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Delinquency & Juvenile Justice
Curriculum Vita
Overview
BiographyLinks
UNLV Student's PageWar in Iraq: What’s the Price Tag? $547 Billion (As of 8/23/08)
Special Announcements
NEW!! Graduate Student Research Papers. Click on UNLV Student's Page
NEW!! Criminal Justice History Resources. Go to Links and UNLV Student's Page.
The Sentencing Project: Schools and Prisons: Fifty Years After Brown v. Board of Education. Click on "Punishment" above.
Minorities make up bulk of defendants in gang cases, court review finds. Click on "War on Drugs" above
Los Angeles Gangs - a series of stories. Click on "Youth Gangs." below.
Supreme Court finds history is a matter of opinions
Lead Exposure and Crime – a series of articles
Supreme Court & Apartheid Victims
Here's something new: First Indiana prison nursery
Supreme Court rules on lethal injection. 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)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)