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The use of science in criminal justice has created ambiguous results. While the application of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) testing in criminal evidence has been a tremendous advancement in the determination of guilt or innocence of crime suspects, other scientific applications have not been as productive. Some have been …
Academic criminology took notice when, in 1988, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), sociologist Jack Katz published The Seductions of Crime: Moral and Sensual Attraction of Doing Evil. While reviews were not uniformly in agreement with the thesis and methods of the book, it was felt that Katz …
Incapacitation is generally recognized as one of the primary goals of punishment policy in the United States, along with rehabilitation, deterrence, and retribution. Selective incapacitation is a relatively recent correctional approach that aims to utilize scarce prison space more carefully by sentencing only the most dangerous and likely …
Broadly defined, sentencing disparities are inequalities in sentences received by offenders that are based on factors other than the offense. These disparities can occur in a number of ways and they can result in both lenient and severe punishments. Often, sentencing disparity is used to describe excessive sentences …
Since the early 1990s, several laws have been passed to protect the community from recidivist sex offenders through enhanced sanctions and supervision. These include registration and community notification laws, residence restrictions, global positioning system (GPS) tracking, community supervision for life, and civil commitment. Most of these policies are …
Many behaviors now treated as prosecutable sexual offenses were not always considered crimes. The legal concept of a sexual offender has evolved to include those whose victims are spouses, children, and other family members; acquaintances and romantic partners; and employees and coworkers. In a quest for reduction of …
At any given time there are approximately 275,000 convicted sex offenders under some form of community supervision in the United States. This typology of offender is expected to grow as more people are being convicted for traditional sex crimes (e.g., rape and child molestation) as well as relatively …
Human trafficking is generally understood to be the transportation of persons, both within and between countries, through deception or coercion into exploitative or slavery-like conditions. As an illegal activity, human trafficking encompasses both labor and sexual exploitation where the victims include men and women, adults, and children. The …
Sexting combines the words sex and text to refer to the creation and distribution by mobile phone or through the Internet (for instance, on social networking sites such as Facebook) of images of a naked or seminaked person or sexually suggestive or explicit images or messages. The primary …
In the 21st century, sex offender legislation has experienced severe ebbs and flows. Criminal justice policy in the United States regarding sex offenders and sexual crimes has been and continues to be directed by the belief that sex offenders are uncontrollable and untreatable, regardless of age. Because of …
Shaming penalties involve the public humiliation of an individual who commits a crime or violates social norms, subjecting the offending individual to ridicule or disrespect by others in an attempt to punish and rehabilitate the individual. Proponents of shaming penalties attempt to exploit a perceived connection between the …
Gun use in the United States plagues many neighborhoods. According to the Uniform Crime Reports published by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, between the years 2006 and 2010, approximately 48,000 deaths could be blamed on the use of firearms. The statistic does not include gun-related injuries or the …
Society has become increasingly diverse and mobile, which presents a number of risks not only for governing but also for the justice system. The use of simulated justice is one way of managing those risks. Simulated justice is partly an emulation of the justice system, which it is …
Smith v. Doe (2003) was a court case in which the U.S. Supreme Court considered the constitutionality of retroactively applying reporting requirements to convicted sex offenders. This issue arose in the context of the application of the Alaska Sex Offender Registration Act, which required convicted sex offenders to …
The theory of social control has had considerable influence in how criminologists explain crime and criminal offending. Early proponents of this perspective sought to explain the role of external factors that may influence why some people, particularly young people, engage in delinquency and crime whereas others do not. …
In criminal justice studies multiple definitions of social justice are drawn from a range of philosophies and theories across the social sciences and humanities. The term social justice itself is used in wider society usually to connote both social-solidarity-oriented policies and socially just outcomes for individuals and particular …
Next to the Great Wall of China the Grand Canal was the most important engineering feat in ancient China and was undertaken during the Sui dynasty (581– 618). Earlier, during the Qin (Ch’in) dynasty and Han dynasty major canals had been built for land reclamation and irrigation and …
Little is known about Gratian. He was probably born at the end of the 11th century in Chiusi in Tuscany and died in Bologna around 1160. Around 1140 he completed his Decretum Gratiani, which made him one of the most renowned canonists of all time. The Decretum Gratiani …
It is said that on a good day one can glimpse distant Greenland from Iceland. This may be an exaggeration, but the existence of links of land across the North Atlantic played a key role in Norse exploration, along with the development of new types of ships and …
Gregory Palamas was born in the city of Constantinople in 1296. His father was a prominent official under Byzantine emperor Andronicus II Palaeologus. His father died while Gregory was an infant, and the emperor actively took a part in Gregory’s formation and education. Intelligent and hardworking, Gregory was …
