The legal system appears to believe that a drug dealer is somehow more of a threat to society than a child abuser or sex offender. Illegal drug trafficking is a serious social issue, but there is a stark contrast between child molestation and drug trafficking. The drug user, by definition, includes themselves in the crime through their choice of taking the drug or selling, while the victim of sexual abuse makes no such decision. ... There are prisons that provide sex offenders voluntary treatment programs, but these programs are rarely enforced and sparsely funded. ... Whatever it takes to ens...

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Law enforcement enforces many different crimes; some of the most serious crimes are violent crimes. ... In 1994, the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act was passed. ... This subject is addressed within the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 is section 3626. This section states, " Federal court shall not place a ceiling on the inmate population of any Federal, State, or Local detention facility unless crowding is inflicting cruel and unusual punishment on a particular identified prisoners " (Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994, section 3626). ....

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The root cause of prison overcrowding is the War on Drugs. ... Harsh sentencing for minor drug offenses, warrantless searches, and zero tolerance policies are just a few initiatives of the War on Drugs. ... Even America's perception of drugs before the Drug War was insignificant. ... At the beginning President Reagan's War on Drugs, law enforcement agencies were hesitant to enforce such a measure, but the President offered a treat few agencies can resist: cash. According to Michelle, "Huge cash grants were made to those law enforcement agencies that were willing to make drug-law...

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It will take new treatment programs, as well as vigorous enforcement and a committed public. One method they come up with is drug courts that are more successful than the stand-alone programs is the threat of going to prison if a drug user fails to complete the program. Drug courts employ a carrot-and-stick approach. ... Drug courts have received high marks from all quarters of the criminal justice establishment as well as from drug treatment specialists. ... It will take new treatment programs, as well as vigorous enforcement and a committed public (Spelman,1988). ...

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This law does work when it is actually applied to large drug dealers. ... In some cases, the amount of drugs does not even come into question. ... When mandatory sentences are used in Federal cases that do involve high-level drug dealers, the amount of cocaine consumed can be reduced 72 kilograms by per million dollars spent on enforcement. Conventional enforcement at all levels of government can reduce consumption by 27 kilograms (Caulkins 2). However, according to Caulkins, spending an extra millions dollars on enforcing mandatory sentences at all levels of government, consumption would o...

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Kennedy states, in a local news story, he started to do drugs at the age of thirteen and continued being dependent on the high (Kinney 696). ... During this program, he learned how to take responsibility for his actions, quit his drug addiction and crime, and most importantly, how to create an attitude for success. The Salvation Army's rehabilitation program restores lives and is enforced in local prisons, providing ministries to prevent future crime. ... Research showed that the punishment that was enforced didn't teach prisoners as effectively as they thought. ... This restorati...

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Department of Justice retains data for analysis, dissemination, and study to help those in law enforcement and those wishing to research data related to criminal justice. ... The data suggests that drug offenders and persons committing property crimes were more likely to be parents than violent offenders, which can be viewed as a positive in that the lack of violence in their crimes would make parenting possible and less risky to their children. Sadly, though drug recidivists are more likely to be parents than other types of recidivists, making family reunification difficult if special atten...

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To sell the Probation service to a very punitive minded member of the public, it is necessary to explain how probation has developed over time from a social work attitude, to the modern day National Probation Service with a law enforcement remit, and its aims and objectives as such. ... Probation also moved on in the 1990's as it became responsible for developing partnerships with other agencies, such as employment agencies and alcohol and drug counsellors, so that offenders in the community can be more effectively managed. ... (Induction Handbook, 2003) Paul Boateng, Minister for P...

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Both Helen and Tom may be issued with semi-custodial sentences for theft, drug offences, traffic offences, and possible manslaughter. ... Such conditions include: Making certain payments to the victim Reporting to the probation service on a regular bases Attending counselling for drug and alcohol addiction A good behaviour bond is inexpensive and can rehabilitate the offender, such as the result of attending counselling for drug and alcohol addiction. ... Diversionary programs are designed for offenders who need special needs and treatment for a particular problem that leads to criminal...

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The majority of imprisoned mothers are single parents who primarily committed non-violent crimes such as drug possession, shoplifting, fraud and prostitution (Wirpsa, 1998). According to Justice Work literature, a closer look into women involved in the criminal justice system shows that they are there because of lack of education, poverty, homelessness, drug addictions, and spousal abuse. ... "Justice Works wants to redirect prison construction and law enforcement toward a more effective and less expensive alternative to jail and prison for non-violent crimes" (Wirpsa, 1998). According t...

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Most of the reason for this is drug related. Yet whites and blacks engage in drug offences, possession and sales, at roughly comparable rates (Human Rights Watch 2008).While African Americans comprise 13% of the US population and 14% of monthly drug users they are 37% of the people arrested for drug offences ( Marc Mauer of The Sentencing Project.) African Americans are arrested for drug offences at rates 2 to 11 times higher than the rate for whites. ... Marc Mauer of the Sentencing Project reports African Americans are 21% more likely to receive mandatory minimum sentences than white defenda...

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Today only the United States and Turkey enforce executions. The first question that should be addressed, is whether or not we should enforce and even carry out capital punishment. ... There is no clear-cut answer if we as a society should enforce the death penalty. ...

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Often times older prisoners looking for homosexual relationships may at times grovel themselves by offering several things such as, food, money, drugs, protection, or cigarettes. ... In the non-custodial rape context, women very often complain of receiving insensitive or indifferent treatment by law enforcement. ...

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The term capital punishment is derived from the Latin caput, meaning "head". It originally referred to death by decapitation, but now applies generally to state authorized executions. Crimes occur in every society around the world. Historically, criminals convicted of these crimes were dealt with in different ways, some of which are sentenced to death. Capital punishment has been banned in most western countries, although, countries like the United States, despite earlier attempts to eliminate capital punishment have now had an increased amount of support from several states, in the use...

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With the professionalization of police and law enforcement, society moved to punishment focusing on reform and rehabilitation of the offender. ... If we look at the prison population, many prisoners are suffering from life long history of drug abuse, alcohol dependency, abuse, or some sort of mental illness. ...

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The criminal justice system enforces order and respect for everyone's life and as well as their families and property. ... He stated, "The sight of so many of those prisoners with rashes and burns -- to say nothing of the rumors of prisoners' being shipped to mental hospitals after participating in studies of psychotropic drugs, or even dying mysteriously....

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Law enforcement officials feel the need for prisoner rehabilitation programs so that those prisoners who become involved with and complete such programs are least likely to become re-offenders and as a result, there are fewer cases to work for the officials. ... As a result, more money can be spent on education, job training, drug treatment, anger management and other programs. ...

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