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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"criminal justice administration"”.
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Developing a legal and institutional framework for witness protection in Nigeria: reflections from international perspectives
'Witness protection' has been introduced in the criminal justice systems of several states worldwide as a recognised tool for facilitating the cooperation of witnesses and ensuring that concerns about their safety are not ignored. Although not a new phenomenon, witness protection praxis continues …
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Appropriate practice? : a study of the role and co-ordination of volunteer appropriate adults for young suspects
… perspectives from the fields of youth justice (for example, Brown, 1998; Muncie, 1999a) and criminal process (for example, Packer, 1968; McBarnet, 1981; Choongh, 1997) to explain the philosophy, role and practice of the appropriate adult. It argues that role has been constructed to …
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Immigration and sentencing: does geograhical region of citizenship influence sentence longevity?
A large volume of sentencing research has examined the effects of offender characteristics on sentencing outcomes. Most of this research has focused on offender race/ethnicity. Despite the growth of immigration debates in the United States, there is limited knowledge on the role played by …
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A comparative look of sentencing outcomes based on the defendant's country of citizenship
In the wake of negative stereotypes of immigrants from lower status countries, this study used federal sentencing data for 2015 to examine the effects of the defendant’s country of citizenship on sentence outcomes. Although the United States Sentencing Commission has long stipulated that national …
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Gender differences in policing: a consideration of care ethics
Current research on gender differences in policing is somewhat limited. Research studies that examine the relationship between police officers and ethics of care theory are further limited. This study evaluated gender differences in policing to determine whether ethics of care theories apply to …
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Examining the quality of gender measurements in criminological and criminal justice research: pervasive apathy or bad research methods?
… gender-responsive services in the criminal justice system. Other fields have adopted measures of gender that capture multiple identities and acknowledge the complexity of gender. However, it is unclear whether criminology has heeded these calls for inclusivity. Using a gender theory …
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Stolen past: Shattered futures, aboriginal justice in Canada
It is acknowledged that Canada's criminal justice system has some major flaws, particularly with respect to its application to various ethnic subgroups. Aboriginal Canadians are one subgroup particularly sensitive to the problems in the system as is reflected by their disproportionately high rates …
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Perceptions of crime : a comparative study of Essen, Germany and Malta
… perceptions of crime, their trust in the criminal justice system, and their own encounters with crimes. Such research is the key to the development of sophisticated crime prevention measures which are to be sensitive to the specific conditions of different environments in terms of the …
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Legal system support of crime survivors and attitudes on justice
… literature supports the efficacy of restorative justice programs that started in response to retributive justice and its inability to directly address survivor harm. Thus, the current study examined how crime survivors perceive legal system support and attitudes towards restorative justice, with …
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An analysis of racial bias in revocation rates among felony probationers in Black Hawk County, Iowa
1 PDF file (vi, 80 leaves ; 28 cm)
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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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Institutional racism and public policy : a critical discourse analysis of the war on drugs
1 PDF file (x, 189 leaves ; 28 cm)
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Mock jurors' judgements of the victim, crime and defendant as a function of victim race and deliberation
Extra-legal variables are factors within a trial that are logically irrelevant to the determination of a verdict. They are deemed extra-legal they are extra to the law and are not prescribed in the relevant statutes upon which the relevant issue must be decided. Research investigating judicial …
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Examining the impact of changes in sentencing guidelines and offender demographics on sentencing of white collar offenders
Using the most recent data compiled by the United States Sentencing Commission and conducted within the conceptual framework of the focal concerns perspective, the current study investigates the impact of offender characteristics, case characteristics, and legally relevant factors on the sentencing …
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A survey of the Greater Dallas Crime Commission and its effect on the
… Commission and its effectiveness within the criminal justice system. It is a private agency established fifty (50) years ago to monitor and investigate the criminal justice system. Today, it serves as a source of funding for criminal justice agencies, provides awards and recognition forums …
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Cooperation and Non-Cooperation in Indonesian Criminal Case Processing: Ego Sektoral in Action
… have called for greater cooperation among criminal justice actors when processing a case. Indonesia has a specific term to label the failure of criminal justice actors to cooperate, which is “ego sektoral,” literally translated as sectoral or institutional ego. Although legal commentators …
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