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Judges, Juries, and Sentencing in Criminal Justice

The American legal system revolves around two primary players when it comes to criminal sentencing. These players are the...

Trends and Interventions in Juvenile Justice

be minors. One aspect of being a minor is the inability to enter a legally binding contract. For many, this represents a glaring l...

The Supreme Court Justice Nominee Review Process

It is not unusual for prospective candidates for Supreme Court Justice to be subjected to considerable criticism during the screen...

An Urban Planning/Criminal Justice Case Study

In other words, problem-oriented policing takes into consideration the social conditions and problems that are specific to a commu...

Criminal Justice and the EPICS Program

the criminal justice system, some designed to help inmates, others to keep track of them. This paper discusses a program called "E...

Justice and Forgiveness: The Values of Servant Leadership

controversial. This is because, typically speaking, the study of ethics concerns itself with abstracted justifications of human ac...

California Foster Care Agencies and the Criminal Justice System

for operating in isolation, or for the establishment of laws that are seen as disconnected from the reality of everyday experience...

Overview of a Criminal Justice Study on Marijuana Use

This research paper consists of an analysis of Green, et al's 2010 study, "Does heavy adolescent marijuana use lead to criminal in...

Justice and Native Americans

This research paper/essay presents an argument that it would be morally and legally right for the federal government to return to ...

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...

Criminal Justice and the Practice of Deontological Ethics

words, the private behavior of individuals may well be governed by simple emotional reactions to ethical scenarios. The actions of...

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 ...

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...

Research in Criminal Justice

internal and external stressors. b. Repeat offenders repeat their crimes because there are no other options. B. Incapacitation 1....

Forensic Psychology and Juvenile Justice

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

One Problem in Criminal Justice

terms of their parole (Pew Center, 2010). Nobody knows exactly what kinds of prison programs would definitely reduce recidivism r...

DNA A Tool in Criminal Justice

Practically since its discovery DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) has had phenomenal implications for the criminal justice system. With...

"Hamlet" - Symbolism and the Theme of Justice

poor state of the realm, it is suggested that some deep essential cause rather than mere circumstance is to blame for the decay of...

Two Articles on Criminal Justice Critically Analyzed

effectiveness, although difficult to prove, seemed to be less than that of traditional options. Recidivism rates, the rate at whic...

Life and Times of Former Supreme Court Chief Justice Warren Burger

Warren Burger's life and career are the focus of this biography consisting of eight pages. Five sources are cited in the bibliogr...

Perceptions and Laws Governing Juvenile Justice

There she has begun a program that brings together police officers and offenders through the use of a four-legged friend: the poli...

African Americans and the U.S. System of Criminal Justice

the largest percentage of ethnicity in the prison population were whites. Then, there was a huge jump in the numbers with an incre...

Form and Justice Theories of Plato

the notion of justice. This was essentially defined as doing the right thing. We note that one of the characters in the Republic i...

Justice and Epiphanies

ignited in their minds the light of an epiphany of understanding. A 2005 film which won wide acclaim, Crash, largely concerns ho...

Racism in Criminal Justice?

black men were imprisoned in 2006 (MacDonald, 2008)! This compares to only one in 79 Hispanic men and one in 205 white men (MacDon...

Crime, Justice, Law and Politics

principles (Bohm, 2006). The question is, if these sentencing guidelines are acceptable for drug users, why are child molesters no...

Would Black Reparations be Redistributive Justice?

our current system of redistributive taxation follows a set pattern that is characterized by an inherent inequality between those ...

Strengthening the Juvenile Criminal Justice System

cruelty, and shoplifting. These programs are utilized to give youth another chance instead of throwing them in juvenile detention ...

The Use of Technology in the Criminal Justice System

forewarned of an emergency call. However, the police have no privacy when they use scanners. MDTs on the other hand provide the po...

RISK MANAGEMENT IN JUSTICE AND SECURITY ORGANIZATIONS

The concept of risk management is fairly straightforward: It involves a "systematic approach to analyzing risk and implementing ri...