Put together an intake, evaluation, and assessment instrument to be used in taking information on stalking situations. Check stalking statutes, and cite the elements of the crime of stalking in your documents.

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Crime Victim Processing

Assignment Details

As a victim advocate, your best friend became a victim of a crime of violence after being stalked for several months, and that incident changed your life. You provided comfort and support to your friend during the judicial process and you guided that friend through the criminal judicial process. Your efforts were successful in obtaining the help needed and criminal justice outcomes desired by your friend.

The new prosecutor for whom you have been working as a victims’ witness assistant has had several calls from victims of stalking. Some cases seem more serious than other cases; however, one case that no one in the office thought was serious resulted in the victim’s death. Everyone thought that the couple was just going through a difficult breakup. This case had a tremendous impact on the entire office, especially you.

To help make sure that the office does not minimize a potentially dangerous situation again, the prosecutor has asked you to put together an intake, evaluation, and assessment instrument to be used in taking information on stalking situations. Be sure to check stalking statutes, and cite the elements of the crime of stalking in your documents.

In 2-3 pages, provide a guide for using the intake form for stalking or other crime victims.

Create a topic paper (2–3 pages) in APA format discussing the following:
Importance of recognizing the signs of stalking
Criminal definition of stalking for your jurisdiction (cite a relevant stalking statute)
Key facts that you felt all office personnel should know about stalking, such as the remedies designed to help a stalking victim

Explain what theories apply to this scenario, why those apply, and whether or not and why the presiding judge should consider them in sentencing the principal.

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Case Study

This assignment’s fact pattern is based on a real life case (although you probably noticed a few familiar facts in the others), the Atlanta Public Schools standardized test cheating scandal. The information below summarizes the relevant facts, but you can read more about the scandal here: http://www.ajc.com/s/news/school-test- scores/#top-stories.

For years, the Atlanta Public Schools system had been plagued by low standardized test scores at the city’s elementary schools. Following the departure of a previous superintendent, the APS Board of Education hired (the now late) Dr. Beverly Hall to overhaul the system and fix its issues with low test scores. The scores had been so low for so long that a state takeover of the system was a very real possibility. After just a few years on the job, the system’s test scores had improved dramatically. Dr. Hall attributed this to hiring better teachers and focusing more resources on test preparation. She also believed that for many years, the community just had low expectations for lower income students and no one ever challenged these students. Following one year’s round of tests at the city’s elementary schools, graders at the Georgia Department of Education noticed an unusually high number of erased and changed answers on tests from APS schools. After several weeks of news reports and public pressure, the governor hired a former state Attorney General to head up an investigation into the matter. After an investigation lasting several months, former AG Michael Bowers released a final report indicating that the answers had been changed by teachers in an effort to inflate students’ scores. “Erasure parties” at one APS employee’s home in suburban Atlanta had also taken place, where teachers spent an entire weekend correcting answer sheets.

District Attorney Paul Howard charged a number of APS teachers with racketeering and tampering with official documents. Dr. Hall died of cancer prior to the trial and was never charged. The trial, which lasted seven months, is now in the sentencing phase for a principal considered to be one of the scandal’s ringleaders. Her defense attorney has hired you as an expert witness to explain any potential scientific explanations for why the principal participated. Their working theory is that the principal was threatened with termination by APS administrators if she did not help with changing answers.

Explain what theories apply to this scenario, why those apply, and whether or not and why the presiding judge should consider them in sentencing the principal.

Provide the name of the case and the court’s holding in the case. Explain how you believe the court’s decision played a role in policy changes. Support your journal assignment using specific details regarding the decision of the case.

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4-2 Journal: Decisions From Above

Occasionally, the United States Supreme Court makes decisions that are considered groundbreaking (abortion, gay marriage, death penalty, civil rights). In turn, these court decisions can affect public policies. These changes are often the result of the changes in public opinion. Often, the response of policy actors, such as the media and local governmental agencies, to the court decision plays a role in these policy changes.

Research and locate at least one United States Supreme Court case that you believe influenced state or federal decisions or actions about your selected public policy issue that in turn will influence your departmental policy. The module resource U.S. Case Law Opinions offers a sampling of recent and historic Supreme Court cases to choose from. You may also choose one from your own research.

In a minimum 400-word journal assignment, provide the name of the case, the holding of the case, and an explanation of how you believe the decision played a role in policy changes.

Prompt: In a minimum of 400 words, address the following in your journal assignment:
 Provide the name of the case and the court’s holding in the case.
 Explain how you believe the court’s decision played a role in policy changes.
 Support your journal assignment using specific details regarding the decision of the case.
 Describe how you will apply what you have learned to your final projec

To successfully complete this assignment, view the Journal Guidelines and Rubric PDF document.

The link to case study’s is here
https://law.justia.com/cases/

Discuss the criminal justice system. Historically, what is the makeup of the criminal justice system? How do the systems interact? What criminal justice systems were involved in the case. How were they involved and how did they interact?

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CRIME DOCUMENTARY: The Murder of Emma Walker, watch on youtube.

Watch the following video—complete additional research on this case.

Complete a research paper that will include the following points. The paper should be a minimum of 5 pages of content (this will not include the title page, abstract, reference page). 8 pages The paper will be written in APA format using 12-inch Times New Roman font and one-inch margins. For each question, use an appropriate heading to separate your thoughts. For example –

Page one will be your title page.

Page two will begin your answers to the questions.

Criminal Justice System

  1. Discuss the criminal justice system. Historically, what is the makeup of the criminal justice system? How do the systems interact? (C.O. 5)

Crime, Investigation, and Outcome

  1. Outline the crime, the investigation, and the outcome (C.O. 1).

CJ Systems Involved and Interaction

  1. What criminal justice systems were involved in the case. How were they involved and how did they interact? (C.O. 1)

Role of Law Enforcement

  1. What role did law enforcement play in the investigation (C.O. 2).

Crimes Committed

  1. What crimes were committed? (C.O. 3)

Crime Solved / Due Process Issues / Amendment Issues

  1. How was the crime solved? Were there any due process issues? What Amendment issues such as search and seizure, confessions, evidence, etc were evident in the case? (C.O. 3).

The Psychological and/or Sociological Impact on the Community

  1. What psychological and/or sociological impact of the crime was had on the community and the victim’s family/friends? What about the suspect’s family/friends? (C.O. 4)

Evidence Retained / Ethical Issues on Evidence

  1. Identify how the murder weapon and recordings of the suspect were obtained. Do you feel there were ethical issues in how the detective obtained the gun and recordings made in the car with the suspect? Was there an issue with how the evidence was obtained? (C.O. 3, 6)

How Corrections Played a Role in the Outcome

  1. How will the corrections system play a role in the case? (C.O. 1, 2).

 

 

Research the information on prison populations: Prison Count 2010 Based this data, describe trends in incarceration. How does this information coincide with the arguments provided by Clear?

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Week 8: New Developments in Crime Theory

For your opening post, answer ONE of the following questions. Your first post is due by WEDNESDAY. Include any lingering questions you have about the readings or lecture on new developments in crime theory, or include a question for your peers to help them think through the material more deeply. Cite your sources.

 

1. Read the manual presented by the Sentencing Project on how to reduce racial disparity in the criminal justice system: REDUCING Racial Disparity in the Criminal Justice System: A Manual for Practitioners and Policymakers Using information from the text and lectures for this week, provide an overview and critique of their recommendations. Which do you think are most feasible and why Make an argument, provide evidence, cite your sources.

2. Read the following article on effect of housing vouchers on crime: The Impact of Housing Vouchers on Crime in US Cities and Suburbs How has the voucher program affected crime? Does this program reflect the propositions in the readings for this week? In what ways could the voucher program be improved, according to the readings for this week? Make an argument, provide evidence, cite your sources.

3. Read the following 2007 Bureau of Justice Statistics report on African American victimization: Black Victims of Violent Crime. How would the theories discussed this week explain the findings? Which theory do you think best explains the findings and why? Based on these findings and the theories discussed this week, what kind of policy/policies should be implemented to reduce black victimization? Make an argument, provide evidence, cite your sources.

4. Design a community justice strategy using Clear’s argument. Thoroughly describe the elements of the strategy, and explain why your proposed strategy is consistent with Clear’s ideas in Imprisoning Communities. Make an argument, provide evidence, cite your sources.

5. Research the information on prison populations: Prison Count 2010 Based this data, describe trends in incarceration. How does this information coincide with the arguments provided by Clear? Using Clear, make a policy recommendation to reduce incarceration. Make an argument, provide evidence, cite your sources.

6. Design a study to test Unnever and Gabbidon’s theory of African American offending. What design would you pick (existing data analysis, interview, experiment, ethnography, etc. – here’s a brief overview Links to an external site. And here’s more detail Links to an external site.) and why? What city would you pick and why? What questions would you seek to understand and how would you obtain that information? Make sure you include a discussion of Unnever and Gabbidon’s thesis as part of your discussion.

Provide a research paper about Bernie Madoff and his crimes and what criminological theory best fits his crimes as well as who invented the theory chosen.

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Criminological theory

Provide a research paper about Bernie Madoff and his crimes and what criminological theory best fits his crimes as well as who invented the theory chosen.

Choose a specific type of crime. Investigate who are the victims of this crime, how prevalent is this crime, what are the causes of this crime, in what ways do victims contribute to the crime, methods of prevention, resources available to assist victims of this crime, and the student’s opinion of any needed changes in resources, laws, sentencing, etc. related to this crime.

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Type of crime

For this paper, you will choose a specific type of crime (such as identity theft, domestic violence, rape, sexual harassment, etc.). You will then investigate (a) who are the victims of this crime, (b) how prevalent is this crime, (c) what are the causes of this crime, (d) in what ways do victims contribute to the crime, (e) methods of prevention, (f) resources available to assist victims of this crime, and (g) the student’s opinion of any needed changes in resources, laws, sentencing, etc. related to this crime.

Be sure that you turn in your topic for approval in Week One. If your topic has not been approved prior to you turning in your final paper, there will be a five-point deduction off of the final paper.

The report should be at least 8-10 pages (not including the Title page and Reference page), typed in Microsoft Word, using 12-point font in Times New Roman font, in APA format. Please ensure that you utilize sources that are not only relevant to your material, but that are also verified as credible, at least one must be a peer reviewed resource. Be careful of what you find on the internet as not all sources are credible (this includes Google Scholar).

Define child neglect in your own words and briefly explain one of the following two treatments for child victims of abuse and neglect.

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Child neglect

Define child neglect in your own words and briefly explain one of the following two treatments for child victims of abuse and neglect:

A) Trauma-focused cognitive-behavioral therapy or

B) Attachment trauma therapy.

Compare and contrast three types of stalkers. In your answer, be sure to discuss the correlation between stalkers and violence.

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Types of stalkers

Compare and contrast three types of stalkers. In your answer, be sure to discuss the correlation between stalkers and violence.

Identify the two main ways in which a sexual offender gains sexual access to a child. Explain these two types of encounters by identifying four distinct traits for each.

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Types of encounters

Identify the two main ways in which a sexual offender gains sexual access to a child. Explain these two types of encounters by identifying four distinct traits for each.