...Criminal Justice Trends Evaluation 1 Criminal Justice Trends Evaluation December 10, 2012 CJA/394 Troy Hokanson Criminal Justice Trends Evaluation 2 Introduction The criminal justice system is very important to American society. The reason for laws are to defend society from harm, make certain each person is safe as well as to be treated fairly. The criminal justice system labors to defend the guiltless and to discipline the guilty without putting at risk an individual’s rights.This paper will evaluate the future of the criminal justice system as well as the past and present trends in the interface between components of the criminal justice system. Furthermore, it will identify contemporary issues that are affecting the criminal justice system as well as the value of the criminal justice system as society changes. Seeing that society is advancing, the criminal justice system must also change. The need for new laws are apparent in order to continue with advancement and new trends in society. However, new trends and contemporary issues can have an immediate influence on the various operations of the criminal justice system. These include, advancing technology, sentencing, and the death sentence. All of these have huge effects on the criminal justice system...
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...Giving the Worse-off a Voice in the Debate about Genetic Enhancement Technology Unlike a few years ago, when conceiving a baby girl or a baby boy was a matter of chance, today's prospective parents can choose to alter the genetic make-up of their children in order to enhance their offspring's well-being in the future. Recent advances in the field of genetics can now help people to become parents, and even allow them to choosing the sex of their baby. In March 2009, the BBC reported that a couple in California, Kristen and Matt Landon, have used genetic testing techniques to select the sex of their daughter at a fertility clinic in Los Angeles. As researchers learn new ways to manipulate genes, they plan to take things a step further by offering what some are calling "designer babies". The term “designer babies” refers to a baby whose genetic makeup has been artificially selected by genetic engineering combined with in vitro fertilization (the joining of a woman's egg and a man's sperm in a laboratory) to ensure the presence or absence of particular genes or characteristics. Dr. Jeffrey Steinberg, a pioneer in in-vitro fertilization and director of Los Angeles Fertility Institute, said that he “would predict that by next year, we will have determined sex with 100 percent certainty on a baby, and we will have determined eye color with about an 80 percent accuracy rate." The prospect of “designer babies”, like many of the ethical challenges posed by the advancements in genetics...
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...Since the advancement of technology, technology-based advocacy is an emerging development in the social work practice (Dunlop & Fawcett, 2008). The social justice issue that I will address is the inequality of the LGBTQ community due their gender identity and/or sexual orientation. Incorporating technology to advocate the social injustice within the LGBTQ community can bring change within the community. Technological tools you could use to address the issue Information technology is an innovative tool for addressing social injustice at a local, state, national and international levels (Dunlop & Fawcett, 2008). Social software can be an important tool when addressing issues of social justice, specially the inequality within the LGBTQ community...
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...Court Issues Analysis CJA/394 The United States has two distinct courts; state and federal. Federal crimes are heard in the federal court and state crimes are heard in the state courts, and if crimes are both state and federal violations the case is often heard in both courts. Many issues are dealt with by the courts and the courts administrators. Current and future issues that courts and courts administrators face are; budget cuts, new technology, privacy issues and lack of training. Of course there are other issues faced on a daily basis, these are a few that have a long term affect on the criminal justice system. The criminal justice system is very important to continue to keep society safe and orderly, without it there would more than likely be a lot of chaos and disorganization. Citizens of society look to the criminal justice system to keep them safe, and the courts are depended upon to ensure that constitutional rights are not abused and to carry mandates of the state and the United States constitution. The largest issue that the courts and courts administrators face currently is budget cuts, and this issue will affect the future as well. In 2011 the House of Representatives approved a budget that reduced funding by eight percent with a previous budget cut of thirteen percent in 2009 (Cavan, 2010). A reduction in funding has an impact on employees, administrative duties and cases. Employees of the court system are affected the most by budget cuts, with...
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...Criminal Justice Trend Evaluation Terry Milton CJA/394 June 25, 2012 James Beeks Criminal Justice Trend Evaluation To keep up with the criminal problems in society, functions and components of the criminal justice system has to evolve in order to be able to detect and keep up with growing trends in society. New laws need to be created to help keep up with the evolution and its new trends. In this paper the evaluation of past, present, and future trends that connect to societies and the components of the criminal justice system will be discussed. It will also assess the recent and future contemporary issues that affect the criminal justice system. The purpose of this paper is to show that the criminal justice system has a major role in an ever changing society. Recent and future trends have always and will always affect the criminal justice system. New trends in technology, law, terrorism, gender and diversity will always effect the functions of the criminal justice system. Technology in the 21st century is one of the legal issues that have caused controversy. New technology devices such as hand geometry biometrics and the use of retina and iris devices have the ability to gain information not only on people’s health but also their medical history as well. When it concerns the criminal justice system, many of these new technology devices are being used to detect drugs and concealed weapons that are sneaked into prison facilities. They help prevent illegal activities...
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...leaders must possess the skills to not only address the social and criminal justice issues, but also the skills to lead groups and organizations in the 21st Century. Conflating the deliverables throughout this program, the course work selected reflects critical issues in modern law enforcement, community assessment through data analysis, and the application of technology in law enforcement. As law enforcement leaders look to reestablish trusts and improve the police-community relationship, an in-depth understanding of crime data and...
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... 1. Criminal Justice Trends Paper Lillie Johnson CJA 484 February 28, 2012 Shane Evans Law Enforcement 2. Pursuing Criminal Justice: Law Enforcement There are a lot of components that make up the criminal justice system, including but not limited to: corrections, courts, and law enforcements. The criminal justice system, referred to as a network as opposed to a system by criminal justice professionals, can not be successful without all the elements that make up that system. Nothing can go forward within the criminal court system without first being handed over by a law enforcement agency. The purpose of this paper is to focus on law enforcement component of the system. This paper will address three current practices of law enforcement that prove the successful great courage of justice. In addition, this paper will explain three examples of changes that law enforcement has experience as a consequence of actions...
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...This paper that I am going to write will give you a bit of insight on our recent and future trends as well as contemporary issues that affect our criminal justice system. There is a saying as time change so does people change. And when they do so does all that was brought with them from the past making what we recently see and understand a blueprint for our future. This is done with all people, places and things. In the age of information which we recently live in there are many technologies that many would have thought would be impossible in this day, time and age. Especially when it comes to the way our criminal justice system has the ability to solve crimes much faster than it did in the past through the most powerful tool used today DNA. This is what gave the criminal justice a big break at even the hardest cases that was unsolved for years. Modern technology has given the criminal justice system as well as our society a bonded connection by producing technology that keeps our neighborhoods safe from murders, rapist, thieves etc. Not only has technology given our society security as assurance of safety it also seems like nowadays it has opened up a better level of communication between communities and law enforcement. This does not mean that technology and the police are 100% better than they were before technology it simply means that there are better ways to approach any and every situation to make sure our citizens are treated fairly as well as our law enforcement...
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...Criminal Justice Integration 1. Criminal Justice Integration Paper Criminal Justice Integration 2. Introduction Learning Team A has agreed on a number of things to be discussed in our paper. Organizational structure of the criminal justice system, agency policies: inclusive of statutory authorities, budgets: projected revenue sources and expenditures, communication, technology, and cultural or sub-cultural aspects of organization. The development of improved interactions between security agencies, courts, law enforcement personnel as well as community and institutional corrections over the next 15 years need fragile focus and planning. Agency policies of each of the above organizations must cast back the certain needs of the population change. The funds of these organizations play a easily pained role in the enlarged portion of what can and cannot be given to communities. Open and close up transmission of severe information between criminal justice material could bring about problems if they are not trustworthy. They must rely on one another for support. Criminal Justice Integration 3...
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...Criminal Justice Trends Evaluation John Doe CJA/394 January 21, 2012 Criminal Justice Trends Evaluation There is no discrepancy that crime has continued to hinder society. It was at the urging of the Social Commission that the actual number of crimes became a priority so that facts and statistics could be developed. These first statistics were recorded and began nearly sixty years ago. The results show a continuous increase in crime. When the first studies were conducted the crime trends included larceny, physical assaults, and homicide. As time progressed, the studies broadened to include organized crime from street gangs to mafia’s, and trafficking of illegal drugs as well as humans. The only significant difference from the crime of the past and criminal elements society contends with today is that the illegal activity of organized crime groups is not as blatantly obvious as it once was (Economic and Social Council, 2011). The following information will discuss crime trends and the impact they have within the criminal justice system. The criminal justice system is an intricate part of society and it is essential that this system remains capable of adequately dealing with the latest crime trends. One large difference between yesteryears crimes and today’s are the involvements of human lives and the World Wide Web. The trafficking of people from all age groups from city to city and even between countries has become easier with the utilization of the internet. Robberies...
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...“Economic Globalization” Economic globalization is an irreversible reality. To attempt to stall it or to roll it back would be as futile as trying to roll back the industrial revolution or information technology inventions. In terms of the historic evolution of the socio-economic system and its broader social civilization, it is an inevitable phase in the ever-advancing civilization on earth. In its current form, however, it is unsustainable. It is evidently defective, it has no built-in corrective mechanisms, and it needs to be saved from itself. The phenomenon has been in the making for centuries. More specifically, technological inventions in the field of communication, transportation and information management have accelerated its pace, propelling it into a tremendous force with incredible capacity to speed up development, or if left ungoverned, giving it a ferocious destructive capacity. Positive Outcomes: 1. Acceleration of development process or welfare improvement: What the industrialized countries took 150 years to bring about, the East Asian countries achieved in just over 25 years. 2. Technological advancements have made it possible to further shorten this considerably. 3. Knowledge dissemination has created awareness, consciousness, and hence empowerment unparalleled in the past. The very rising grass roots opposition to the negative by products of globalization is an evidence of the positive force that economic globalization has created. 4. The capacity to...
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...Name Professor Course Date Internet Activism and Vigilante Justice Vigilante behavior is that which matches the behavior of vigilantes. According to (Earl, Jennifer and Katrina 34)), vigilante justice discusses the actions of a group of people or of an individual who claim to be enforcing the law, but they lack the legal capacity of enforcing the law. Vigilante justice also discusses a general state of anarchy whereby a competing crowd claims to be enforcing the law in a particular area (Khosla 107). A vigilante is an organization or a civilian that acts in a capacity of enforcing the law without the legal approval or perhaps in the pursuit of self-proclaimed justice (LaRocca 67).Other words for vigilante justice are extrajudicial punishment and frontier justice that typically exists in societies that lack law and order. Internet activism, on the other hand, is the use of e-communication devices and technologies that include social media platforms such Facebook, Google Plus, Twitter, Whatsapp, podcasts and YouTube (Hill 15). The use of these e-communication technologies enhances fast communication whereby the intended information reaches a wider audience in just a matter of time. The primary purposes of e-technologies are lobbying, community building and organizing support groups or activists. An analysis of the New York Times reveals that it published an article on internet activism and vigilante justice on January 20, 2014. The article released in New York Times on 2014...
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...Criminal Justice Overview Paper Alyson L. Hagar 12/03/2014 CJA/394 Contemporary Issues and Futures in Criminal Justice In the early days of police work, officers were only able to work on hunches, instincts, overly-obvious evidence and confessions. With assistance of technology police work as completely changed. Overtime technology has become a growing constant in society and individual’s day to day living. From DVD players, to smart phones, iPods, and cameras, accessibility of these items is at ease. Almost every person who owns a phone has a phone with a camera built in. What is now considered a convenient feature of our cell phones has now become an aide in crime fighting and police mistreatment. Dash cameras, body cameras, cell phones, street and traffic cameras have all entered society with a fury. This increased use of technologies has greatly affected the criminal justice in both positive and negative ways. In previous years, police officers had to mainly rely on two way radios for any police call or accident. There was not the cruiser laptop or cell phones to gain instant access to mug shots or pictures of potential suspects or victims as well as direction or maps of areas of the town. Officers in the past had to be more inclined to learn and memorize the area they are patrolling as well as multiple routes in and out of that area. They would also have to rely on the dispatchers descriptions of the potential suspect. Sometimes this would cause...
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...smuggling, fraud, selling of humans or their living organs and threating its victims. Crimes have been all around us, ranging from big to small, but not as serious as this one; especially that it became more extreme after the rise of technologies. Technologies, around the world, have worked and still do in making everyone’s life more efficient; also, it made life easier for human traffickers to gain what they want and justice systems to catch them red-handed. Human traffickers have used the Internet to broaden their fishing pool. It gave them...
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...Welcome to BioInspire, a monthly publication addressing the interface of human design, nature and technology. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------BioInspire.16 5.19.04 The following essay first appeared on CYSI ONLINE: http://cysionline.chattablogs.com Please post all comments and reflections on this essay at http://cysionline.chattablogs.com/archives/012868.html#comments CYSI Online is a monthly online publication that takes hope in the thousands of young people across the US engaged in creative initiatives for social progress. It features short articles by a broad range of social innovators, generally between 20-30 years old, and focuses on identifying creative solutions to old social problems; and building bridges and crossing barriers that divide our movements and the country. Join CYSI Online’s distribution list for free by emailing cysionline@hotmail.com --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Faith in Sustainability John Mlade Institute for the Built Environment Colorado State University johnm@biomimicry.net When someone asks me about who I am, or what I believe, I invariably draw upon my affinity for sustainability. Increasingly just a buzzword, and sometimes out of context, for me the word "sustainable" is a way to describe restorative human social systems and designs. These are systems and designs that create positive impacts on our environment and the well-being...
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