Justice Office of Justice Programs National Institute of Justice ME RT NT OF J US CE TI National Institute of Justice R e s e a r c h R e p o r t N BJ A C E I OF F IJ J O F OJJ D P B RO J US T I C E P “Broken Windows” and Police Discretion S G OVC RA MS U.S. Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs 810 Seventh Street N.W. Washington‚ DC 20531 Janet Reno Attorney General Raymond C. Fisher Associate Attorney General Laurie Robinson Assistant Attorney General Noël Brennan
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Unit 4 Written Assignment: By: Alysia Pietrangelo Professor CJ509: Comparative Criminal Justice Systems September 1‚ 2011 With so many different cultural and historical perspectives‚ it can change the way the criminal justice system works. Two types of criminal justice systems in which bring a lot of historical and cultural perspective include Iraq and Italy. Both countries also have legal tradition in which help in the way the criminal justice system works. In addition‚ both politics
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Should the Death Penalty be Abolished? Should the Death Penalty be Abolished? The death penalty is often cited‚ as its placement in Taking Sides implies‚ to be one of the nation痴 most controversial issues. The long history of capital punishment‚ the volumes of academic work‚ and the seeming endless supply of individuals willing to debate for and against it seems to confirm such a proposition. Many seem to believe that a change of just one or two individuals on the Supreme Court
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Sex offender registration is a vital part of the corrections system as it keeps track of those who have committed crimes of a sexual nature against innocent victims. However‚ the sex offender registration system that is in place now has had its own beginning and changed over time to become the system it is today. J. Edgar Hoover‚ who was the director of the FBI in 1937‚ “declared a war on the ‘sexual criminal’ and implored the American people to consider the fact that the ‘sex fiend‚ most loathsome
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extreme cases. In 1993 a man by the name of Reggie Clemons was sentenced to death in the US state of St. Louis due to being an aid to the death of two young white women. There was no physical evidence that he helped cause these deaths and due to ‘prosecutorial misconduct’ the jury was sacked. Even so‚ Clemons is still on death row despite no evidence against him. This shows that even people who have done nothing wrong can be falsely accused and convicted. This is inhumane. Also in the state of Georgia
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An open space in the U.S supreme court tends to draw in a lot of political attention. This is the case because both the president and the Senate have a part in the election of a Supreme Court Justice. This essay demonstrates the admirable qualities that a Supreme Court Justice must have to be a potential candidate. The Senate confirmation process was at battle in the video “The Politics of Judicial Appointments.” It opens with Obama searching for quality candidates to fill the role of Supreme Court
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being adjudicated into the adult court its starts with the wavier process‚ to move the juvenile in adult court. There are four different types wavier that are used to transfers adolescents from juvenile c court to adult court which are: judicial‚ prosecutorial‚ mandatory and legislative. The wavier types that are frequently used is the judicial and the legislative wavier. According Samaha‚ this judicial wavier is used when a juvenile court judge orders a juvenile to be adjudicated in adult court. The
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abandoned their responsibilities to obtain justice and to serve as the lawful agent for the people; instead‚ they deliberately violate the moral principles of their duties and the rights of the defendants to secure convictions. The usual forms of prosecutorial misconduct include but not restricted to: “coercing false confessions”‚ “lying or intentionally misleading jurors about their observations”‚ “failing to turn over exculpatory evidence to prosecutors”‚ “pressuring defense witnesses not to testify”
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Media and Anti-Corruption In some countries‚ such as Bulgaria‚ Macedonia‚ Bosnia Herzegovina‚ and Albania to a much lesser extent‚ the independent media has brought to the fore numerous corruption cases‚ exposing high officials. It has also been a major force behind mobilizing public opinion against corruption‚ as in the case of Bulgaria. At the same time it has exerted indirect pressure on the respective governments to take steps to limit corruption practices. The Bulgarian independent
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of these problems consist of: wrongful convictions‚ false confessions‚ unethical interrogations‚ mental incapacity‚ biases/disparities in race‚ gender‚ socioeconomic status‚ eyewitness accounts‚ false positive or tampered forensics‚ unethical prosecutorial practices‚ etc.. Almost all of these are addressed in “Making a Murderer”. One of the biggest issues is false confessions. I believe that Brendan Dassey’s initial confession with the interrogators is a false confession. They were designed originally
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