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    Public policy implications and crime prevention strategies

    Subject: public policy implications and crime prevention strategies related to different criminological theories and types of crime. In your informed (by sources) opinion, what public policy or prevention strategy implication makes the most sense? Do real-world public policies of this type help prevent crime? Explai

    Criminal Justice Opinion Portfolio

    Only bullet points: ? Does the press have too much or too little freedom? ? Should the media be used to fight crime? ? Is police brutality a problem? ? Is the death penalty an effective deterrent against crime? ? Are sexual assault cases under prosecuted? ? Should we end the war on drugs? ? Should Intelligence operations

    Factors Causing Criminal Behavior

    Give examples of one physical, one physical, one environmental, and social factor that may affect criminal behavior. What kind of criminal behavior might result form each of these factors?

    Professional and amateur thieves

    1. List similarities and differences between a professional thief and an amateur thief. Are the differences just in skill or experience, or are there psychological differences between them as well? Which would be more easily deterred? 2. How are the motivations of property criminals different from those of enterprise crimin

    Violent Land (Cartwright): Causes of Violence

    Please respond to the Questions at the end of the Critical Thinking Text that is attached. 1). According to Cartwright, crime rates were exceedingly high in the nineteenth century before TV, movies, and rap videos had been created. What, if anything, does this say about the effect of media on crime? 2). What ere som

    Adolescent Offender

    Refer to the figure attached. Describe the development of the offender's behavior. If the behavior pattern is not corrected, where might it lead as the adolescent reaches adulthood?

    Comparative Criminology and the Restorative Justice Model

    See attached file for full problem description. Please help provide insight for the question at the end of the problem. CRITICAL THINKING QUESTION: 1. Restorative justice may be the model that best serves alternative sanctions. How can this essentially humanistic approach be sold to the general public that now supports

    Diversion Program in the Community

    Locate a diversion program in a community, at a school, community service agency, or city recreational center, for example. Describe the purpose, target population, and results of the program. Discuss how diversion programs like this one are related to social process theories.

    Social Structure of Crime

    Locate an example of a crime that can be explained by social structure theories. 1. How did the socio-economic status of the criminal affect his or her decision to commit the crime? 2. What could have been done to prevent this crime from occurring? (200-300 word responses) I need help with these questions and finding an

    Rational Choice Crime Control Strategies

    A woman was recently arrested for drowning all four of her children. Her defense team suggested that she was depressed and had no idea what she was doing at the time of the crime. QUESTIONS: Analyze this type of crime using the rational choice theory, answering the following: *How is criminal behavior explicable acc

    Privacy Rights and Press Freedoms

    Underneath the Freedom of Information Act: o What are common privacy rights held by U.S. citizens? o In what ways do citizens want the press to respect their privacy? o When do the reporting interests of the media conflict with citizen privacy rights? o What is the Freedom of Information Act? Whom does it benefit and wh

    Survey of Local Crime Prevention Efforts

    You have been hired to help your city council in an effort to improve crime prevention methods within your community. *Construct a ten question survey on the community's feelings about local crime prevention efforts. *Respond to these questions: 1. How will you choose the sample of survey respondents from the community?

    Victimology

    As a criminal justice professional, what do you feel is most important when studying victims of prison violence, school violence, campus violence, and workplace violence? Should we look at how they are similar or should we address the manner in which each person was victimized?

    Drugs and the Law

    Addressing the "WAR ON DRUGS" Are the current laws and policies effective? Why or Why not? How would you recommend changing current policies or laws OR create new policies/laws to combat drugs? How would your recommended changes positively impact the war on drugs? Are there any drawbacks to your solution?

    Business of Drugs: 'Drug Trafficking'

    In your own words, define drug trafficking. Describe what you feel might be the solution to combat this "business of drugs." Why do you think your solution would work? Support your theory.

    Treatment/Prevention and the Business of Drugs

    Some drug cases are processed in court while others are processed outside the court system. Using the Internet and all other resources at your disposal, write an analysis of the major stages of each process (in court and out of court). What works and what doesn't for each process?

    Overview of Drugs

    Using resources and the Internet, find the effects of three types of substances (cocaine, heroin, & marijuana). Please discuss these three effects. Then choose one and locate two articles describing situations where a crime was committed by a person under the influence of a specific substance. Find an article where you believe t

    Drugs and Crime

    In your opinion, what legislation of the past 3 decades has had the greatest impact on the drug-crime relationship? Defend your response.

    What are the constitutional rights of inmates?

    You are the warden of a medium security prison. There has been an increase in the number of complaints about attorneys not being allowed access to inmates in your prison. Create a short brief for the corrections officers reminding them of the constitutional rights of inmates (1st, 4th, and 6th amendment rights). Need help on wha

    Technology in Criminal Justice/Integration

    1. Provide some examples of how technology has been accepted and integrated into various parts of the criminal justice system. Analyze how the integration of technology into the more mundane aspects of police work, such as completing paperwork, has increased officer productivity and decreased resource costs. 2. You have been

    Public policy implications and change

    Presentation outlining public policy implications of rational choice theory; trait theories; social structure theories; social conflict theories and developmental theories. Thorough overview of each policy implication, identify policies and results. To include definition of theory, explanation of how crime is interpreted accor

    Explanation of 'Just Desert'

    Explanation of 'just desert', documented arguments in favor of and against just desert, possible fallout for and against just desert.

    Miranda Rights

    Television depicts several law enforcement programs in which criminals sometimes admit or confess to crimes without being read their rights. Because of this, some cases may be thrown out even though the evidence may point to the accused. Please read Miranda v. Arizona and do some research to see how well it has held up sinc

    Should the in-court identifications of these three tellers be suppressed?

    A gunman robbed a bank. No one saw him before he entered or after he left. The police soon arrived and canvassed the area. A witness, who lived behind the bank at the time, told the police he saw it race through the alley. The witness also described the car as having a colored license plate tag advertising a car store. Thro

    Technology & Internet - criminal justice system in the 21st Century

    How much will the implementation of technology and further capabilities of the Internet affect the traditional criminal justice system in the 21st Century? In your answer, address each component of the system and the need, if any, for education, training, and salary of each.

    Privatization of Prisons and Jails?

    Should the government be able to give up its responsibility for the custody of an individual and engage in contracts with private organizations to provide privatization of prisons and jails? Assume this includes only convicted offenders.

    Criminal Procedure: Search and Seizure

    Two police officer were patrolling in a high-crime neighborhood. They noticed a parked car with two people inside (a driver and a passenger). The officers saw a young woman leaning into the passenger's window and handing the passenger an object, which they could not identify. At this point they approached the car and the woma