349 Search Results for Effectiveness of the war on drugs
When found, these labs must be dismantled by people wearing hazardous material suits." (Halperin 2006-page 1)
With the huge budget allocated to Homeland Security, many of the tech-savvy drug producers and dealers can be tracked and busted with the Continue Reading...
First and foremost is the recurrence of addiction with which Ms. Stone has struggled her entire life. This reflects the powerful dependency which is a distinct feature of heroin as is this compares to other substances. Indeed, Ms. Stone makes explic Continue Reading...
Legalizing marijuana would actually allow authorities to focus on some of society's most severe problems, as they would no longer have to invest significant resources into punishing petty marijuana users.
Considering the difficulties related to cri Continue Reading...
Terrorist Threat to California through Mexican Drug Trafficking
The immigration challenges across all the United States borders often invoke varied responses from both the average citizens and the law enforcement agencies. The cross border migratio Continue Reading...
The exact amount lost under prohibition is difficult to estimate, but probably approaches several billion dollars.
Secondly, the projected problems for youth and workers and the state of the nation as a whole are far grimmer than the reality, which Continue Reading...
However, someone sitting inside their own home smoking marijuana for pleasure is an important use in itself and one which should not be ignored. "Like sex, alcohol, or cigarettes, marijuana is one of life's little pleasures for some people," and alt Continue Reading...
Cross-cultural evidence shows that drinking abuse will be low in any group in which drinking "customs, values and sanctions are clear, agreed upon by all, consistent with other customs of the group and characterized by prescriptions for moderate dri Continue Reading...
Communication
Legalization of Marijuana
Pro-Side: There are many good reasons for the legalization of marijuana. While there are few jurisdictions from which to pull evidence on the positive benefits of legalization, we do have extensive experience Continue Reading...
Exchange is a program designed to educate and promote health among drug-users. Needle Exchange, and similar programs that provide needles and syringes to drug-users are a harm-reducing motive whose aim is to enable access to sterile needles and syri Continue Reading...
This allows the client to place their level of behavior on the continuum and assess the levels of risk associated with their behaviors. The continuum also allows the client to assess the ways in which their behaviors over time, by examining the ways Continue Reading...
Prisons
The American criminal justice system can be divided into three components: law enforcement, the courts, and corrections. Each has its own unique problems and challenges that it must face in order to accomplish its combined goal of ensuring Continue Reading...
Interventions to Reduce Adolescent Substance Abuse
The purpose of this paper is to provide a review of the relevant literature to describe current government initiatives for addressing substance abuse by adolescents in the United States. An analysis Continue Reading...
Community Policing Efficacy
The Violent Crime Control & Law Enforcement Act of 1994 heralded the beginning of a massive effort to reform policing strategies in the United States, in part through implementation of community-policing programs at t Continue Reading...
Mandatory Sentencing
Public policy, crime, and criminal justice
Mandatory Sentencing: Case Study Critique
The prime grounds of mandatory sentencing laws are utilitarian. The laws come with long prison sentences for recidivists, drug dealers and is Continue Reading...
Human Trafficking
The State Department of the U.S. Government has for the past ten years issued an annual report on the state of laws governing human trafficking. The latest report shows that most of the world's industrialized countries have enacted Continue Reading...
Managing Conflict in Multi-Jurisdictional Drug UnitsWhat type of conflict is described in the case study?The case study made it clear that there were multiple conflicts involved in the multi-jurisdictional drug units (hereinafter alternatively task f Continue Reading...
S. General Accounting Office (GAO) estimates' in 1991 stated that nearly 30% of those incarcerated had used drugs daily in the month before committing the offense for which they were in prison. By the year 2003 there were approximately 6.9 million in Continue Reading...
Best Practices in Corrections
Correctional best practices
A well-established body of best practices supporting humane, decent, and effective approaches to rehabilitation exists in U.S. correctional facilities. This is particularly to high-risk offe Continue Reading...
Conflict/Crime Control Model vs. The Consensus/Due Process Model
Over the years, theorists have developed several theories to describe crime as a social phenomenon. Two of today's most popular theories are the conflict/crime control model and the co Continue Reading...
Women in Prison
Major Legal Issues Concerning Female Inmates
Problems in corrections:
Dealing with the unique needs of women in the prison system
The number of female prison inmates in America and internationally is growing. Although men still ou Continue Reading...
Criminal Justice: The Death Penalty
Reasons for topic selection
Causes of racial prejudice and discrimination
Juvenile in delinquent society theory
Culture and values
Official and unofficial values
The effectiveness of the death penalty
The de Continue Reading...
Alternate Corrections Proposal
Alternative Punishment for a Population of Inmates
Alternate Corrections Program Proposal
The need for a major overhaul of the U.S. prison system, and its purpose, is becoming increasingly recognized by human rights Continue Reading...
Overhaul of Our Prison System Needed
Most people credit increased incarceration with reduced crime (5).
Prison growth has skyrocketed (5).
Prison costs have skyrocketed (1)
Large numbers of mentally ill in U.S. prisons (3).
overcrowding, failure Continue Reading...
NAFTA
Historical Beginning of NAFTA (with specific bibliography)
NAFTA Objectives
What is NAFTA
The Promise of NAFTA
NAFTA Provisions
Structure of NAFTA
Years of NAFTA (NAFTA not enough, other plus and minuses)..
Environmental Issues
Compar Continue Reading...
Not only was it cost effective but the study also reported that offenders who were treated in the community setting were 43% less likely to reoffend compared to the prison population clearly suggesting the effectiveness of community-based sentences. Continue Reading...
Corrections
Gius, Mark. (1999). The Economics of the Criminal Behavior of Young Adults:
Estimation of an Economic Model of Crime with a Correction for Aggregate Market and Public Policy Variables. The American Journal of Economics and Sociology. Oc Continue Reading...
To an extent, the idea of Cold War nation building has been in evidence in attempts to instill democracy in fronts such as Afghanistan and Iraq. But as a new president seeks to undo the damage of previous security policy conditions, it is apparent t Continue Reading...
Racial Profiling in Maricopa County Sheriff's Office:
Racial profiling is a practice that contributes to unfair treatment of individuals based on their origins and/or race. In the past few years, there have been accusations that the Sheriff's Office Continue Reading...
National borders are far from arbitrary; they are important demarcations between one sovereign state and another. The foundation of national sovereignty depends on each nation protecting its own border, to achieve its own homeland security goals. In Continue Reading...
Antisocial behavior is largely the result of poverty, prejudice, lack of education, and low social status rather than human nature or lack of character...
Rightists believe that character is largely inborn and genetically inherited.
Hence the emph Continue Reading...
Using statistics in criminal justice leads to evidence-based policy and practice. Criminal justice leadership can rely on statistical data to understand which policies are working and why, and how to change policies that are not yielding desired resu Continue Reading...
S.A., there is bound to be more problems relating to criminality as well as social problems. For instance legalization of drugs will lead to even more violence across the U.S. Mexico border with each cartel trying to control as much of the market as Continue Reading...
From the study of treatment for mothers on crack, 50 experts in drug dependency as well as 150 addicted women identify components which they believe are important in the treatment of women effectively. Some of the features that they had identified Continue Reading...
In order to obtain as much information as possible regarding this site, I registered as a user and began to explore its features. Almost immediately, I received multiple welcoming messages and friend requests. I believe this is especially helpful to Continue Reading...
Substance abuse can be defined simply as a maladaptive use of any harmful substance for the purposes of mood-altering and not limited to the use of prohibited drugs or the misuse of prescription and over-the-counter drugs with an intention other than Continue Reading...
conferences discussed prohibition movement culminated passage 18th Amendment Constitution supporting statutes call Prohibition. Between 1920-1935 sale alcoholic beverages heavily controlled.
This essay will explore the underlying factors that motiv Continue Reading...
Yes: Carla T. Main
Carla Main believes the drinking age should remain at 21, and she bases the first part of her discussion on a project called "The Amethyst Initiative," which has issued a statement calling for an official probe into the drinking l Continue Reading...
African-American street gang members, primarily affiliates of Bloods and Crips, distribute crack cocaine and marijuana in the HIDTA region. Asian street gangs dominate distribution of MDMA and high-potency marijuana at the retail level.[footnoteRef: Continue Reading...