Category: Criminal Justice Essay Examples
See our collection of criminal justice essay examples. These examples are to help you understanding how to write essays on crime-related topics. Contemporary study of criminology and criminal justice is also increasingly interdisciplinary and thus features a broad variety of topics on the causes, effects, and responses to crime. Also, see our list of criminal justice essay topics to find the one that interests you.
Violent resistance is one of three major forms of partner violence defined by Johnson. He developed this control-based typology in response to contrasting findings within the partner violence literature concerning the use of violence by women and the frequency, severity, and consequences of partner violence. Violent resistance is …
The Women of Color Network (WOCN) is a nationwide group of women dedicated to eliminating violence against women and families. It was founded in 1997 by a group of women of color from across the country and led by staff from the National Resource Center on Domestic Violence …
The Women’s Aid Federations of the United Kingdom are the national umbrella bodies for the local domestic abuse services in England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, and Wales. Registered as charities under U.K. law, the federations respectively coordinate and support four networks of local organizations (370 in England, 40 in …
Workplace Violence Workplace violence falls under the general category of criminal violence. As defined by Reiss and Roth, it is behavior by persons against persons that intentionally threatens, attempts, or actually inflicts physical harm. There are other forms of workplace violence, not discussed here, that are psychologically nonviolent: …
There is relatively little research on strategies and policies to reduce workplace violence. The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) has developed a number of prevention strategies primarily for Type I and Type II workplace violence. Environmental Designs This strategy includes making accessible small amounts of …
Youth violence can be defined as the intentional use of physical force or power (threatened or actual) exerted either by or against youth that likely or actually causes psychological or physical harm. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report that this widespread violence in the United States …
The debate about whether a woman should have the right to abort a fetus is one of the most controversial questions of the 21st century. The terms pro-life and pro-choice attempt to reduce this complex issue to simplistic, black-and-white positions of being either against protecting the life of …
Ethical absolutists believe that actual ethical rules exist to govern ethical behavior. Immanuel Kant’s form of absolutism, the “categorical imperative,” originates in his arguments based upon his critique of practical reason. Other forms of absolute rules may stem from religious doctrine or other ontological arguments. Individuals who believe …
The abuse of prisoners at the American detention facility at Abu Ghraib during the Iraq War provoked a number of legal and ethical debates. The George W. Bush administration argued that the Geneva Convention’s protocols on the treatment of prisoners of war (POWs) did not apply to the …
Ethical considerations are an integral part of criminal justice as both an academic discipline and a profession. In addition to the importance of adherence to ethical guidelines among persons working at multiple levels of lawmaking, policing, courts, and corrections, it is equally important that those teaching, conducting scholarship, …
Accountability, a complex concept worthy of analysis in its own right, is particularly important to consider in the context of criminal justice, in part because of the ethical and pragmatic significance of holding those within the criminal justice system appropriately accountable for their actions. Holding others accountable is …
The term age of criminal responsibility can be used in different ways. One understanding is the age at which a child may be treated in the same way as an adult in the criminal justice system. It may refer to the age at which a child can be …
Ethical issues that relate to criminal justice are relevant to all areas of the legal profession, to all those personally involved in the carriage of this area of law, as well as the frameworks for the administration of justice in society. Alternative dispute resolution (ADR) processes are used …
Altruism is a term coined by French sociologist Auguste Comte (1798–1857). It can be viewed as either an ethical doctrine or a behavior. The ethical doctrine holds that all humans have an ethical obligation to help others, even at a cost to one’s self; the behavioral aspect is …
There are many organizations focused on the protection of civil liberties as guaranteed under the U.S. Constitution; one of the best known of these is the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). Craig Johnson notes that it is important to consider those who apply ethics in their leadership choices/decisions. …
Amnesty International (AI) is a global, nonprofit, grassroots organization dedicated to the provision of essential human rights for all persons and advocating for individuals whose rights have been violated. AI is known as “the prisoner’s friend”; its members work for the release of nonviolent prisoners of conscience who …
The issue of animal rights, including issues of their welfare and the need to protect them from abuse, first emerged as an ethical issue for criminal justice in the 20th century, becoming a central concern for animal rights activists and for society more generally. The role of the …
The 9/11 attacks by al Qaeda on the World Trade Center in New York City and on the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, across the Potomac from Washington, D.C., put terrorism at the center of the world stage. Post 9/11 there have been a number of specific terrorist bombings …
The theory of “petit apartheid” was introduced by criminal justice scholar Daniel E. Georges-Abeyie in 1990 to refer to the subtle discrimination, prompted by an individual’s race, ethnicity, gender, sex, sexual orientation, age, religion, or nationality, embedded within the criminal justice system. Such discrimination often takes the form …
Apartheid was a formal policy of segregation in the Republic of South Africa. The focus was to deprive non-Europeans of political and economic opportunities and benefits. Racial discrimination began long before apartheid was officially implemented as state policy in 1948. In 1913, the Land Act was passed. It …
