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profiling is used to "compensate for a lack of evidence and represents poor police work" (Hajjar, 2006). Police simply round up "s...

become even more out of control as there are fewer eyes watching them. A well known study done at Stanford University tested behav...

although blacks make up only 12% of Sacramentos drug users, "52% of those arrested in Sacramento are African-American" (Schiraldi,...

before the New London Superior Court, asserting that the "taking of their properties would violate the public use restriction in t...

half were single parents. An example of deductive logic in this study is the selection of the study hypothesis, i.e., the premises...

publications. Statistics, however, are not the most important thing when we are considering how to treat the problem. A prerequi...

(Singer, 1996). The case was shocking for a number of reasons, but two stand out: Bosket was only 15; and he was already in care a...

as a serious crime. Still, it is usually the case that the prostitutes are arrested while their customers go free. In the case of ...

all sorts of unsettling events. This is a fictional account but it brings into play very real issues faced by todays population. ...

productive person, such programs still struggle to be instrumental in realigning otherwise maladjusted individuals while at the sa...

as US citizens are protected even at the point where the system has essentially labeled us as a criminal. Due process is, in fact...

fair to say that few Americans, if any, are going to agree with the way Congressional members vote themselves hefty raises in the ...

cannot find the murderer; five years later, an author starts to question the police methods in another case (Cornell, 2006). Stung...

hundred thirty-four people; pertinent to the gathered data are such aspects as rate of recurrence, attributes and outcome of crimi...

that continue to plague law enforcement, it is likely services will for the most part be provided by the private industry, a reali...

To keep order in the court. Job rationale, many times, is not specifically stated, but is implied - the fact that the bailiff migh...

is another matter. The Merit Systems Protection Board has a whole list of reasons for dismissal; and not performing on the job is ...

the Old World origins of their culture - but they were attracted to the nature of the New World" (Introduction to the History of G...

constitutional rights prior to taking them into custody or while interrogating them, a reality that -- had Miranda v. Arizona neve...

can see that clearly the rivers were used to transport goods and products across or through a great portion of early America. As t...

enlightenment philosophy? What form did those ideas take in classical criminological thought?" First, a look at each of the named...

careful not to reveal her real feelings. Gonnerman (2004) emphasizes the problems with the Rockefeller drug laws. For example, Gon...

emergency and routine health-related issues must be made available to the juvenile, including dental, medical and behavioral by th...

accepting the fact that juvenile crime is increasing not decreasing and the seriousness of the types of crimes that are being comm...

for three offenses, no matter how slight each one is. The idea behind the punishment is to deter criminals, but it doesnt always w...

of the problems with the system is that it is not standardized; each state has its own version. Funding mechanisms are different i...

the federal courts to mandate minimum rights for prisoners" (Platt, 1999, p. 237). But by the 1990s, prison reform had died out a...

all that terrific. What is wrong with this picture? Why would an elderly man put himself through such discomfort, simply to...

Dies, Who Decides," 2010). It is hard to dispute this observation. Yet, the other side of the coin contends that there are more bl...

Americans are "overrepresented" in the criminal justice system. There is a disparity between the number of blacks in the U.S. and ...