Category: Criminal justice

Identify and explain the key similarities and differences in the nature and approach to policing which you see highlighted in both extracts.

Policing Essay

Review the two video clips below which provide insight into the role and day to day challenges of a police officer in 1968 and 2016.

Identify and explain the key similarities and differences in the nature and approach to policing which you see highlighted in both extracts.

Video 1 – Home Office Film “Beat Policing” (1968) –

Video 2 – BBC “Police 24/7” (2016) –

Discuss how global pandemic preparation was considered in the homeland security strategic planning process at the state level. Select a state and its homeland security strategic plan and how it prepared for a public health emergency such as the COVID-19 pandemic.

State Public Health Response

Assignment:

Discuss how global pandemic preparation was considered in the homeland security strategic planning process at the state level. Select a state and its homeland security strategic plan and how it prepared for a public health emergency such as the COVID-19 pandemic. Assess if the strategic plan was effective in preparing for and responding to the current global pandemic.

What is clinical prediction? Discuss the factors that can be used in making such predictions. What are some reasons why clinical predictions tend to have poor results?

chap 9 crime prevention discussion

Answer the questions below, Post an original submission to the discussion.

Ensure that postings are detailed responses relating to the course and/or chapter content. Correct grammar, spelling, and punctuation are expected.

Discuss the difference between life-course-persistent and adolescence-limited offending. Do they have the same risk factors? If not, what are some of the risk factors for each?

What is clinical prediction? Discuss the factors that can be used in making such predictions. What are some reasons why clinical predictions tend to have poor results?

Why is Medicare an easy mark for fraudulent equipment sales? What are “Ghost Services?” Provide your thoughts on the U.S. health-care system and explain why it is vulnerable to fraud, waste, and abuse.

Why is Medicare an easy mark for fraudulent equipment sales? What are “Ghost Services?” Provide your thoughts on the U.S. health-care system and explain why it is vulnerable to fraud, waste, and abuse.

 What are some of the difficulties faced by those who are incarcerated with mental illness? What about when they transition back into the community?Are there alternatives to incarceration (other things that we can do instead of simply locking people up)?

Nation of women behind bars

Answer the following questions related to the criminal justice system, mental health, and crime.

Should dealing with mental health/mental illness be the responsibility of the criminal justice system? Why or why not?

What are some of the difficulties faced by those who are incarcerated with mental illness? What about when they transition back into the community?

Why are we seeing more people (women especially) who are suffering from mental illness entering the criminal justice system?

Are there alternatives to incarceration (other things that we can do instead of simply locking people up)?

How should developmental factors in adolescence be factored into the juvenile justice process? Where should we draw the legal line between childhood and adulthood?

Juvenile Justice

Watch the video below and answer the questions that follow.

How should developmental factors in adolescence be factored into the juvenile justice process? Where should we draw the legal line between childhood and adulthood?

What were these findings? How do the limitations presented in each article direct future researchers and their ability to provide substantive findings for future policy makers?

When reading the articles for this week, there were major findings. What were these findings? How do the limitations presented in each article direct future researchers and their ability to provide substantive findings for future policy makers?