And, How do you punish those law enforcement officers who commit the crime? ... In 1982, President Reagan started the "War on Drugs" in which police departments were eager to crack down on drugs in the U.S. In South Carolina, the Department of Motor Vehicles issued out guidelines which stated the "common characteristics" of a drug dealer so that police would be aware of who to target. ... It also verifies that although African Americans were more likely to be stopped and searched, they were less likely to be in possession of any drugs. ... The purpose of this Act would be to enforce the c...

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This is an act to create a bond between the community and their law enforcement. Each play an important role and enforcing this style of policing will only create a better atmosphere to live. ... Enforcing a curfew, removing many pay phones used for drug deals, and patrolling was how this was dealt with. ... Child abuse is another huge reason for drug abuse. ... To put an end to this, officers cracked down and used a higher level of enforcements to keep the drug use under control. ...

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Alcohol and drugs will be kept to a minimum and that will lessen violence and crime. Minors will have less access to the drugs and alcohol since they will not be out at all hours of the night. ... Last of all, parents will have more control over their children since curfew will be enforced. ... Police will be on the parents side enforcing the curfew law. ... Curfew is a priority in the future that needs to be enforced. ...

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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 War on Drugs in this sense is convenient; instead the War on Drugs should be understood as a special case of what war has always been on how force and violence against certain communities pertains to certain political objectives. ... In Bob Herbert's article, "hounding the innocent" (1999), he asserts that the authority (justice system) in the United States enforces law based on ethnic profiling. ... In the discussion about the extent of racial profiling, "most Americans have no idea of the extent of the raced-based profiling that is carried out by the law-enforcement o...

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There are more marijuana related arrests made per year than any other drug combined (Nadelmann). ... James Austin, President of the JFA Institute reported that "enforcing marijuana laws costs over 7.6 billion per year," not including court costs and correction policies (Austin). It costs federal and state government far too much to crack down on marijuana consumers, when funding should be enforced on areas of greater concern, such as education and healthcare. ... "By contrast, 32 percent of tobacco users and 15 percent of alcohol users are drug dependent," (Armentano). It seems as if the le...

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Many police authorities use racial profiling as a tool to pick up anyone they suspect is carrying arms and/or drugs. Since the onset of the "war on drugs" in the mid-1980s, Black Americans have been arrested, prosecuted, convicted and imprisoned for drug law offences at rates grossly out of proportion to their numbers among drug offenders. Although drug use and selling cut across all racial, socioeconomic and geographic lines, law enforcement strategies have targeted street-level drug dealers and users from low-income, predominantly minority urban areas. ... Increasingly the police are seen by...

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What the 'Zero Tolerance' policy meant was that all laws would be strictly enforced comes along with aggressive police enforcement (Grabosky, 1999). ... Bush has always been committed to engaging in a war on drugs (Whalen, 2001). ... Bush took military action in Panama to counter cartel drug activity (Whalen, 2001). ... This corruption makes things even hard for the United States in dealing with drug traffickers and money launders. When this cartel produced drug activity spills over into the U.S. the criminals must be dealt with within the U.S. court system, as stated in the article...

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When patrolling the streets, the police stop cars for traffic violations, and sometimes engage in undercover operations if they think is suspicious of more serious crimes such as drug trafficking or prostitution. ...

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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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A second responsibility criminal investigators must maintain is enforcing the law and bringing criminals to justice. It is difficult to enforce laws created by the justice system on criminal's who have produced a peculiar idea of another social world with separate laws for them to follow. For example, drug dealers see dealing drugs as a profession and a tool of the trade. ... The canines provide as a partner to the officers and aid them in foot chases, drug cases, and locating murder weapons and suspects. ... Police experience fatal incidents, abuse cases, and drug trafficking daily and w...

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Other causes include failure at school, increased availability of drugs and alcohol as well as guns which to tend to increase probability of a child committing a crime although direct cause has not been established. ... Probation officers have the least amount of resources in comparison to police or prisons, yet have one of the hardest jobs - to enforce court imposed conditions on offenders who spend their time in the same conditions that led them into crime. There are some programs today that team up probation officers with police in order to enforce more effectively the terms of proba...

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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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Any person 16 years old or older charged with a capital offense, a Class A felony, a felony which involves the use of a deadly weapon or a felony which has as an element that causes death or serious physical injury or involving the serious physical injury, use of a dangerous instrument against a law enforcement officer, a judicial official, etc., and trafficking in drugs is tried as an adult. ... This is a prime example of too harsh a punishment that does not fit the crime; this is why each case must be handled individually. 3 There are different types of punishments for lesser juvenile cri...

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Tools that allow location and electronic monitoring, the utilization of social media such as Facebook and twitter to monitor offender's actions, and cutting-edge drug testing as well as portable equipment used to prevent the operation of motor vehicles while under the influence of alcohol have all come to the forefront of probation and parole's operations. ... Now, imagine that same scenario only now envision that electronic monitoring is being utilized and because part of that offender's release hinged on staying at least 150 yards from all schools that house school aged child...

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The purpose of being a Police Officer is to protect and serve a community from various crimes that are being committed and enforcing the law. ... Some applicants are drug tested and even put through a lie detector test. ...

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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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A new federal study shows that only half of violent crimes committed in 2000 were reported to law enforcement authorities (Rappaport, 2003). ... In television shows the victims are disregarded by law enforcement so real victims start to believe in what they see. ... For instance stalking is a crime that no one really has paid much attention to but ever since the tragic death of Peggy Klinke, a stalking victim who was murdered by an ex-boyfriend after repeatedly seeking law enforcement intervention (Baldassari, 2003). Just this past Tuesday, the 8th, Congresswoman Heather Wilson hosted an event...

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The disparity among rates of incarceration and race exists because of unfair treatment by law enforcement. ... In which he explains: "Police drug law enforcement focused effort on inner-city, primarily minority, neighborhoods, where many black Americans live, and on crack cocaine, of which blacks are a large majority of arrested sellers. ...

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Sherry Atkinson Dr. Bunce English 1123/18 03/06/03 Crime and punishment An issue that has continually created tension in today's society is whether the death penalty serves as a justified and valid form of punishment. Whenever the word "death penalty" comes up, extremists from both sides...

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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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The set time period is given to the offender and during this time they have to abide by certain rules such as; unpaid work, curfews, exclusions, drug rehabilitation and alcohol treatment (http://www.inbrief.co.uk). ...

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Homelessness, unemployment, drug addiction, mental illness, and illiteracy are only a few of the problems that disappear from public view when the human beings contending with then are relegated to cages. ...

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