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The Need for Reform and Three-Strikes Sentencing

not violate the Eighth Amendment, which prohibits cruel and unusual punishment (Samaha, 2011). Ewing was sentence to 25 years to l...

Sentencing and the American Criminal Justice System

toward determinate sentencing models that go along with a tough on crime stance. Of course, juvenile justice has to some extent b...

Labor Strikes and the Workplace Fairness Act

(http://www.ilafl-cio.org/BKCB .HTM). The "Workplace Fairness Act," recently renamed the "Cesar Chavez Workplace Fairness Act" i...

One School Reform Model

Model (Blasik, 2004). 2. Roles of Community Leaders, School Board and others In Broward County, Florida, the Area Superintenden...

Roles and Issues Regarding Health Care Reform

in the future development and revision of health care policy: While the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) of 2010...

Considering Three Strikes

ten years older.) (Allenye, 1996; Reynolds, 1995). It is commonly believed by those who frown upon the Three Strikes Law that alm...

Three Strikes Law in California

of those that opponents to the law point to as evidence its injustice. In 1995, Andrade was arrested for shoplifting $84 worth of ...

Criminal JusticeIV

Another advantage of plea bargaining is that it allows prosecutors to dispatch cases quickly, freeing time and resources to fully ...

Crime, Drugs, and California Legislation

attempting to curb activity until such a time as when other social policies provide a more amenable application? Indeed, the stud...

Planning and the External Environment

met. To consider the way planning takes place at all levels the process itself and the approaches can be examined. Mintzberg (et...

Need for Technology in the Digital Age Classroom

This research paper describes the need for educational reform in order to meet the needs of the twenty-first century, with a parti...

Judicial Appeal for a Minimum Municipal Court Light Sentence

at the wrong time"), it would be counterproductive both to my brother and to the community to remove him completely from any oppor...

Australia and Changing Laws on Rape

it - leading the women involved in acquaintance rape where alcohol is involved to being required to assume an element of blame. A...

Imposing Sentence in an Identity Theft Crime for Monetary Gain Case

states laws regarding identity theft can be quite different with penalties varying significantly (Perl, 2003). Whether or not the...

Reforming Health Care

the fact that Americans demand extraordinary health care but refuse to pay for it; that medical science is now able to extend life...

So You Think I Drive a Cadillac? by Karen Seccombe

those that work instead of punishing them. The arguments come from the women on welfare. They represent the interest of the impo...

Changing Education

This essay is based on two sources that discuss different issues with schools. One focuses on the attributes needed for effective ...

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...

3 Strikes Legislation and its Ineffectiveness

1. Please explore the policy implications of the three strikes law to the criminal justice system. The current policy does no...

Congress and How a Bill is Passed

In five page this paper examines the process a bill undergoes in the U.S. Congress in order to be passed with the child molestatio...

1983 Miners' Strike in Arizona

In a paper consisting of five pages the strike is examined in terms of contributing factors, economic and political influences, un...

Three Strikes Law Evaluated

A hypothetical situation submitted by a student forms the basis for this paper consisting of eight pages in which Hawaii's 'three ...

U.S. and France Labor and Social Security Issues

In six pages this paper compares the U.S. and France in terms of each country's Social Security systems and the impact of labor ...

3 Strikes Law, Crime, and Punishment

In eight pages this student posed hypothetical scenario examines the implementation of Hawaii's 'three strikes' law as it impacts ...

Modification or Repeal of Criminal Law

can only survive as an emergency measure, inasmuch as the problem with prison overcrowding will soon reach epidemic proportions. ...

Standard and Reform in Sentencing

abuse, as there is not upper or lower limit on sentencing. Slide 3 Determinate sentencing models... ...provide clear guideline...

Problems Striking a Balance in New Zealand

people who have been misinterpreted in regard to their cultural interactions since their very first contact with Westerners (Rount...

Reforms in Sentencing

of each county in which the offense occurred. In other words, in some states, there is a mandatory life sentence for drug traffick...

Importance of a US National Program for Health Care

their cost in the treatment of the condition. Other insurance companies will chose not to insure the individual with the pre-exis...

U.S. Immigration Reform

In three pages United States immigration issues are considered in a discussion of various reform measures including 1986's Immigra...