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Showing 1 to 20 of 1067 for “"Criminal justice"”.
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Essays on Criminal Justice and Inequality
… encompasses three essays on policing and criminal justice, algorithms and inequality. The first two essays examine the efficacy and equity implications of data-driven algorithms that are increasingly used in important life-altering decision-making contexts. The third essay investigates …
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Would greater victim participation benefit criminal justice?
… campaigners for greater victim participation in criminal justice proceedings. This thesis examines this call. In order to appraise greater victim participation, it is imperative that we understand what is meant by the terms 'victim' and 'participation'. Without this understanding we would be …
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Criminal Justice Sanctions and Services: Exploring Potential
… projects, it is united by a broad interest in criminal justice sanctions and services and by a particular interest in the progression of participatory, person-centred and progressive approaches within that space. Project one consists of a recognised prior learning claim for 50% of the award and …
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Model-based evaluations for criminal justice programs.
Thesis. 1979. M.C.P.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning.
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Criminal Justice Responses to Emerging Computer Crime Problems
… the issue of computer crime as it relates to the criminal justice system, specifically law enforcement. The information was gathered through several books, academic journals, governmental documents, and the Internet. First, the nature and forms of computer crime, Internet crime, and cyber …
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Therapeutic Jurisprudence in Criminal Justice: A Gendered Engagement
… TJ has found fertile ground in most Western criminal justice systems leading to many practical applications. On a conceptual level, however, we know very little about what constitutes a TJ approach or response in criminal justice. Proponents of TJ make broad claims about there being a healing …
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Ethical stress in Scottish criminal justice social work
This thesis uses empirical data to explore criminal justice social workers’ experience of ‘ethical stress,’ which is the discomfort experienced by workers when they cannot achieve value/behaviour congruence in their practice. The research was operationalised via questionnaires distributed to …
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Ascertainment of the truth in international criminal justice
… principal question as to whether international criminal justice systems can serve as adequate truth-ascertaining forums. In doing so, it reviews the practice of three international criminal justice systems: the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), the International …
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Racial Adultification and the American Criminal Justice System
<p>African Americans are overrepresented in the criminal justice system and known to experience disadvantages in society because of their race, ethnicity and sometimes gender. With determination to understand the barriers that hinder African Americans from equal opportunities; this thesis explores …
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Court management and the Massachusetts criminal justice system.
Thesis. 1976. Ph.D.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Alfred P. Sloan School of Management.
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Separation of powers in the Kuwaiti criminal justice system
… the question of separating powers within the criminal justice system of Kuwait, examining the function of this division and the structures that are designed to protect the rights of citizens. Despite being formally regulated according to democratic principles, the criminal justice system of …
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When Worlds Collide: Climate Change's Implications for Criminal Justice
… change will likely affect crime and the American criminal justice system. Through an analysis of a wide-ranging set of governmental, legal, historical, and academic research documents, this study examines the highly consequential impact global warming could have on crime and criminal justice, as …
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Essays on the Economics of Labor and Criminal Justice
… a goal of safer communities, the United States Criminal Justice System has undergone substantive legislative reform to service delivery in the past decade. These reforms have prompted a demand to analyze the benefits and potential unintended consequences of enacted and proposed policies. Using …
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The politics of race and the criminal justice system
The intersection of race, justice and politics create a vicious cycle in the U.S. Those most affected by disparities in the current system are the least likely to participate in politics, while those relatively unaffected are often unlikely to acknowledge the issue as one in need of political …
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The language of racism and the criminal justice system
The question of racial bias in the criminal justice system has long been a controversial one in South African legal, sociological and political discussion. This thesis is an intervention in the discussion, in favour of the argument that the criminal justice system is a site of racial and other …
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Criminal Justice in British Playwriting and Theatre Practice, 1979-2017
This thesis explores narrative-construction in criminal justice through the art of playwriting/dramaturgy and theatre practice. It investigates how playwrights, and theatre companies have created and curated these narratives by employing a spectrum of techniques from the conventional to the …
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Critical Pedagogy in Criminal Justice Higher Education: A Liberative Paradigm
… produce constraints as students not only become criminal justice practitioners, but also engaged members of society. The traditional model is particularly problematic in the criminal justice field due to the potential harms that can result. In an effort to contest the traditional model of …
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Is your accent guilty? The experiences of foreign born domestic violence victims within the English criminal justice system and criminal justice professionals’ perceptions of these victims
… the processes and professionals of the English criminal justice system. These FBDVVs were judged as able to speak English well enough to represent themselves in court without an interpreter by the Witness Care Unit. However, when in the witness box, they faced a number of challenges such as the …
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Peoples opinion on the punishments in the Icelandic Criminal Justice system
Criminal behaviour is said to be a learned behaviour and punishment is said to be most effective if presented immediately after the behaviour occurs. Studies have shown that recidivism rate it lower among those who have served their sentence with electronic monitoring (EM) or community service …
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