S. has a greater crime problem than other nations would, if it were sufficiently bad, also justify torture by the author's criteria. To my mind, the relevant issue is that many countries impose much more barbaric sanctions, such as cutting off limbs, Continue Reading...
" (Potter, 1999) Supreme Court finally strikes down juvenile executions On Mar. 1, 2005, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down once and for all juvenile executions in the United States, abandoning nations such as Nigeria, Congo, China, Pakistan and ot Continue Reading...
Community Policing Efficacy The Violent Crime Control & Law Enforcement Act of 1994 heralded the beginning of a massive effort to reform policing strategies in the United States, in part through implementation of community-policing programs at t Continue Reading...
, Skolnick and Fyfe, and Walker, that conclude racial discrimination has been found in several policing duties, facilitated by police discretion, including shootings, use of force, arrests, street stops, offense charging, search and seizure, and equa Continue Reading...
Ethics in Law Enforcement Ethics are what almost anyone would define as a person's determination between what is good or bad, or more accurately what is right or wrong. Although many of these attitudes can be a product of parenting or other factors Continue Reading...
Corrections Gius, Mark. (1999). The Economics of the Criminal Behavior of Young Adults: Estimation of an Economic Model of Crime with a Correction for Aggregate Market and Public Policy Variables. The American Journal of Economics and Sociology. Oc Continue Reading...
Camouflaged Killer: The Shocking Double Life of Colonel Russell Williams offers a thorough treatment of a disturbing story from both criminal psychology and criminal justice perspectives. Gibb does far more than offer a biography and overview of the Continue Reading...
Post-arrest, the promising programs included: drug courts, drug treatment in jails, intensive supervision and aftercare of juvenile offenders, and the use of fines and other penalties in lieu of incarceration for technical violations. (Sherman, 1998 Continue Reading...
A judge's discretion can mean the difference between a young African-American person going to jail and having his or her life irreparably damaged or being placed in a program that might have a chance to save a human being. While judges cannot be ca Continue Reading...
In this regard, Lott points out, "Between 70% and 80% of police departments explicitly use norming of physical standards in their hiring practices. However, most of the departments that use objective standards do not enforce these rules. Women who f Continue Reading...
Perceived Media Credibility The media contributes immensely to the ideological beliefs held by an individual or group of people. The criminal justice system has, in recent years, embraced increasingly punitive crime-control policies with the intent Continue Reading...
Medico-Legal Investigations HOW ADEQUATE? Medical Death Investigative Systems Past and Present Systems Death investigation of some sort has existed in all countries for centuries, but not always performed by medical professionals (Committee, 2003 Continue Reading...
Moreover, in Perry v. Louisiana, 498 U.S. 38 (1990), the Court used that decision to bolster Louisiana's attempts to forcibly medicate a prisoner in order to make him death-eligible. If one agrees that the death penalty is a just penalty for one who Continue Reading...
Supreme Court's recent decision to ban the execution of mentally challenged individuals raises important ethical issues. Judges must be able to determine if a person is indeed mentally challenged. While the legal system and psychology have made impo Continue Reading...
Hybrid Gangs in South Florida On Public Policy towards Volatile Movements South Florida has an increasing prevalence of criminal gangs in their communities and it is posing a growing threat to their security and safety. It is clear that in that reg Continue Reading...
Deviance and Crime: Acts that are regarded as deviant are not necessarily criminal acts since an act does not need to break the law to be considered deviant. Generally, a deviant act is merely any behavior that breaches the accepted norms of the com Continue Reading...
Workplace Harassment Policy Introduction The way that a society treats its criminals is indicative of the moral character and worthiness of that society. While it is easy for us to ignore and disregard the criminals amongst us by leading them to pr Continue Reading...
Walker (2011) did find, however, that drug courts, which are a new type of diversion program, are yielding promising results. In the end, according to Walker (2011), it is a problem of prediction. As Walker (2011), states "some programs work for so Continue Reading...
As such, it is unlikely to change in light of knowledge or information about the death penalty and its administration" (Vollum & Buffington-Vollum, p. 30). Furthermore, "those who scored higher on value-expressive attitudes were less accepting o Continue Reading...
legal system of the United States of America rests on the Constitution, including the Bill of Rights? The answer is that this is not completely true; the Constitution, when it was initially developed, did not enable authorities to cope successfully Continue Reading...
Among the dozen investigations of the Abu Ghraib abuses, one found that the landmark Stanford study provided a cautionary tale for all military detention operations. In differentiating the comparatively benign environment of the Stanford prison expe Continue Reading...
While the idea that the mere presence of police in a community cannot deter crime from occurring may be a bit saddening or hard to believe for many, the truth is simply that the Kansas City Preventive Patrol Experiment showed that it couldn't. Whil Continue Reading...
The focus of every police administrator should be to prevent officers from experiencing overwhelming stress with which they do not have the means to cope. Discussion and Conclusion Finding ways to help managers and administrators to help officers Continue Reading...
He quotes the claims that they customarily begin with the demand "If you know what's good for you, you'll confess," and cites various experts in criminal law enforcement who state that police "con" and "bull*****" their suspects, that they use coerc Continue Reading...
For example, the police response to Occupy movement was widely viewed as disproportional and unnecessarily violent, and it is precisely leftist movements like Occupy that the police would need in order for a strike to be successful. However, even i Continue Reading...
The charges were quietly dropped against the suspect and an Internal Affairs investigation cleared them of all wrong doing. (Terruso, 2011) Explain the outcomes of the cases. Did you agree with the outcomes? Why or why not? The situation involving Continue Reading...
The Nerio article shows prisons are organizations because they are run by administrators with power, they serve a purpose in the local economy and in keeping people safe, and they are powerful in the criminal justice system by resolving who stays i Continue Reading...
Miranda Issues in Law Enforcement In 1966, the U.S. Supreme Court decided the landmark case of Ernesto Miranda, who had been arrested by Arizona police on suspicion of rape. The suspect confessed to the crime after two hours of questioning by polic Continue Reading...
T. Apparantely in good health, need to investigate insurance and other issues, get medical report. Married, one-4-year-old son Appears happily married with young child, no indication of turmoil in marriage; check. Colleagues say victim was "very Continue Reading...
Breach For a criminal investigator, analyzing key evidence is an important part in being able to establish a pattern of behavior for the suspect. The film the Breach, is discussing the Robert Hanssen case and its long-term impacts on U.S. national s Continue Reading...
Administration The basic principles and functions of personnel administration as applied in the field of criminal justice include recruiting, selecting, hiring, placing, evaluating, training, educating, dismissing, promoting, firing, and career dev Continue Reading...
A good example is the 1985 murder of convenience store clerk Cynthia Barlieb, whose murder was prosecuted by a district attorney bent on securing execution for Barlieb's killer (Pompeilo 2005). The original trial and all the subsequent appeals force Continue Reading...
Death Penalty: Social Attitudes and Modern Alternatives The issue of the death penalty raises deep emotions on all sides of the debate. Many feel that the death penalty no longer holds value as a tool for society to prevent heinous crimes. In the pa Continue Reading...
Purpose: In the Etiology of Female Crime: A Review of Literature, author Dorie Klein provides the reader with a brief overview of the development of female criminal activity. The purpose of the article is to inform the reader about the possible rea Continue Reading...
Community Oriented Policing new and comprehensive strategy against crime: Community Policing: For the purpose of reducing neighborhood crimes, creating a sense of security and reduce fear of crimes among the citizens and improving the quality of li Continue Reading...
Curtis Durham M1D1 I agree that the cultural context in which a criminal justice system is located has a substantial effect upon how crimes and the rehabilitation of criminals are viewed. For example, drug addiction is now viewed as more of an illn Continue Reading...
Government The Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act Final Project / Dissertation Degree: Juris Doctorate Specialized Major: Specialization: Constitutional Law Full Address: The Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act Continue Reading...
Even thenm once in a while the heads of the more powerful families would meet to work out differences (Meltzer, 1990, pp. 40-41). Still, striking at the mob could not be effected easily by the use of normal investigative methods alone. Indeed, the Continue Reading...
They began to outline an issue of the journal which they tentatively called Contemporary Criminology: A Journal of Ideas Predisposed Toward Radical Democratization. It was hoped that the first issue might arrive during the Fall of 1996. About the s Continue Reading...
Economic model of crime suggests that crime is driven by rational self-interest. Thus, any penalties incurred for crimes such as insider trading must exceed the potential economic gains for the subject. This is based upon a rational concept of cost-b Continue Reading...
