Organized Crime The Latino organized crime outfit that I have chosen to target for prosecution is the Nortenos. This is a street level gang that operates out of Salinas, California, and in other surrounding towns. There is evidence that indicates th Continue Reading...
Prisons Reform Prisoners? America has experienced a huge increase in the number of people who are imprisoned over the past few decades. The increase has particularly been fueled by the increase in violent crimes throughout the society. The American Continue Reading...
In general it has been found that, "It allocates responsibility with the success of unit operations among staff and inmate commensurate with rank" (Schriro). Other positive aspects of the direct supervision system are that it has also been found to Continue Reading...
experimental design feasible? Why or why not? • What suggestions can you make for future studies of the DARE program? The aims of DARE are long-term in nature, namely to encourage students to not abuse drugs over the course of their lifetimes Continue Reading...
community supervision sanctions compare with incarceration in terms of their ability to meet the goals of punishment? Community supervision sanctions offer up a significant alternative to incarceration regarding their effectiveness in meeting the o Continue Reading...
Corrections Accreditation and Privatization Privatization and accreditation are some of the emerging and largely contentious issues in the corrections field. In this text, I concern myself with a number of issues relating to prisons privatization an Continue Reading...
Recidivism/Re-Entry Programs for Adults There has been a large amount of funding filtered into prison recidivism and reentry programs for adults because these programs claim to have the answer to addressing the recidivism rates of adult individuals Continue Reading...
Communication in the criminal justice system The process of communication entails the passage of information between individuals. This flow of communication, however, has its principles. The principles include the need of effective channel of commu Continue Reading...
Review: Cesare Beccarias , An Essay on Crimes and PunishmentsToday, the U.S. incarcerates more of its citizens than any other industrialized nation, and their confinement is determined by their respective offenses. Although they may not realize it, t Continue Reading...
Although penologists disagree about how best to achieve the outcome, there is a general consensus that identifying optimal strategies that facilitate offender rehabilitation represents a valuable and timely enterprise at all levels of the criminal ju Continue Reading...
Violence and Risk Assessment and Serial Homicide The objective of this study is to examine violence risk assessment and the type of tools and their effectiveness for determining violent reoffenders. Lurigio and Harris (2009) reports in the work enti Continue Reading...
Safeguarding the criminal justice system from wrongful convictions through an efficient innocence program policy evaluation proposalExecutive summaryConvicting innocent people is a global concern. The problem has been brought to the fore in the US t Continue Reading...
Strategic, Tactical and Administrative Crime Analysis Crime analysis is one of the most important processes in the fight against crime and efforts towards enhancing the effectiveness of the criminal justice system in dealing with crime. In the past Continue Reading...
It will focus discovering the treatment option, or combination of options that results in the lowest incidence of recidivism for the longest period following the treatment. It is difficult to predict future events, therefore the research will take a Continue Reading...
A second change that has occurred and will continue to transform is that, regardless of the motivation, many employers have begun to experiment with flextime, telecommuting, and voluntary reduced-load work arrangements to give employees more discre Continue Reading...
. Identify the set of industry standards to guide the evaluation.Operational improvement with the criminal justice system has become paramount in light of the recent killing of unarmed African American men in police custody. These tragedies have illu Continue Reading...
Strategic management is increasingly important in the public sector. Public sector organizations are incorporating strategic management principles in an effort to enhance organizational effectiveness and efficiency. In any organization, “strate Continue Reading...
Question 1: What is the target population for the intervention? How will the offence be defined and operationalised? What eligibility criteria will be used for admission to the intervention program?The target population for the intervention is sexual Continue Reading...
When found, these labs must be dismantled by people wearing hazardous material suits." (Halperin 2006-page 1) With the huge budget allocated to Homeland Security, many of the tech-savvy drug producers and dealers can be tracked and busted with the Continue Reading...
Reducing Recidivism Using an Evidence Based Approach Introduction One of the ironies of the United States, the “Land of the Free,” is that this country incarcerates more of its citizens per capita than any other country on earth today. Wh Continue Reading...
Benefits From Plea Bargaining? Although the U.S. Constitution guarantees all defendants a trial by jury, individuals entering the criminal justice system today have about a one-in-twenty chance of actually undergoing a trial, with the rest of the c Continue Reading...
Court-Mandated Educational Course for First-Time, Juvenile Offenders Using education as a means for combating juvenile delinquency issues is nothing new. In fact New York State is launching a program that allows juvenile offenders to keep a portion Continue Reading...
Classification of Federal Agencies: The Administrative Procedure Act is regarded as one of the most significant legislations because it focuses on establishing rules and regulations with which federal regulatory agencies enforce major legislative a Continue Reading...
IT Security Plan The technological advances that have been witnessed in the past twenty to thirty years, has placed a tremendous emphasis on data and information. Computers have changed the world in many facets and the ability to communicate and per Continue Reading...
The Impact of Higher Education on Law Enforcement Officers\\\' Use of Force and Community Policing PracticesAbstractThis study aimed to address the research problem of whether requiring a higher education or college degree for law enforcement officer Continue Reading...
Law enforcement and corrections can be influenced by several external threats. These consist of external communication gaps and many environmental influences. One of the key external threats that impacts both corrections and law enforcement is politi Continue Reading...
Miranda Rule's effectiveness in America today [...] why the Miranda is well tailored to guard against constitutional violations, and will present an argument for the Miranda rule. The Miranda Rule, first adopted in 1966, is still a contentious rulin Continue Reading...
" (Finnerty, 2008) It is reported that those who suffer from co-occurring mental illness and substance abuse problems are also likely to be homeless. According to the Health Care for the Homeless Clinicians' Network (2000) "Co-occurring mental illnes Continue Reading...
d., p. 3). Interestingly, lower-conflict incidents where mental illness is indicated in the presence of a weapon generates higher referral than without (Watson, Ottati, Morabito, Draine, Kerr & Angell, 2010, p.305), although the status of these e Continue Reading...
If police, along with others in society, perceive high risk sex offenders as humans who possess the potential to be rehabilitated, then incidences of possible discrimination against these individuals might decrease. This in turn, the researcher cont Continue Reading...
Local Policies of InterestOne of my communitys local criminal justice programs is the Stronger Together program which places a community resource officer in the local high school, middle school and elementary schools. The officers are there to make c Continue Reading...
Budgetary Politics The United States of America has long grappled with the problem of drugs and has form time to time initiated measures to combat the usage and trafficking of drugs. It is common knowledge that the various wars that have been part o Continue Reading...
The Karzai government adopted a five-point plan for accountability. It refused amnesty for gross violators of human rights abuses. An action plan was created by Afghan officials and the Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission, with the support of Continue Reading...
Boys and Girls Clubs of America as a Resource to Aid in the Prevention of Juvenile Delinquency Boys and Girls Clubs of America This research describes the tremendous need for nonprofit human services organizations by youth who: use drugs, commit c Continue Reading...
. Even when the child in a home where DV occurs is not physically harmed, most of the time, these children know about the violence. As a result, they may experience emotional and behavior problems (The Domestic Violence…, N.d.). A victim of D Continue Reading...
If integration with a conventional social group helps prevent suicide and "delinquency" (Hirschi 1969) and motivates people to fight, make sacrifices for a community, or commit deviant acts on behalf of a sub-cultural group, it should affect almost Continue Reading...
