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    Offenders In Prisons

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    Mentally ill offenders are frequently caught up in the criminal justice system. Prisons are not adequately equipped to care for mentally ill inmates‚ which can lead to an escalation of an inmate’s illness. Mentally ill inmates are a major problem in prisons because they require plenty of special needs. Most of the prisons do not encounter the medication needed for these offenders‚ so it is better for them to be taken care of at a mental hospital where they will be treated correctly. Incarcerating

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    Racial Profiling

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    The amount of racial profiling in this country is an issue‚ which is why we should do are best in attempting to decrease it by requiring police officers to wear body cameras. Racial profiling is the use of an individual’s race or ethnicity as a reason to proceed with enforcement. The cause of racial profiling occurs every day‚ law enforcement all over target innocent people of another ethnicity or race and humiliate‚ scare‚ interrogate‚ search‚ and beat without evidence of criminal activity. Enforcement

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    Nonviolent Offenders

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    Neil Condon CRJS 600 Dr. Richeson Nonviolent Offenders – Is Incarceration the Answer? "It’s really clear that the most effective way to turn a nonviolent person into a violent one is to send them to prison‚" says Harvard University criminologist James Gilligan. The American prison system takes nonviolent offenders and makes them live side-by-side with hardened killers. The very nature of prison‚ no matter people view it‚ produces an environment that is inevitably harmful to its residents

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    Racial Profiling

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    Racial Profiling Throughout many communities‚ racial profiling has been brought up numerous times due to the fact that many feel as though they are being discriminated against through law-enforcement policies. Race and ethnicity play a big role in this debate because police tend to pull over individuals due to their color rather than if they have suspicious activities going on. It is said by Jim Cleary that several officers pull over people of a different race on a daily basis yet never record

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    Youth Offenders

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    sentences for offenders under 18 was cruel and unusual punishment‚ and therefore unconstitutional. At the heart of the decision is the recognition that it is fundamentally unjust to mandate a life sentence for children convicted of homicide without considering mitigating factors. Young offenders in the juvenile and criminal justice systems lack adjudicative competence because of developmental immaturity (Grisso et al.‚ 2003). Moreover‚ the prevalence of mental illness among young offenders heightens

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    Young Offenders

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    Young Offenders Australia’s justice system‚ applies different rules and regulations on which how young offenders are to be treated. Young offenders are those above the ages of 10‚ however are under the age of 17. Under the Children Proceeding ACT NSW 1987‚ states that children under the age of 10 are not liable to be charge for criminal intent ( mens rea ) as they are too young‚ to grasp the situations consequences and are recognised as doli incapax. However‚ there is a theory that ages from 10

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    Racial Profiling

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    ANALYSIS OF “RACIAL PROFILING AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE” 1 Analysis of “Racial Profiling and Criminal Justice” Domenica Martinez Colorado Mesa University ANALYZING RACIAL PROFILING AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE 2 Research Question I chose to analyze article titled “Racial Profiling and Criminal Justice” which is written By Jesper Ryberg within

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    Racial Profiling

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    Racial Profiling By: Lakesha London Could you imagine if you were label as a terrorist because of what you wear‚ skin tone‚ what race you are or what countries you are from? But on the inside of you are just as scared as terrorist yourself. But for hundreds of years racial profiling have been going on‚ not because of when 911 occur. Being a person of color in America automatically put you a caterogy. In my essay I would talk about: racial profiling is a form of discrimination‚ who was the people

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    Juvenile Offenders

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    would have been charged as a crime if he was an adult. In most cases‚ many juvenile offenders often fall into bad company or they lack proper parental guidance. Furthermore‚ juvenile offenders are still young; they have not reach a level of maturity where they are able to exercise good decision-making. Therefore‚ I disagree that juveniles are solely at fault for their own crimes. On the contrary‚ many juvenile offenders were actually aware that their actions were illegal when they committed the crime

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    Racial Profiling

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    Should Racial Profiling be a Legitimate Law-Enforcement Policy? Racial profiling is an act where all people of a certain race are treated as criminal suspects by those of law enforcement. This occurs when police investigate‚ stop‚ frisk search or use force against a person based on race instead of a person’s criminal behavior. It often involves the stopping and searching of people of color for traffic violations. One controversial issue in the discussion of racial profiling has been how to prove

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