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departments, police officer a generalist. Discuss inconsistent Max Weber's theory division labor? 2) Police departments written protocols including general orders procedures.
Max Weber promotes the idea of specialized division of labor, thus meanin Continue Reading...
viewing the function of policing. It increases understanding of the policing function at different levels hence minimizes conflict and confusion over issues in policing. It is obvious the levels of policing discussed herein are very dependable on ea Continue Reading...
Miranda Rights
Scenario #1
In 1966 the Miranda v. Arizona case ushered in the era of police informing suspects of their constitutional rights under the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution. This case is universally accepted as critical to protecting 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...
Michael Crowe: A Case of Poor Interrogation Technique
There is no single correct way to conduct an interrogation, just as there is no single correct way to write a novel or to design a building or to raise a child. However, there are certainly a num Continue Reading...
While black men can be incredibly diverse-looking, she may focus on those features that tend to differentiate them from white men. This is a risk in any cross-racial identification, where someone may notice differences from their own ethnic group, b Continue Reading...
Frequently, veteran officers with no formal authority over other officers in the field teach new officers the "way we do things" and to "forget what you learned in the academy."
The phenomenon is pervasive enough that even the most dedicated and pr Continue Reading...
S. Supreme Court. Federal courts do not deal with state court rulings, except for the U.S. Supreme Court, unless a federal law is at issue as well as a state law. "An appeal normally may be taken only to the next higher body in the same system. For e Continue Reading...
Ellison distinguishes middle and upper-class neighborhood communities and suggests that middle-class neighborhoods are the most receptive to collaborative association with police agencies, while upper class neighborhoods tend to rally together in t Continue Reading...
" In short, when it comes to the First Amendment, greater issues are at stake beyond the immediate interests of the corporations in question. There must be a compelling state interest to limit freedom of expression.
Why doesn't it make a difference Continue Reading...
Execution of the Mentally Retarded: How the Law Was Changed
Jim Ellis a hero to some people. You can't say he got the law changed single-handedly, but without him and his strategy, it might never have happened. Ellis is a law professor at Universit Continue Reading...
(Kilgore; Mede, 64)
Of course as a program approaches the end, much interaction have concentrated around how to return to the home environment and foster relationships with positive influences and make positive selections. Boot camps unquestionably Continue Reading...
Student's Responsibilities in School Safety
Simple everyday actions are effective in reduction of school crime. (Annual Report on School Safety, 1998) Those actions are:
Behave Responsibly:
Students can resolve problems and disputes in a non-viol Continue Reading...
When a lawyer who has never been disciplined represents a juvenile, chances of accepting a plea are high. This is because the lawyer is likely to negotiate for a lesser sentence (Grigorenko, 2012).
The current juvenile court system allows youth off Continue Reading...
In fact, when actual harm seems imminent, the government has more leeway to restrict the speech. Fighting words or words likely to result in harm to an individual fall into this category. The most notorious example is shouting "Fire" in a crowded th Continue Reading...
This gave the immediate need to contract the prison facilities.
Literature review
Extant literature has been dedicated to the topic of privatization of the rather publicly run correctional facilities in America. These literatures have been mixed a Continue Reading...
This can be seen with the consistent accidents and violations that have occurred at different mines that the company owns, the most notable being the Acroma Alma Mine. In this particular case, the company was cited and charged with violating federal Continue Reading...
O.J. Simpson
Orenthal James Simpson, more commonly known as OJ Simpson, became the most popular man in the United States. This popularity was not due to him being a famous football player who had the greatest running backs in America or any of his r Continue Reading...
Philosophy Crime Punishment Shifted
Social Context and the Justification of Punishment
Punishment is an authoritative exercise aimed to impose a negative or unwanted response to a behavior considered wrong or unjust by an individual or group. Phil Continue Reading...
California Critical Incident Management: Three Primary Issues
The objective of this work is to research California OES recommendations for emergency responses by local law enforcement and to follow links to the Federal Government level. This work wi Continue Reading...
Police Recruiting
Just like every other institution in the country, American policing system went through a long period of evolution to finally achieve the shape that it has today. And similar to other laws and institutions in America, even police r Continue Reading...
Exclusionary Rule and a Possible Alternative
Under the exclusionary rule, as created by United States Supreme Court legal precedent, "illegally obtained evidence has been inadmissible in federal criminal courts since 1914." From the onset of its co Continue Reading...
Judicial Interpretation Theory
Judges draft no legislation, but they create law nevertheless, through their powers of judicial interpretation. Judges determine the outcome of particular cases by interpreting the meaning of a single phrase, and somet Continue Reading...
International Peace and Terrorism
What changes to existing legal regimes may reduce the incentive and make the law more effective in preserving peace?
Terrorist groups can be disrupted and destroyed through continuous and direct legal actions. The Continue Reading...
Alternative Commercial Dispute Resolution: A Critical Assessment of the ADR Mechanism in the Saudi Legal System and Practice
General review of Alternative Dispute Resolution
The rationale of the ADR movement. The benefits of using arbitration in p Continue Reading...
Standardized Assessment Technique and Immigration
For quite a long time, immigration and crime have been closely linked with some pointing out that immigrants tend to have a particularly high rate of criminality. There are those, however, who feel t Continue Reading...
Corrections Ethics
First, I would not allow the employee to resign yet. The employee clearly shows remorse and is aware that his actions were related more to the stress in his personal life than to an ongoing problem in the workplace. After seven ye Continue Reading...
Discretion on the Beat: Working in the Best Interests of the Community
The mandate to "protect and serve" is translated in a number of different ways across the country, but in many jurisdictions, community-oriented policing methods are replacing th Continue Reading...
This model provided for a hierarchical chain of command based on rank but there are many experts who argue that such system is out-dated. New systems where command is much less centralized and individual police are allowed autonomy in their specific Continue Reading...
Prisoner Demographics
How would you differentiate male and female prisoner backgrounds? Is there a better solution to prisoner background classification? Explain.
The basic cognitive, psychological and emotional differences between males and femal Continue Reading...
However, another frequently unseen instigator in negative behavioral tendencies amongst officers is the incapacity to properly assimilate the stresses of the occupation. Indeed, a 2004 study, published by the Canadian Police College, outlines the c Continue Reading...
"The criterion for the admissibility of a confession has thus evolved into the quality of voluntariness. The aim of admitting into evidence only voluntary confessions is to prevent the introduction of unreliable evidence. & #8230; the result is Continue Reading...
Studies consistently and generally show that, all factors held constant, the race of the accused is a critical variable in determining who will be sentenced to death. Black citizens are, thus, subjected to double discrimination. From initial chargin Continue Reading...
Judicial discretion enables judges to make sentencing decisions within specific statutory limits. As with prosecutorial discretion, judicial discretion is built into the system as a means of enabling flexibility, accounting for special circumstances Continue Reading...
Autonomy Corporation Accounting Scandal
What fraud or other financial malfeasance took place?
Hewlett Packard on November 20, 2012 delivered a statement against Autonomy's unmentioned members of the previous management team accusing them of final i Continue Reading...
Occupational socialization is said to be the process by which "a person acquires the values, attitudes, and behaviors of an ongoing occupational social system" (Stojkovic, Kalinich, & Klofas, 2008, p. 222, cited in lecture notes). Within many pol Continue Reading...
evidence, it seems possible that an altercation occurred between the husband and wife and the two of them are 'covering' up this incident. Ideally, a detective with expertise in domestic violence cases should be in charge of the investigation. Separ Continue Reading...
According to the court's judgment in favor of the plaintiff, no further evidence as to the source of the muscle atrophy in his shoulder and arm, because "the thing itself speaks" when all three components of res ipsa loquitur are satisfied, as they Continue Reading...
Limits to Police Discretion
Just as every law environment situation is unique, so too are the police officers that make the decisions concerning how these situations will be resolved. Some police officers appear to have a natural-born knack for kno Continue Reading...
International Court of Justice
The action of international states as actors has precipitated the need to have measures that can function beyond the limits of a single country. The action of states in their relationships with other states at times re Continue Reading...