Criminal Justice

Prisons are supposed to help rehabilitate people so that they can be integrated back into society as lawful citizens, however; in the United States, the conditions of prisons make this much more diffi…

On April 1, 2003, the Youth Criminal Justice Act (YCJA) came into force, replacing the previous legislation, YOA (Young Offenders Act). The act applies to Canadian youth aged 12-17 who have been convi…

When an airplane crashes, investigators pore over the wreckage to discover what went wrong and learn from the experience. The justice system has not done anything similar and is not fair to all its ci…

Murder is one of the worst charges a person can receive in the American criminal justice system. A murder charge will completely change the course of a person's life. Now imagine being charged for a m…

Introduction As people are in constant contact with both natural and synthetic fibers in almost any environment they may be in, the transfer of these fibers can occur so frequently that they are subm…

Justice is but a fickle subject, in a world of corruption, it only favors those who have power. Time and time again we have seen this kind of injustice in both movies and real life, where the unfortun…

Close to 10 thousand people get wrongfully convicted a YEAR. It's understandable that accidents happen, but people's lives are on the line. Plenty of people go to college to major in Forensics to prev…

The first goal is retribution which is the act of taking revenge on a criminal perpetrator. The second is incapacitation which entails the use of imprisonment or other means to reduce the likelihood t…

The first structural mechanism that I would like to focus on is the stop and frisk policy. The stop and frisk policy allows police officers to question and search civilians and/or suspects for contrab…

The current political problem that I chose to address within this assignment is the trouble of criminal justice reform and the policies that come with it. I will be explaining the in-depth viewpoints …