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Criminal Justice System and the Effects of Technology

details. Digital enhancement of such evidence has made the retrieval and identification of even the tiniest and most illegible ev...

US System of Juvenile Justice and its Problems

is unusual. All too often children are led through a troubled system that simply does not know how to treat young offenders. I...

Minorities and Prisons

at a full 25% above their capacity (McMurry, 1997). Though some have blamed increased recidivism rates and decreasing prison effe...

US Juvenile Justice System

(Emerge, 1998; p. 48). Just nine months prior, on January 1, 1997, the state of Michigan had implemented its aggressive "get toug...

Edward Humes' 'No Matter How Loud I Shout : A Year in the Life of Juvenile Court'

This is a 5 page critical review that criticizes the nation's system of juvenile justice and its many shortfalls, emphasizing the ...

Criminal Justice, Discrimination, and Political Deviance

In five pages this paper discusses the U.S. criminal justice system's practice of discrimination and the social and political devi...

The Criminal Justice System in Liberal and Conservative

Criminal justice in the United States is a litmus-test issue for liberals and conservatives. This paper discusses the differences ...

Criminal Justice System and Its Current State

ineffective as a crime deterrent. The rising rate of the prison population attests to this fact. Although the prison syste...

Physical Fitness Regulations Ensure Fitness of Police/Corrections Officers and Communities

bound by duty to protect. The Cooper Institute for Aerobics Research conducted a decade-long study from 1983 to 1993 that took ra...

Overview of the Juvenile Justice System

this development, the Gun-Free Schools Act of 1994 was passed, which encouraged a policy of "zero tolerance" as it criminalized s...

Cultural Impact on Brazil's Criminal Justice System

place great emphasis upon "inclusive definitions, neat conceptual distinctions, and broad general rules" (Scuro, 2003) rather than...

Evaluating The 'Criminal Justice is Not Racist' Assertion

While the statistics obviously support the contention that there is a disproportionate representation of blacks as compared to whi...

Delinquency Concept Evaluation

This usually involves some type of probation arrangement or counseling/treatment (The Center for Young Womens Development Handbook...

Open and Closed Organizational Systems

along pertinent information. And because upper management is in a constant state of inaccessibility, these symptoms of negativity...

Criminal Justice in American and the Effective Open System Model

a critical component of todays campus environment; not only has it become necessary to provide this heretofore unwarranted protect...

Is There Evidence of Inequality In The US Criminal Justice System?

poverty. There is always a potential bias in any system that has the danger of becoming an inequality. The basis of the law and...

Islamic Law, Aboriginal Customary Law and Queensland Law; a Comparison of Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Systems

there are also some commonalities in the way that the law has been developed and the way it is implemented. In each case the evo...

Latino Groups in the United States

disappearing, worsening their economic situation (Verdugo, 2006). However, their large numbers and increasing activism give them a...

Canadian Welfare, 1935-1970

public health care program in 1962 (A brief history, 2007). Subsequently, a Royal Commission recommended a "universal and comprehe...

Criminal Justice Policy Change: Open-System

each community and asking about individual "safety concerns and security needs" (Greene, 2000, pp. 299-370). One particular commu...

Race and Class Roles in the Juvenile Justice System's Development

and, therefore, cannot begin to identify with the situation or see the need for drastic change. What, exactly, compels one ...

Social Security in America

if the economy does slow down, Social Security will be able to pay full benefits to recipients until 2037 (Hill). "After 2037, Soc...

Reducing Overtime For Officers Appearing In Court

no one who has been issued a citation will know if his or her officer will be called to show up in court or merely file a statemen...

Trial by Jury - Inefficient and Biased or an Essential Check on Legislative Power?

principles within a constitution (Conrad, 1998). There has been long term support for the use of juries; in 1953 The Royal Commiss...

The Aeneid and Roman Justice

such, the men prepare for the journey, but are instantly faced with a critical setback: Aeneas primary fleet captain Palinurus is ...

Trial for McVeigh and Nichols Moved

federal office building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. The bombing killed 168 people and injured many more. The lawyers for Timothy J...

Universe, Justice, and Martin Luther King Jr.

any sense of justice. But, the universe, in terms of the cosmic and God does have a concern for justice. As such the future, if th...

Errors Linked in the O.J. Simpson Murder Trial

emotion on their side. The O.J. Simpson case did indeed become a theatrical production but it was a production which served to ed...

A Security Plan for a White Supremacist

Insuring defendant security is often a concern in high profile criminal cases. Public law enforcement agencies may or may not be ...

The Trial of John Proctor - A Constitutional Assessment

evidence, and is an insufficient base upon which to press charges in the first place. Moreover, Proctor was not granted the due pr...