Define the deficit and the debt. How are they different? How do they relate? How much of our debt is composed of interest payments on the debt? What are the largest budget items that are contributing to our expenses? What is the debt per citizen? Will we ever have to pay this ourselves?

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The federal deficit and debt

Q1). Federal Debt and Deficit

The federal deficit and debt are the focus of ongoing political debate that contributes to ongoing gridlock in Congress. What is really going on?

a) Define the deficit and the debt. How are they different? How do they relate?

 

Visit the website http://www.usdebtclock.org/index.html and answer the below questions:

b) What is the debt per citizen? Will we ever have to pay this ourselves?

c) What are the largest budget items that are contributing to our expenses?

d) How much of our debt is composed of interest payments on the debt?

Examine the cumulative impact of deficit-spending by studying the debt.

At the same website, look at the National Debt.

e) As of today, what is today’s national debt?

 

Next, to learn about the deficit, visit the http://www.usgovernmentdebt.us/federal_deficit.

f) What was the annual federal deficit over the past 5 years? What is it this year?

 

Review the website, including the history of the deficit over the past century.

g) What contributes to the deficit?

h) What is the risk of running deficits?

 

Q2). Employment and Wages

The Labor Department’s Bureau of Labor Statistics is the primary agency responsible for collecting data on employment and unemployment. Click on http://www.bls.gov/data/. This is a website that enables you to review a variety of data on the economy.

Click on the link for “Employment” at the top. A variety of tables can be viewed.
Click the first box under “Top Picks” and you will see a variety of tables that can be generated.
Select the boxes next to the table: “Manufacturing Employment.” Then at the bottom, hit “retrieve data.”
i) Review one month over the past 10 years. What is the trend in manufacturing jobs nationally?

Return to the starting website and review data on the unemployment rate.

j) What is the current unemployment rate?

k) What has been the unemployment rate in your area in the past 5 years?

l) What are the rates in various states (5) around the United States in the past 5 years?

Discuss how this information informs your own research proposal. Lay out what research design would be most suitable for addressing your proposed research question, given your topic and goal of research.

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Racial Profiling at Police Stops

Review the elements of experimental and non-experimental design. For each type of research design, discuss how the design is distinguished from others, including the assignment of subjects, and describe the findings and strengths and limitations of the model, based around issues of causality, reliability, and validity. Finally, discuss how this information informs your own research proposal. Lay out what research design would be most suitable for addressing your proposed research question, given your topic and goal of research.

 

Does your research indicate that the policy works? Is it cost-effective? What criteria for success does the policy succeed or fail at? Does the evidence you’ve used to answer these questions have methodological problems, or is it sound?

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The Limitations of Solitary Confinement

Policy Analysis Paper: The goal here is to explore a specific issue within the realm of contemporary American criminal justice: Solitary Confinement. Focus on one policy solution to the problem at hand that has been put into practice and to then to evaluate that approach according to the metrics we have discussed throughout the semester. This means first that I’d like you to tell me about what the possible or confirmed theoretical underpinnings of the policy are. For example, if I were going to discuss the policy of mandatory minimum sentencing, I would probably talk about deterrence theory as a theoretical justification for it.
After telling me about the problem, policy, and theoretical justifications for the policy, I would like you to explore whether the policy in question is evidence-based, which is where our understanding of both methods and policymaking comes in. Does your research indicate that the policy works? Is it cost-effective? What criteria for success does the policy succeed or fail at?
Does the evidence you’ve used to answer these questions have methodological problems, or is it sound? Furthermore, I would like you to discuss the political environment in which the policy was put into effect. Was it sold to the public somehow, or was it enacted with an element of secrecy? For example, if I wanted to look at a policy of reduced sentences for first-time drug
offenders, I might suggest that the efforts were passed by emphasizing the money-saving nature of it or a reliance on rehabilitation advocacy.
Finally, I would like you to conclude with a recommendation based on what you have learned. Should the policy in question be continued as is? Should it be changed? Perhaps you think it should be abandoned entirely in favor of something new. Whatever your recommendation is, tell me about it and justify it in the context of what has come before.

Explain how the legal definition of rape has evolved in the past century. Why will the prosecutor have issues proving that a sexual offense has transpired? How can the prosecutor prevail in proving that a sexual offense has transpired?

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 Sex Offenses

This assessment will require you to research sex offenses. Please be sure to validate your opinions and ideas with at least three (3) credible resources, which may include the class textbook as well as journal articles or periodicals from the Internet or from the KU Library.

Comprise a minimum 2-page essay, and please be sure to validate your opinions and ideas with citations and references in APA 7 format. For this assessment, the content should address the following questions presented:

Explain how the legal definition of rape has evolved in the past century.

Additionally, please address one (1) of the following hypothetical scenarios:

A male or female is accused of sexually assaulting his/her spouse.

A male or female customer is accused of sexually assaulting a male or female prostitute.

In the scenario, which you chose:

Why will the prosecutor have issues proving that a sexual offense has transpired?

How can the prosecutor prevail in proving that a sexual offense has transpired?

Upload your Assignment as a Microsoft Word document.

Describe at least 3-5 unique stressors that police officers deal with on a regular basis in relation to their job duties. Explain at least 2-3 officer wellness programs that are common in some police departments.

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Managing Officer Stress

This assignment will require you to conduct research. You can use the following resources: textbook, Internet, local police department or KU library database. Conduct research on police officer stress and how police departments help to manage their officer’s stress.

Write an APA, full two-page paper, that addresses the following topics:

Describe at least 3-5 unique stressors that police officers deal with on a regular basis in relation to their job duties.

Explain at least 2-3 officer wellness programs that are common in some police departments.

Evaluate the effectiveness of officer wellness programs.

Create at least three recommendations on how police leaders can improve their officer wellness programs, so they are more effective, productive and efficient.

Upload your Assignment as a Microsoft Word document, two-page minimum, APA format.

Describe the dangers and hazards that arise as police officers perform their duties. Explain the meaning of officer wellness, and the steps for developing an agency wellness campaign.

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Officer Wellness

Unit 6 DQ: Officer Wellness (Graded)

Describe the dangers and hazards that arise as police officers perform their duties. Then, Explain the meaning of officer wellness, and the steps for developing an agency wellness campaign. Next, explain how police agency culture must often be changed to accommodate a wellness program.

Lastly, create 3 suggestions on how police leaders can improve the health and wellness of their officers.

Compare and contrast murder and manslaughter. Further, do you believe that concepts such as malice aforethought and premeditation should influence the prosecutor’s decision to charge the accused with either murder or manslaughter?

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Types of Homicide

Unit 6 DQ: Types of Homicide (Graded)

Compare and contrast murder and manslaughter. Further, do you believe that concepts such as malice aforethought and premeditation should influence the prosecutor’s decision to charge the accused with either murder or manslaughter? Please provide at least two (2) reasons to support your position. Please be specific, and please be sure to support you comments with credible research, which may include information from the class textbook, Internet or the KU Library.

Explain in your own words what is simple justice and whether the effort to transform public discourse regarding separate but equal amounted to simple justice or evolved complex sense of right and wrong.

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Simple Justice

Based on the movie “Simple Justice”, or the book by Richard Kluger “Simple Justice”

Evaluate Richard Kluger thesis that the notion that “Separate but Equal” can never be equal is a matter of simple justice. Whether you agree or disagree with his thesis, trace the efforts (court cases and activism) of the NAACP as well as the legal campaign between 1930-1954 and beyond in trying to convince the country that segregation can never be equal regardless of the efforts by the state governments to provide equal but separate facilities to African Americans.

In the Thesis: You need to explain in your own words what is simple justice and whether the effort to transform public discourse (attitude) regarding separate but equal amounted to simple justice or evolved complex sense of right and wrong.

In the body paragraph, you tell the story of the NAACP civil rights agenda and changes in attitudes of the Supreme Court and other state courts, Black and white public opinion. In other words you tell the story.

Conclusion: Was it simple or evolved. As always, there is no right answer. It’s a persuasive essay.

Which lead agency in the United States is responsible for investigating terrorist organizations and attacks? What is the function of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence regarding terrorism and organized crime?

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Counterterrorism and Organized Crime Operations

You are a law enforcement executive, and you are asked by the Police Executive Research Forum (PERF) to prepare a white paper related to terrorism and organized crime from a command and control perspective. Address the following in your paper:

Which lead agency in the United States is responsible for investigating terrorist organizations and attacks?
What is the function of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence regarding terrorism and organized crime?
What attack methodologies and delivery methods are used by terrorist organizations?
What counterterrorist and counter-organized crime methods are available to the United States?

Describe what you see as the most important impediment that must be overcome to take better advantage of technological advances to improve the functioning and effectiveness of the criminal justice system.

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CCJ5078 Discussion 4

This week’s readings introduce several issues related to the increased use of information technology in the criminal justice system, and the many challenges that criminal justice agencies face in implementing them and adapting to the rapidly advancing world of information technology. Describe what you see as the most important impediment that must be overcome to take better advantage of technological advances to improve the functioning and effectiveness of the criminal justice system. Then, describe one strategy we might follow to overcome this challenge. Finally, discuss whether you believe this will be successful. Why or why not?