This essay suggests that criminal justice reform strategies centered on harm reduction might reasonably reduce how much criminal justice involvement worsens existing inequalities or creates new ones. Dramatically reducing inequalities in initial contacts with the system will be more difficult because that ...
Policy enactment is predicted by worsening problems of racial disproportion in criminal processing, Democratic control of elected branches, and the absence of judicial efforts to improve racial fairness within a state's criminal justice system. Similar dynamics encourage the development of different ...
Kimberly has taught college Sociology and Criminal Justice classes and has a Master's Degree in Criminal Justice. Social inequality is the existence of unequal opportunities and rewards for different social positions or statuses within a group or society. Two approaches exist to explain why ...
This study assesses the impact of an offender's citizenship status in a more comprehensive and theoretically grounded way than previous research. Using the 2006 Monitoring of Federal Criminal Sentences data, supplemented by the GDP-PPP p... J Wu 被引量: 0发表: 2009年 Racial Disparities in Offi...
piece is to interrogate emerging evidence which suggests that recent dimensions of kidnappings in Nigeria is a class act where the deprived class may be demanding what they perceived as their fair share from the more opulent class and examine the omens that this bids for the criminal justice ...
This being a wide topic, I would argue that there is gender inequality in the death penalty. The relationship between crime and gender is paradoxical, persistent, and deep. Society recognizes gender as an important factor that plays a critical role in the criminal justice system when dealing ...
racial inequalitycolonialismsentencingVarious models and practices of restorative justice have been in place in Canada for over a decade. During this time, ... M Omori - SAGE Publications 被引量: 0发表: 2017年 RECENT DEVELOPMENT IN CRIMINAL LAW: ISSUES OF SENTENCING AND PUBLIC DEFENSE: RECENT DE...
FINGERPRINT IDENTIFICATION AND THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM: HISTORICAL LESSONS FOR THE DNA DEBATE urbanization; the increasing anonymity ofurban life; and the dissolving of local networks of familiarity in whichindividuals were "known" by their neighbors; growing migration ofindividuals from city to city...
In the late 1970s and early 1980s, several important reviews of the literature failed to establish a clear consensus on the relationship between economic c... CC Hsieh,MD Pugh - 《Criminal Justice Review》 被引量: 547发表: 1993年 Inequality, Opportunity, and Crime Rates in Central Cities *...
Their requirements are declared from several aspects. For one, they demand an end to the war against Black people, including an end to the criminalization, incarceration, surveillance, and killing of black people; also an end to the privatization of police. A graph revealing American prison syst...