Category: Criminal justice

Why does the problem persist (identify the major factors that contribute to the problem’s ongoing presence)?What is at stake if the problem is not solved?

Analyze ways to improve counterterrorism efforts with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.

This analysis project requires you to tackle the problem by first exploring it, its causes, and its impacts. Then recommend practical solutions to solve the problem.

Here are questions to help guide your analysis:

(Note: you are not directly answering these questions in the paper. These are just to guide the content of the analysis.)

What is the problem being addressed (explain, describe, and “prove” that it exists)?

Who is affected by this problem?

Why does this problem exist (identify the root causes)?

Why does the problem persist (identify the major factors that contribute to the problem’s ongoing presence)?

What is at stake if the problem is not solved?

In forming your solution, use these questions to guide you:

Who can take action?

What should they do, exactly?

Why would this help?

What are the positive and negative aspects of your solution(s)?

Why do youngsters with no history of behavior problems in childhood suddenly become antisocial in adolescence? Why do they develop antisocial problems rather than other difficulties?

“Life Course Perspective Theories”

Why do youngsters with no history of behavior problems in childhood suddenly become antisocial in adolescence?
Why do they develop antisocial problems rather than other difficulties?

Why is delinquency so common among teens? How are they able to spontaneously
recover from an antisocial life-style within a few short years? (p. 686)

How and why the program/policy was developed, why it is important, how it will be implemented, and the benefits of implementation.

Develop a PowerPoint presentation to deliver to key stakeholders that examines why this Prison Sentencing Reforms should be implemented. Remember, you need to appeal to your audience; so, be sure that the audience understands the benefits of implementing the program/proposal.

How and why the program/policy was developed, why it is important, how it will be implemented, and the benefits of implementation.

 

Describe some currently proposed alternative drug control strategies, and summarize how results from these could differ from the consequences and outcomes of the War on Drugs Policy.  

Three peer-reviewed references and three acceptable sources could include textbooks, scholarly journals, and interviews of individuals currently employed or retired from the criminal justice system. General websites such as Google.com and Wikipedia.com are not. The average length of papers is 2 to 3 pages double spaced. All writing assignments must be original work for this course. Papers used in another course cannot be used, and information should not be cut and pasted into the paper. All source material should be paraphrased in your own words. Short quotations are allowed. It is expected that you will write professionally with correct spelling, punctuation, and grammar.

Writing Assignment

1 Describe some currently proposed alternative drug control strategies, and summarize how results from these could differ from the consequences and outcomes of the War on Drugs Policy.

Do you think our current education system is still encouraging first and second generation immigrant children to adopt the national civic culture, in other words assimilate? If yes, does this need to be changed? What do you think could be done differently? If not, is our current education system helping children understand and embrace their multiple identities?

Read the following:

Chomsky, Aviva. 2007. They Take Our Jobs!: And 20 Other Myths about Immigration. A Note on Terminology and vii-xxvi.
Chomsky, Aviva. 2007. “Myth 12: Today’s Immigrants Threaten the National Culture Because They are not Assimilating.” 103-109.
The book is listed within the ASU Library Resource Organizer (click on column on the left) and is on-line within the ASU Reading List.
Huntington Assimilation Converts, Ampersands, and the Erosion of Citizenship.pdfActions
Banks – 2017 – Failed Citizenship and Transformative Civic Education.pdfActions

There are two parts to this assignment: A question and an answer to the question below. There is further directions below as well and an example.

Below is the question you can answer:
Arvizo, Question

Do you think our current education system is still encouraging first and second generation immigrant children to adopt the national civic culture, in other words assimilate? If yes, does this need to be changed? What do you think could be done differently? If not, is our current education system helping children understand and embrace their multiple identities?

Banks. (2017). Failed Citizenship and Transformative Civic Education. Educational Researcher, 46(7), 366–377. https://doi.org/10.3102/0013189X17726741

Chomsky. (2007). They Take Our Jobs: And 20 Other Myths about Immigration. Beacon Press.

YOUR Name, Question

On page 12 of Ngai’s Impossible Subjects, the author mentioned that World War 1 created European war refugees that wanted to seek entry in the United States. Roger’s also mentions in Guarding the Golden Door: American Immigration Policy and Immigrants Since 1882 the various refugee acts after World War 2 which had numerical caps to the number of refugee allowed into the United States (pg 190). He later mentions on page 211 that the United States can “pick and choose which of the tens of thousands of refugees it admits annually”.

Why did these refugees choose to come to the United States and not to another other country? What about the United States seemed to attract them here? How did the numerical caps on the refugee acts play a factor in coming to the United States?

Describe your interest in the program, your past work in your proposed or allied fields of study, including non-course education experiences, teaching or other relevant employment, publications, theses, research in progress, other scholarly activities, and your plans for graduate study and a professional career.Discuss the degree to which your background experiences and values/beliefs have prepared you for the program.

Statement of Purpose
Prompt
The statement should be 2-4 double spaced typewritten pages. Describe your interest in the program, your past work in your proposed or allied fields of study, including non-course education experiences, teaching or other relevant employment, publications, theses, research in progress, other scholarly activities, and your plans for graduate study and a professional career. Lastly, discuss the degree to which your background experiences and values/beliefs have prepared you for the program.

What is assistance of counsel?Was this a violation of Peter’s Sixth Amendment right to counsel? Fully explain your answer. Be sure to support your answer with scholarly sources and appellate court opinions.

What is assistance of counsel?

For example: Two college friends, Richard and Peter are arrested by the Capital City police. They are accused of murder for setting fire to the Capital City University administration building one night and causing the death of a janitor in the fire. Both Richard and Peter were members of a student organization that claimed that the administration of the University was corrupt, and at a rally they carried signs outside the building that read “Burn it to the ground.”

Richard’s father is very rich. He hires a team of the most expensive lawyers in the country, and after an eight-day trial, Richard is acquitted by a jury. Richard’s lawyers sought and received a separate trial for him.

Peter’s parents have no money, and Peter has massive student loans and works two jobs to pay for school. He is represented by a public defender who has 120 other cases. Though the public defender does his best with limited time and resources, Peter is convicted after a three-day jury trial.

Peter is now appealing his conviction, claiming that having a public defender with 120 cases effectively denied his right to counsel.

Was this a violation of Peter’s Sixth Amendment right to counsel? Fully explain your answer. Be sure to support your answer with scholarly sources and appellate court opinions.

Explain whether the fact that Hand was not a citizen of the United States affects his rights in relation to the Fifth Amendment right to remain silent.Explain whether McFadden’s statement abouthis family constitutes custodial interrogation.

The Right to Remain Silent paper

Research Fifth Amendment cases, including Miranda v. Arizona, 386 U.S. 436 (1966), which involves custodial interrogation and the right against self-incrimination.

In your paper,

Determine whether Hand was entitled to Miranda warnings.

Explain whether the fact that Hand was not a citizen of the United States affects his rights in relation to the Fifth Amendment right to remain silent.

Identify whether Hand’s questioning was custodial.

Explain whether McFadden’s statement abouthis family constitutes custodial interrogation.

Evaluate whether Hand’s statement can be used against him in a court of law.

Explain whether Jaxon’s statement be used against him in a court of law.

Determine whether Jaxon can testify against Hand.

Discuss your actions if any you would take in reference to Detective Crystal. You must include a leadership and ethical theoretical analysis based on one or more of the main three theories of each.

All criminological issues have a theoretical basis. You must use theory in all initial submissions. No direct quotes can be used in any initial post or paper submission without prior approval of the professor. Any direct quotes used without prior permission and or without perfect citation will result in a zero. You may use direct quotes at your discretion in responding to other students.

Research Detective Joe Crystal formerly of the Baltimore Police Department.

The research assignment this week is a real world example of how things actually work when an officer violates “the code of silence”. Retaliation is an expected outcome in many criminal police agencies.

Provide your opinion of Detective Joe Crystal, formerly of Baltimore Police Department, situation. You have been appointed chief of Baltimore Police Department. Discuss your actions if any you would take in reference to Detective Crystal. You must include a leadership and ethical theoretical analysis based on one or more of the main three theories of each.

Leadership: Trait, transactional, and transformational.

Ethics: Virtue, formalism, and utilitarian.

What changes have been made in your chosen reform compared to the old law?What fosters the changes in law or practice? (e.g., a specific incident? A realization of social injustice?

Raise the Age

What changes have been made in your chosen reform compared to the old law?

Summarize the key changes. Don’t just copy and paste. Your poster is going to look really messy if you do
that.

2. What fosters the changes in law or practice? (e.g., a specific incident? A realization of social
injustice?)

3. What changes have occurred after the implementation took effect?

Are they positive changes or negative changes? (e.g., crime rates went up/down after the reform? The public is happy or
not happy with the reform? – you can do a simple news search on Google – keep in mind that
many news articles are reflections of emotions/opinions, but NOT scientific evidence.

4. Anything else that you think is interesting for us to know regarding your chosen reform?