They point out that neither the Constitution nor the Supreme Court has precluded the States or localities from enforcing the criminal provisions of immigration law. Because the enforcement of the criminal provisions of Federal Law has not been exp Continue Reading...
Reasonable suspicion -- A carefully considered presumption, based on specific facts and circumstances, that a person is probably involved in criminal activity. Before an officer can act on this level of suspicion, he must have enough knowledge to l Continue Reading...
Murder and Injustice in a Small Town Death sentence Are you innocent until proven guilty? The constitution of the U.S.A. has the provision of being treated as though one is innocent until the due process of the law takes its course and one is prov Continue Reading...
Political / Environmental Economics The Gloucester Crisis: Environmentalists VS Fishermen? Or: Depletion of Fisheries VS Fishermen Postponing Reality? When the spectacularly dramatic movie, "The Perfect Storm," became a box office smash a few year Continue Reading...
Criminal Justice DQ The legislative process is effective in the administration of justice. Conservative lobby groups define proper legislation processes as inclusive governance that promotes inclusiveness of people in decision-making and policy form Continue Reading...
NCLB stance on teacher certification for special education and its impact in New Jersey. And, what students right do you feel is most important to uphold? NCLB is, in other words, the 'No Child Left behind Act' that was passed by the President of t Continue Reading...
Who is Watching the Watchers Privacy in the Early 21st Century Notwithstanding the Fourth Amendment constitutional expectations to privacy that American consumers enjoy, the Internet of Things, the proliferation of closed-circuit cameras and GPS trac Continue Reading...
Criminal Law Case Study Summarize the following cases: Edwards v. South Carolina, 372 U.S. 229 (1963) This case involved a protest where 187 blacks filed a petition. They divided themselves into groups of fifteen people. They would protest in publ Continue Reading...
Men and women are valued for their role as workers -- workers not merely at a given company -- but workers who form part of a larger industrial/technological organism that is the national, and increasingly, the global economy. Rights of privacy give Continue Reading...
The fact that arrested criminals are routinely read Miranda rights, informing them of their rights under the Fifth Amendment provides another example of a country concerned about justice. The framers included the phrases "insure domestic tranquilit Continue Reading...
Divorce is no longer taboo at all. It is not unusual, but almost expected, for couples to marry, have at least one child, and subsequently separate. About half of American children are being raised in single-parent households or in households where Continue Reading...
DNA Fingerprinting The subject of DNA fingerprinting has become a prominent issue on several fronts. The applicable paradigms involved include law enforcement, privacy concerns and immigration, just to name a few. A few questions and concerns about Continue Reading...
America Legal System and Personal Peace and Security American Legal system and personal peace and security The American legal system generally was formulated with particular functions in mind. It is important to note that there is not a single lega Continue Reading...
This is also possibly the least well-documented phenomenon in the racializing of Arabs and Muslims leading to the widespread acceptance of profiling and related loss of civil liberties." (2002) The work of Nicole J. Henderson (2001) entitled: "Law Continue Reading...
S. mainland. The court can reject the procedures only if it finds the plan for complying with the law as "clearly erroneous." The program may also continue for a year although the law is scheduled for renewal in six months. Warrant-less eavesdropping Continue Reading...
USA Patriot Act What is the issue? The view that had been taken by the authorities is that America was a country with too much of liberty - more than was good for its security. Along with this the feeling was that federal law enforcement agencies d Continue Reading...
journal New Technology, Work, and Employment, discusses the ethical, legal, and cultural issues when it comes to a company using electronic surveillance (ES) in various ways in the workplace. The authors review some cases where companies used very i Continue Reading...
Immigration and the Muslim Population 9/11 changed the world -- especially in the U.S. in terms of Muslim-American relations and the way the word "terror" and "terrorist" is used to identify or refer to a group of people.[footnot Continue Reading...
Patriot Act Following the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States by violent fanatics, the federal government passed legislation which was designed to protect American citizens and to prevent further deaths. One piece of legislati Continue Reading...
liberty is seldom a win-win situation. Which ethical theory is the best in your opinion for selecting a "winner"? Utilitarianism? Deontology? Other? The philosophy of utilitarianism is problematic, given the difficulty of determining which group co Continue Reading...
Qualified privilege has the same result as absolute privilege, but does not protect statements that can be proven to have been made with malicious intent (Pember, & Calvert, 2005). The church would argue that they had a qualified privilege to c Continue Reading...
The envelope contained a small plastic bag, which contained an amphetamine and a partially-consumed marijuana cigarette. Regarding the consent issue, the government's burden is to prove that "consent was, in fact, freely and voluntarily given." The Continue Reading...
TSA History of TSA On March 9, 1972, a Trans World Airlines jet bound for Los Angeles took off from JFK International Airport in New York. Moments into the flight, the airline received an anonymous phone call warning there was a bomb on the flight Continue Reading...
Alleged Crimes -- Civil Action The four alleged crimes in this scenario are: a) an alleged armed robbery and assault on a woman at 2:00 A.M. in a high-crime area; b) an individual refused to comply with an officer's commands; c) that individual was Continue Reading...
Like Bowman, Silver quotes poll results to indicate the public opinion. What is particularly interesting here is that he has quoted the fourth credible poll in eight months to indicate the same majority result, specifically with 51% in favor of and Continue Reading...
Traffic Stop In the example, four men of unidentified race, acting in an unpredictable way in a marginal area of a city, fled in a car when asked simple questions by police. The police pursued, pulled them over, questioned them, and found that their Continue Reading...
Criminal Identification Procedures The dawn of the twenty-first century has become the era of George Orwell's "1984." Technology that was found only in science fiction a few decades ago, is part of today's standards and procedures. The world today Continue Reading...
War on Terrorism vs. The Bill of Rights Conveniently capitalizing on the fear of another terrorist attack, the United States Department of Defense and other branches of the federal government have erected a series of security measures since Septembe Continue Reading...
TSA Is TSA crossing the boundaries of American Civil Liberties Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is the agency of U.S. Department of Homeland Security, consisting of 50,000 security officers, inspectors, directors, air marshals and manag Continue Reading...
T) he FBI can now act like a domestic CIA when seeking a criminal conviction. It can obtain a secret warrant from a secret court to gather evidence of crime without ever having to present to the court evidence that the person upon whom it wishes to Continue Reading...
S. 806 (1996), in which police in a high drug area sopped a defendant's car after observing him wait a long time at an intersection, abruptly turn without signaling and speed of at an unreasonable speed. While the vehicle is stopped for this pretextu Continue Reading...
While implementing the work-release program may lead to an increased risk to people outside of the prison environment that risk is at least theoretical, while the risks associated with overcrowded prisons are concrete. Moreover, William could attemp Continue Reading...
It also established that so long as a person can expect that their conversation or actions take place in private, they are protected by the Fourth Amendment search and seizure laws relative to surveillance as well as their property (Kitch, 1968). Th Continue Reading...
Pre-Sentence Investigation Defense Attorney Jim Aiken Narcotics Detective Homicide Detective Miranda The Miranda rights were formulated in 1966 by the U.S. Supreme court after a case between Miranda v. Arizona. The Miranda rights relate to the Continue Reading...
Discretionary Situations for a Police Chief Discretion in the Police Department Discretionary Situations in Criminal Arrests: "Stop" and "Frisk," Racial Profiling The expectation is that public administrators apply a balancing act in the decision Continue Reading...
Further, these writs, once issued, could be reused, and did not expire until the death of the reigning monarch (Knappman, 33). In Massachusetts, a group of colonial merchants, represented by James Otis, petitioned the Superior Court to refuse any n Continue Reading...
Corruption exists within all aspects of government, and has since early civilization. While many steps have been taken to prevent such corruption in other areas of the world, the United States has recently introduced legislation that has the potentia Continue Reading...
