What processes would be required for this legislation to work in practice?

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No directly quoted material may be used in this project paper.

Resources should be summarized or paraphrased with appropriate in-text and Resource page citations.

Project 1 requires you to assume the role of a system-based victim advocate working within a law enforcement agency or prosecutor’s office. In this role, your supervisor requests you to review a section of a newly proposed bill and offer a 4-5 page memo critiquing the bill’s language. This project requires you to cite to course materials throughout your analysis to highlight and demonstrate your knowledge of crime victims’ rights learned throughout the first few weeks of the course.

Project 1—Victims’ Rights Legislation Critique

In your role as a system-based advocate, you have been asked to offer analysis on a new proposed bill in the jurisdiction of Virtual ( For your Project in this course, you will be conducting a Victims’ Rights Legislation Critique in the form of a 4-5 page memo to your supervisor.

Project 1— Victims’ Rights Legislation Critique

Your memo should review Section 4 and 4.5 of the bill proposed in the jurisdiction of Virtual and must provide the following analysis:
Introduction: Based on your review of the proposed bill, what issue/s involving victims is this legislation designed to address?
What processes would be required for this legislation to work in practice?
Does the section seem to have clear ways to enforce the victims’ rights if violations occur?
What could make enforcement stronger in the bill? Consider special rights for vulnerable and special populations that we have addressed in the course.
What common victims’ rights seem to be missing?
What are possible consequences of these missing rights?
What, if any, liabilities attach to those who violate these victims’ rights? What recommendations would you make regarding possible liability of those who violate the rights of crime victims’ under this law?
Conclusion: Summarize how this bill aligns with common victims’ rights you have learned about in the course.
2. You must cite to the course materials to support your analysis in your memo. Your memo should include a Works Cited with at least 5 resources from the course using the American Psychological Association (APA) formatting standards. (There are links to APA format standards under Library Services.)

Formatting Requirements:

The Project memo should start with an introductory paragraph and end with a concluding paragraph and be between 4-5 pages. The layout should include double spaces, Times New Roman, 12 pt. font, with one inch margins that include first line indentation.

Provide sentencing remarks and a clear sentencing rationale.

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You are the judge presiding over the sentencing of Daisy Collingwood, who stands before the Court having entered a guilty plea for the offence of Actual Bodily Harm. You have given consideration to a custodial sentence and have, therefore, requested a Pre-Sentence Report from Probation (extract below). Your task is to provide sentencing remarks and a clear sentencing rationale. This should take into account the following:

● The sentencing guidelines for the offence which can be found at:
● You must consider aggravating and mitigating features of the case paying attention to Daisy’s circumstances and the wider-context of the issues associated with her case
● Your sentencing rationale must draw upon the philosophies of punishment that are relevant to sentencing in this case to demonstrate your understanding and application to the question
● Your arguments must be underpinned by academic literature

Additional Guidance
● Use of first person is permissible in this assignment. You may wish to consider using both first and third person as you draw upon literature to develop your rationale.
● The rationale should be written as a standard essay. Remember to ensure that you have a clear structure to your work.
● Avoid quoting/describing large sections of the case study within your essay in order to preserve your word count
● Your essay must be fully referenced in accordance with APA 6th edition

 

Provide a factual account of the case specifically discussing the role of forensics in the investigation.

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Students are required to source one criminal case where forensic evidence has been vital in securing a conviction or quashing a wrongful conviction. The case does not have to be restricted to the UK.

There are 2 parts to this essay:

(1) Students are to provide a factual account of the case specifically discussing the role of forensics in the investigation.

(2) Students must then discuss how the particular evidence type/s are can use in criminal investigations (for example if fibre evidence is relevant, provide a critical discussion on the information provides by fibres, how they are recovered, type of analysis, the strength of this type of evidence, issues associated with the evidence, context etc).

Students must evidence all their sources of information and support for this essay using the Harvard referencing system.

Discuss the reform that needs to be made in the criminal justice system by instituting the use of mental health courts to divert the mentally ill from the jail system to provide treatment and prevent re-offending.

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10-12 pages needs 12 references from scholarly articles. Paper topic is to discuss the reform that needs to be made in the criminal justice system by instituting the use of mental health courts to divert the mentally ill from the jail system to provide treatment and prevent re-offending. Discussion of mental court programs in place now and their effectiveness

Is there an excess of suspicious person reports in one area? If so, why do you think that may be happening?

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Your chief is asking for an analysis of the crime over the weekend. He has been receiving complaints from citizens that their area is not being covered to combat crime. He would like answers to the specific questions listed below.

Discuss the following questions on your group Discussion Board so that the team leader can compile the information to be used in the team paper. The answers to these questions are based on the crime and time mapping that you have finished for the team work.

Is there an excess of suspicious person reports in one area? If so, why do you think that may be happening?
Is there a lack of suspicious person reports in one area? If so, why do you think that may be happening?
Is there a certain time for burglaries? If so, why do you think that may be happening? Is there a cluster for the following:
Homicides
Burglaries
Robberies
Carjacking reports
Domestic reports
Home invasions
Driving under the influence
Are domestics related to one area? Why or why not?
The chief needs to allocate his officers to certain areas. At what day and time would he or she increase patrol car activity and in what area?
Give reasons to your chief as to why it would be advantageous to the department to have a computer-generated mapping system.

The team leader will take the crime map that the team deems correct and add it to the team paper along with the answers to the questions above.

Members of the team will address these questions using the crime mapping and time mapping that they made up for this group project. When you submit your replies to the team discussion board, upload your 2 files so that others can see your mapping.

Be sure to reference all sources using APA style. For more information on APA, please visit the APASTYLE Lab.

What is the difference between income and wealth?

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Please use evidence/examples from the lecture videos and the readings for this week to inform and support your answers. What is the difference between income and wealth? How does social status correlate to political influence in the United States? What is occupational prestige? How does it correlate to educational achievement? What is a meritocracy? Is the United States a meritocracy? Define the concepts of “social class” and “classism.” Why, according to Mantsios, don’t Americans like to talk about class? What are the five social classes that exist in the United States? Briefly define/describe each. What are the four common myths about class, as outlined by Mantsios? Is poverty a result of individual effort (or lack thereof)? Why or why not? The beliefs and values parents pass on to the next generation varies by class (class socialization). What are some examples of this? How does this influence where someone falls in the class hierarchy? How does social class correlate to educational attainment? How does this perpetuate class inequality across generations? How does social class correlate to health outcomes in the United States? Why do social class differences matter? What do they tell us? What is social mobility? What is absolute and relative mobility? How does social mobility differ by race and gender? The United States is often described as “the land of opportunity” in terms of the social mobility that supposedly exists within American society. Does this description match the reality of social mobility trends in the U.S. and opportunities for social mobility? Why or why not? Video links: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DeiHz5tzlws&feature=emb_logo https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=c8PEv5SV4sU&feature=emb_logo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0a21mndoORE&feature=emb_logo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjuV-XdYHhA&feature=emb_logo more info from slides: Wealth What one owns (investments, savings, homes, land, business) minus what one owes (credit card or school debt, mortgages). Income The periodic inflow of resources from wages, investments, government benefits, or other sources. *The material, quantifiable indicators of class are economic capital (wealth and income). Meritocracy“The myth of meritocracy” The belief that hard work and talent are inevitably rewarded by economic success and upward social mobility.

Write a proposal to the state legislature and explain how this type of mapping will be used and how it will increase security

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You are the warden of a new maximum security prison and would like to have smart perimeters installed, but the state is in the middle of cut backs on the budget. You must write a proposal to the state legislature and explain the following

What smart perimeter mapping is
How this type of mapping will be used and how it will increase security
How it will save the state money at the same time

Be sure to use your text, course materials, and the library to support your position. Remember that the audience you are writing for is the state legislature.

How well did the film portray the criminal justice system, criminal, or victims?

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Review one the following films listed below and do the following in short answer form:

1-Provide a summary of the film in two paragraphs. Be sure to discuss the major ideas, thought, points of the film. DO NOT COPY AND PASTE THE SUMMARY FROM THE MOVIE’S TRAILER OR OTHER MOVIE REVIEW WEBSITE.

2-Discuss your reaction to the film by answering the following in at least 5 complete sentences:

a. How did you feel when watching the film?

b. Did you agree or disagree with what was being portrayed?

c. Could you identify with the movie or character(s) in the movie?

d. What did you find striking, illuminating or peculiar about the film?

3-Personally critique the film by answering the following:

a. How well did the film portray the criminal justice system, criminal, or victims?

b. If you had not taken this course or previous criminal justice courses, how would this film (good or bad) affect your perceptions about the criminal justice system, criminal justice professionals (practitioners), and/or crime victims?

The following movies/ documentaries can be reviewed OR you may choose another in which the theme or synopsis is related to a criminal justice topic or population. Any movie/ documentary not listed here must be pre-approved by the instructor.

13th(2016, Ava Duvernay)- Netflix

Girls Incarcerated- Netflix (Focus on 1-2 episodes from seasons 1 or 2)

True Justice-HBO

Life on Parole (2017, Frontline)- https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/life-on-parole/ (Links to an external site.)

Second Chance Kids (2017, Frontline)-https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/second-chance-kids/ (Links to an external site.)

The New Asylums (2005, Frontline)- https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/showsasylums/ (Links to an external site.)

Which system would you have preferred to use to solve this dilemma if allowed to chose any of the six ethical systems?

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READ THE MATERIAL MY name IS DeGraffenreid ,S is under (Ethics of Virtue or Ethics of Care:) only do the Materials tell you to do..

You are a homicide investigator and are interrogating someone you believe picked up a 9-year-old girl in a shopping mall and the molested and murdered the girl. He is a registered sex offender, was in the area, and although he does not have any violence on his record, you believe he must have done it because there is no other suspect who had the means, opportunity, and motive. You have some circumstantial evidence (he was seen in a video following the child) but very little good physical evidence. You really need a confession in order to make the case. You want to send this guy away for a long time. After several hours of getting nowhere, you have a colleague come in with a file folder and pretend that the medical examiner had obtained fingerprints on the body that match the suspect’s. You tell him that he lost his chance to confess to a lesser crime because now he is facing the death penalty. He says that he will confess to whatever you want him to if the death penalty is taken off the table. Do you tell him what you did? Do you tell the prosecutor?than Answer these question

a) Was the conclusion you reached the same as that of your classmate who used a different ethical system than you?

b) Do you agree with the conclusion reached by your classmate? Why or why not? Be specific.

c) Which system do you think came up with the best response (the system you used or the system your classmate used)? Explain.

d) Which system would you have preferred to use to solve this dilemma if allowed to chose any of the six Which system would you have preferred to use to solve this dilemma if allowed to chose any of the sixWhich system would you have preferred to use to solve this dilemma if allowed to chose any of the six ethical systems?

Reflect on the podcast and provide your thoughts on what can or should be done regarding mental health and criminal justice institutions including jails and/ or police officer training.

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Week 6 Personal Reflection
Points 2.5 Submitting a text entry box Available
There has been a long-standing argument that the criminal justice has failed to address mental health matters. There is a large number of persons entering the criminal justice system with ample mental health needs. There has been a considerable amount of attention in the last few years for the growing professional needs to address mental health issues in criminal justice institutions. Listen to the following podcast on caseworker and client relationships within mental health courts. Reflect on the podcast and provide your thoughts on what can or should be done regarding mental health and criminal justice institutions including jails and/ or police officer training.

There is no word or paragraph minimum. Consider this as if it is a blog of your personal thoughts. Please do not attach any document- type your response directly into the text box. Two of your peers will be assigned to review your thoughts- no response is required although I highly encourage constructive feedback.