Law – Criminal

Week 2 Discussion Forum – The Minneapolis Domestic Violence Experiment Research: The Minneapolis Domestic Violence Experiment: Does arrest deter crime?  1. Do you think the methodology used to complete this study was valid? 2. What limitations do you see in

Chapter 5  List the problems faced by todays police departments that were also present during the early days of policing. Chapter 6  Intelligence-led policing is considered to be the newest initiative in law enforcement. Read this article https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/bja/210681.pdf (Links to

Week 2 Discussion Forum 2: What if there was no discretion in the criminal justice system? What if criminal justice professionals had no discretion? What if police officers were required to arrest every suspect? What if judges were required to

Week 2 Discussion Forum 1: The CSI Effect: Does it really exist? The CSI Effect Visit the following Department of Justice website and read the article entitled The CSI Effect: Does it Really Exist? http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/nij/journals/259/csi-effect.htm (Links to an external site.)

 Writing Assignment #1 For the purposes of this assignment, Please watch the following video in its entirety: I Apologize Part 1 in LA (D-Black/Tracey Mann) https://youtu.be/Z_HDo88u_zw. Please provide me a synopsis of the video, including your own critique. In your

  For this discussion, you will be reflecting back on the assigned readings.  The author asks a few times the questions that I would like for you to answer here: Who law is it and why should it be obeyed. 

Juries Many states use a twelve-person jury as the standard size for all criminal cases, whereas others require only six jurors if it is a noncapital case. Discuss some of the advantages and disadvantages of the juries of various sizes

Management of the Prison Population A prison warden faces many challenging issues every day. How are wardens addressing drug addiction among inmates? What are wardens doing about the prevalence of HIV/AIDS in prison facilities? How are prison wardens coping with

  Prisons The United States incarcerates more people, in both absolute numbers and per capita, than any other nation in the world. Since 1970, the number of incarcerated people has increased sevenfold to 2.3 million in jail and prison today,

Evidence collection, processing, and comparison must fall within the legal guidelines to be admissible against a defendant. From the readings, select a category of evidence reviewed and discuss the implications of that category with respect to the lead foundational cases