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Supreme Court disallows the death penalty for juveniles. This decision was made primary due to the fact that young brains are stil...

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...

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...

supports the claim with well documented research, that non-violent criminals can pay their debt to society in many ways which are ...

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

any given day, there are myriad reports of crime and violent acts purportedly committed by persons of color, origin and ethnic bac...

is valuable where the safety of the community is concerned. In relationship to the board, there are nine board members who are ...

"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...

improvement in regards to the criminal justice management system, and, secondly, that there are ways by which this can occur at th...

was not always this way (Mocete, 1997). The prison system persists in its newfound role most likely due to the fact that there i...

houses between the juvenile leaving the correctional system and reentering the community. Juvenile delinquency is just one ...

for instigating change that will relegate injustice and discrimination to the countrys past. Williams (2001), in fact, contends t...

due process. The paper then examines these goals as they relate to the goals of the individual, those being social justice, equali...

that the African American and Hispanic youths were generally treated far more harshly than the white criminal youth (Poe-Yamagata;...

18 white youths were arrested for dealing drugs in 1980 while as many as 86 black youths were arrested for the same crime ("Civil,...

by and large, remove a good deal of the criminal element from the streets. However, it can be said that while the criminal element...

and technical assistance to increase the knowledge and skills of all personnel in the criminal justice system (WV Div. of Criminal...

evidence in a large amount of literature that there is a link between mental illness and crimes (Drake and Pathe, 2004). T...

was reduced by about half, to reach an even keel with Caucasian arrest level, with a slightly higher percentage of arrests falling...

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

would rush forward to announce they had made a mistake. The Amiraults found, immediately after the first accusation, that talk or...

likelihood of ... overrepresentation in the criminal justice system" (Smith in Hanson, 2000; p. 77). Hispanics Point. Stud...

of research is that quantitative research designs depend on "quantities," on the use of statistic data that is collected, while qu...

range of the problem is quantified 2. What is Mental Illness? 2.1 Definitions of Mental Illness The difficulty with defining me...

a serious drug and mental health problems when they were incarcerated. These juveniles have serious problems with hallucinogens, ...

but business does have a way of behaving unethically and even criminally where regulations against specific behaviors do not exist...

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...