...I’m currently a senior studying criminal justice at the University of Baltimore (UB). To satisfy a requirement for my degree program, I was required to secure an internship in my major. I believe this is an excellent way for me to gain experience as well as practical knowledge of the day to day operation concerning criminal justice work. My internship search began at the beginning of my senior year, without much success. I searched online job websites, made phone calls and reached out to family and friends. However, after attending an internship workshop at the college and looking through the literature that was handed out, I reached out to some of the agencies. I filled out an application with the Department of Juvenile Services (DJS) and waited for a reply. I checked my emails daily during winter break and finally received a response from the coordinator of volunteer services at DJS. Things started to move and to say the least, I was excited. After filling out many forms and taking care of the necessary background checks, I was offered the internship. After...
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...I chose Criminal Justice as a minor because I was always interested in the actual Criminal Justice System. I chose this class to kind of dip my toe in the water and see if I truly love it. What truly sparked my interest in Criminal Justice was the fact that I watched Law and Order SVU a lot as a kid growing up and grew attached to the characters. Law and order showed various perspectives and issues one could come across while dealing with the criminal justice system. Whether you’re an officer struggling to get a subpoena signed by a judge, an attorney building a case to defend their client, or a client awaiting a trial, Law and Order shows all the issues in between. The issue I think is the largest in our criminal justice system is a lack of...
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...Hi, my name is Jennifer Retkofsky and I am majoring in Criminal Justice, with a focus on..........all things criminal justice. I have been going to Lakeland for a while and I am having a hard time really picking one thing to focus on. There are so many different careers to chose from and they all can go in various diections. I am taking this class because it is on a long list of required classes and I was curious as to what this class is really about. I am hoping that this class and the criminal procedure class I am taking will help guide me to the career that is best for me. I originally wanted to be a police officer but I am not sure if that is the path I will end up taking. My general impression of chapter one is that it is a little...
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...The universe may not be as easily read at times, it also isn’t always the nicest. There will be plenty of bumps in the road on my way to my goal, but no matter what I knew I would have the universe right by my side. This year I got sick during my national bmx season I was out for 3 months, this meant missing 5 nationals of the 6 in the season. I was hoping that I would still be able to go to the last race of my season, but when the time rolled around I was still somewhat sick. I was furious that no matter what I wouldn’t be able to perform at my best, even with the medications, the inhaler, and the frequent doctor visits, I was still weak. I was asking myself what had I done to deserve this? I just felt like giving up on my season, but every...
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...Female Offenders: is Chivalry Dead? Intro: In the last two decades, there has been a definite shift in the leniency of sentencing female offenders in the criminal justice system. It has been suggested the shift turning to harsher, more severe punishments is due to more female practitioners in the criminal justice system which subsequently reduced the chivalry hypothesis. The aim of this paper is to provide a review of the literature and empirical research regarding past and present studies of female offenders, the chivalry hypothesis, the differences in male and female convictions, and to answer the enduring question: Is chivalry dead? While this paper does not incorporate all of the literature available, it does offer a good snap shot of many pertinent studies conducted regarding these topics and the issues pertaining to them. Female Offenders Then and Now Over the years, the empirical evidence supporting the position that women offenders are treated less harshly than their male counterparts has been at best inconsistent. (Burnett, 1994: Coombs, 1995: Denno, 1994: Johnson & Nagel, 1994: Klein & Kress, 2014). The writers of these studies used a variety of theses to explain the leniency. Some suggested women are treated with chivalry and thus given lighter sentences for similar offenses created by men. While others suggested the leniency was due to the majority of females in the court system are first time offenders. In 1994, Kathleen Davy published Gender...
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...Restorative Justice as a Concept Restorative justice (RJ) attempts to bring together and bridge the gaps between the victim, the offender, and an outside representative to discuss the harm of the crime to all levels of the community. The implied goal of the practice is to reach an equitable victim and community centered agreement through deep listening and understanding. Restorative justice in practice manifests as victim-offender mediation, dispute resolution mediation, community panels, restitution, and more. Critics say that while restorative justice does not work through formal, external force it works through careful, persistent encouragement of the instalment of an inner conscience which bids the individual act in accordance with the...
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...Criminology & Criminal Justice © 2006 SAGE Publications (London, Thousand Oaks & New Delhi) and the British Society of Criminology. www.sagepublications.com ISSN 1748–8958; Vol: 6(1): 39–62 DOI: 10.1177/1748895806060666 A desistance paradigm for offender management FERGUS McNEILL Universities of Glasgow and Strathclyde, UK Abstract In an influential article published in the British Journal of Social Work in 1979, Anthony Bottoms and Bill McWilliams proposed the adoption of a ‘non-treatment paradigm’ for probation practice. Their argument rested on a careful and considered analysis not only of empirical evidence about the ineffectiveness of rehabilitative treatment but also of theoretical, moral and philosophical questions about such interventions. By 1994, emerging evidence about the potential effectiveness of some intervention programmes was sufficient to lead Peter Raynor and Maurice Vanstone to suggest significant revisions to the ‘non-treatment paradigm’. In this article, it is argued that a different but equally relevant form of empirical evidence—that derived from desistance studies—suggests a need to re-evaluate these earlier paradigms for probation practice. This reevaluation is also required by the way that such studies enable us to understand and theorize both desistance itself and the role that penal professionals might play in supporting it. Ultimately, these empirical and theoretical insights drive us back to the complex interfaces between technical and moral...
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...trial team. I had always imagined myself as a defense lawyer who help those people accused of crimes they never committed. Because of mine attachment to law enforcement, I decided to be part of the Criminal Justice program offered to high school students at Career and Technology Center as part of High School class. During my first year in the program, i was very inspired by my teachers. It was very cool to hear my teachers stories; what they did interesting on their jobs. They had many stories to tell from their personal experience every and each one of the student in my class....
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...Jail Management System Known as having the largest correctional system in the world the United States of America has a hierarchy of correctional centers. The United States justice system consist of administrative works for adjudicating and processing those who are accused and convicted of various crimes ranging from blue collar crimes up to murder. In 1770 the Walnut Street Jail in Philadelphia was recognized as the first penitentiary in America, according to Steve Schooner from the University of San Diego. Around the 17th to date, the American prison system has completely changed keeping some of the same principles. The prison system of the United States has clearly changed from its first debut in the late 1700's. The mission of the prison system in the United States then was to keep society safe from those who were found guilty of crimes in a court of law by confining them in full control of the government. Whether state or federal agencies have control of the accused the principles remain the same. State and federal agencies are charged with keeping the accused in confinement until the judicial system deems necessary according for the seriousness of the crime. The impact of the great penitentiary rivalry on our current prison system includes two systems, he Pennsylvania System and the Auburn System. The Pennsylvania System was supported by the notion of keeping all who were committed to prison behind bars and separated from all other prisoners. Silence and continuous...
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...Smokowski, P. R., Barbee, J., Bower, M., & Barefoot, S. (2016). Restorative justice programming in teen court: A path to improved interpersonal relationships and psychological functioning for high-risk rural youth. Journal Of Rural Mental Health, 40(1), 15-30. doi:10.1037/rmh0000042 In this artcle ( Evans et al, 2016) , diccussed the role of Restorative justice programs, such as Teen Court effect juveniles. In the Teen Court program juveniles offenders are encourage to understand the harm they’ve caused to the victim and their communities. Moreover, the opportunities that are given to offenders not only to give back to the communities but to also restore their relationships. The authors went on to example the different types of restorative justice programs offer to juveniles in the Teen Court. The examples of restorative justice programs include; peacemaking circles, community/ and family group conferencing and victim/offender mediation. The specific goals of the Teen Court restorative justice programs include changing problematic behavior through positive peer pressure exerted by a peer jury, decreasing the juvenile court’s workload, decreasing the negative effects of labeling juveniles as delinquents, increasing offender community involvement through community service, obtaining closure for victims, and reducing rates of crime and recidivism...
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...individuals offender’s behavior. Forensic Science has other sciences that coordinates its goal such as Legal Psychology which will decide whether an offender is on conditions to go or not to court and correctional psychology that will follow the behavior and rehab on an offender Introduction In the show Criminal Minds on A&E, they show a dramatize version of what very few talented people do daily. Although, it is not what really happens it gives people a light overview on something that is more realistic and detailed. Solving a case, analyzing an offender takes time and a lot of research on the individual. However, their job does not finish when they catch the bad guy because that is just the beginning of a long work on rehabilitation to prevent by analyzing the motive of every offender and been able to prevent more crimes of occurring. Legal and Correctional Psychology follows the behavior of the offender during their time inside and outside the correctional with the only purpose to understand what lead them to offense in order to prevent more murders, suicide , child abuse and so on. In America, Forensic Psychology plays an important role in the Criminal Justice System, with special focus in Legal and Correctional Psychology. In the last 30 years Forensic Psychology has developed as a field and in 2001 was recognized by the psychological American Association (APA)( Heilbrun, K., & Brooks, S). It is well known worldwide and for helping Juries and supplying evidence...
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...believe should happen. Overview The Internet Article that I have chosen is from the Virginia's Department of Juvenile Justice. In this article, the Director of Juvenile Justice (DJJ) Mr. Andrew Block has proposed a $66 million plan to the Virginia legislators in the hope of building two new detention facilities that will focus more on rehabilitation, counseling, and various services. Mr. Block told legislative budget writers Monday that the new facilities that he plans to build will probably pay for themselves. Shortly, Mr. Block also stated that his $200 million operating budget will spare new annual cut which will help return shift resources to rebuild prevention and treatment program that has had substantial cut over the last ten years. In spite of some pushback from the legislative committee the vice chairman of the committee, Mr. Steve Landes admitted the plans sounded doable. Into furthermore better his case Mr. Brock bought statistic that showed why the DJJ wants to focus more on rehabilitation instead of the “Old sprawling and expensive” way like Bon Air and Beaumont detention center. According to the Department of Juvenile Justice (DJJ), the statistic stated 59 percent of the children the States locks up reports physical abuse, 58 percent parent criminal activity, 46 percent parent incarceration and 31 percent parent substance abuse (Daily Press 2015). Reasons ...
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... Abstract The purpose of this paper is to highlight the different aspect of the Criminal Justice after visiting the criminal justice office(s). The visit is done during the last week of September 2010 and the visiting point was the United States District First Court of Appeal, the court located at 301 S. ML King Blvd. Tallahassee, Florida. In this paper the findings will be discussed that what factors (selected) are involved that affect the process of administration of justice. It will be tried the best to explain the observations and views with comparison and contrast. However, the points will be discussed in narrative format to grab the information precisely. The Criminal Court Visit and the Observations First, have some information about the Criminal Justice. The Criminal Justice is the system or group of system and institutions that have the prime responsibility to mitigate the crime or crime rate and to take necessary actions to cope with the situations that is critical and sensitive in nature to maintain the peaceful environment of the society. It is ideal profession for those who has investigative mind. The President's Commission defined the criminal justice system as the means for society to "enforce the standards of conduct necessary to protect individuals and the community”. (The Challenge of Crime in a Free Society, 1967) The Criminal Justice system has three main parts: Police, Courts and Jails also known as Corrections but...
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...CONCLUSION: Blacks are several times more likely to be stopped than non-Blacks * Studies in Maryland yielded similar results for all minorities Howie Becker – the group creates rules and people that break those rules are labeled outsiders and deviants. Moral Entrepreneurs – people that make a career out of enforcing morality eg. Police Primary deviance – committing a deviant act before the rules are formed. You aren’t stigmatized as being deviant. Person who performs the act thinks he is normal. Eg. A one year old stealing candy and not knowing it is wrong Secondary deviance – deviant behavior that arises because of the label a person has. A child who is constantly told he is bad may grow up to do bad things. Marxian Critique of Criminal Justice – PP2 Conflict theorists – those who draw from Marxian ideology and apply it to criminology Reiman...
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...Prisons' into immediate action, so it is much better to take pre-emptive measures. So, for those reasons, we recommend that the Department take the following three steps. First, the Department of Federal Bureau of Prisons should launch a full investigation into indefinite solitary confinement's effects on mental health, including the cumulative impact on those with existing psychological conditions. This report should remain objective and focus on quantitative measures. The report shall be sent to the Department of Justice along with these recommendations. Second, while the report is written and transmitted, the Department shall send memos to all federal super-max facilities with orders to begin allowing some limited human interaction and some hours in the cell without overhead lights. These steps should be taken as feasible in the current situation. We acknowledge that it will not be possible to provide for certain inmates. The Department of Justice will respond to formal direction for these outlier cases. Third, the Department of Federal Bureau of Prisons will halt any preliminary plans to expand super-max facilities in the future. If new complexes are constructed, then it will only become more difficult to argue against using them. Although this Department does not have the power to order the states' to take similar action, this memo, and set of recommendations shall be sent to every state legislature for their due consideration. Reference List Baumgartner...
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