When it comes to medicine certain individuals are not treated fairly for various reason, it could possibly because of your race, age, gender, and social status. I feel like when it comes to health care they always find a category to place you in for example maybe your not rich enough so your on the waiting list, or maybe your race is not as relevant enough, maybe since you’re a women your less important, or maybe your just too old. There's always an excuse for a person being placed in a particular
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gives the juvenile a chance to mature as well as prevent for reoccurrence of anti-social behavior. One of the major steps engaged during a Juvenile Justice process is being taking into custody. Juvenile can be referred to an intake officer by the police, citizens, schools or parents. Some cases a juvenile can directly brought to an intake officer by a policer other and other times a complaint could’ve been failed by a neighbor. When a juvenile is taken into custody, the intake officer is responsible
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A search incident to arrest was conducted and inside of his left pocket was an approximate 4" straw with a small amount of white residue. I then advised Christopher with the other indicators of drug activity and the straw, I had enough Probable Cause (PC) to search the vehicle. The accused was advised that he was under arrest and handcuffed to the rear. I confirmed that the handcuffs were secure but comfortable and double locked them. The accused was searched incident to arrest and no weapons
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Should students have the same rights as citizens? Should students be granted the same rights as the public? Most students go to a public school, so since they are in a public facility, shouldn’t they be given the same rights as the public? Students should, very much, have the same rights as citizens. Citizens, most of the time, are allowed to express opinions they have and are allowed to have opinions without being penalized. Too many schools worry about their reputation to allow their students to
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Criminal Procedure Policy Order and liberty are two areas within criminal procedure that have tension among one another (book). Order is a stronger approach toward the criminal justice system than liberty. Liberty concerns an individual’s rights to due process, which means everybody deserves the same rights when arrested regardless of the circumstances such as poor person versus a rich person. The two models that were developed by Herbert Packer were the crime control model and the due process
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There are several controversial issues surrounding racial profiling and the various problems that are encountered as a result of it. One issue is whether or not racial profiling exists. Most law enforcement departments refuse to undergo a study and they deny that racial profiling exists. These problems, coupled with the status of literature regarding this topic at this point, are more unreliable than scientific. In addition, the topic is controversial because the United States believes that it has
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Max McClellan 9/20/15 APUSH Schneider The Bill of Rights Supreme Court Cases Case 1: Texas vs. Johnson (1989) A.) Gregory Lee Johnson burned an American flag outside of the convention center where the 1984 Republican National Convention was being held in Dallas, Texas. Johnson burned the flag because he was angered by Reagan’s policies. He was arrested and charged with violating a Texas statute that prevented the desecration of a venerated object, including the American flag. A Texas court tried
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Mr. Michael Munn, M.A. Mary Lara 02 March 2012 Criminal Investigation Principles Crime today has become complex as human nature. The sophistification of how crimes are committed today and the challenging of certain laws have added substantial burden to those who have chosen careers within the Criminal Justice System to investigate and prosecute such criminals. Many concerns in conducting the various types of investigations has always been the legality of the “how’s”, “who’s” and “when’s”. The
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The Use of Police Force Police officers in today’s society are given a significant amount of discretion simply due to the nature of the job. These officers are often faced with many threatening situations forcing them to react quickly and properly. They have the power to infringe upon any citizen's rights to freedom and therefore they must use this power within the limits of the law. One major concern with the amount of discretion an officer has is their ability to decide when to or not to use
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lets officers to be able to stop someone, as you need to only have reasonable suspicion that the person in question has or is about to commit a crime. As for the frisk the officer needs to show that it was for his own safety. For example, say a police officer is conducting a stop and frisk, during the stop and frisk he puts his hand into the suspect's pocket and finds a baggie of cocaine. First thing that the officer did wrong is that he or she put their hand in the suspect's pocket during a stop
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