Poetic Justice One of the big challenges in life is taking the right choice. Everybody comes up against it‚ and it always ends in a good or a bad way. Some of them are quickly forgotten‚ while other stick in our minds for years. You can’t always make the choices that lead to what you always have been dreaming about. Sometimes dreams comes true and other times you have to fight for your dreams‚ before they just let go. But in the end everything moves on and other things gets better or more exiting
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Celebrity Justice Lindsay Lohan‚ Nicole Ritchie‚ Paris Hilton‚ Tiger Woods‚ Nicholas Cage - the list of celebrities who have been arrested or charged with a crime is a long one. Drug possession‚ lying to investigators‚ driving while intoxicated‚ shoplifting - the list of offenses is also a long one. When arrested‚ are celebrities held to the same standards of justice as the rest of us‚ or do they receive special treatment in the legal system? If convicted how‚ do their sentences compare to those
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I have aspired to be a police officer my whole life and found it only fitting to interview a Police Officer from the Northern Virginia area. The officer told me of his own aspirations to become a cop and it only furthered my motivation. He said his goal as a police officer was/is to make positive influential changes for his peers by protecting and serving his community to his fullest potential. Before returning back to patrol the streets‚ the officer was a Student Resource Officer (SRO) at Herndon
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Seven Essential Interview Skills Kathy Thomas Criminal Justice Communications September 28‚ 2012 You are a probation officer who was conducting a home visit for probationer Bobby Jean. You walk up to the door‚ she answers‚ and you notice a bag of marijuana sitting on the kitchen table. She promises that it is not hers. You provide her with a urine screen and it is clean. Based on the above scenario‚ please respond to the following questions: * What would you do? * Would this scenario
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Unjust Justice: Juveniles Serving Life Without Parole The 14th amendment of Constitution of the United States grants every American Citizen the right of due process of the law. This right is being denied juveniles sentenced to “life without parole”. Recent Supreme Court rulings have held that “life without parole” is cruel and unjust punishment for those juveniles sentenced for non-homicidal crimes‚ because of limited capacity. Life without parole is essentially cruel and unjust punishment
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Evelyn Duron 1/29/2013 L202 Justice Served? In Sherman Alexie’s poem‚ “Capital Punishment”‚ a part that was very interesting‚ yet confusing was when the narrator was being sympathetic. The narrator was very considerate of the prisoners. In the poem‚ Alexie makes the narrator be a cook at a jail that had the death row. Perhaps Alexie made the narrator be a cook instead of someone else like a guard or a warden because the cook would not represent the law; the cook just works for the jail. Readers of the poem
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Clay Thompson article‚ “The Lost Boys: California is Trying Kids as Adults-and Locking Them Up for Life. No One Knows How Many”‚ on the project censored website‚“ In California alone minors as young as 14 are being punished into the adult criminal justice system. As a result children face adult punishments sometimes as severe as life in prison” (Thompson). We have age limits on things because it is quite obvious that youth are not fully capable of making the right decisions. For one‚ the brains of
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Juvenile Justice To many Americans today‚ the country is a hostage-but not from oversea terrorism as one might expect to think. No today‚ we live in fear from our own children; and these are the same young people who we are entrusting the future of this great country with. According to the Department of Justice report released in November‚ thirty-eight percent of those arrested for weapons offenses in 1995 were under the age of eighteen (Curriden 66). In the same report‚ the Bureau of Justice Statistics
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Environmental Justice for the Kikuyu Tribe SCI/362 26 MAY 2010 Environmental Justice for the Kikuyu Tribe Colney and Pitts is a California based pharmaceutical company. Colney and Pitts is planning to set up a manufacturing plant near the Aberdares mountain range in the eastern highlands of Kenya to produce medicines for prostate disease. The Kikuyu tribe is the largest tribe in the country and occupies the Aberdares mountain range. An extensive ethno botanical survey on the use
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they will get out of it with a plea bargain or they might not even step foot in the court room because someone else is already getting prosecuted for it. Courts and plea bargains go hand in hand these days. To me‚ I think plea bargains are not true justice‚ its laziness. According to BGA‚ there were 85 wrongful convictions in Illinois. 81 out of the 85 cases involving wrongful convictions were involving government misconduct or errors.The investigation’s findings are based on the cases of 83 men and
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