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    Beowulf In 50 Years Wiser

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    Beowulf‚ 50 Years Wiser Beowulf is the epic hero of the Anglo-Saxon poem of the same name. He showed outstanding courage on the battlefield. He has slain many monsters in his time. He killed both Grendel and Grendel’s mother. After those two battles‚ 50 winters have passed and Beowulf has aged. Beowulf now has to battle a fierce‚ fire breathing dragon. In this battle however‚ Beowulf seems to be a different man. I believe that Beowulf has become and wiser‚ smarter man in this battle than in

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    Careers in Criminal Justice Angela Silvers CRJ 201 Mr. J. Cudworth July 19‚ 2010 There are a number of professions

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    Criminal Justice Trends

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    Criminal Justice Trends Aarron Buzzard December 9‚ 2012 CJA 484 Keith Carr Trends are a fact of life‚ and they happen in every facet of it. Trends in cloths‚ cars‚ home decor‚ music‚ and many other things happen all of the time. They continually changing from one to the next and they do not stick around for long. This is no different in the criminal justice system‚ more specifically in law enforcement‚ trends change constantly in policies

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    this criminal will be in jail for fifty years‚ but if he completes rehabilitation and community service he can get out sooner. Pausing‚ the idea comes to mind that the judge has made a mistake. How can a man who has done such a thing receive rehabilitation? Criminal justice rehabilitation is the act of assisting criminals in trying to regain their life and try to learn from their mistakes. Although some may think this sounds like a good idea‚ there are many ways that it is not. Criminal justice rehabilitation

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    enter their plea. In the future of most criminals they are looking at a sentence to serve for the punishment of the law they broke‚ or crime they committed. These sentences have specific and general deterrence as well as guidelines that the constitution says we must follow. The federal sentencing guidelines are the most controversial and most complex of all the sentencing reform efforts. (Rubuck‚ 2001). There are three types of sentencing that a criminal will more than likely be facing from a reoffender

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    Criminal investigations‚ in the standard case‚ are oriented towards cracking unsolved crime‚ identifying perpetrators‚ launching prosecutions‚ proving guilt at trial and bringing offenders to justice” (Paul Roberts in Tim Newburn et al‚ 2007: 95). How are criminal detection and/or investigation moulded and shaped by political‚ social and/or cultural forces? Criminal detection and proceedings never exist or function independently‚ the system‚ as a whole is an inherently complex network of interacting

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    Criminal Justice Career

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    their career field it become easier to decide on which path to choose. The criminal justice field has three different aspects that work together to ensure that justice is served. The first is police‚ which is where the careers like police officers are. The second is the courts where jobs like being a judge‚ or a lawyer. The third and final part is corrections where parole officers work. (Schmalleger) During my last two years of high school‚ I have had to really think and decide on the career that

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    Criminal Justice Opinion

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    Criminal Justice Opinion Portfolio Privacy rights and Press Freedoms In recent years the press has sensationalized topics of sex and violence that has spurred sales‚ yet lay waste to the public that it directly includes (Press Freedom‚ 2006). Advocates of the press declare and pronounce their first amendment rights when questioned about their tactics for sales and what is genuinely news; opposition would more directly see public domain be given the jurisdiction to press freedoms‚ rather than the

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    Classism in Criminal Justice

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    Justice is a word that many of us hear every single day and accept although a lot of us possess skepticism in regards to what it really means. Generally speaking‚ justice is the concept of righteousness and equality. When it comes to society’s thoughts about how “just” the criminal justice system is‚ we usually include the “ism’s”: sexism‚ classism‚ and racism‚ to illustrate a number of the stumbling blocks that this program possesses (Brewer & Heitzeg‚ 2008). Although it is evident that most of

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    Criminal Justice Major

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    having sex with students‚ military cadre having sex with recruits and criminal justice employees having sex with offenders seems to be in the reports of the news media every day. In recent years‚ the Department of Public Safety has certainly had their share of this crisis. Agencies dedicated to administrating justice should not be in the business of dispensing sex. Even so‚ the department faces one scandal after another over staff having sexual contact with inmates‚ offenders and juveniles. During

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