Final Paper Nick Beech Fort Hays State University A contemporary analysis of the term “white collar crime” is as pertinacious as various concepts within the realm of the Criminal Justice System. According to fbi.gov, there are a host of crimes ranging from health care fraud to computer crime amassed under the umbrella of white collar crime. In addition, the term is widely utilized by both criminologists and sociologists alike, incorporating a mass of non-violent behaviors related to pecuniary
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Name: Instructors name: Course: Date: The Lockdown Analysis and Summary In the introduction, the author Alexander Michelle begins with Jarvious Cottons story, a man of African American decent who was on parole from violation of drugs and thus not able to perform his voting rights. Mr Cotton however, is not the only one or the first ever in his family to be denied democratic participation. His grandfather was also intimidated by the Ku Klux Klan who prevented him from voting while his
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Therefore, laws had to change. It is the same within today’s prison system. Individuals are in prison because they broke the rules and would have to serve their time. Some go to federal prison and some go to state prisons. It depends on the type of crime that a person commits; because these prisons harbor different types of criminals they also have different guidelines to follow in terms to punishing the inmates. How does sending one person to state or one person to federal prison affect the correctional
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Knowing that many innocent people are convicted or even sentenced to death for crimes they did not commit shows that as a society we have to fix a broken legal system. If not, we all are vulnerable to be wrongfully identified as a criminal. There are many reasons why eyewitness identification are dangerous. First of all, memory is not accurate. Second, memory can be altered by other environmental factors and contaminated by new memories. And last but not least they have a tremendous power on the
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Social Disorganization Theory (SDT): Does it explain Chicago homicide? The increase of homicide rate in Chicago in the mid-1990s despite the downward trend of violent crime rates nationwide (Horton, 2002) has been a prominent focus of several criminological investigations. Given Chicago’s consistent high homicide rate in the past decade, particularly reaching its peak in 2008 with 513 murders and 2012 with 506 murders, the homicide phenomenon in Chicago undoubtedly remains a major subject of
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organization is today and where is heading. Situational analyze also identify issues, challenges, and barriers to communication along the way. Vision key function is to eliminate gang activity in neighborhood, disrupt the flow of drug, and reduce crime. Core values are a method that asks leader and employees if the current organization culture reflects those values. Envisioned future set a direction that address and manages a good strategic communication plan by making plans, management process,
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indicates that an officer is allowed to engage in a pursuit only if they have probable cause to believe that the occupants of the vehicle have, are or will commit a dangerous felony such as armed robbery, recklessly endangering safety and any other crime against a person in which violence is present; officers may also pursue if “The occupant(s) presents a clear and immediate threat to the safety of others and therefore the necessity of immediate apprehension outweighs the level of danger created by
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is fair in nature is arising and they even have the burden to prove that alternatives to closed trials cannot be used. The 6th Amendment even protects the defendant’s right of a jury trial under which a defendant has a right to jury trial if the crime committed can result in more than six months of imprisonment and at least 6 members of jury are required for such a trial. Similarly, those defendants who fall in the category of juvenile do not have a right to such a trial. The Amendment even ensures
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response to crime has impacted public policy differently over the years. The way crime and punishment has evolved over the years has been tremendous, but still has the same goal, punishment for a crime committed. The need for crime and punishment has and probably always will be a debate, but in the end what matters most is rehabilitating the criminal to reduce recidivism rates. Society’s views on crime and punishment have always had the same result in mind. Society wants an offender of a crime to be
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