Crime Article Reviews Samples For Students

The article entitled “He’s Guilty: Investigator Bias in Judgments of Truth and Deception” by Christian Meissner and Saul Kassin’s aims at establishing the effect of “investigator bias” in influencing investigation outcomes. The research question posed by the article is “do cognitive and behavioral biases ascertain investigator’s performance in making judgments of truth and Deception?” The article adopts unique methodology through incorporating forty-four participants from North American law enforcement (Meissner & Kassin, 2002). It also incorporates the discussions covering research from related articles, review of the literature and resource ...

The article From White-Collar to Red-Collar Crime discusses the dangers which white-collar criminals may pose. Although typically assumed to be nonviolent offenders, that when threated with the prospect of being caught and imprisoned, many white-collar criminals are willing to resort to committing very violent acts. The article describes the violent acts committed by white-collars criminal moving into the violent crime arena as red-collar crime.

Perpetrators of white collar crime are not all high level executives anymore. Technology has made it easier for ‘street criminals’ to commit white-collar crimes. Many people including those in law enforcement may be under ...

The deliberate hostile activity to cause physical harm or mass killing of a targeted population in places like schools, workplaces, places of worship, public gathering is a Hybrid Targeted Violence (HTV). The places of gathering where people have least option to shield themselves are the preferred locations for an HTV action. The weapons used in this kind of violence may be the conventional firearms or other explosive devices. These incidents of atrocity have multi-threat, and often go against the conventional procedural strategies of the relevant agencies of public safety to initiate a rescue or counter the violence. The initial moments are very ...

Response

The $9.9 million reduction in budget allocation makes one of the things that caught me by surprise. A closer analysis of the budget reveals that security/counter-terrorism grants have reduced dramatically from the 2013 values. The other most surprising thing is that the budget for communication was also reduced in 2014. Common knowledge would suggest an increased funding in communications and counter-terrorism programs. The capital program also surprised me since the department seems to have an elaborate ten-year plan that underfunded. Further, I was surprised to note that administration of the police department increased in budget allocation. The budget shows a ...

During holocaust, many innocent people were killed. These killings were done by people who were under the instruction of the government. It is due to these killings that Stanly Milgram decided to conduct experiments known as obedience to the authority to find out it was possible to conduct such massive killing of the ordinary people in the society. The finding from these experiments is very useful in explaining the reason for the massive killings.

Obedience is a common thing especially in society where we have very powerful leaders. When people are very powerful, the others tend to obey their commands ...

Summary

Laveta Richardson, a mother, never thought that she would experience like those mothers seen on TV who grieve for their children’s loss to Chicago’s gun violence. On Thursday, Laveta Richardson was comforted by her relatives about the death of Venzel Richardson, age 14, the youngest among the siblings. Venzel was shot in West Woodlawn. According to the mother, her son Venzel was gone because there are people who do not have remorse and feelings. She cried hysterically said that her home would not be as before. Chicago police reported that Venzel, a freshman student at Dunbar High School had a ...

According to Karen (2013), Police Officers normally train often with guns but less so for the circumstances they get themselves in most of the times. OC spray, teasers and batons are usually on the duty belt of the officer but these may not all the time be viable choices. Other times some good old fashioned hand-to-hand combative is inevitable. Hence, when that time approaches, it is vital to one to have acquired the skills that will finish any violence as fast as possible
There are several excellent hand-to-hand combative systems carried out, for example, Wing Chun Kung Fu ( ...

This article is about the artistic efflorescence in the Ottoman Empire. The Sultan’s court was considered a ‘court studio’, the center of art production. The Ottoman Emperors encouraged the architectures, calligraphers, goldsmiths and other related artists to work through rewarding them with gold and other precious items, in return. Road system was designed, and other architectural decisions were taken to improve the systems of the state.
According to the Ottoman history, in their daily lives many sultans wore simple clothes, in accordance with Islamic precepts. Later Mehmed promoted and ordered special fancy clothes for the King’s Family ...

In December 2013; the Japanese parliament approved a state secrets law. The leading party, The Liberal Democratic party, tabled the law in parliament. This is the party of the ruling Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. The new law was established to protect state secrets. Despite a lot of criticism and stalling attempts from the opposition, the bill was finally approved into law. The upper house, whose majority members are from the ruling party, approved the bill by 130 to 82. This law gives mandate to heads of ministries and agencies to classify 23 types of information related to diplomacy, counterintelligence, counterterrorism and ...

In the article entitled Revisiting the Oil Curse, Samuel R. Schubert the author present facts regarding economic and political scenarios relating to oil, he essentially perceives these scenarios as an expression of the oil curse. The author argues that though most governments with oil within its environs have shown efforts to promote transparency and fight corruption, these programs are in one way, or the other raided in favour of other needs. The author in this article brings forth some of the initiative that have since been adopted by some governments. In Alaska for instance, citizens are compensated through shares ...

Article Critique

Immigration in the US has for long been a controversial debate, having both its pros and cons. On the one hand of attaining cheap and valued labour, it also poses an imminent threat to the Native Americans on the grounds of employment. One of the main reasons of the conflict also resides in the diversity of the ethnicities. Often there are clashes on the basis of colour, creed or any other discrimination the human conscience has crop up. Unsurprisingly, the US Government in various states is now coming up with stronger laws and stricter punishments to drive these illegal citizens ...

The article: Juvenile Drug Court Program Admission, Demeanor and Cherry-picking: A Research Note by J.C Barnes among other authors examines how demeanor of either a parent or a juvenile influences the admission of the juvenile into the Drug Court program for purposes of treatment. It does a critical analysis of 76 case files so as to get a picture of the case whether demeanor indeed influences the admission of juveniles into the program. The second concern of the article is to explore whether the source of such demeanor whether parent or the child is determinant of whether a juvenile is so admitted. The article ...

White collar crimes are financially motivated and non-violent crimes majorly committed by people of high social status. The term “white collar crime” was coined in 1939 by Edwin Sutherland in his speech to the American Sociological Society.White collar crimes are difficult to detect and prosecute. Perpetrators employ highly sophisticated methods to commit crimes and hide the heinous activities through a chain of complex financial transactions. Punishment for these crimes involve: incarceration, restitution, community service, probation, criminal forfeiture, fines or disgorgement.

Bernie Madoff's $50 Billion Ponzi Scheme-Forbes Magazine

This prominent investor was involved in a Ponzi investment scam with the Madoff’s Hedge Fund. A Ponzi scheme is a fraudulent ...

COMPLEX SCIENTIFIC TESTIMONY: HOW DO JURORS MAKE DECISIONS?

Joel Cooper, Elizabeth A. Bennett & Holley L. Sukel
The article posed the question as to whether “regular” citizens sitting on juries are capable of understanding complex scientific data and how such complex data is processed and whether it is translated into a sound and rational verdict.
2) The methodology used
Of the fifty-four paid participants, forty participants, seventy-four (75%) percent, were selected from a local community college in the Princeton, New Jersey area while fourteen (14) participants, twenty-five (25%) percent, were from a local retirement community. Interestingly, one-hundred (100%) percent of the participants considered themselves upper-middle-lower middle class which ...

Psychology

Youngstrom and Busch (2000) examine the ramifications of the Supreme Court decision in Kumho Tire Co. Ltd v. Carmichael on expert testimonies in court and then analyze the implications on psychologists deposing as experts. The authors note the recent Supreme Court decision that current legal standards for admission of scientific evidence also apply to other expert testimony based on ‘training, experience and other sources of expertise besides empirical support ‘ (Youngstrom & Busch, 2000). The authors trace the evolution of acceptance of expert opinion in court. Earlier, techniques generally accepted in the scientific community were acceptable. In Carmichael’s case, the ...

Abstract

The paper delineates and evaluates Eric Garner and Michael Brown Cases as well as unwarranted and excessive use of force. Garner was killed due to selling untaxed cigarettes while Michael Brown was a suspected robber. In both cases, the targeted were unarmed, and I think a re-evaluation of the use by the police force. Two different viewpoints persist in each of the cases. In the Garner case, he had been unable to breathe and choked to death. I think that the officers had no right to punish him with death because a man drinking and driving has no intention to kill others, ...

Step Two

The article in question here discusses the risk of date rape on college and university campuses. Because protection motivation theory proposes that people have a few priorities regarding their personal health and wellness-- that people consider the potential occurrence of an event, their vulnerability to an event, self-efficacy and the effectiveness of preventative behavior-- all these things must be considered when considering implementing protection motivation theory.
This article talks about the relationships that exist between “dating activity, social competency, and type of information provided with the dependents variables of date rape related protection behavior (intent), belief, and knowledge” (Singh ...

This report focuses on understanding immigration policies and migrant security while living in the U.S. throughout the report, the author opted to use casual design in understanding the different reasons that lead to migrant’s death and the desire to migrant to America. This design is used in scenarios where the aim of research is to come up with facts of an effect of a specific action where assumptions have been used to state the reason behind why an action occurred. Historically, immigrants have been associated with crime in that whenever they died the death was usually associated with crime.
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Article Review

According to research, racism is not a thing of the past, but is rampant even now, in today’s society. It is a widespread problem that seemingly stems from the belief that black or African-American males are more aggressive than their white counterparts. The article “Is everyone a little bit racist,” by Michael Kristoff, delves into the intricacies of racial biases by citing a few examples and outlining a few studies that were conducted into the issue. It shows empirical evidence by way of researches and tests that were done, by a wide cross-section that determined that racism is still alive and well.
The ...

‘Quebec physicians tentatively propose legal euthanasia’ is an article by the online the online newspaper, The Globe and Mail. The article by Rhéal Séguin describes how Quebec physicians have joined the debate on Euthanasia with the proposal that it be included as a valid intervention measure in medicine. They propose that medically aided euthanasia be allowed as part of the normal medical interventions available when needed.
The Quebec College of Physicians argues that after several years of deliberations and research, they deemed that the public has come of age to accept euthanasia. They therefore proposed that the ...

Analysis of “On Terror,” by Philip E. Devine and Robert J. Rafalko

Introduction

There have been several views on terrorism. However, research on terrorism differs from the standard social science research. As one is dealing with underground organizations, often there is little or incomplete data. Terrorism is like a war in the shadows that creates massive publicity. For the majority of researchers, it can be dangerous to do investigative research in danger zones, and therefore, majority of the research is carried out on the basis of reports released by the government and media news stories. Research on terrorism has more often ...

Abstract

In a response to the article “The Media, the Public, and the Law Enforcement Community: Correcting Misperceptions” by By Colonel Michael Tooley, Jeffrey Linkenbach, Brian J. Lande, and Gary M. Lande, this essay tries understand and add a personal opinion to the facts and suggestions revealed in the article.
Keywords: Misperception, misconception, citizens, media

Political Science; Response Paper

Introduction
This essay is response to the article “The Media, the Public, and the Law Enforcement Community: Correcting Misperceptions” by By Colonel Michael Tooley, Jeffrey Linkenbach, Brian J. Lande, and Gary M. Lande. The article brings into light the common misconceptions that emerge in the ...

Braga, A. A. (2001). The effects of hot spots policing on crime. The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 578(1), 104-125.
The major concept involved in the study is directed patrolling for crime reduction. Directed patrolling is operationalized by increasing police patrolling in areas where crime rate is higher, otherwise known as hot spots or high crime zones. Thus, it analyzes the effects of hot spots policing on crime rate and crime displacement. That makes crime rate and crime displacement as the two dependent variables in the study for two questions while hot ...

On November, 6, 2014 “The New York Times” published an article with the title “Court Upholds Marriage Bans in Four States”. This article appeared in the electronic version of the newspaper and presented the news about the situation of banning the same-sex marriages in four states (Michigan, Ohio, Tennessee and Kentucky). The problem arose this summer, when federal judges have recognized the prohibition of same-sex marriages in a number of states as unconstitutional actions. Thereby, the cases were referred to the federal appeal court (United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit) that “upheld the right of four states ...

Immigration policies are put to try and control the amount of people being granted access or making illegal entry into other foreign countries. Different countries have implemented immigration policies in order to ensure there is a limitation to the growing trend of frequents and illegal immigration. Despite the regulations that have been put in place in order to regulate the immigration in the United States, there have been numerous setbacks that have led to the questioning of the effectiveness of the immigration policies. The implementation of the immigration policies has been affected by the labor market which views the immigration ...

1. In Schenck v US, 249 U.S. 47 (1919), members of the socialist group distributed antiwar circulars to new military recruits in violation of the Espionage Act. The Court held that words are not protected by the First Amendment when they are used in a way that bring about substantive evils to which Congress has a right to prevent. This clear and present danger test was subsequently used in Abrams v. US 250 U.S. 616 (1919) and Gitlow v New York, 268 U.S. 652 (1925). In Abrams, the Court upheld the conviction of the defendants on the grounds of clear and ...

Article Review: “Prisons, Privatization, Patronage”

Article Review: “Prisons, Privatization, Patronage”
Summary: The article, “Prisons, Privatization, Patronage,” by Paul Krugman aimed to expose the indecency and lies growing within the prison system, beginning with halfway houses in New Jersey . Typically, halfway homes are advertised as a place for prisoners in rehabilitation to find sanctuary as they adjust to the outside world. They are shown as refuges that offer resources for individuals. The New York Times’ investigation however exposed halfway homes in New Jersey to be riddled with underpaid, overwhelmed staff, as well as dangerous inhabitants that did no service for one another. If anything, the ...

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/19/us/supreme-court-upholds-texas-voter-id-law.html
On Oct 18, 2014, The Supreme Court upheld the right of Texas to require a photo ID to vote in the mid-term elections to be held on November 4th. This was a long time coming, but the controversy and legal wrangling is not over yet.
Since 2013, Texas had required some type of ID in order to vote. In 2011, the legislature passed, and Governor Perry signed into law, regulations requiring a photo ID to be able to vote. Typical Photo IDs might be a Texas Driver’s license or Concealed Carry Permit, a US Military ID or a US Passport. Before ...

“Living Dolls”: François Ier Dresses His Women
In the 16th century, fashion dolls were used as an international exchange of fashion trends. When François Ier asked Isabella d’Este to send him a doll dressed in her favorite fashions, he intended to copy them for his court and give it to the women in France. Fashion dolls practically played a role of the mannequins.
Whether given as a gift to a child or an adult, the fashion doll always performed the same educational function – the acquaintance with foreign dress styles. The appearance of the doll was not very ...

Victims and the Media/ Harold and Kumar/ Article Review

In today’s media crazed world, it can sometimes be difficult to identify the victim in a crisis. Through images on television, the internet, and even or cell phones, we are exposed to too many ideas that appeal to our inner ideals of who the victim may be. The greatest example, of course, is the September 11 attacks. The media scrutinized Muslims, Indians, and anybody else who fit the ideation of the terrorists who launched planes into the WTC towers. That was until the American public and many around the world were sure that the entire Middle Eastern population at ...

International Police Training Journal. March 2013. Pp3-7
I selected this article because the development of simulation technology as an instructional tool has advanced significantly in police training across the world.

Article summary

This International police training journal examines whether pistol shooting skills can be acquired effectively in a simulated environment as in live-fire. Theories were tested on new cadets, and it was concluded to be very valuable for future firearms training. Armstrong and Clarke explored the relationship between litigation and training. As litigation increasingly becomes a reality for many police agencies, these agencies examine how training can help in reducing civil litigation ...

The passage from Murasaki Shikibu’s Diary, detailed in Haruo Shirane’s book Traditional Japanese Literature: An Anthology, is about her trials and tribulations as a court lady-in-waiting to the Empress Shoshi. In her diary, Lady Murasaki reflects on how her behaviour is governed by what others think of her, and her growing disenchantment with and detachment from the world around her. With vivid examples from her daily life, the lady talks about how others perceive her and vice versa, about her internal struggles and melancholy and about salvation. For instance, by quoting words of other ladies in court, she ...

The article Revisiting the Stanford Prison Experiment: a Lesson in the Power of Situation written by professor Zimbardo provides an overview of the Stanford Prison Experiment and explores the power of the situation over human nature. The article gives an insight into the experiment that took place in 1971, and was terminated after 6 days, even though it was initially planned to last 2 weeks. After the choking discoveries in the Milgram experiment on the power of authority, Philip Zimbardo decides to conduct an experiment on the power of the situation. Zimbardo was keen to discover how people react when ...

Judicial independence has been argued to be an abstract that can never be achieved. Legal jurists claim that the judiciary can never be independent of control of the executive, or the legislature provided that the justices are appointed by the politicians. The view is held across the judicial and political spectrum. As a consequence, twenty-one states in the United States of America have opted to elected justices of the Supreme Court. The election of the justices of the Supreme Court is can be contracted to the appointive system where the judges were appointed by the governor in the individual states. ...

In the article, State Actors in an International Definition of Terrorism from a Human Rights Perspective, Bruce Broomhall suggests that the way terrorism is defined currently may be insufficient to fully encapsulate the intricate aspects of the activities that occur under the title of “terrorism.” The article highlights the principles of international humanitarian law as it pertains to terrorism on an international level, rather than domestic. According to Broomhall, terrorism consists of acts such as hostage taking, genocide, war crimes, and the indiscriminate targeting of civilian individuals in an attempt to make a large impact or bring attention to the cause ...

Gun Prohibition

Joe Nocera argues in his New York Times op-ed column “Guns and Mental Illness” that it should be more difficult for people, rather than the mentally-ill, to attain a firearm due to a recent mass shooting in California. Last month, 22 year old Elliot Rodger went on a shooting spree in Isla Vista, California after emailing a 140-page manifesto to his parents. Nocera recapitulates the terrifying tale of two parents racing to California only to have their worst fears confirmed: Elliot had killed six people before committing suicide from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
Elliot had a long history with depression and had never been ...

Questions

Institutions
Question 1
According to Joan Scott, gender is defined as “a constitutive element of social relationships based on perceived differences between the sexes and a primary way of signifying relationships of power.” On the other hand, Goffman claims that, “If gender be defined as the culturally established correlates of sex (whether in consequence of biology or learning), then gender display refers to conventionalized portrayals of these correlates. “In Scott context, biology is excluded the explanation of gender and the perception of individuals put into consideration. One is perceived a woman when she tends to behave and speak in an ...

Introduction

Late open wellbeing exploration proposes that social prohibition, i.e., being denied access to assets, for example, instruction, lodging, and work, hurts wellbeing, and social consideration pushes prosperity. Upon inspection of the encounters of a populace habitually prohibited from standard public opinion, individuals coming back from penitentiary also jail with substance use issues, to comprehend their viewpoints on the knowledge of reentry and inspire their recommendations for strategies and projects that could better push individual and group prosperity. In late decades, neighborhood, state, and elected criminal equity, pill and other social arrangements have prompted an unstable build in rates of detainment. ...

Tort Law

Tort Law Article Review
The article was written by Becca Aaronson and was published at the New York Times in January 2013. It was about the case of Connie Spears who later suffered from legs amputation after an initial alleged misdiagnosis of her medical condition at Christus Santa Rosa hospital. The concept of this article is about the Tort Law's provision when it comes to being a state law that would help the people within the state of Texas. It aims to show how the Tort Law’s provision could affect an individual’s case proceedings right after it ...

Their intention was to depict the role played by personal morals and emotions in encouraging or discouraging the vice of illegal downloading. According to Wang et al (2011, p.155), the authors hypothesised that a downloader who has previously engaged in illegal downloading may experience anticipated guilt because of their undesirable behaviour, and therefore will be less likely to engage in the same in future, unlike those who have had no illegal downloading experience. However, if the act of illegal downloading results in a positive experience for the downloader, in future this positive experience will override the anticipated guilt and thus will ...

The concern for poverty is always present in every society. Since a few decades ago, it is studied that the rise of poverty rates, particularly in the United States of America, can be traced to the socioeconomic status of female-headed families with children. Results of studies show that the risk of poverty for female-headed households is higher compared to male-headed household. Thus, the matter concerning female-headed homes continues to become a major concern to policymakers (Gabe, 2011). There are various elements associated with this issue: inequality, discrimination, family structure, labor force participation, welfare programs and so on. This will be the ...

Martin Amis's Other People and London Fields

As Brian Finney points out in Narrative and Narrated Homicide in Martin Amis's Other People and London Fields although he is not classified as a crime writer Martin Amis’s stories are filled with crime and focus upon death and murder. . Finney’s critique of Amis’s stories revolves around the continuing themes of women, death, murder and victimization along with their relationship with the enigmatic narrator.
In his analysis Finney looks into the author and the zeitgeist of his era as well. He notes that Amis himself describes his work as “"playful literature" (Neustatter 71) and describes himself ...

History

Part 1
The Coming Insurrection is a product of the failure of the earlier models. As depicted from the article, the earlier models offered a way of resolving the social conflict, experienced in the society, between the working class and the owners of the means of production. Like explained by Marx in his theory of Capitalism; the owners of production, who consist of the upper class in the social strata, use their economic power to oppress the working class. Consequently, the working class comes together and organizes strikes and other forms of resistance to the exploitation. Eventually, the strike becomes a ...

[Writer’s Name]

Unicor is a critical part of the Bureau of Prison’s painstaking endeavors to reduce the number of offender reentries in prison. Unicor is the trade name given to Federal Prison Industries, or FPI. Its mission is to provide training pertaining to job skills to the maximum number of inmates in the Federal Bureau of Prisons. Provision of this training allows inmates to find jobs when they leave prison, and that curtails the chances of habitual relapse into crime. This, in turn, brings down the cost of corrections which have risen considerably over time.
Unicor works ...

1. At what point, if ever, did the parties have a contract?
Big Time Toymaker and Chou had a contract; evidence available is in the email communication and the sent fax.2. What facts may weigh in favor of or against Chou in terms of the parties’ objective intent to contract? Chou failed to draft the contract that would memorialize their agreement within the agreed time. This can be as evidence against their willingness to corporate.
Evidence supporting their contract can be got from the email communication between the two parties. Secondly, the sent fax by Chou is evidence that ...

The use of internet by youths has increased drastically in the past 10 years. There are several challenges for the victim service providers and law enforcement agencies that come as a result of the new computer technology. It has come to a level that professionals must protect those who are offending the internet, and help child victims and their families (Halder, & Jaishankar, K.2012).
In the modern society, computer has prevailed in schools, business, libraries, homes and even airports. The use of internet provides instant access to news, shopping, stock trading, reference information, travel information, banking and many others. Today, chatting ...

The article focuses on the operations of corporate firms in the United States. According to the article, the corporate executives are expected to conduct themselves in a prescribed manner. Previously, the executive of various foreign firms was allowed to conduct themselves in an environment with more freedom. Due to the above mentioned freedom, the foreign firms were able to make a myriad profit as compared to the domestic firms. Reportedly, the corporate executive could easily engage in fraud or corporate misconduct, this enabled the firms to make a higher profit, since they could engage in fraudulent activities to earn illegal profit. Come ...

Arguably one of the most important documents in the entirety of the criminal justice system, the Presentencing Investigation Report (PSI) remains a vital source of information that guides judges who have to pass sentences. It has been in use since the 1920s. As a legal term, PSI report is a purposeful investigation into the history of a convict before a sentence is passed to establish if there are grounds that could extenuate, so that the judge has the discretion to vary the sentence.

The evolution of the PSI has led to the development of at least three approaches. These shall inform the ensuing discussion. ...

That there was genocide in Rwanda culminating to the death of close to 1 million people is no secret. It has been 19 years since the world watched in disbelief as a nation descended upon itself in a move to exterminate one another. In order to bring justice to the victims, the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) was formed to prosecute the core perpetrators. This court was established in November 1994 by the United Nation Security Council to try those responsible for the genocide and other violation of international law in Rwanda. These crimes ranged from planned exterminations of the ...

Proactive management in criminal justice refers to prevention of crime by showcasing the presence of police in a particular crime-prone area. Criminal minded persons with an intention of creating havoc to the public become aware of police presence and avoid engaging in criminal activities for fear of negative consequences. At times referred to as proactive policing, proactive management of crime is the opposite of reactive management that responds to complaints after a crime is committed. The goal of proactive management in criminal justice is to avoid problems rather than to solve it. Avoiding crime provides the best solution to the criminal ...

Abstract

This paper will reflect over four articles regarding car theft in Dallas. It will present an outline on each of these four articles.

Main Body

The first article: “Auto Thieves Strike When Iron, Summer are Hot, Authority Warn Dallas Areas Drivers”
Thesis Statement: July is the time of most car theft in Dallas
1) First Main Point: Every summer during the high temperatures, there incline of vehicle break in

A) Supporting Detail:

1) July is the worst month
2) They have an event called “Watch Your Car Month” alert the public
2) Second Main Point: There an automobile crime every ...

‘Name’

‘Instructor’s Name’
Possession of fire arms is something which is associated, rightly or wrongly, with the American history. The Colt revolver designed by gun maker Colt almost defined the Wild West, and the American history is full of gun lovers, some of them used it to win wars and some for self defense. (Jones, 2013) Compared to many other countries, the fire arm laws in the US are liberal, and almost 40% of American households have at least a single gun in their possession. As a matter of fact, the US has more number of privately owned guns than ...

The police department suffices for general purposes of law enforcement. However, the organization and staff levels often depend on various activities. For instance, New York Police service oversees more activities in comparison to City of Cumberland Police department which oversees lesser activities. In York, the staff level surpasses five hundred while Cumberland only has fifty officers with four personnel officers.
New York police are organized functionally with internal departments including neighborhood association, York County gang prevention, police alert network, and police community service. On the other hand, in Cumberland the staff is organized in three broad categories which ...

Is this patient competent to stand trial? How to evaluate mentally ill criminal court defendants

– Article review
In 8-15 % of felony cases involving patients with a history of depression, defense counsels raise the question of whether their clients are competent to stand trial. This arises from issues such as previous history mental illness or difficulties in cooperating with the client. When such situations arise, the judge may request for an independent evaluation of the client.
Assessing competency to stand trial may involve the use of a number of assessment tools. For example, the MacArthur Competency Assessment Tool is one of the instruments used to determine the ability to understand issues around the trial. In ...

In comparison, both models call for the enforcement of laws during the administering of criminal justice, maintenance and control of order in the society, and protect people from injustice practices. On the other hand, the due process model and the crime control model differ in the following manner. The crime control model believes that anyone charged with a crime is guilty and must be punished for his or her actions. In general, the model aims at controlling the criminal behavior of people with an assumption that it is the most essential aspect of criminal justice. On contrary, the due process ...

Behavior is termed as the way and means of getting something or rather avoid something. It is important to note that the behavior is earned and is an action that is both observable and measurable. It is observable in the aspect of what is seen or heard. For instance, if a subject is speaking, yelling, writing or even dancing. The behavior is more about how a certain feeling is expressed for instance by making faces, yelling, or even portraying various body postures. Behaviors can also be measured in that it can be defined and described. For instance, in this case a teacher ...

Criminal evidence

The article under study is called “DNA evidence links Boston Strangler suspect to killing”. Analysis of this article lets us once more get convinced of the importance of criminal evidence and achievements of forensic science for criminal investigation and impleading of a person, who committed the crime. Up-to-date technologies, which are used in forensic biology and medicine, allow identifying people by DNA, which is extracted from such biological materials as blood, saliva and seminal fluid. However, in 1964 biologists were unable to conduct such kind of analysis, so nobody knew for sure, who had strangled and raped young Mary Sullivan ...

Introduction

My stand is that citizens should never be executed. Executing a citizen amount to a gross violation of ethics and it brings more harm than correction. In the emotional perspective, execution of a citizen leaves a mark that cannot be erased on hearts of persons close to the executed person, it can never heal. Rather than being a corrective means, it turns out as a traumatizing experience to the family members of the executed; it can take a very long time for them to recover and come into terms with the reality. Capital punishment can very effectively be replaced by life imprisonment, which though separates the ...

Jonathan Turley in the article ‘Polygamy laws expose our own hypocrisy’ outlines the controversy of polygamy laws in the United States. Although he also detests polygamy, he finds the laws covering the concept a bit contradictory to some religious beliefs as well as the initial statues like the first amendment which was passed to protect the American citizens. It is because of such reasons that the author thinks these laws only expose the hypocrisy of the American people. Most importantly, Turley makes a keen use of examples in his article to persuade the readers that his thoughts are in fact valid. ...

Article Review

Ainsworth, J.E. (1996) The Court’s Effectiveness in Protecting the Rights of Juveniles in Delinquency Cases. The Future of Children, Winter 1996; 6(3): 64-74.

Introduction

In this article, the author explores the possible disadvantages to juveniles of waivers into the adult criminal court system, no constitutional right to a jury trial in juvenile court and diversion programs. In introducing the article, Ainsworth (1996) observes that the juvenile court system was based on the premise of two basic perceptions of young people who were in violation of the law: first, young people were both morally and cognitively underdeveloped and thus ...