Derrick L. Jackson Cultural Diversity in Criminal Justice CRJS410 - 1304A - 01 Professor: Samantha Carlo Unit 1 Individual Project 1 July 25, 2013 Abstract Within this paper a report is written for the California Chief Attorney in efforts to support a presentation to the County Commission. Key components of victimology, history of victimology, theories, and differences between criminology and victimology are discussed. The flagstaff of safe houses for abused women and children, along with our nation’s
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numerous amount of enhancements within the criminal justice system. Particularly within law enforcement and justice systems, this technology has become a growing, supplemental tool. Historically, the use of electronics in the justice system has helped in creating alternative arrangements for sentencing offenders. In the 1960’s Harvard Psychologist, Robert Schwitzgebel, wanted to establish a more cost-effective alternative to incarceration of people within the justice system. Dr. Schwitzgebel established
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According to the Course Text there is a consideration of constitutional law and prisoners’ rights such as civil rights of prisoners, the prisons and jails must operate under the law to be able to successfully take care of the inmates by which they house within their facilities, they have to teach and educate each officer on all levels of the understanding of the constitution, and not only for the guiding and maintaining a safe environment and implementing the proper rules and regulations when it
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The justice system is made to be fair and equal to all. The united states is based in principals of freedom equality. Are these facts and morals actually true within our own system of justice? Endless amounts of data, stats and news coverage tells a different story. While our legal system is designed to be blind, the reality shows that the system benefits those of a higher class. There is also evidence that supports the fact that the system discriminates based off race and gender. First off, the
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In this world where chaos and animosity and racism run, we as Average Americans have a really big problem with racial profiling in the Criminal Justice system and is it a hindrance or help. A question that we must ask ourselves, should we allow racial profiling during investigations? Like many of you I would say absolutely not, however the thought of racial profiling has been around for centuries and can be traced back to slavery days. Racial profiling was established by stopping any black person
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The criminal justice system is mixture of local, state, and federal laws that together simulate too many ways to enter the system but very few exits. When we have minorities enter the system after being arrested the pretrial policies that come about can take a toll on the lives of these individuals. For instance, there have been people who have died in jail because they are unable to post bail. Reiterating, a majority of these cases are non-violent crimes, misdemeanors, which should not hold people
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Politics has influenced the US criminal justice system with the biased and prejudice minds of the politicians that seek to make their pockets grow larger. The consequences of prejudice minds in the US criminal justice system are seen through the privatization of prisons, militarization of the police, and the criminalization of poverty. I believe the state’s view not only influences how crime and criminals are treated, but also the people’s view on crime and criminal treatment. Racism is the one of
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Ethics in Criminal Justice Administration Analysis CJHS/484 March 23, 2015 In this paper I will discuss and “analyze the relationship between ethics and professional behavior in the administration of the criminal justice system. Also discuss the role of critical thinking with the regards to the relationship to ethics and professional behavior” (The University of Phoenix, 2015). And a proposal a seminar on due process and how there are several steps that fall into the classification of the professional
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Identify and explain the most significant flaw in the law and how you propose that it be corrected. The Justice System today is lacks transparency; In this case transparency may mean different things. Some people view transparency as having the right to monitor what is going on in their surroundings, while others used it as strategy to make citizens have their rights. In most case the court looks at those affected in a case and the result they received from the case because most of the appointed
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Administrations of justice organizations are the correctional facilities in the criminal justice today that oversee the enforcement of laws. Justice organizations include courts and correctional facilities in the criminal justice system. Administration of justice organizations are intended to promote justice for all citizens by punishing the guilty in society and giving them a chance to rehabilitate in the correctional facilities. They also seek to protect the innocent and accomplish court orders
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