The system of criminal and social justice has been plagued with several issues that are making it to be ever changing in the society. Among many issue that has been associated with the social justice system, this paper will highlight about the equity and fairness. The government of the US is working to make sure […]
The Stanford Prison Experiment was part of a hands on experiment that Phillip Zimbardo wanted to conduct. This experiment sheds some light on how the prison system is, how prisoners feel, and how they deal with emotions. The goal however of the Stanford experiment was to see what happens when good people are placed in […]
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Get startedThere are several million Americans housed in correctional facilities around the country in the modern criminal justice system. One of the biggest issues in the contemporary corrections system is that of prison violence. The American criminal justice system has extremely high rates of prison violence, which includes not only prisoner-prisoner violence, but prisoner-guard violence as […]
In 2016, there was a total of 1.5 million residents in federal and state prisons, of these 10% of them were convicted felons. In today’s society, most states forbid you the right to vote – for life – if you have committed a felony. These men and women who have committed these hideous crimes have […]
The documentary, “13th” by Ava Duvernay presented an incredible documentary in which she went in-depth displaying the prison house scheme in the United States and how it played a big part in racial inequality. Duvernay uses various sociological theoretical perspectives, particularly structural functionalism. What is structural functionalism? The communities of people are viewed as each […]
The book To Kill a Mockingbird was written by Harper Lee in the year 1960. When people have no laws to follow, mass corruption and chaos run wild. In the book, To Kill a Mockingbird, the law is a major theme in the book. It shows how lawlessness can determine the life and future of […]
Based on the various hypothesis, theories, and strategies supplied by the likes of Shaw & McKay (1931), Sampson & Groves (1989), C. Ray Jeffrey (1971), Jane Jacobs(1961), Oscar Newman (1972), Cohen and Felson (1979) , and Paul and Patricia Brantingham (1981), it seems that environmental criminology focuses not only on the criminal event itself, but […]
Sociology is a big part of criminology, as we know sociology is the study of social groups, race, class etc, well those same concepts apply to criminology within those who get caught, prosecuted and incarcerated, as well as what happens to them after they serve their sentence in prison. Edwin Sutherland played a huge role […]
To discuss racism and its relevance to this paper, it’s important that racism is understood for what it truly is. Although there are many components of racism, the general definition is “the belief that all members of a purported race possess characteristics, abilities, or qualities specific to that race, especially so as to distinguish it […]
Eleanor Louis Cowell birthed Theodore (Ted) Robert Cowell in Burlington, Vermont on November 24th, 1946. Due to Eleanor’s religious beliefs, she had given her son to her parents in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Ted’s real father is unknown. Eleanor married Johnny Bundy and Ted was given his last name to deter from the fact that he was […]
A total of 637 black people was shot to death by the police from the year 2017 to 2019. According to the most recent statistics from Statista Research Department (2020), 205 of those cases happened in 2019. Police brutality has been one of the leading causes of death for young black men in America. “Study […]
Every 7 hours in the United States an individual life is taken by a police officer. Police brutality is defined as an aggressive overuse of power given to them as a status of a police officer. A 395 pound 6’2-foot man named Eric Garner was held in an illegal chokehold by officer Justin D’Amico. Eric […]
In our current climate due to the police’s actions, they have earned a bad reputations. Some of their actions are beating up innocent civilians, not following laws, and how times have changed. Now people are scared of the police because of what they have done and now civilians do not feel safe whenever they are […]
Have police changed from one decade to the next? Police brutality has only changed in the way the abuse is viewed, but not in the way that it is committed or the motivation behind it. In the Martin Luther King era, there was acceptable police brutality in which African American citizens were blatantly assaulted, mistreated, […]
Cruelty has been poisoning the earth for as long as we can remember. More effort has been applied to creative punishments rather than addressing the problem. Since the eighteenth century man has found reason to execute human beings. For many years this execution process has come with numerous difficulties, and recently has become more of […]
To summarize the current situation in the United States with respect to capital punishment for minors suggests that most of the 38 capital punishment states puts minors in a position to be subject to the death penalty and bypassing adult criminal court. Many believe that minors shouldn’t be held to same standards as adults, even […]
Mass incarceration ranks high among the most significant social problems that the United States faces in contemporary times. While the United States makes up approximately five percent of the world’s population, it makes up 25 percent of the global prison population. These figures highlight the fact that something is fundamentally wrong with the justice system […]
The problem that has affected young black males not only in Maryland but also in nation is the issue of disproportionate amount of the black race in the criminal justice system. There are many reasons why this injustice occurs. Some of those many reasons why young black males are often disproportionately in the system are […]
In this paper I am going to discuss a case of police brutality that happened here in Louisiana in 1989. This was a case that found that the officer was negligent and did in fact use unnecessary, excessive force. After reading the entire case history, I find it to be a clear example of an […]
Police and policing activities are one of those exceptionally alarming topics that many discover hard to discuss it. It sustains a talk that numerous individuals would prefer not to address. In this paper, I will inspect policing in the Canadian people group through the focal points of the Justice System. I will explicitly contend that […]
Hurricane Katrina was one of the top five deadliest natural disasters that have occurred. There were approximately 2000 deaths; however it was not just the storm that caused all of these deaths. There were many other reasons for deaths during Katrina and one of those was police brutality. There were multiple incidents that occurred which […]
An African-American male was driving down an urban street in Savannah after work one day. As he knows it, it is just a regular day, however, for the Police Officer who passed him at a red light, it is about to become his worst nightmare. The cop, who already had a previous disposition about African-Americans […]
Sometimes it seems that almost all news reports about firearms, gun control, or crime should start out with that phrase. Those four short words tell us that while the story to follow will be presented as fact, it is fiction, or better said, a myth or a fable. Unfortunately, these fables have come to displace […]
On January 4, 2018, a few days after marijuana became legal in California, Jeff Sessions. Attorney General of the United States, announced that the Trump Administration. Was rescinding the Obama-era policy of non-interference with State marijuana laws. According to the Drug Enforcement Administration. Marijuana is considered a Schedule 1 controlled substance. Schedule 1 drugs, by […]
“Penalties against possession of a drug should not be more damaging to an individual than the use of the drug itself; and where they are, they should be changed. Nowhere is this more clear than in the laws against possession of marijuana be private for personal use. Therefore, I support legislation amending federal law to […]
Introduction Whenever the topic of marijuana comes up in almost all parts of the world, what follows is a heated debate on its legal status. To some people, it is just a herb to which they have attached some religious belief while to others; the topic invokes a mixed feeling as they consider it an […]
For many years, the act of smoking has not only affected the lives of those. Who are in their adolescents, it has also caused problems for smokers of age as well. Though the rise of tobacco is nothing new, the increase of smokers in the US has significantly risen. Since the introduction of the legalization […]
In 1978 the state legislator of New Mexico made a law allowing physicians to prescribe marijuana to patients suffering from nausea caused by chemotherapy, much of this due to the efforts of a cancer patient by the name of Lynn Pierson. The Federal government modified the law to make it comply with IND regulations requiring […]
A pro marijuana web page stated “Fewer than 2 percent of drug-related emergency room visits involved the use of marijuana alone in the year 1994”. Are the correct in saying it is safe, not according to anti marijuana groups. In today’s society, a debate over the legalization of marijuana has been on going. Two divisions […]
Bryan Stevenson’s book Just Mercy examines the injustice of our world, particularly the legal system. Whether we may not commonly discuss about it, we all seem to understand how race contributes to unethical and bias laws. This corrupt world truly needs this book in order to explain why we still must protest and acknowledge equal […]
