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Delinquency & Juvenile Justice
Curriculum Vita
Overview
BiographyLinks
UNLV Student's PageWar in Iraq: What’s the Price Tag? $513 Billion (As of 4/20/08)
See this video http://www.afsc.org/cost/
Special Announcements
NEW!! Criminal Justice History Resources. Go to Links and UNLV Student's Page.
NEW!! Conservative views on crime. Scroll down to view.
NEW!! A series of reports on fraud in the real estate and mortgage industry. Scroll down to Corporate and Political Crime page.
Truancy and street violence are linked. Click on Delinquency and Juvenile Justice page above.
More Stories on the Polygamy case in Texas. Scroll down to Child Victims page.
Here's something new: First Indiana prison nursery
Supreme Court rules on lethal injection. Scroll down to Death Penalty Research.
Overdose death rate surges, mostly because of legal drugs. See War on Drugs above.
Another polygamist sect in the news. Scroll down to Child Victims page.
War on drugs a total bust. See War On Drugs above.
Another study refutes the deterrence effect of the death penalty. Scroll down to Death Penalty Research.
Special Topics
Immigration Issues
Special Series on Skid Row in Los Angeles -
Series appearing in the Los Angeles Times by reporter Steve Lopez. For those teaching courses related to crime and deviance, this is an excellent source. I have little doubt you can generalize to every skid row in every urban area in the country from reading this.
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Quotable:
“Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you gain at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his own tail. It won't fatten the dog.”
-- Mark Twain, Speech 11/23/1900
”The reformative effect of punishment is a belief that dies hard, I think, because it is so satisfying to our sadistic impulses.”
-- Bertrand Russell, Ideas That Have Harmed Mankind
“The rich rob the poor and the poor rob one another.”
-- Sojourner Truth, saying
“The prestige of government has undoubtedly been lowered considerably by the Prohibition law. For nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced. It is an open secret that the dangerous increase of crime in this country is closely connected with this.”
-- Albert Einstein, My First Impression of the U.S.A., 1921
Commentaries: Do “Liberal” Professors “Indoctrinate” Students? (5/5/08)
War’s Price Tag (3/30/08)
Are Criminals “Sick”?
(3/3/08)Taboo subjects in the primaries
(2/4/08)Updating the Drug War (12/17/07)
Denying that Racism Exists (11/30/07)
Providing a Balance – the Conservative View of Crime and Criminal Justice (11/1/07)
A punishing god (9/17/07)
Research Articles:
Girls and Juvenile Justice Reform (4/7/08)
Reforming Nevada’s Prison System (4/7/08)
Guest writer Donna Point:
Debating the USA PATRIOT Act
(2/5/08)
Imprisonment and Crime Rates (3/12/07)