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Racial Profiling: Fact or Fallacy?
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A 4 page overview of the common misperception that racial profiling accounts for the disproportionate representation that some minorities have in our criminal justice system. Noting that this fallacy is often stretched to imply concern over implications in the post-September 11 environment, the author emphasizes that the fact is that a particular culture’s propensity for crime, not their race is what lands them in our nation’s prisons. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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Racism in Maryland: What the Incarceration Rate Means
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This 5 page paper examines rates of arrests and incarceration by. Race in the Maryland criminal justice system is examined. Statistics are used as well as specific studies on racism in Maryland's courts. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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Racism in the UK Police Force
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This 10 page paper consider the presence and manifestation of institutional racism in the UK police force. Issues discussed include the Stephen Lawrence enquiry, the treatment of minorities in custody and deaths as well as internal discrimination. The bibliography cites 18 sources.
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Racist Crime: Victim Experiences Relating to Retaliations for the September 11, 2000 World Trade Center and Pentagon Disasters
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A 10 page overview of the concept of racist crime. Notes the events which are unfolding in our country today are essentially the same as those which have been targeted against one race or ethnicity or another throughout American history. The criminal activity which is all too often associated with such mindset has been recently termed hate crimes. Although there are many examples of such crimes, there is no better example of the deplorability of these crimes than the condemnable actions which too many in our populace are taking today against Arabic peoples in a form of societal retaliation for the September 11 World Trade Center and Pentagon disasters. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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Rape and War: An Examination of Sexual Violence in Times of War
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A 7 page discussion of the abhorrent trend or sexual violence in Bosnia and Rwanda during war. This paper examines that trend from the perspective of defining them as war crimes and acts of genocide. Bibliography lists sources.
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Rape, Responsibility, and Gender Perception
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A 4 page discussion of how societal perceptions of gender enter into the equation of responsibility for one's actions. The author investigates responsibility in Joyce Carol Oates' "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" (a short story fictionalizing the real-life murders of Charles Schmid in the 1960s) with articles by Susan Jacoby, Ellen Goodman, and Lara Adair. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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Rational Choice Theory
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This 3 page paper provides basic information about this theory in the context of criminology. Examples are provided. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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Rational Choice Theory From Marxist Perspective
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4 pages in length. The aspect of personal responsibility has long represented a challenge of application where crime theorists are concerned. The extent to which crime theories reflect a montage of indicators for criminal activity is both grand and far-reaching; that rational crime theory stands alone in its quest to illustrate how personal responsibility plays an integral role when people engage in criminal behavior speaks to an extension of the Marxist perspective. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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Recidivism: Probation vs. Incarceration
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(Additional Information): 5 pages. Repeated studies have shown that probation plays little role in effectively communicating with drug treatment programs to ensure that offenders are in fact utilizing these programs in accordance with their probation. Bibliography has 1 source.
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Recidivism: Probation vs. Incarceration
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26 pages. This is an in-depth study of the effects of probation versus incarceration when it comes to the current rate of recidivism. After researching a myriad of sources including books, newspapers, websites, scientific studies, journals and other diverse and relevant means of accumulation of the facts, it has become obvious that probation does not reduce the rate of recidivism on crime. The fact is that more criminals return to their criminal behavior when placed on probation as opposed to those who are incarcerated. This interesting paper will explain those findings in detail. Bibliography lists 23 sources.
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