Provide two reasons why early intervention should be supported by policy makers and the public.  Why are these two reasons persuasive in supporting the use of early intervention?

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Answer the following three questions. Draw on specific material from class, including the textbook, to answer the three questions below. Each response should be about two paragraphs per question.

 

  • According to the article by Uggen and Wakefield, how is mass incarceration related to economic and social inequalities?

 

  • Drawing on the material from Chapter 9, provide two reasons why early intervention should be supported by policy makers and the public.  Why are these two reasons persuasive in supporting the use of early intervention?

 

  • Out of the six correctional lessons discussed in chapter 10, which one do you think is most important for corrections in the future? What ‘lesson’ ought to be added to this list, from your own view or lived experience?

Discuss the importance of recognizing the signs of stalking and criminal definition of stalking for your jurisdiction

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When you were attending AIU, you thought of yourself being an undercover narcotics officer or working for a bank as a fraud investigator, but you were initially exposed to the role of a victims’ witness assistant during the Criminal Careers course at AIU. Then, your best friend became a victim of a crime of violence after being stalked for several months, and that incident changed your life. As you provided comfort and support to your friend during the judicial process, you were exposed first hand to the role played by the victims’ witness assistant during the criminal judicial process. The role of the victims’ witness assistant changed you, and you decided then that you wanted to pursue a career as a victims’ rights advocate somewhere. It has been a year since you were able to start your career in the victims’ rights advocate position, and every day, you feel that you are making a difference in society and your jurisdiction.
The 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, complete the following:
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
Create an intake form in addition to the topic paper that can be used to get important information from alleged victims of stalking.
The form should require information about the nature and frequency of stalking and should determine if the elements of the crime of stalking are present.
The form should also ask questions that will elicit answers that help indicate what type of stalking situation exists, asking things such as: Is the victim acquainted with the suspect, and if so, how? If not, how does the victim think the suspect knows or has encountered the victim? It should ask for the frequency of the annoyance and if the victim is in fear and why. Most stalking statutes require a pattern of harassment or annoyance that would make a reasonable person afraid or seriously annoyed; the form should ask something that would capture that information. The form should indicate whether or not there is a pending divorce or other legal matters between the 2 parties.
Create an evaluation and assessment form in addition to the topic paper based on the intake form you have created that will help rank the seriousness of the threat from the suspect who is stalking.
The evaluation and assessment form should indicate your familiarity with the contemporary information on what constitutes the most dangerous threat to the victim and then provide a ranking accordingly.
Your forms should reflect contemporary information, the legal definition of the crime of stalking, and the factors that distinguish the most serious situations.

Research and identify at least 3 types of major complaints often filed against correctional officers for misconduct ( either by an inmate or another correctional officer)

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You have been advised by the warden that the agency is going to seek national accreditation by the ACA and the he has designated you as the accreditation manager. One of the arrest that will be looked at is internal policies dealing with officer misconduct. there have been several incident s in the past in which officers have been disciplined or fired for conduct that violated and regulations of the agency.

He has tasked you with the responsibility of researching ideas for training plan that would address ethical and moral issues officers face in the performance of their duties.

Questions,,
1) Slide 1: Your cover slide
2) slide 2: Research and identify at least 3 types of major complaints often filed against correctional officers for misconduct ( either by an inmate or another correctional officer)
3) Slide3: identify 1-2 ways each of these complaints may be addressed from a theoretical perspective.
4) Slide 4: Present your recommendations on how each of these issues maybe addressed in correctional officer training.
5) Slide 5: List references

What are the potential benefits & limitations of conjugal visits? Who should be eligible to receive conjugal visits? Be as specific as possible in this answer

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For this assignment, I would like you to watch a documentary about love in prison.

After you watch this video please answer the following questions:

  • I would like you to summarize this video and provide your general reactions to what you saw.
  • Relate what you watched back to our course material and highlight or bold at least two key terms/concepts that apply to this video. In doing this be sure to A) Explain the key term and B) discuss how it specifically applied to this video.

Also, give your thoughts on these questions:

  • What are the potential benefits & limitations of conjugal visits?
  • Who should be eligible to receive conjugal visits? Be as specific as possible in this answer

Give a general synopsis of this movie. Who are the main characters we are introduced to? What lead them to solitary confinement, and what are some of the obstacles they are facing because of their confinement situation

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In order to complete this assignment, you will need to watch the PBS Frontline documentary entitled “Solitary Nation”.

After you watch this video, I would like you to answer the following questions.

  • I would like you to give a general synopsis of this movie. Who are the main characters we are introduced to? What lead them to solitary confinement, and what are some of the obstacles they are facing because of their confinement situation
  • What are some of the legal issues presented in this video? Respond to the legal issues raised in this video utilizing material you learned about in Chapter 6 of our text.
  • I would like you to state whether you are for the continued use of solitary confinement in today’s prisons.  If you do believe in the continued use of solitary confinement, what are some things that can be done to reduce some of the problems that are faced today? If you would favor the discontinued use of solitary confinement, what alternatives would you suggest for prison officials to use in place of solitary confinement?

What advantages do state prisons have compared to local jails? What makes local jails more vulnerable to signing bad contracts?

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In order to complete this assignment, you will need to read the report by Wagner & Jones (February 2019) titled “State of Phone Justice: Local jails, state prisons, and private phone providers”.

  1. Looking at the State of North Carolina:
    1. What was the highest cost of a 15 minute in-state call from a jail in 2018?
    2. What was the average cost of a 15 minute in-state call from a jail in 2018?
    3. What was the cost of a 15 minute in-state call from a state prison in 2018?
    4. How many times higher is the average jail rate compared to the state prison’s rate?
  2. What advantages do state prisons have compared to local jails? What makes local jails more vulnerable to signing bad contracts?
  3. How are companies like Western Union and Securus going around FCC regulations in regards to fees?
  4. What role does corporate consolidation play in prison phone contracts?
  5. What were some of the key recommendations in this report? Give at least 1 recommendation that you considered to be key in three different groups.

Study the case of Kyllo V. United States pertaining to the use of thermal-imaging devices constituting a legal search of a home.What is the holding in Kyllo? Explain the significance of the fact that the thermal-imaging device is not in “general use.”

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Study the case of Kyllo V. United States pertaining to the use of thermal-imaging devices constituting a legal search of a home.
Once you have read the case in its entirety, answer the discussion questions below;

What is the holding in Kyllo? Explain the significance of the fact that the thermal-imaging device is not in “general use.”
Discuss the relationship between the Supreme Court rulings in White, Ciraolo, Reiley and Dow with the decision in Kyllo.
Summarize the argument of the dissent. Do you find the majority opinion or the dissenting opinion more persuasive?
Describe the steps that the police officers in Kyllo should have taken before using the thermal-imaging device.

Identify which two sociological theories ( Disorganization theory and Differential Association theory )capture the line of thinking/motives of the offender, and explain your rationale.

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Scenario
Two teens have set up shop in an abandoned warehouse on the edge of town, distributing alcohol to their underage high school peers. They feel that there should be no charge for breaking and entering or trespassing because the warehouse was abandoned.

• Identify which two sociological theories ( Disorganization theory and Differential Association theory )capture the line of thinking/motives of the offender, and explain your rationale.
• Explain to your offender one limitation of their line of thinking (i.e. One point you would argue to show them that their theoretical approach might be flawed.)
• Finally, anticipate how the offender, based on theoretical perspective, would reply to your attempts to rehabilitate his behavior.

Compare your assigned countries homicide statistics to the United States and Germany. How does crime compare between your assigned country and the United States and Germany?

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  1. Current Events

Incorporating library databases and Internet research, conduct a news search on your assigned country (Canada) and criminal justice related issues, type a paragraph summary of at least

six (6) news articles, and cite the article in the text of your analysis and at the end of the assignment in proper APA format. Your news articles should be recent(within the last three (3) years). Some News Sources database include (but are not limited to) LexisNexis,

World News Connection, and Newswires. Internet news searches should include BBC World News,

The Economist, The Guardian and The New York Times.

  1. Statistics

For the second part of the paper you will collect, analyze and compare homicide statistics compiled by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC). First, collect longitudinal homicide statistics on your assigned country (including historical and the most recent years available). Second, analyze your countries homicide statistics by answering the following questions:

  • Do you believe the crime statistics in your assigned country are reliable? Why or why not?
  • Has homicide increased, decreased or remained constant for the selected years?
  • From your research, can you speculate why crime has decreased, increased or remained constant?

Finally, compare your assigned countries homicide statistics to the United States and

Germany for the same period. Create a small chart comparing all three countries. How

does crime compare between your assigned country and the United States and Germany?

In your opinion, why does your assigned country have less or more crime than the United States?

Write a 2 page paper analyzing the fact pattern scenario below. Please use your own state law (i.e., the state in which you reside or last resided). Of course, you will cite the relevant state law and constitutional doctrine and applicable case law.

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Write a 2 page paper analyzing the fact pattern scenario below. Please use your own state law (i.e., the state in which you reside or last resided). Of course, you will cite the relevant state law and constitutional doctrine and applicable case law. Your analysis should include application of the topics covered during the past 7 weeks. For example, search and seizure, search warrant, execution of warrant, exclusionary rule, Miranda rights, and the right against self incrimination.

Make sure all citations are in APA or Blue book format.

Please see the attached grading rubric below. This grading rubric will be used to grade this assignment.

Leila is a police officer. She is out of uniform and knocked on Dan’s front door of his house and asked is should could enter to enforce a warrant she had. The warrant was a search warrant issued by a magistrate at the Lawrence District Court. His name is Mark McCale, a retired police officer for the state police department in Lawrence. The warrant indicated that “the first floor of Dan’s house will be searched for a gun used in connection with a robbery and some jewelry, which was stolen.” While looking in Dan’s house, Officer Leila smelled what she thought to be gun powder emanating from the second floor. Officer Leila immediately walked upstairs and found a gun at the tops of the stairs. She went to confiscate the gun and while doing so noticed a note attached to the gun with an address on it. Later that afternoon police officers went to the address of the house listed on the note of the gun. A bunch of jewelry was found at this address and collected by the police officers. The address was a known address for stolen jewelry to be pawned. While at Dan’s house, Dan told Officer Leila that, “I do not know what you are here for, because I did not rob the Terri Grubb’s jewelry store.” Officer Leila asked Dan to go to the police station and Dan agreed. As they walked into the police station, Magistrate McCale yelled, “is that the person who robbed Terri Grubb’s jewelry store?!” Dan replied, “I told Officer Leila already, I did not rob the Terri Grubb’s jewelry store.”
The state to use for laws is Mississippi