" - Drugs

also appear to be constantly fueling the social problem of illegal drug use and drug-based criminal behaviors. In essence, the s...

Ecstasy Use As A Party Drug: Cause And Effect

dosage will make them increase this aphrodisiac sensation will only experience acute nausea, seizures and eventual unconsciousness...

The Case for and Against the Decriminalization of Drugs

view is not anti drugs, it is a matter of where the line is drawn and which drugs are and are not acceptable by todays values. Loo...

The Purpose of Prison is Punishment

This paper argues that the purpose of prison is punishment. Although some offenders go through the system and are rehabilitated, t...

Should Juveniles Be Tried as Adults?

Juveniles are responsible for an astounding percentage of the crime in this country. Even more disturbing is the degree of violen...

Young Women as the Perpetrators of Crime

Juvenile crime is a very real problem in this country and, in fact, the world over. Although they are typically...

Hypersexuality in Sexual Offenders

In a four page paper, the author considers the issue of hypersexuality in sexual offenders. Many sexual predators have been the v...

Treatment for Sex Offenders

that Scheela supervised, she heard the gruesome details of the abuse that one member of the group endured as a child, as well as t...

Reducing Recidivism, Lancaster, et al (2011)

fails to perform the mandated service (Barkan and Bryjak, 2011). Other strategies include house arrest, with electronic monitoring...

The Juvenile Justice System and Violent Juvenile Offenders

The latter part of the Twentieth Century was characterized by a growing concern over what was perceived as a growing propensity...

Rectifying Overcrowded Prisons and Recidivism

Criminal justice has many problems confronting it in modern society. Three challenges, in particular, exist in todays criminal ju...

Victimization, A Theory with Examples

This research paper/essay pertains to the "Offender Searches/Victimization Patterns" theoretical perspective on victimization. The...

Annotated Bibliography - Youths Tried as Adults

In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at the trying of juvenile offenders in adult courts. Insights are derived from an anno...

Overview of Canadian Criminal Justice Articles

This paper provides summary of three articles that report on a new Canadian law that increases the victim surcharge penalty and ma...

Rehabilitation Versus Court

This 5 page papver gives an overview of restorative justice practices worldwide. This paper includes the feelings of victims as we...

Walsh Case/Additional Issues

This research paper pertains to the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act (AWCPSA, 2006), as a component in the history of t...

Overcrowding in German Prisons

one third during this period ("Where is"). While this increase differed in severity between German states, all states experienced ...

Laws Regarding Sex Offenders and Their Constitutionality

a child sexual offender category but have committed an offense that is related to sexual abuse such as child pornography, solicita...

Problems of Probation Offices

Community Service" (Probation division, 2001). How It Works Adult services, as the name implies, "is responsible for supervising...

“The Female Offender” by Chesney-Lind and Pasko

them a growing population in the world of crime and incarceration. The first section of the book deals with such things as "Trends...

Law: Sexual Offenders

the "Other," its easy to discard them. This population will continue to face challenges in the future; including discrimination,...

Child Abuser Sterilization

for them in many respects. This is something to consider when arguing for involuntary sterilization of child abusers. In the sam...

Sex Offender Profiling and Multiphasic Sex Inventory II

patterns of response throughout the test. The scales by which alleged or admitted sexual offenders are assessed work in slightly ...

Sex Offender Proposed Methodology Study

study will involve three groups of between 6 and 8 sex offenders. The student researching this topic should note that, ideally, th...

Criminally-Minded Mothers

be better. This is a condition for young women in many situations, and thus also applies to women who ultimately commit crimes who...

Australia and Indigenous Female Convicts

16 years. In South Australia, however, a juvenile is a person aged between 10 and 17 years" (Australian Institute of Criminology, ...

Juvenile Court System and Sentencing

(Overview, 2004). The age of majority, that is, the age at which the defendant is considered an adult differs from state to state....

Jury Trials and Juveniles

Court held in 1998 that a 13-year-old first-degree murder defendant had the right to jury trial because state law allowed juries f...

Juvenile Offenders and Capital Punishment

and unusual punishment for the general population), it can be argued that it can in fact be applied to juvenile offender populatio...

Criminal Law and Current Trends

In five pages this research paper discusses criminal law and its current trends with the three major issues that have recently dev...