Criminal Justice

The jury selection process is an opportunity for prosecutors and defense attorneys alike to leverage their case before a trial begins.  Through jury selection, ...

Criminality is a violation of law, whether local, state, or federal. Deviancy is a violation of behavior from a social norm that takes into ...

The administration of correctional institutions, such as prisons and jails is largely unclear and misunderstood. For a long time, correctional facilities in the United ...

Griffin Police Department Chief Dan Ainsworth is faced with an ethical dilemma when he learned of methamphetamine use occurring just outside of his hometown. ...

The Positivism Theory of Crime was born out of a challenge to that of the Classical Theory of Crime. The positivism theory was a ...

Juvenile delinquency represents a significant problem in the United States and often represents a large percentage of the total criminal activity within a given ...

In today’s society, the concept of the government willingly and directly killing another human is almost alien. Death has become such taboo in this ...

It is often a matter of the attorney’s preference that determines whether or not his client would be better off or worse off in ...

This paper explores many facets regarding cybercrime or the use of computer, the internet, and similar technology in order to commit a variety of ...

Despite the period of general rejection that labeling theory in criminology experienced in the 1970s and ’80s (Bernburg, 2006), labeling theory’s legitimate intellectual history ...