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Essays 301 - 330
poverty. There is always a potential bias in any system that has the danger of becoming an inequality. The basis of the law and...
toward determinate sentencing models that go along with a tough on crime stance. Of course, juvenile justice has to some extent b...
stance. After all, the police officers can write tickets for small oversights, but a friendly attitude, without overly strict enfo...
likely to go to a full jury trial * have considerable impact on the public perception (too much?) (Chapter Topics, 2007). An exa...
The governor wanted to eliminate parole and one conservative legislator was looking for input from people involved in the system (...
a company rather than career corrections officers, they are underpaid, demoralized, and the turnover is high (Friedmann, 1999). Pr...
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, ...
liberties that are guaranteed to Americans in the Constitution are not lost in the process of addressing this problem. Commentator...
is "attributed to a person who has control over or responsibility for another who negligently causes an injury or otherwise would ...
and having managers responsible for planning the work while workers are responsible for carrying out those plans (Encyclopedia of ...
would be incurred if we were to rehabilitate drug and alcohol users rather than put them in the penitentiary. The view...
be a state trooper whose jurisdiction covers and entire state, and not just one single town. Then there is law enforcement individ...
particularly the local communities which the nonprofit serves" (McNamara, n.d.). Brooks (2002) compares aspects of nonprofi...
correlation between class and incarceration, as roughly 80 percent of those inmates incarcerated in 2002 could not afford an attor...
Rehabilitation is only one reason for punishment. Other reasons go to retribution, deterrence and social control. Prisons do provi...
Supreme Court disallows the death penalty for juveniles. This decision was made primary due to the fact that young brains are stil...
(Singer, 1996). The case was shocking for a number of reasons, but two stand out: Bosket was only 15; and he was already in care a...
In the case of Baze v. Reese, Kentucky inmates who have been sentenced to death are claming that the states three-drug cocktail pr...
attention and (showing) respect for visitors entering the classroom" (Johnson 21). Among the general skills and competencies neede...
effect of showing mercy to the Manson murderers when they exhibited no mercy towards their innocent victims. According to Charlo...
be viewed within its historical context in order to be fully understood. For example, rather than viewing the Salem Witch Trials a...
its suggested that a criminal justice agency or organization consider investing in a computer system that can link into data netwo...
"who commit nonviolent drug possession offenses or who violate drug-related conditions of probation or parole" to receive treatmen...
bias in the system which seeks out blacks and instills upon them harsher sentences is a highly controversial topic. Inter...
a DNA test reveals that Mr. Smith, who is later proven innocent of the crime hes being investigated for, is the father of Mrs. Bro...
half were single parents. An example of deductive logic in this study is the selection of the study hypothesis, i.e., the premises...
become even more out of control as there are fewer eyes watching them. A well known study done at Stanford University tested behav...