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Youth Offenders and the Criminal Justice System

This paper examines what alternatives exist in the criminal justice system for youth offenders with the emphasis being on deterren...

Internal Auditing and Fraud Detection

of an organization by auditors trained in detecting fraudulent practices is of great importance from moral, legal, and profitabili...

Police Officers and Domestic Violence

In ten pages this research paper examines the incidences of domestic violence in the law enforcement profession and how the relati...

Purposes of Criminal Justice

offender population. Rehabilitation refers to "changing either the offenders objective circumstances or his value system in ways t...

Sentencing for Identity Theft

sentencing, they generally provide a range within which the judge must remain when imposing sentence. Also, legal issues can affe...

Death Penalty Debate

justice seems to supercede mercy (Budziszewski 39). This author, who is a Professor of Government and Philosophy at the University...

Why U.S. Policy Can Deter Terrorists

may in fact be behaving rationally-contrary to public opinion-options to control terrorism may be explored. Options to control te...

A Utilitarian Approach to Sports

school, and despite working as many hours as I could, I knew I could never afford tuition, so I had to win a scholarship. Winning ...

Capital Punishment: Morally Acceptable And Effective Crime Deterrent

far less heinous than murder, so how is it that the Bible can be mistaken for harboring judgmental opinion against capital punishm...

Identity Theft Sentencing Guidelines

such treatment? Is the crime all that bad that it necessitates prison time? Obviously, with the federal statute, law makers believ...

Specific and General Deterrence Criminological Theories

other citizens from committing the same behavior (Renteln 192). General deterrence operates under the assumption that no matter h...

Death Penalty Issues and Problems

murder. The families of murder victims often wait for a verdict of death and believe that should be the case. This is because they...

Criminal Justice V

offender and his history at the time of his arrest. Protection of society. This goal of sentencing is to remove the offend...

Supporting Argument for Operating Room Cameras

incidence of post-surgical infection (Weir, 2004). It therefore stands to reason that including cameras in the operating room wou...

War Deterrence

of deterrence is often confused, as Jaime Garcia Covarrubias notes. Many believe deterrence means wiping all weapons off the plane...

Consequences of the Conflict in Darfur

and Eritrea, the Democratic Republic of Congo. This ended the war between the Northern and Southern parts of Sudan that began in 1...

Deterrence of Capital Punishment

are erroneously convicted, the possibly of error looms large. In fact, if capital punishment is construed as something that is al...

Sentencing Models

The individual is paying his dues, so to speak. There has been much criticism waged against retributive justice. Why? It seems tha...

Imposing Sentence

duality of his parents being responsible for paying back every dollar he misappropriated from the victim (restitution), as well as...

The Westies/Organized Crime Theory

where Irish American presence was predominant well into the 1980s. The organized crime studies that discuss connections between n...

Criminology Theories

get caught. Gleissner (2011) reported that only 1.2 percent of burglaries result in the burglar going to prison. If they do get ca...

Which Punishment is Best

alarming rate. Although the crime rate in general has dropped, there is little evidence to show a direct causal relationship betwe...

Recidivism and Sexual Offenders

was to insure that prior to being released from prison, sex criminals received psychatric evaluation to insure they would not comm...

Why Adolecents Commit Crimes

is about one-fourth of the entire population. Of those, over two million are arrested each year. That accounts for about 17 percen...

Theories of Crime

Thus, extraverts are not impacted by punishment as much as introverts are (Brennan & Raine, 1997). Eysenck also argued that extra...

Organized Crime and Social Institutions: A Study

a positive view of the term. Social institutions, one tends to feel, are helpful things like libraries, fire departments, families...

Social Disorganization and Organized Crime

concerning problems of our time. It has both direct and indirect impacts on the physical and philosophical infrastructural featur...

TRANSATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL CRIMES: A COMPARISON

Juarez happens to be making news in recent years because, as author Mike Whitney points out, its known as the murder capital of th...

Cyber Crime Task Forces - The Reality

common response was the development of a task force. For instance, the sudden influx of narcotics into an area and a rise in narco...

Sensationalism vs Factual Reporting of White Collar Crime

The way that we regard crime in our society can be affected tremendously by the media. Laws are written and enforced,...