...The Plight of Missing Persons Naomi White Kaplan University CM220-15 Professor L McCuish December 15, 2012 The Plight of Missing Persons According to staggering statistics, there are close to 60,000 + Jane and John Does buried, cremated or lying in coroners offices across this country with no names; all scattered across a nation with no standard protocol for case sharing and identification (NamUs, 2012). These unidentified people are young and old, male and female, from all walks of life. They are someone’s mothers, fathers, sons, daughters, sisters and brothers. These bodies and spirits of our nations unidentified cry out for their names, proper burial, and many times, justice (Reitterer, 2012). The heartbreaking reality behind these statistics is a world no one wishes to be a part of. Well over 100,000 active missing person’s cases in this country at any given time. There is an estimated 60,000 sets of human remains unidentified throughout this nation. Hundreds of thousands of family members and friends living in limbo wondering what became of their loves ones. To the families of the missing, this situation has been called our nation's "Silent Mass Disaster; a problem of epidemic proportions" (NamUs, 2012). Families and advocates of the missing cry out for change within our communities and justice system and we must not allow their cries to go unheard. The Doe Network is an international non-profit volunteer organization created in 1999. Its focus...
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...some avenues and characteristics that lead to its continued behavior. I hope to combine my sources to paint a picture of the epidemic of child abuse today and throughout history in America. I hope to examine the risks factors for child abuse and identify ways to educate parents, child care providers, educators and any other persons who may come into contact with our most vulnerable citizens, our children, on how we can prevent child abuse from occurring in the future. The federal government defines child abuse and neglect, at a minimum, any recent act or failure to act of the part of a parent or caretaker, which results in death, serious physical or emotional harm, sexual abuse or exploitation, or an act or failure to act which presents an imminent risk of serious harm (42 U.S.C. SS5106g[2][1999]. In terms of the maltreatment of children, approximately 56 percent of reported cases involve neglect, 25 percent involve physical abuse, 13 percent involve sexual abuse, 6 percent emotional maltreatment and 13 percent involve other types of maltreatment. Throughout history, children have been the victims of...
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...version of the Amber Alert System which uses the internet as another outreach from the media which will alert the public when an abduction of a child occurs. This paper explores the history and creation of the Amber Alert System. Furthermore, an evaluation of how the system has and has not been effective is discussed. A review of the making of the policies and implementation of issues within this system to make it successful are reviewed. 3 Amber AlertThe Amber Alert System is a program used for when a child goes missing or is abducted. This program uses resources, such as law enforcement, state, local, and federal, and media to alert the general public that a kidnapping of a child is in action. The Amber Alert System is used when a child of a young age is missing, when police feel a child has been kidnapped, and when a child is under serious threat of bodily harm or death, even if it is a parent in which the child is being held.When the law enforcement has determined that a need for an Amber Alert, all of the local media sources are contacted. This includes local radio stations, local television stations, local surrounding police stations, and highway signs, which alert the public of the details of the current abduction. The details of the abduction usually consist of names or descriptions of the...
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... Online child exploitation is a growing concern in the United States and abroad. Children of all age groups use the internet for socializing, school projects, entertainment, and music. The internet opens up a world of information but can unfortunately open up a world of danger for children who are particularly vulnerable to this risk. Sexual predators lurk in chat rooms and social networking sites searching for victims. After the first initial contact has been made they develop friendships by saying that they have common interests which they don’t. The internet allows the predator to anonymously hide their identity and the child thinks they are talking to someone around their own age. We need more solutions to stop child exploitation. Educating parents, children, and adults as well as legislation and policy change are one step, but more needs to be done. Strategies to combine education, training for those in the criminal justice field, resources from law enforcement, public health, and other private and public sector organizations to prevent this from happening are underway and also provide a solution to the problem. Even with the knowledge and up-to-date training, technology is always advancing making it harder for those in criminal justice to stop online child exploitation from happening since the predators are finding new ways all the time to stay a head of law enforcement by using chat rooms, surfing the net anonymously or composing electronic email, and by...
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...recognized the need for crime statistics to inform of the national crime rates throughout the nation in the 1920s. This was an effort to create a national standardized measurement of different incidences of crime being committed. However, it was originally conceived in an effort to measure the effectiveness of local law enforcement agencies to aid law enforcement with the data needed to use in the help to fight crime in their jurisdictions. The UCR is a combined city, county, state, and Federal law enforcement program....
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...is no accident. Suddenly, I hear the same patrol that called in the area call on the radio, “I made contact; this guy is driving off…. He’s all over the road….This guy is gonna cause an accident!” On the word “accident” I turn on my emergency light and drive as fast as I can down the highway, hoping I get there before anyone gets hurt. There are many roles involved within law enforcement. I am personally interested in three specific occupations mentioned in the given course material; Police Officer or road patrol, K9, and a motorcycle patrol. I will discuss the job description, advantages, and difficulties of each occupation in this paper. Police Officers are commonly called road patrols, or street cops. They are the “boots on the ground” in the city, the go between for citizen and criminal. Depending on the individual officer’s personality and location, there are many advantages to being a street cop. A common task while on patrol is called community policing. This enables the officer to go out in the community and talk to people, make his or her presence known to any who may be thinking of violating the law, and react swiftly to any event that happens in his or her area of responsibility. For the officer that has good personal communication skills and thrives on being the reason his or her fellow citizens are safe, this is ideal. Advantages are seldom noticed for face value because they are not always apparent. If a motorist is stopped for running a stop sign...
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...Law Enforcement Challenges August 23, 2015 The world is policed by many different forms of authority. The physical aspect of law enforcement has been seen in the media in the modern day for many good and many poor reasons. While race unfortunately gets tied in as a major role in many events today, it is tough to pull the race when a crime is committed behind a keyboard. While this challenge can pretty much be crossed off of the list, there are many more that law enforcement agencies face when investigating computer crime. There are so many laws that apply to regions of enforcement and also to the rights of the suspected criminal. The even more difficult part is that while all parties are working together to achieve the same goal, there are so many grey areas in the chain of command and jurisdictional rules. Agencies investigation crimes such as corruption face a number of different challenges as well. In my eyes, if the crime can be solved, it should not matter where the officer is from. All members of law enforcement have the same goals and that is to keep the citizens of this nation safe by preventing crime. When prevention is not possible or fails, the teams investigating should not have to worry about whether they are allowed to be doing their job. They should simply work together and document evidence and witness material accordingly. Before we tackle the jurisdiction let us point out some of the other challenges that law enforcement faces with different types...
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...estimated that more than 27 million men, women, and children around the world are in what has become known as Human Trafficking. This year marks the 150th anniversary of the introduction of the Emancipation Proclamation and along with the United States of America; the rest of the world is united in ending slavery around the world. Even with newer laws to address the modern slave trade, such as the Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA) and the U.N. Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children (Palermo Protocol) slavery in the world continues to be a serious crisis. Sex slavery is one of the horrible outcomes of Trafficking in Persons. Central/South Asia is one of the worse areas for the sex slave trade. India is what is seen as a cross-road for the sex slave trade affecting millions of children. In 1996, the First World Congress passed the Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children (CSEC) in Stockholm, Sweden. The world recognized that sexual violations of children exist in all nations regardless of cultural differences or geographic location. The CSEC was adopted by 122 governments and five years later in the Second World Congress in Yokohama, Japan, the number of countries rose to 159. India has had some of the most severe problems with sex slavery, especially among children. In 2005, Indian’s National Rights Commission (NHRC) estimated that 44,000 children go missing in the country every year. Of these, 11,000 are never...
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...According to the Polaris Project website, New Jersey is a tier 1 state, meaning that it complies with all of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act’s laws. The Polaris project website also rated New Jersey with a perfect score, stating that they’ve fulfilled all 10 law categories that fight against human trafficking (“2014 State Ratings on Human Trafficking Laws” Polaris Project, 2014). Even though New Jersey is meeting the requirements, it doesn’t mean that it’s not still happening. New Jersey is a prime location for human trafficking due to its proximity to Philadelphia and New York City, as well as smaller cities within the state itself like Atlantic City and Newark (Proebstle, 2012). They’ve increased staff and added a Human Trafficking Unity as well as forming about 500 human trafficking hotlines (Proebstle,...
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...Social media connection ties to crime. Cameras are everywhere now; social media is growing and will never stop. What are the potential effects of social media, presenting an unbalanced picture of crime? Why are law enforcement officers wearing body cameras to correct social media? Crime has become an increasing theme of social media in the platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, YouTube, and Instagram have transformed the way we understand and experience crime and victimization. (McGovern & Milivojevic, 2016) The media changes the mindset of people to perceive the criminal offense is higher than the event. Where did the sense of privacy go? We should keep in mind; however, crime is presented by social media there is usually more sensational...
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...he suffered many lacerations and received multiple stiches. As the night continued, I was able to watch another training scenario involving Taser guns or stun guns. Unlike the dog, this technique worked flawlessly. The officer was able to take down the accurate perpetrator in a proficient manner and no fellow officers were injured. On this particular night, there was an accidental injury that doesn’t happen often involving the canine. However, this introduced a couple of questions. Does this happen frequently and do situations like this happen often on the actual job? In the world of law enforcement, there are many tools used on a daily basis by police officers. A few examples include handcuffs, firearms, pepper spray, batons, radios/walkie-talkies, flashlights, Tasers, radars, LIDAR, and cars/motorcycles. Many of these tools have been around for a very long time, even from the beginning of law...
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...Human Trafficking – Prostitution in San Diego, California A sad fact widely known but not nearly as much talked about is that even in the land of the free, people are being bought, sold and smuggled like modern-day slaves. People are slowly disappearing, may it be somebody’s neighbor down the street, an unknown victim at the park or anybody in a known city like San Diego residing on the borders of Mexico. According to the Legal Social Issues Research Lab, “A modern-day form of slavery is known as human trafficking.” Victims of human trafficking are subjected to force, fraud, or coercion, for the purpose of sexual exploitation or forced labor. We are all victims as they are young children, teenagers, men and woman. Most Victims are trafficked into the Sex Industry. David A. Feingold states in his article that: Moving people across borders is as old as supplies and demand. What is new is the volume of the traffic and –and the realization that we have done little to stem the tide. We must look beyond our raw emotions if we are ever to stop those who trade in human lives. Trafficking in human begins with the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harboring or receipt of persons for the purpose of exploitation. Human trafficking differs from people smuggling. In the latter, people would voluntarily request smuggler’s service for fees, and there may be no deception involved in this agreement. On arrival at their destination, the smuggled person is either free or is required...
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...and a new car for his father-in-law. Though Miller confessed to embezzling funds from six different employers over a 20-year period, he has never been prosecuted or incarcerated—in large part because his employers never turned him in. Miller was fired from his first employer for stealing $200. After an assortment of odd jobs, he worked as an accountant for a local baker. Miller was caught embezzling funds and paid back the $1,000 he stole. Again, law enforcement was not notified, and he was quietly dismissed. Several months after Miller started work at Wheeling Bronze, his third victim, the president discovered a $30,000 cash shortfall and several missing returned checks. An extensive search found the canceled checks, with forged signatures, in an outdoor sand pile. Miller confessed to the scheme and was given the choice of repaying the stolen funds or being prosecuted. When Miller’s parents mortgaged their home and repaid the stolen money, he escaped prosecution. Miller’s fourth victim was Robinson Pipe Cleaning. When Miller was caught embezzling funds, he again avoided prosecution by promising to repay the $20,000 he stole. Miller’s fifth victim was Crest Industries, where he worked as accountant. He was an ideal employee—dedicated and hard working, doing outstanding work. He was quickly promoted to office manager and soon purchased a new home, car, and wardrobe. Two years later, Crest auditors discovered that $31,000 was missing. Miller had written several checks...
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...Autism. Up until ten years or so ago the concept of autism was basically unknown and non-factor in dealing juveniles. Research now shows that in Utah alone one in every forty-seven children born is born with some form of Autism. ( http://www.stellamarie.com/index.php/2010/06/24/autism-rates-per-state) Having this information we now must examine what part Autism plays with juveniles, our role in addressing the issues, and ways that we can protect and educate society on this very important epidemic issue. In this article I will address three key issues on Autism; facts and identification of autism, case research in the juvenile system, and education for first responders. This topic touches the lives of so many families, including mine. For this reason we must do our part to aid in the awareness of its debilitating effects and find ways to keep these very special kids out of the juvenile justice system and with their families, where they belong. Before we can understand why there are so many children in the juvenile justice system, with this disability, it is important to recognize the signs and symptoms of the disease itself. In an article titled, “Effects of Autism on Communication” (Edelson), he writes, “Speech development in people with autism takes different paths than the majority of neurotypical children. The effects of autism on communication are extremely varied. Autism is increasing referred to as being part of the autism spectrum due to the variability and degree of its effects...
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...Law Opinion Jane Doe CJS/220 December 3, 2011 Law Opinion Normal law originated in Britain, and was certain procedures were adopted by the United States. The majority of laws are made by the federal and state legislature. Normal law contains rules and other doctrines of the English royal. For more than a four hundred year period, from the eighth to the eleventh centuries, the social system believed that when settling differences there was an increasing of feudalism. Since the United States of America was a new nation and had a government which many felt wasn't as nice as it could be. They were gathering information to create a different way of running the nation. There was a conference, called the Constitutional Convention, in which historical figures, such as Ben Franklin, George Washington, and James Madison attended. The purpose of the Constitutional Convention was for the state representatives to come together to decide the structure of the government. After the final compromises were made and clauses were polished, they voted. (Mount, 2011) The Constitution was finalized in 1787. The Constitution establishes three major divisions of federal government. These are known as the legislative, executive, and judiciary. Each branch has its own part in how laws are created and used. Creating new laws is difficult and the legislatures sometimes have a problem defining them. Sometimes new laws come about because of a recent issue, in which there was no law about it before...
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