but, ultimately, police officers should not be making selective judgments about the relative quality of the people they arrest (Fuller, 2001). They have a moral obligation to enforce the law fairly and consistently. If police officers were allowed t Continue Reading...
[DPIC] Similarly, many other researches were conducted but failed to offer any conclusive evidence as to the effectiveness of capital punishment in deterring crimes. The lack of consistency in these results presents a complex problem before us in ev Continue Reading...
Frequent town meetings where residents can air concerns to representatives of the force likewise fosters a sense of community empowerment. Finally, it goes without saying that officers must, to establish trust, always seem ethical and not act as if Continue Reading...
Discussions1Civil disobedience is a peaceful form of protest where individuals intentionally violate a law or regulation that they consider unjust, as a means of drawing attention to the issue and pressuring the government to change the law or policy Continue Reading...
White Collar Crime Theoretical Perspectives of Criminal Behavior Three broad theoretical models of criminal behavior have historically prevailed. These models include psychological models of criminality, sociological models of criminality, and biol Continue Reading...
Death Penalty Is Fair The Death Penalty Is a Fair Punishment for Murder Arguements have been raised concerning death penalty for a long time now. A lot of people consider death penalty as an immoral, or an unreasonable punishment. (Messerli, 2007) Continue Reading...
homicides would be prevented if offenders knew the death penalty would strongly be enforced in most cases. In cases such as Bin Laden and Timothy McVay, the Oklahoma bomber, no one would even consider religious and moral activists pleas against cap Continue Reading...
Noble Cause Removing the Culture of Noble Cause Corruption To the Officers in our State Police Department, As a Colonel of this force with years of experience in the field, I understand the complexity and nuance of conducting police work. And I al Continue Reading...
For example, the hierarchical system of management may not be the most effective method and more collaborative practices might prove more effective in eliminating corruption. The "haphazard," "limited" and "marginally effective" training in ethics m Continue Reading...
It is also a cloudy issue as to whether a company can terminate employment if an individual commits and is convicted of a crime while they are in the employment of the company. If such a crime were a low level crime, that could be thought of as a "g Continue Reading...
Technology and Law Enforcement The field of law enforcement has been one of the most challenging fields from the historical time yet it is a department that cannot be wished away as long as the society has to remain sane and civilised. The only opti Continue Reading...
Coming across cases in which people were charged with crimes that did not commit and as a result risked being executed, people in Maryland appear to be unsupportive toward capital punishment, as they recognize that one cannot be brought back from th Continue Reading...
Law Enforcement Interview Imagine studying the opinion of another law enforcement officer. What could one learn from that individual? Does he or she have any recommendations that are worth mentioning? How is discipline issues handled? One will discu Continue Reading...
Role of Discretion in Law Enforcement Human civilization has always been defined by the establishment of ethical codes, laws which individuals must obey for the greater good of society, and for every rule that mankind has devised there have been tho Continue Reading...
It is difficult and almost impossible to determine whether or not punishment is effective, considering that it can actually influence felons to adopt harsher attitudes with the purpose of getting revenge for being punished. The idea of capital puni Continue Reading...
Classification in Prison Classification Systems Classification systems aid in the minimization of the upheaval of prison violence, institutional delinquency, and break out situations. During the past several years, professionals in prisons and thos Continue Reading...
Death penalty is the use of death as a punishment for the crimes committed by an individual. In most cases, death penalty is administered by lethal drugs or by electrocution. There has been a lot of debate on the moral and ethical aspect of issuing d Continue Reading...
The ban needs to be used to prevent the sale of embryos, use of cloning and the production of embryos for the sole purpose of research. Cures for debilitating diseases will hopefully result and healing is supposed to be the driving factor in medicin Continue Reading...
Street Gangs and Loitering Laws Los Angeles politicians have recently come together behind a proposed city ordinance that would allow police to arrest loitering street gang members. Mayor James K. Hahn, voiced his support for this new weapon in the Continue Reading...
Human Aggression and the Stanford Prison Experiments Studies of human aggression tend toward myriad and often competing conclusions about that which drives us to behave ethically or unethically, about the forces that incline us toward altruism as op Continue Reading...
Adam Bedau and Paul G. Cassell (2004) reference the cost of the death penalty in the State of Texas, which is also a state with the highest numbers of executions under the death penalty. Bedau and Cassell cite information that says the initial trial Continue Reading...
If a client is determined to be unfit to plead, and mental health issues result in the special category specification, involvement from various mental health professionals is required to determine if and when that inmate may be fit. Works Cited Pr Continue Reading...
Learning Activity Sharing of information and cooperation between agencies is often necessary to ensure that people who are guilty of crimes or misdemeanors are given their proper punishment. It is also the best way to present information between age Continue Reading...
And it does this by conducting investigations and enforcing laws that deal with public health, order, and decency. "Morals" and "decency" are not words one would expect to see in the core values of a secular institution like a police department, bu Continue Reading...
The policy and the systematic or widespread characteristics are the essential elements in proving that there was knowledge and that the act was coordinated by the central authority or by a certain authority. Finally, the last additional issue is th Continue Reading...
Police Ops For police officers, undercover work provides a priceless opportunity to help the force achieve its goals and to infiltrate large criminal organizations. However, undercover work can be tremendously stressful. The stress of undercover wor Continue Reading...
correctional law? Explain why. The most important source of correctional law is the bill of rights (Bartollas,2002).This is because the basic rights of the citizens including those in incarceration are derived from it. • Which Amendment in th Continue Reading...
Panoptism Michel Foucault used the term Panoptism (all-seeing) to describe the methods of control and surveillance used by industrial society to discipline and control the lower classes, whether in factories, schools, hospitals, mental institutions Continue Reading...
Once it was announced, the board asked Keyworth to resign. At that point, Perkins also quit in a huff. But that was not all. He also launched a campaign in order to try and discredit Dunn, who he believed had betrayed his trust. It seems that the c Continue Reading...
Right to Life For all human beings death is one of the most intricate truths to cope with. In spite of this, people take decisions to finish their lives, which in turn result in ending their pain and suffering. This practice is known as euthanasia, Continue Reading...
Future of Cyber Security Report on the Legal and Technical Future of Cyber Security The future of Cyber security relies on the quality of decisions that the government seconded by the private sector process as for now. Attacks on networks and datab Continue Reading...
[James fieser] We also have to assess the 'proportionality of happiness' factor in determining if capital punishment is justifiable in a particular case. That is to say that if the execution of a prisoner will save the lives of many people capital p Continue Reading...
Police Ethics Ethics, therefore, is not something that a policeman learns in the classroom -- yet, training classes are regularly scheduled -- and this picture of student not understanding why he is in the classroom is indicative of the problem of p Continue Reading...
706). Yet, this clearly does not eliminate the possibility of abuse of power and wrongful use of police discretion as the disproportionate application of justice upon those of lower class and of minority races is fundamentally present in both lesser Continue Reading...
The death penalty is therefore morally and ethically necessary not only for an ordered society but as a necessary means to protect the innocent from evil. Secondly, from a Catholic point-of-view this stance is supported by centuries of Church doctr Continue Reading...
..This perspective is from the U.S.A.; in Europe, violence in school and the concern about violence may not be at similar levels, but it is undoubtedly a topic of major concern (Smith, 2003, p. 1). This article also makes the important point that sc Continue Reading...
Death Penalty+ Annotated Bibliography It has been theorized and even proven that many laws that are in place in America are the product of JudeoChristian religious beliefs, practices and writings, that have over the years been toned down to better m Continue Reading...
(Megan's Law Website: History of the Law and Federal Facts) On the other hand, rights activists and organizations point out that the sexual offender is treated unfairly in a legal sense. As one study on the subject notes, the sexual offender regis Continue Reading...
From all neighborhoods the answers were the same, that when police, residents and merchants worked together, crime was reduced. It was also recognized that there was room for improvement in Seattle's community policing efforts. First, it was stated Continue Reading...
Police Ethics: Presentation Summary The presentation to be delivered to my organization concerns the critical public safety issue of police ethics. The primary source for this presentation would be the data gathered from an interview with an individ Continue Reading...
