684 Search Results for Program Evaluation in Criminal Justice
Predictive policing is a trend that uses technology to predict hot crime spots and send police to the area before a crime is committed. By using data mining and crime mapping, police are deployed to areas based on statistical probability and geospati Continue Reading...
new juvenile detention center, if given unlimited financial resources. It first examines the main purpose, and location of the facility, and then turns to how the facility would deal with resident problems with socialization, education, and correcti Continue Reading...
Police Selection
The Selection Process for Aspirant State Police Officers
Becoming a police officer at the state level requires dedication, courage and tenacity. Indeed, the process for state officers can often be more streamlined, bureaucratic an Continue Reading...
Crime Causation Diversion: Comparison of Juvenile Diversion, Intervention, And Prevention Programs Operating in California
The objective of this study is to compare juvenile diversion, intervention, and prevention programs operating California. This Continue Reading...
Human Services Research
The Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act
The purpose of this project is to inform its readers that human trafficking crimes are becoming more and more salient among the public collective consciousness. As a res Continue Reading...
There are a variety of theoretical explanations that have been put forward to explain female abuse and violent crimes against women. These include feminist and gender theories and extend to theories of genetic pathology.
However, in the criminolog Continue Reading...
The issue remains widely debatable, with some insisting the behavior in the jails need to be reevaluated yet some insist on the societal emphasis in curbing recidivism.
The prison systems have also failed in reduction of recidivism through a failur Continue Reading...
Opportunities to Improve Rehabilitation Programming at Joseph Harp Correctional Center, Lexington, Oklahoma
This paper provides an overview of Joseph Harp Correctional Center, a medium-security prison located in Lexington, Oklahoma, including its m Continue Reading...
Crime Prevention and Community Safety
Key issues in crime prevention and community safety
The recent focus on crime prevention is a very delightful movement within the law enforcement arena. Traditionally crime prevention has been viewed as an unne Continue Reading...
Crime Scene Investigations:
Many crime scene investigations revolved around safeguarding the crime scenes, protecting physical evidence, and gathering and transferring the evidence for scientific evaluation. This process is based on the role that ph Continue Reading...
Productivity-Education/Craft/Trade -- a key to being able to stop the return to the penal system is to provide training necessary to allow the individual to find work after leaving prison. Not only is it extremely tough to get a job as a convicted Continue Reading...
Crime Prevention PlanIntroductionThe city of Cincinnati, OH, is seeing an increase of violent crime and gun shootings in the Over-the-Rhine (OTR) community. Since 2000, OTR has been a major source of frustration for the city: it is on the northern si Continue Reading...
Organized Crime Reduction Strategy
There is no doubt whatsoever that transnational organized crime groups are a threat to not only the security of the countries in which they operate, but also global security in general. Often operating in well-orga Continue Reading...
Juvenile Detention Alternatives Initiative
Innumerable advancements and innovations have profoundly contributed to the betterment of the lives of the human race in the twenty first century. This trend of progression is surging ahead at a rapid pace; Continue Reading...
Law Enforcement
Benefits of GIS Applications for Law Enforcement
Resources
Police methods have changed dramatically around the world in recent years due to the advent of geo-positioning and improved computer-aided mapping techniques. As has happen Continue Reading...
Controlling Street Gang Activity in Canada
The number of street gangs in Canada has grown considerably. These gangs pose a threat to life as well as property in urban and suburban areas. The primary strategy adopted in Canada is the use of policing Continue Reading...
Correction Trends
American corrections history
The prisons or the correction units have been for long a part and parcel of the American history. These institutions have existed as far back as the slave trade era. Later on, under the watch of the co Continue Reading...
Johnny was challenged on several expenses, but no formal complaint or discipline occurred. After the incident with IA, Johnny began openly challenging everything management said or wrote, including openly challenging the termination of another emplo Continue Reading...
Enhancing Citizen Participation for Solving Serious Crime
The Presentation Includes
The need of involving communities in crime controlling activities
The stake of community
The approach of the crime stoppers
Greg MacAlesse, 1976
Enhancing Citiz Continue Reading...
As this study points out, these encounters can lead to negative situations and even to death, injuries and legal issues.
In essence, the relationship and involvement of the police from a formal point-of-view is based on two common law principles. T Continue Reading...
The law enforcement community must present a united front with state agencies against domestic violence if it is ever to be stopped. Until abusers can be brought to justice there will always be frightened victims living their lives, blaming themsel Continue Reading...
Police Studies)
Community-Oriented Policing and Victimless Crime:
Street-Level Drug Trafficking
The high rates of individuals who are arrested, on probation, incarcerated, or on parole throughout our nation have led some critical criminologists t Continue Reading...
This phase is described by Carrier as the phase where we "...use the evidence that we found and determine what events occurred in the system" (Carrier, 2005).
2.2. The United States Department of Justice's (USDOJ) digital forensic analysis methodol Continue Reading...
In an argument against this decentralization it is argued that "diminishing their importance would erode the privatized feel that now dominates the exercise of city power in America and, thereby, affect the life of every metropolitan resident." (Fru Continue Reading...
Forensics in Criminal Investigations
Exploring the Use of Forensics in Criminal Investigations
Forensic Science and Technology
This paper explores the role of forensic science and technology in modern criminal investigations. It first examines the Continue Reading...
intermediate sanctions?
Over the last decade there have been rising overcrowding in prisons and other correction facilities making them costly and dangerous for the inmates. There has been also a need to better manage the crime levels in the commun Continue Reading...
To ensure that parolees do visit their parole officers on time, the governor decided to give them an incentive. He stated that parolees who would report on time would receive a monthly stipend of $25. This would then lead to an increased contact rat Continue Reading...
Recruitment and Selection
The Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) is one of the largest law enforcement agencies in the United States, and in terms of local agencies, is smaller only than the New York and Chicago police departments. As a result, it Continue Reading...
There are a few key points of differentiation that make the bracelet program unique. It is the first program that allows live tracking. Existing programs can do little more than identify a child once they have been found. The current systems in pla Continue Reading...
Resolving a Social Problem:
As mentioned in the first assignment, one of the main social problems in the modern society is crime, which is basically defined as an offense against public law. Since it is a major social problem, crime has significant Continue Reading...
Measuring Crime Victimization:
As the various kinds of crimes are significant reflections of how and why crime victimization takes place, the various sources of research and data on measuring crime victimization are crucial in the development and es Continue Reading...
Government Budgeting for Kelsey: Budget Changes Needed to Better Protect and Serve the Community
"We're not going to use the budget as an excuse. We're not crying about it. But I'm going to push as hard as I can to get as many people on the streets Continue Reading...
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You need to complete the following request set by a fictitious professor (any similarity with persons living or dead is entirely deliberate). You can find the dataset on the course website in the Cours Continue Reading...
What is profitable, of course, is often fashionable. To create a disincentive to participate in criminal activity, expanded opportunities are necessary for the poorest members of society. In keeping with the Republican Party's stress upon free enter Continue Reading...
duty of any state to provide its citizens security and without doubt the police are the face of this security. Time and again efforts have been made to find ways to fulfill this obligation, community policing being one such step. Community policing, Continue Reading...
Current Events
Current Even 1: Ohio School Shooting
On February 27th, 2012, a school shooting occurred in the state of Ohio. Tragically, three people were killed in the incident and another three students were injured. It was reported that seventee Continue Reading...
When officers complete training, they are expected to explain the benefits of their learning, describe the purpose of learning, analyze ill-structured problems in order to determine if they are suitable for problem solving and to evaluate the need f Continue Reading...
They must also determine what types of delinquent behavior and youth violence are causing the greatest concern in the community. (Medaris, 1996, para.# 5)
As can be seen from the above statement of the first step in implementing the SHOCAP program Continue Reading...
gang development, research and reduction strategies as outlined by Klein and Maxson in their 2006 study Street Gang Patterns and Policies. It incorporates additional research beyond Klein and Maxson, but focuses on the basic analysis of the problem Continue Reading...