Essays on National Institute Of Justice

Question and Answer- Criminal Justice

Question and Answer- Criminal Justice Q. 1 The main similarity between mens rea and actus reus regarding their roles is that both elements are ways through the criminal law ensures that only guilty actions or conduct and minds or intention can secure the safe legal conviction of accused persons. Moreover, they both play the role of making the role of the prosecution and defense easier when proving the commission of a crime. The difference is that while mens rea plays the role of helping the court know the accused’s intent at the material time, actus reus plays the ...

My path to determining a research question on the subject of gun control and gun violence has largely been led by my preliminary research into the subject. As discussed in Week 1, the research I have come across indicates that there is a gulf between the perception of gun violence in this country and the attitudes toward gun control measures. While statistics from the National Institute of Justice (2011) and the Bureau of Justice Statistics (2016) show gun violence as a slowly declining, but still rampant, rate, and VPC (2016) statistics showing the disproportionate effect it has on black ...

The issue of gun control is a very intriguing and complex one, as the question regarding how to address the Second Amendment of the United States divides many Americans along political and ideological backgrounds. There is a stark divide between the facts collected on gun control and people’s opinions on whether those statistics are accurate, and if they reflect their own experiences and beliefs on gun usage in this country. The National Institute of Justice cites 467,321 victims of gun-related crimes in 2011, with guns used in 68% of murders and 21% of aggravated assaults across the ...

Juvenile Delinquency Reduction Efforts

Two of the most renowned juvenile delinquency reduction programs in the writer’s society include Adolescent Diversion Project and Aggression Replacement Training (ART). Adolescent Diversion Project aims to motivate criminals belonging to minor age category to adopt civilized and gentle behaviors. Such criminals are given special training in jails after they have committed a crime in which they are taught and made aware of the value of being socially responsible (National Institute of Justice, 2016). On the other hand, ART is mainly directed to prevent minors from aggressions through psychological training into different dimensions. They build social skills through ...

Introduction

In all lifestyles, and in every species, the congregation of a select type is a common phenomenon. Despite the sophistication and technology, humankind is no different. There are unwritten criteria for all job applications, school admissions, and even military recruitment. The theory of strength in numbers runs deep among human beings since the advent divisions based on class and color. Racial profiling is the act of singling out a particular community of people to discriminate against. In the United States, racial profiling has two sides to the story. There are legitimate actions termed as racial profiling by people who ...

Abstract

The application of the rule of law as well as driving the use of the law towards the creation of a law abiding society is the limelight towards the creation of a society which does not condone crime and its sycophants. Enforcing law is one of the most effective mechanisms of controlling crime in any area. The use of the police as a law enforcement mechanism encourages peaceful coexistence within the society. The control of crime is usually a major step in discouraging crimes in communities. In the places where there are high cases of criminal cases reported, the ...

Communication and Problem Solving Practices in Public Safety Agencies

Abstract Communication and problem solving are necessary for public safety agencies to be effective. Employees cannot adequately respond to disasters if they do not have the correct information or the information at all. Historically, public service agencies have used different communication protocols and equipment. This has resulted in a severe lack of coordination to disasters and emergencies that require the cooperation of different public safety agencies. The September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and Hurricane Katrina are prime examples of the lack of coordinated communication and problem solving amongst different agencies. New technologies such as geographical ...

INTRODUCTION

In human society there have always been laws and lawbreakers. Police were designed to protect the public from the dangerous offenders who might steal from them, harm them or kill them. The idea was that police were to be a positive inclusion in American cities, towns and neighborhoods. In some cases and some places they are exactly that. However, over the last few years there have been more and more instances where police have committed acts of unnecessary force, extreme violence and, unfortunately, including the use of deadly force in cases where their actions and motivation are being questioned ...

Specialized courts take the court process to a new level where the criminal justice system is more involved in the process of helping an offender to become someone who makes the changes they need to stop them from reoffending. The reason that they are referred to as specialized courts is that they focus on exactly what the offender needs depending on the crime that they committed. There are different types of courts which can help offenders; an example of this would be if a person was arrested for doing drugs they might be referred to a “drug court (office, ...

Abstract

Gun violence has been a bone of contention in the United States for the last several decades. The US government has taken a number of legal and strategic initiatives to fight this serious issue. However, it remains to be an unresolved issue in the US political scenario. A growing number of adolescents are involved in firearm violence. It was in this regard, the Boston Police Department started the intervention program called Operation Ceasefire to reduce the gang-related youth homicides. The Operation Ceasefire program helped the city improve its crime rates to a great extent. The program particularly focused on ...

One of the points we take pride in as Americans is being the land of the free. While we like to hold this idea up as a reason we are a great country, we currently house over 20% of the world’s prison population, while only having 5% of the world’s population according to the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) web site. This means that 1 out of every 110 adults is currently incarcerated. Between the years of 1978 and 2014 the prison population has risen a staggering 408%, and will most likely continue to grow. These numbers ...

Crime statistics remains an essential component in the field of criminology that helps in formulating effective criminal justice policy. For over four decades, the Uniform Crime Reporting System (UCR), the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS), and its predecessor National Crime Survey (NCS) has been used in the United States to gather crime statistics. These methods have been used at the national level to estimate the crime and changes in the crime rates in the United States. Such data has helped the policymakers to develop sound policies that help to mitigate the problem of crime in the United States' societies ( ...

The CSI (Crime Scene Investigation) effect or the CSI syndrome is the phenomenon that shows that the media has been spreading serious concerns on the integrity of the criminal trials which are being influenced by the effects of popular television show – CSI (Dioso-Villa, 2009). It is basically the perception that the forensic science results are false as they do not match with the observations in the television show. This syndrome is the effect of the increase in the mass media. This effect started appearing in the year 2003 after the show became popular on the television. Another side effect ...

There are different laws and regulations that guide searching a personal property. One of the permission required searching this workplace is a warrant of search. The American constitution through the 4th Amendment protects private citizens from any manner of search if the searching authority does not have the probable cause for a search (Dutelle, 2016). Therefore to search this property, there is a need to find probable cause to search this facility. As an investigation officer, there is a need to obtain a court order and a police abstract detailing the need for the search and the probable cause ...