Who is the typical female delinquent? What causes her to get into trouble? What happens to her if she is caught? These are questions that few members of the general public could answer quickly. By contrast, almost every citizen can talk about "delinquency," by which they generally mean male deli...

Article VIII: What Does It Really Mean? Article VIII states: " Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishment" (American Experience, p. 22). Excessive bail was borrowed with a few slight changes from the English Bil...

Juvenile Justice: Is it Helping or Hurting? Over the years, juvenile punishment has changed in many ways. Increasing public pressure is the cause of why the system treats juvenile criminals as though they are adults. In comparison with adult courtrooms, similarities as well as differences and pro...

This paper is dealing with articles related to the American legal system, I will discuss examples pertaining to chapters 18-19-20. I will discuss articles consisting of arbitration, the role of the legislature, the role of judges' decisions, the Constitution and how it affects a law, different...

PART I: IDENTIFYING THE STUDY ADOLESCENT TREATMENT HISTORY Adolescents who seek substance abuse treatment, as a sizeable proportion of the substance treatment community, fail to reduce their substance use, or resume use following treatment. It is however important to recognize that adolescents p...

When habits or behaviors begin to dominate daily life and people find themselves powerless to stop the chaos despite the consequences or the desire to do so, then it is very likely that addiction is active. Addiction is a factor that causes people to offend and re-offend against Criminal Law. There ...

BOOK REVIEW: UNDERSTANDING YOUTH AND CRIME. BY S. BROWN (BUCKINGHAM, OPEN UNIVERSITY PRESS, 1998, £17.99) Sheila Brown's 'Understanding Youth and Crime' illustrates effectively the history of criminology spanning from the 18th century to present day, and also, more import...

Criminal justice in the United States is an expensive business. It is the only country in the west that routinely sentences offenders to prison terms longer than two years: 39 percent of state prisoners in 1991 had been sentenced to ten years or longer. It is also the only country in the ...

Governments, academics, and journalists often express an interest in cross-national crime comparisons, particularlybetween Canada and the United States. This interest stems from the desire to discover causal explanations forcrime and to develop more effective criminal justice and social policies (Ar...

Criminology Paper 4 In Marcus Felson's book Crime and Everyday Life, Felson discusses temptations without controls, the chemistry for crime, delivering crime to your doorstep, and out-of-sync youth in chapters 2-5. In this paper I am going to summarize and critique each chapter. F...

The novel "City of Glass" depicts the story of Daniel Quinn, a man who lost his wife and son and now has become attached to a detective case that brings new people into his life because of one phone call that he had picked up. Throughout the story the question remains in the readers head as to why d...

Many people want to abandon capital punishment and focus on rehabilitating hardened criminals. What happens when a supposedly rehabilitated criminal leaves jail and kills one more person? Capital punishment is an effective and necessary part of the judicial system to punish those who have committe...

In ancient times the death penalty was a foundation for the Law of Herod, Lex Talionis, and the ever quotable "an eye for an eye...." Capital punishment is the execution of a person convicted of committing a crime so heinous that certain societies feel there is no retribution short of death to its ...

Issue of Gun Control and ViolenceThe issue of gun control and violence, both in Canada and the United States, is one that simply will not go away. If history is tobe any guide, no matter what the resolution to the gun control debate is, it is probable that the arguments pro and con will be much the ...

CrimeCriminology is the study of crime and criminal offenders in many different settings and from many different points of view. All countries make rules, or laws, which forbid certain types of behavior. A crime is an act that is forbidden by law because it is harmful to a person, to property, or ...

How do you feel about the saying, "an eye for an eye?" Do you feel that it is a good saying to run a nation by? Or do you agree with Gandhi who added to that statement, "--and everyone is blind?" There have been many controversies in the history of the United States, ranging from abortion to gun ...