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Trials and Evidence of Previous Convictions

(BBC News, 2002, Wadham, 2002).It has also been argued that with falling rating the government want to increase the conviction rat...

Jane Austen and Adam Smith

In a paper of seven pages a comparison between social constructs and moral convictions as illustrated in the novels of Jane Austen...

Essays on Corrections

crimes. But what it does suggest is that under such conditions, the likelihood is greater that criminal behavior will be instigat...

Change of Heart by John Slattery

In seven pages this paper examines the issue of capital punishment and presents an argument strongly opposing it with mention of w...

United States v. Gotti

In eight pages this paper examines the trial and narcotics conviction of New York organized crime boss Gene Gotti. Eight sources ...

Mafia Godfather John Gotti

In five pages this paper presents a biographical profile of this infamous mobster which also includes his organized crime career t...

Questionable Guilt of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg

In fifteen pages this paper examines the Cold War 'Red' hysteria that gripped the United States during the early 1950s and how thi...

Conspiracy Theory Underpinnings As They Relate to Whittaker Chambers and Alger Hiss

In thirty pages this paper examines the factors that led to Alger Hiss's conviction as Russian spy by considering various pertinen...

The Nettie Character in The Color Purple by Alice Walker

This is a character analysis tha consists of four pages and argues how Nellie is one of the only characters that possess strong et...

Ethics and the Abortion Issue

This is a paper that is twelve pages and discusses the many ethical arguments that swirl around the abortion issue that encompass ...

Percy Bysshe Shelley's Works

In six pages this paper discusses how social conditions and personal convictions are reflected in the works of Percy Bysshe Shelle...

Creon and Joe Turner Compared

In five pages this essay argues that Joe Turner in Joe Turner Come and Gone and Creon in Antigone were incapable of correctly exer...

Fate in 'An Appointment In Samarra' and 'To Build A Fire'

could fall to the snow, the spittle crackled. He knew that at fifty below spittle crackled on the snow, but this spittle had crac...

Criminal Justice System and Race Issues Research Proposal

image of 33.5 million Black people. Theres something wrong with the picture, this stereotype" (p. 235). Despite the low number o...

Legal Cases and Appeals of Mike Tyson

Alan Dershowitz, filed an appeal immediately following sentencing. After the conviction, Tyson was denied an appeal for a new tria...

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...

Boxer Mike Tyson's Legal Cases and Frequent Appeals

In five pages this boxer's legal woes regarding his rape conviction and subsequent appeals are examined. Seven sources are cited ...

Charlemagne, Carolingian Emperor

In three pages the model life of Charlemagne is discussed and the ways in which his leadership established a common purpose that d...

Wrongful Conviction

- if not utterly unsettling - accounts with that of the Salem witch trials where personal agenda was the sole motivation that fuel...

Criminal Justice

correlation between class and incarceration, as roughly 80 percent of those inmates incarcerated in 2002 could not afford an attor...

Rene Descartes/Proving God Exists

the fire next to him. Therefore, he reasons that the effect, the idea of God, must have a cause in reality. Descartes writes, "B...

Inconsistencies in the Wayne Williams Conviction in the Atlanta Child Murders

old Jimmy Ray Payne and twenty-seven year old Nathaniel Cater (Breed, 2005). Williams had been apprehended in the cases largely a...

Processing Human Remains

and Planz (2008) explore the research question of whether or not improved processing capabilities in mitochondrial DNA and STR tha...

Jack the Ripper and His Impact on History

mostly prostitutes - were savagely murdered and mutilated by an unknown assailant, but after November 1888, the slayings stopped a...

Watson’s DNA

this puzzle. While the article appears overall to be accurate, in that the author quotes reliable sources, Begley (2007) does not ...

Position Paper Opposing the Concept of DNA Databases

were barely able to keep up with the amount of DNA information that was being generated, and so a government committee suggested t...

Technology and the Criminal Justice System

and foremost, its reliability for identification purposes (Technology and Human Values, 1997). In addition, it is widely used and...

Difficulty Proving Employee is Stealing

Unless an employee does something outlandish, it is very difficult to prove he or she is stealing from the company. In this essay,...

The Many Applications of DNA Fingerprinting

outbreaks (Feedstuffs, 2010). An even more fascinating application of DNA fingerprinting is the use of biological material added ...

Our Evolving Use of DNA in Criminal Justice

The ways society goes about proving guilt or innocence in criminal justice has changed dramatically since the mid-twentieth centur...