Essays on American Criminal Justice System

In a society where the purity of fact is venerated largely by the vilification of bias, and subsequently defended by the equation of bias with fiction and fiction with falsehood, the attention of an audience is held only through a taxing balance of entertainment with...

There are many things defective with the criminal justice system. The court systems tend to wrongfully convict, as well as use racism as a motivator to give the death penalty. Also, the fact that police officers and lawyers rarely get punished for wrong doings and,...

Throughout history, we have seen various forms of injustice targeted at citizens who don’t know their rights and government officials who exploit the system. Due to this fact, there has now been a law in place that prevents the government from making use of most...

The grand controversy behind the “fruits of the forbidden tree” doctrine is whether or not legally damning evidence – obtained illegally should be admissible in the court of law. The idea – also known as the evidence exclusionary law – centres around the belief that...

”Our criminal justice system is not as smart as it should be” and ”Mass incarceration makes our entire country worse off, and we need to do something about it” is what President Obama declared in 2015. Now, in 2020, five years later, despite all the...

Miranda Rights Case Miranda warning are “You have the right to remain silent, Anything you say can, and will, be used against you in a court of law, You have the right to an attorney, If you cannot afford one, one will be appointed to...

In this essay proposal, I will be talking about two theories (Marxism Theory and Merton’s Strain Theory) that help explain the crime of theft. Both theories talk about how crime is socially induced instead of being personal and individualised, therefore criminal behaviour is a social...

Our country holds less than five percent of the world’s population and nearly a quarter of the world’s prison population due to outdated criminal justice policies that largely target poor, uneducated people of color. More specifically, the war on drugs increased the presence of federal...

A significant figure, Chief Justice Earl Warren, transformed and modified the judicial system during a deafening time for American Politics. Chief Justice Earl Warren had accomplished a great amount before being appointed Chief Justice. He was first elected the Attorney General of California where he...

Introduction The industrial revolution paved the way for a new world. It also however brought with it many inequalities into the world, and as a result society was plagued with these inequalities. The U. S. As a society is one that experienced these inequalities amongst...

“Three-strikes and you’re out” is a famous baseball quote that we all heard growing up. It became a popular rally cry for the increase in violent crimes and drug-related crimes in the 1980s and 1990s. Politicians running for office made getting tough on crime their...