, et al., 2012). Systems approaches look towards the functional integration of different stakeholders and their goals towards a specific issue or path. What implications might a proposed solution have and to what groups? What is the functional relat Continue Reading...
Crime Prevention PlanIntroductionThe city of Cincinnati, OH, is seeing an increase of violent crime and gun shootings in the Over-the-Rhine (OTR) community. Since 2000, OTR has been a major source of frustration for the city: it is on the northern si Continue Reading...
Productivity-Education/Craft/Trade -- a key to being able to stop the return to the penal system is to provide training necessary to allow the individual to find work after leaving prison. Not only is it extremely tough to get a job as a convicted Continue Reading...
Criminal Procedure Law This document outlines the proposed criminal justice system. Its aim is to prevent and control crime and criminal acts through punitive measures and penalties to those who violate the set laws. The paper is a suggested crimina Continue Reading...
Reintegration of Ex-Felons Although the paradigms of public administration have undergone considerable scrutiny and some evolution, particularly over the past several decades, there is merit in considering the historical paradigms with respect to pu Continue Reading...
Reducing Youth Firearm Injuries and Suicides Community Collaboration -- Gun Laws In 2012, 9-year-old Maximos Herbert discovered a loaded and unlocked gun underneath his father's bed and a few minutes later an accidental gunshot wound to the head en Continue Reading...
Rehabilitation of Felony Offenders Possible? Desirable? As the global economic downturn continues to adversely affect federal and state budgets across the board, one of the hardest hit areas has been the nation's penal system. Dwindling budgets hav Continue Reading...
Policy Analysis Child Protective Service Include Abuse, Foster Care and Adoption Child physical abuse did not receive widespread attention in this country until a 1962 medical journal article discussed patterns of suspicious injuries in children. Wi Continue Reading...
Latino Community Racial discrimination is a term that signifies treating people with different skin tone and cultural heritage and not only different but also as inferior. This feeling or societal approach is not limited to just one area of the worl Continue Reading...
Like most litigations on such complicated issues the company had little to do but show reasonable accommodation, adopt better surface practices and wait out a lengthy period before their liability was reduced substantially by the courts. Ethical an Continue Reading...
In March of 2005, she was finally removed from life support and died thirteen days later. The case had 14 appeals, numerous motions, petitions and hearings in Florida courts, five suits in the Federal District Court; Florida legislation struck down Continue Reading...
Texas Parole Board The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles (herein referred to as the board) is a Texas-based state agency charged with determining "which eligible offenders to release on parole or discretionar Continue Reading...
Privacy Law: Requiring Convicted Sex Offenders to Register and Allow Their Personal Data to Be Published by the State One of the most heinous crimes any individual can be accused of is the crime molesting a child. In the hearts and minds of most of Continue Reading...
Hair is also in contact with chemicals in shampoos, and any dyes, gels, sprays or other cosmetics that may be placed on the hair (11). Since there is no standardized method for cleaning these external contaminants off of the hair prior to analysis, Continue Reading...
Cost analysis of Search & Rescue Dogs Costs and benefits of using search and rescue dogs Search and rescue dogs "are the hard-working heroes of disaster relief, but it's all a game to these talented canines. Finding a victim brings a reward -- Continue Reading...
3. How should the white-collar criminal in this story be sanctioned? (explain also why have you chosen your method of sanction). Obviously, Seth and the others involved in this criminal activity of selling artificial stocks for artificially inflat Continue Reading...
Tennessee v. Garner. The case involved the excessive use of force with regards to felony cases. The decision of the court and the reasons given will also be looked into. The agreements and disagreements that followed will also be discussed. Court D Continue Reading...
Recidivism Rate In the context of criminal justice, recidivism represents a relapse of criminal activity by a person after being convicted of some offense, punished, and corrected (seemingly) (Maltz, 2001). Recidivism emerges from a series of failur Continue Reading...
Hiring Ex-Felons Hiring Ex-Offenders: An Analysis of Various Viewpoints The problem of poverty in the United States is not only devastating, but also very widespread. From big cities to small cities, from New York to Alabama, poverty statistics ar Continue Reading...
Mandatory Minimum Sentencing Laws: Mandatory minimum sentences, which were rare in the criminal law or justice system, have experienced a remarkable increase in popularity. As a political phenomenon, the policy has enjoyed broader bi-partisan suppor Continue Reading...
Death penalty is generally conceived of as the supreme legal sanction, inflicted only against perpetrators of the most serious crimes. The human rights community has traditionally held a stance against the death penalty for a wide variety of reasons: Continue Reading...
Treatment vs. Punishment Treatment Concept Juvenile crime is often serious because of the ability to represent a significant proportion in relation to the total criminal activity within the community. The normal assumption indicates that adolescent Continue Reading...
Overcrowding in Prisons: Impacts on African-Americans The overcrowded prisons in the United States are heavily populated by African-Americans, many of them incarcerated due to petty, non-violent crimes such as drug dealing. This paper points out tha Continue Reading...
interviews and surveys with women offenders who are inmates in the Baylor Correctional Institution form the foundation of this discussion of data analysis and report writing. The revised research questions accentuate the need for a greater balance o Continue Reading...
Justice, Crime and Ethics Prepping the President: Ethical Analysis and Future Policy Initiatives Suggesting the Use of Rehabilitation in Corrections The President of the United States has just scheduled a town hall meeting entitled, "Criminal Just Continue Reading...
Additionally, he argued that the best interest of the consumers, as promoted by Gate's organization, was in fact not the core element of new endeavors, as the company had argued, but that whenever a new product or service was being projected, this Continue Reading...
The solution that Hardin proposes is that of a coercive method; as always he gives a lucid example to support the point that he proposes. Hardin reminds the reader that society mutually agreed to make it illegal to rob banks, rather than appeal to Continue Reading...
Therefore, by increasing the costs of imprisonment by the three strikes law, it is intended that there will be less crime. Marwell and Moody express several difficulties with the laws in the 24 states: Criminals are not always aware of the laws, at Continue Reading...
During the 1960's and 1970's, violent contact with the police, resulting in force occurred during anti-war, labor and civil rights demonstrations, during a politically tumultuous time. It is safe to conclude that excessive force was used during the Continue Reading...
Define the Problem The defined and existing problem is going to vary in scope and definition depending on who is doing the defining. However, there are some clear and obvious problems with the “three strikes” law. The policy itself was m Continue Reading...
Reducing Prison Overcrowding Prison overcrowding is an unsettling national problem to the United States and Canada. The United States has the biggest prison population in the world and Canada's is the fourth. The race for limited resources has been Continue Reading...
Women constituted thirteen percent of the personnel. Data collected by officers' mobile data computers between 17 January 2000 and 31 March 2000 were used in the study. Consistent with the conflict theory, the authors tested whether racial and socio Continue Reading...
In other circumstances, the offender should be directed towards more traditional means of punishment. Conclusion Split sentencing has been part of the criminal justice system since the beginning of incarceration programs, and shock probation progr Continue Reading...
It is not known if the bias found among males also exists among women. This study will address both the gap in methodology and the lack of studies regarding women. It will contribute to the existing body of evidence by filling in these important gap Continue Reading...
Prison Reduction of Prison Population Current impact Population affected Government Policies. Effectiveness of Policies Efficacy of the strategies This paper highlights the prison system and relates multiple factors to it. It gives a brief bac 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...
