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 ...
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 system. ...
These assumptions play a significant role in attracting the leniency of the criminal justice system towards women for capital punishment, thus showing gender inequality in the capital punishment sentences. Women are usually seen in the light of a less culpable gender that is less recidivist, and ...
In recent years and in light of recent tragedies, police actions, specifically police brutality, has come into view of a large, public and rather critical eye. The power to take life rests in the final stage of the criminal justice system. However, the controversy lies where due process doe...
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...
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...
Referencing Karl Marx, it is argued that, “because the ideas of the dominant tend to become the ideas of the dominated, system-justifying stereotypes may be advanced by even those who stand to lose from it” [36]. In short, growing up with the American dream makes one believe in it. ...
A wider conceptualization of what constitutes land inequality is suggested in response to shifts in how power is concentrated within the agri-food system. Land inequality is the difference in the quantity and value of land people have access to, the relative strengths of their land tenure rights...
“separate but equal” doctrine established inPlessyv.Ferguson(1896), occurred when it did because (1) elite whites were concerned about potential unrest among Black former soldiers who had fought bravely for their country inWorld War IIand theKorean Warbut were now expected to return to lives ...