SEARCH RESULTS

YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Sentencing Models

Essays 121 - 150

The Bernie Madoff Scandal

Bernie Madoff is in prison serving a sentence that will see him there for the rest of his natural life. His crimes are explored as...

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...

Forensic Psychology and Juvenile Justice

Abstract This paper provides an overview of the multitude of roles forensic psychologist play...

Standard and Reform in Sentencing

abuse, as there is not upper or lower limit on sentencing. Slide 3 Determinate sentencing models... ...provide clear guideline...

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...

Criminological Theory

People commit crimes for a diversity of reasons. A considerable body of research has been devoted to explaining those...

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...

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...

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...

Social Disorganization and Organized Crime

concerning problems of our time. It has both direct and indirect impacts on the physical and philosophical infrastructural featur...

College Students and Underage Drinking, A Proposal

This paper presents a research proposal that is written in a sentence outline format. The research study it describes would invest...

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...

Statistical Testing of Criminal Justice Data

the critical level, this the score against which the test statistic will be assessed to determine whether to accept or reject the ...

Serial Killer Richard Ramirez

Nine year old Mei Leung was the first identified victim of Richard Ramirez, the serial killer the media...

Apple U Phoenix U Texas Health

programs. Lets consider the Apple Store Geniuses-they always know how to solve a problem and they are always polite and respectful...

Improved Health Care Relationships between Stakeholders

health results from individual action, willpower and sustained efforts, while an eternal locus of control is characterized by beli...

North Carolina Felony Sentencing

a judge must take in account "the nature of the crime and the defendants criminal history, including prior record level, types of ...

Capital Punishment Today

This paper provides a brief history of the death penalty and its application in today's society. Many states are moving away from...

Putting Together a Mitigation

to injure his assistant to this extent. When we consider the findings of the sentencing advisory panel there is also an indicati...

Duties of a Paralegal Involving Sentencing Issues

calculations, as one can see, do not seem to be standardized from one state to the next. There have been proposals to standardize ...

1976 Film The Town that Dreaded Sundown

it outlines all of the major action of the film. It is also one of the most positive reviews on this movie, as the author actually...

Sentencing That is Indeterminate v. Determinate

minimums with the Comprehensive Crime Control Act of 1984 (1994). Since that time, stiffening or adding to mandatory minimums has ...

Arguing in Support of Violent Juvenile Offender Sentencing as Adults

As a consequence there has been a growing tendency within our criminal justice system to try juveniles who commit such atrocities ...

Juvenile Crime and the Death Penalty

believes he can take the life of another without reciprocal discipline is a concept many find difficult to grasp, a point well tak...

Reforms in Sentencing

of each county in which the offense occurred. In other words, in some states, there is a mandatory life sentence for drug traffick...

Abolishing Patrole as an Option

This research paper argues that patrole as a sentencing option should be abolished. This five page paper ahs three sources in the ...