Criminal Justice

The United States prison system has many faults and terrible outcomes for those who go into it. The goal of prisons or systems alike is to deter people from committing future crimes. The way of going …

Red and blue lights flash, a police car pulls up. The officer says, "Get out of the car and put your hands up, you're under arrest for speeding and being a minority." Just 5 hours later, the same poli…

If the prison system was meant to reform, why do the criminals continue to re- offend? Prisons violate the constitutional rights of inmates constantly. I believe that prisons should be closely monit…

Why do people offend? What is the perfect situation to commit a crime? How can that situation be prevented? How do people get in situations where they are victimized? How can they make their life feel…

As societies and societal norms evolve, criminal justice should also evolve. In today's culture, equality is becoming an increasingly key element. Racial inequality is one of the major issues with the…

Vice is a quality that makes us worse people and it contains different branches to it. testimonial injustice is a vice that a person or group could have. It's complicated to determine whether it could…

The idea of the public belonging to shaming has been a way to inflict a lasting impact of wrong-doing so that they may no longer enact wrong-doing again. Public humiliation, or public shame, has impac…

Despite accounting for fewer than 5% of the global population, the United States possesses approximately 25% of the world's incarcerated population. Putting people in prison for minor infractions serv…

Did you know that about 250,000 juveniles are tried, sentenced, and incarcerated as adults every year across the United States? Juveniles can be seriously harmed going through prison at so young. Thes…

In the society we live in, the possibilities are endless of what young people are capable of. Unfortunately not all things are good; in the state of California, 700 young people on average per year ar…