Category: Criminal Justice

In this assignment, you are required to choose a subsystem (you may use the subsystem you have already selected for your final project assignment). Now choose an agency within your selected subsystem, for instance, a local or federal law enforcement agency, a specialty or criminal court, or a community corrections or maximum security male prison. Now consider the following scenario:

You are preparing to appear before the State Budgeting Commission. You are required to choose a type of budget format or a combination from your textbook; justify the type or combination of types you have chosen based on comparative strengths and weaknesses; consider, also, the general costs of your agency including, programming, payroll, materials, product and/or services, quality, tools and equipment, transportation, facilities and other costs you deem appropriate; consider how to identify and decrease waste; include at least two new technological tools outlined in this module and justify this new cost.

All of these assignment components are reviewed in your textbook. There is no need for outside research. There are also sample budgets in your textbook. As you develop your analysis, make sure you also consider the political priorities you see below in your budget planning and that public questions are taken after each agency makes its yearly budget request.

As you ponder these issues, make sure you consider the following Factual Scenario:

Your state has a $100,000,000 budget for all of its criminal justice agencies. You will be contending for your share of the budget and will have challenges from state leadership as well as the other agencies that may feel you are asking for too large a share of the criminal justice budget. Now consider that your Governor has indicated his strong support for reformed sentencing and drug laws, alternatives to incarceration, and more emphasis on COPPS. Include these political priorities in your budget planning. Your budget hearing is also open to the public and robust attendance is expected. Public questions are taken after each agency makes its yearly budget request. There has been an increase of gang violence in your state and recently, there was a shooting at one of the courthouses. Two people were killed inside the courtroom. Also note that last year, corrections went 10% over budget even though the correction officer to inmate ratio decreased.

Who is your audience (hint: think broadly), and how do you prepare for this presentation? Finally, do not lose sight of your agencys mission.

To successfully complete the assignment, you are expected to read and study the key points and all assigned readings for this module. It is highly recommended that you familiarize yourself with the grading criteria provided. This criteria includes information on how your professor will grade your assignment. Ensure you cover all relevant information expected of you in the assignment. Use at least two outside reference sources to support your writing.

Action Items

1. Complete all required readings prior to working on this assignment.
2. Review the
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5. Review the mission and responsibilities of each subsystem.
6. Choose a criminal justice subsystem. Now choose an agency within that subsystem (for instance, a local or federal law enforcement agency, a specialty or criminal court, or a community corrections or maximum security male prison).
7. After choosing your subsystem and an agency within the subsystem, consider the scenario described in the Overview above. In a 2-4page paper, address the following:

• Choose a type of budget format or a combination from your text.
• Justify the type or combination of types you have chosen based on comparative strengths and weaknesses.
• Consider, also, the general costs of your agency including, programming, payroll, materials, product and/or services, quality, tools and equipment, transportation, facilities and other costs you deem appropriate.
• Consider how to identify and decrease waste.
• Include at least 2 new technological tools outlined in this module and justify this new cost.
• Consider the budget information in the Factual Scenario described in the Overview.
• Who is your audience (hint: think broadly), and how do you prepare for this presentation?
• Do not lose sight of your agencys mission.

1. Your paper must include your name, the assignment name and number, the course and section number, and the date on your title page. Format your title page, paper, and cite ALL sources according to
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For Applied Assignment #1, students will demonstrate the ability to develop a broad research topic, potential research questions, and identify and cite relevant empirical peer-reviewed sources. I am attaching detailed directions with guiding prompts and a grading rubric below. Use Microsoft Word to upload your assignment. You have one submission attempt. The assignment will be submitted through a Turnitin.com enabled link.1

Overview You are a consultant that the city manager of Friendship Township has hired. The police department in Friendship is having organizational problems, and the city manager needs help in rectifying this situation. You were hired because of your reputation and ability to implement organizational change. The city manager wants you to assess the current culture in the Friendship Police Department and make recommendations on the organizational changes needed to improve the culture. You will present your findings and recommendations in a written report to the city manager. Police Department Culture To help assess the current culture, you asked the new chief of police to compile a summary of the issues in the Friendship police department. Download and read the summary that was complied. Create a written report to the city manager. In your report, include the following information. The report should be between 1,250 and 1,500 words (excluding title and references pages). Overview: A summary of the information that will be presented. Current Culture: Explain the current culture in the police department and include an assessment of: Employee morale Work habits Major behavioral issues To support your assessment, include artifacts and observed behaviors that result in a negative subculture in the organization. Recommendations: Present the organizational change that should be implemented to improve the current culture. Address the reasoning behind your recommendations and the processes that you selected, explaining why and how they will help improve the z Include research from four scholarly peer-reviewed sources to support your recommendations. Conclusion Write in a scholarly and objective tone, avoiding using first person, personal pronouns, contractions, and colloquial or conversational language. Avoid the use of direct quotations. Use citations from each assigned reading and additional scholarly, peer-reviewed sources to support your content and credit sources of information and ideas. Note: This assignment requires the use of the assigned readings and outside research. Include citations from at least four scholarly, peer-reviewed sources and the assigned reading material throughout your assignment to support your content and credit sources of information and ideas.

Distinguish between police corruption and police misconduct and provide examples.

Please reference-

S) Police in America

Steven G. Brandl , 2020

Sage

ISBN.13: 978-1-544-37583-0

M2 Written Assignment: Solitary Confinement: Introduction to the assignment: Solitary confinement is the segregation of individual inmates from the rest of the population, often in a small and rather dismal environment. In the past, problem inmates were put in The Box literally a concrete or metal box. Current segregation is less severe, but nevertheless has consequences, especially for the inmate. After reading the rights of inmates under law, including the Constitution and Supreme Court case law, read the opinion article below. Instructions: write a 2400 page essay MLA citations using the text book American file:///Users/admin/Downloads/American%20Corrections%2013th%20Edition.pdfCorrections and 1 outside source and 1 scholarly source. total 3 sources, 3 questions. Question 1: Do you agree with the NYTimes OpEd article The Living Death of Solitary Confinement? Or perhaps you see things from the managerial perspective, the necessity to manage disruptions from recalcitrant offenders. Question 2: Watch video for Option Two “Solitary Confinement: Investigative Reports” (2000, length 45 minutes, synched transcript)Support your view from the text and any other research. Question 3: discuss solitary confinement in a light of what you have learned about the correctional client and the legal issues.

The three parts of this assignment are as follows:

1. Edit the following reference for APA 7th ed correctness and create a Reference page for the corrected references. (7 points) (Hint: There are 12- 15 mistakes.)

• Mendelow, A. L. (2007). Stakeholder analysis for strategic planning and implementation. In King, W. R. & D. I. Cleland (Eds.). Strategic planning and implementation (176-191). New York, NY: Sage.
• Tse, A., Smith, J., and Doe, J. (2018). Comparing the response rate, response speed, and response quality of two methods of sending questionnaires: e-mail vs. mail. Journal of the Market Research Society, 40 (1), p. 353-361.
• Patton, M. Q. (1990). Qualitative Evaluation and Research Methods (2nd ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

2. Compose the in-text (narrative and parenthetical) citations for the aforementioned references. (3 points)

3. Compose a research question, a directional, nondirectional and null hypotheses. (15 points)

Kyle was employed as a police officer at Oxford PD and was interested in the city’s community-oriented policing program. He wanted to know whether positive, nonenforcement interactions with community oriented police officers (COPS) actually change citizen’s attitudes toward the police. He was able to obtain data that had already been gathered on the outcomes of a cohort of citizens who had completed a program facilitated by COPS and then compare that data with a similar group of citizens who, during the same time period, did not participate in the COPS program (her control group).

For the aforementioned study,

• Compose one research question,
• Compose a directional hypothesis,
• Compose a nondirectional hypothesis, and
• Compose a null hypothesis

Remember to use Q. for your question, H1 for the nondirectional hypothesis, H2 for the directional hypothesis, and H0 for the null hypothesis.

To submit your assignment, compose your responses on one Word document (.doc). Then, click on the Module 1 Assignment Dropbox and choose the Browse My Computer button to navigate to your saved file and select it. This is a SafeAssignment dropbox, which means that the work you submit will be reviewed against other submissions Internet-wide, and an Originality Score (ORScore) will be assigned by the system. Your work will be reviewed for plagiarism with consequences from points deducted to a grade of zero in the assignment or course to enactment of the UM academic dishonesty policy.

Scenario

You are an analyst hired by the mayor of a small city who wants to do something about rising juvenile crimes. The mayor tells you she wants her police department to start a boot camp for young offenders, because she saw one such program profiled on the local news.

• Using the, what would you report to the mayor about boot camps?
• Based on your search of programs , what alternative approach would you recommend?

For your Portfolio Project you will play the role of researcher and investigator to analyze the Zodiac Killer case and provide an opinion on if the Zodiac Killer is real or a myth. For this milestone you will create a timeline of the Zodiac Killers murders. Before you begin, be sure to review the full .

The Zodiac Killer is one of Americas most infamous serial killers who murdered at least five people during the 1960s and 1970s near San Francisco and in Northern California. The victims were couples being murdered in remote locations. The first victim was Cheri Jo Bates and he wrote a message to beware. He also included 13 symbols to the letters as well as a circle with a cross inside as his trademark. In over 50 years, numerous researchers, detectives and forensic specialists have tried to identify the Zodiac Killer. The big question remains, did he commit all those murders?

• Research the Zodiac Killer and create a timeline of his murders.
• Begin with the first murder and include date, name of victims, and location of murder.

portfolio priject mod 8 instructions :

Between 1968 and 1976, five murders were committed in the San Francisco Bay and Northern California. Between 1969 and 1974, police and the area newspapers received letters from a man who was self-proclaimed as the Zodiac Killer. After 1974, the communication through the letters stopped.

On August 1, 1969, the San Francisco Examiner, San Francisco Chronicle and Vallejo Times-Herald each received an identical handwritten letter in an envelope without a return address. The letter began with Dear Editor: I am the killer of the 2 teenagers last Christmas at Lake Herman, the letters contained details from the Zodiac Killers murders that only the killer could have known. The killer went on to threaten further attacks if the letters werent printed on the front page of the papers (Biography, n.d.).

The killer had developed his own symbol of a circle with a cross through it which was found on each letter. At the bottom of each letter was a three part cipher that he explained contained his identity. Police and FBI worked on deciphering the code when another letter was sent to the San Francisco Examiner where he described the murders in detail as only the killer would know and blamed police for not cracking the code. A High School teacher, Donald Harden and his wife Bettye were able to solve the cipher which read…. I like killing people because it is so much fun, it is more fun than killing wild game in the forest because man is the most dangerous animal of all (Biography, n.d.).

His victims were young couples and a single cab driver.

Although the Zodiac Killer claimed in letters to newspapers to have committed 37 murders, investigators agree on seven confirmed assault victims, five of whom died and two survived. They are:

• David Arthur Faraday, 17, and Betty Lou Jensen, 16, were shot and killed on December 20, 1968, on Lake Herman Road, within the city limits of Benicia.
• Michael Renault Mageau, 19, and Darlene Elizabeth Ferrin, 22, were shot on July 4, 1969, in the parking lot of Blue Rock Springs Park in Vallejo. Mageau survived the attack; Ferrin was pronounced dead on arrival at Kaiser Foundation Hospital. .
• Bryan Calvin Hartnell, 20, and Cecelia Ann Shepard, 22, were stabbed on September 27, 1969, at Lake Berryessa in Napa County. Hartnell survived, but Shepard died as a result of her injuries a couple days later on September 29.
• Paul Lee Stine, 29, was shot and killed on October 11, 1969, in the Presidio Heights neighborhood of San Francisco.

The case has been open for over 50 years. Police and the FBI had several links and listed possible suspects, however, no arrests were made in the case. There has been a wealth of research performed by criminal investigators, journalists, forensic specialists in the United States and in Europe to identify the Zodiac Killer.

On July 14, 2023, the US Sun newspaper reported a suspect list and is asking if the killer is caught. A group of investigators reported on May 17, 2023 to the Daily Mail that the FBI identified the Zodiac Killer as the retired Air Force veteran Gary Francis Poste who died in 2018.

The following unanswered questions still remain:

• Did the Zodiac Killer commit all the murders?
• Who wrote all the letters?
• Was there more than one killer?
• Is the killer a psychopath or a sociopath? Explain your decision with facts from the case.

Upon continuing your work with the cases, in this segment you will talk about the key points that the defense may look at to challenge the evidence in these cases. Take a look at the case from the point of a criminal investigation consultant, you have been tasked with completing a two-page report in which you identify the five most important arguments and/or pieces of evidence for the defense. For each of the five arguments and/or pieces of evidence you identify you must include the following:

1. An explanation of the argument and/or evidence and where and/or how it was found in relation to the crime scene
2. Details of any investigative processing needed for the evidence
3. An explanation of how the piece of evidence supports the defense’s stance that the defendant is not guilty.

Additionally, as the criminal investigation consultant, you have now had the opportunity to review the case from your previously assigned tasks. Write an additional two pages identyfing three separate instances in this investigation that involved the use science or technology to aid the investigation. For each instance, address the following:

1. What science or technology was employed?
2. How did the science or technology aid in the criminal investigation?
3. Discuss how the case would have been impacted WITHOUT this science or technology.

Your total final submission should be 4 pages in length and conform to APA guidelines . Include at least 2 credible references in addition to the course textbook.

You are a prosecutor assigned to a District Attorney’s office in a major urban area. You have a very full case load. You specialize in drug and violent crime investigations. Consider each of the following scenarios. Offer an opinion as to whether the actions are legal, and support your answer. Offer an opinion as to whether the actions are ethical, and support your answer. Leaking the identity of a seventeen-year-old gang member who you are fairly certain committed a drive-by shooting to the media knowing full well he was in danger from rival gang members, and then offering protective custody only if he would plead guilty. Authorizing the arrest of a fourteen-year-old boy who confessed to a crime, even though there was no serious possibility that he was guilty, in order to pressure a guilty relative to confess to murder. Authorizing the arrest of one brother for possession of a very small amount of marijuana, even though you know the charge would ultimately be thrown out by the judge (but the young man would probably lose a scholarship to college) in order to have leverage so that he would testify against his brother, who is a known drug smuggler. The drug smuggler’s activities have resulted in the deaths of numerous teenagers. You should have reviewed the Discussion Grading Rubric and the Discussion Expectations for information about how to achieve the maximum points on discussion posts and responses. need two responses back I will upload after them after first part is done