?Setting - Three theorists arrange a meeting at an undisclosed location to take part in a lively discussion regarding the recent addition of Youth Justice Conferencing as a sentencing option in the Criminal Justice System. Durkheim: Good morning Lombroso. How are you this fine morning? Lombroso: Fa...

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 ...

Technology offers the potential for friendship, unity, and a lasting support to law enforcement, but is this friendship truly compatible or has technology increased the need for new and tougher laws, with a revision to most of the old laws already on the books. Technology has taken an average man&ap...

"Why don't they just leave?" This is a question often asked by many people as to why battered women do not leave their homes. Women are wives, daughters, mothers and workers in a culture where men dominate with power and control. Men in power can socially organize women who are less p...

People can have the desire for freedom as well as the desire for limitations on their freedom. This is because freedom and limitations on freedom are both needed to live peacefully. Absolute freedom cannot be achieved because when you take away limitations you take away freedoms. With out rules gove...

People claim to want freedom, but they also seem to need limitations on that freedom. This is because freedom as well as its limitations are both needed to live peacefully. Absolute freedom cannot be achieved because when you take away limitations, you take away freedoms. Without rules governing o...

People can have the desire for freedom as well as the desire for limitations on freedom. This is because freedom and limitations on freedom are both needed to live peacefully. Absolute freedom cannot be achieved because when you take away limitations you take away freedoms. Without rules governing o...

Police and Criminals within their Society Police and criminals have been at constant war for the domination of society for over a hundred years. Since the creation of law-enforcement these two groups have had their share of victories and losses, yet neither have managed to gain a foothold over ...

The Age of Cyber Stalking Stalking is a form of harassment. The legal definition of harassment is "a course of conduct directed at a specific person that causes substantial emotional distress in such person and serves no legitimate purpose" or "words, gestures, and actions which ten...

There is considerable debate about the role that the Criminal Justice system should play in the control of illicit drug use (Study Guide 1001CCJ 2003, p.69). The Australian drug policy currently operates within a prohibition model, which states that the production, distribution and use of illicit dr...

Handling Sex Offenders Sex offenders are deeply disturbed individuals, whether they are disabled intellectually or mentally healthy, and there are many ways in which these people are being monitored through a series of probation and parole tactics. The representation of sex offender crimes is docu...

Sex offenders are deeply disturbed individuals, whether they are disabled intellectually or mentally healthy, and there are many ways in which these people are being monitored through a series of probation and parole tactics. The representation of sex offender crimes is documented in many statistic...

Under the United States Constitution it states, that all men are created equal. Numerous, people believe that all are not equal, and all are not treated the same in today's so-called "equal" justice system. "There can be no equal justice where the kind of trial a man gets depe...

Racial Profiling Racial profiling is the tactic of stopping someone because of the color of his or her skin and fleeting suspicion that the person is engaging in criminal behavior. This practice can be conducted with routine traffic stops, or can be completely random based on the car that is ...

This assignment intends to examine the current structure of the Police Service operating in England and Wales, paying particular attention to the various roles of a modern Police Force within the wider criminal Justice System. Firstly, the assignment will look at how the Police Force has evolved ...

INTRODUCTION TO COMMUNITY-BASED POLICING. "In Philadelphia, a pulsating tavern juke box that has caused irate neighbors to l500 police calls in six months, was moved away from a common wall with the adjoining building. (Author unknown US News) The calls stopped. Though it seems simple, such a m...

"In Philadelphia, a pulsating tavern juke box that has caused irate neighbors to log 500 Police calls in six months, was moved away from a common wall with the adjoining building. (Author unknown US News) The calls stopped. Though it seems simple, such a move is at the heart of what we know as Com...

Police brutality is a problem in our country today. There are many instances where the police have gone too far in dealing with criminals. There are many things that people are doing to stop police brutality. More and more bad cops are being caught in their wrong doings. There are many ca...

Structural overlay and philosophy of the Houston Police Department Chief of Police and his Command Staff administer the Houston Police Department. The Command Staff is comprised of three Executive Assistant Chiefs and fourteen Assistant Chiefs or Civilian Directors, each charged with overs...

As result of the Industrial Revolution, people in America earned more money, most of which they used to open new businesses and factories. There were now many different types of machines to do the work that people had to do themselves in the past. Thus, machines rapidly replaced people. Now with les...

Between 1982 and 1990, the United States Congress enacted a series of laws designed to inform victims and witnesses of crime of their rights and positions in the criminal justice system. The last of the series, the Victims' Rights and Restitution Act of 1990, imposed a duty on departments and agenc...

Book Review: The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get PrisonJeffrey Reiman is the author of several books, including Abortion and the Ways We Value Life. His some of his other works are Critical Moral Liberalism: Theory & Practice, Justice and Modern Moral Philosophy, -- and the Poor Get Prison: Econom...

Introduction We are introduced to the characters of Derek Bentley and Christopher Craig, who were very different people and liked to do different things, for e.g.: Christopher takes guns into school, and Derek loves music. Derek got epilepsy young because of an accident that happened during the ...

Curfews have been around for hundreds of years. They originated for the public good-to get youth offenders off the streets. Most curfew ordinances trace back to a public safety regulation imposed by Alexander the Great that required the residents of Oxford, England to retire and cover their fires wh...

In the novel, No Hiding Place, by Valerie Wilson Wesley, the main character private investigator Tamara Hayle faces many difficulties in her career in law enforcement. Wesley explores the struggles of a black woman in a white-male dominated police force and at the same time she also comments upon t...