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106th Congress aimed at preventing violence against women, "one of the most blatant manifestations of patriarchy" (Mananzan, 1995,...

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

on, and intelligence gained is assumed to be from open source information unless otherwise specified. For the argument to be in ...

fact, that although blacks represent only thirteen percent of our national population they represent some thirty percent of those ...

caused within the United States poor communities speak to the ongoing issue of racial divide, with one of the most striking exampl...

1999). Manson, the infamous cult leader serving time for the Sharon Tate murders of the 1970s, reaps big profits from a song name...

appropriate way students are able to obtain a full and eclectic spectrum of what is being taught. Of course, not every subject ne...

in a trial. These have all received a high level of coverage in the press. However, one of the lesser considered areas has been th...

and Israel. These are four distinct countries found in different parts of the world. II. Criminal Justice in the United States ...

penal system. First, it should be noted that this topic is very important due to the increasing female population in prison syst...

children as young as ten will fall under the juvenile court jurisdiction (1997) It is true that some children seem to deserve th...

tend to have sufficient social and economic power to transcend even law enforcement agencies themselves. If profits from the drug ...

(Dowd PG). Organizations such as the Dai Huen Jai or Big Circle Boys have created a business from planned home invasion robberies ...

crimes. Allowing violent criminals to be released is ludicrous. Parole reform is necessary to ensure a safe society. While the law...

public reprisal. What happens is that when a suspect is unfortunately shot in the course of illegal activity, the officer is scrut...

manner by which offenders were being sidelined from real punishment; however, their collective voices were not strong enough to de...

the observance of special restrictions (1999). In other words, they are not free to come and go. They have their rights truncated...

not leniency, indeed it is stiffened penalties for criminal behavior. A very important component of those penalties is the use of...

three years. The age of accountability in Sweden is fifteen years of age, whereas in the United States the age of accountability t...

give a greater equality to those who do not have the political or economic power (Reiman, 2000). The role if position is im...

quo (Ruddell and Urbina, 2004). In his analysis of the history of incarceration in the US, Vogel (2003) charts a relationship be...

brings up the question as to "What kind of society could justify locking up so many of its young men," who are the principle demo...

perspective is that OJ Simpson was tried by a jury of his peers. There was an Asian judge and a jury made up of minorities. The pr...

initiated by the police, who have more freedom and a wider range of choices in how to proceed when dealing with a juvenile than wi...

would be that such a thing would never happen in the US without great public outcry, but that was before passage of the Patriot Ac...

"file not found" page. Even the link to the authors own home page returns only an error message. Searching for Dr. Greek...

conclusion as to what is the best way of going about treating drug addicted offenders. The important question is: What is the bes...

heading of the United States Department of Justice (Glover 92). The U.S. Marshalls, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the D...

does not treat all of its juvenile offenders as adults. Indeed, the state is one of the most progressive in the nation in terms o...

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