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adult arrests, which was only 33 percent for this period (Snyder, 2003). The juvenile population of the US in 2001 was 78 percen...

the prison system. This is something that has concerned the public and the same problem is found in juvenile detention centers as ...

In eight pages this paper examines 1990s' crime rate statistics in this consideration of Pennsylvania's juvenile crime system. Ei...

remained the same as the wealthy white merchants and elite maintained control of the economic monopoly. Neighborhoods were not onl...

developed, but the balances have been hard to maintain (Zander, 1985). There are many cases that appear to indicate that there h...

of checks and balances. The system was seen as sound as if a defendant was guilt the prosecution should be able to build a strin...

doctrine established in Plessy v Ferguson in 1896 that kept the black and white races legally separate for 70 years. The aparthei...

Short essays totalling three pages respond to and analyze specific criminal justice textbook cases concerning criminal liability d...

respect to adult drug possession ("The Florida Drug Treatment Initiative," 2008). In that same year, of that 100,000, close to 36,...

there will not be the endless appeals that follow the death sentence (Neumann, 2009). In addition, Wanzenreid notes that capital...

that are sent to them by the courts" (Jerin, 2004). What serves as a viable alternative, however, is highly suspect to being infl...

is certainly a major challenge. Because of this, women have greater and different health care needs. If a woman is pregnant in pri...

as if the major difference between the nations of Europe, with the exception of Great Britain that is entrenched in the common law...

In a paper consisting of six pages Canada's rehabilitation programs are examined in terms of the lack of public policy and establi...

This paper analyzes Judge Rothwax's book Guilty, The Collapse of Criminal Justice. The author concludes that Rothwax's arguments a...

In six pages this essay argues against the option of plea bargaining for sex offenders and violent criminals with the Megan Kanka ...

In eighteen pages this paper examines 2 studies on this topic with methodologies' proposals and review of relevant literature prov...

confronting corrections in the 21st century are prison overcrowding, limited funds, and protecting society from criminals by impri...

disappear in the next few decades. A full exploration of the issues is thus critical to allowing us to turn around our juvenile j...

that jurors, witnesses and attorneys are not prohibited from writing books after a case ends, and this could substantially impact ...

the elements that concern those who work with the output of the criminal justice system. The inconsistencies of the judiciary and ...

program before ever placing themselves in a position to make informed critiques immediately cast an ill-earned negative connotatio...

itself in context, it is perhaps helpful to begin with a brief overview of the development of correctional policies in the UK: not...

Discretion, 2003). In his acclaimed study of discretion, University of Chicago law professor Kenneth Culp Davis discovered that p...

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

by Fisher and Sirianni, would not only give more visibility to the law enforcement officers in an area, but would engage the activ...

contributing to delinquent behavior it may be nearly impossible to formulate an appropriate and meaningful intervention or treatme...

2005). It would take until the 1980s before all youth were taken out of adult jails and removed to separate facilities (Krisberg, ...

aligned with a degree of sensibility. There must be a notion that not only is retributive justice something that makes the society...

four will be examined: A definition of the problem; a description of the offender population; a description of community involveme...