Category: Criminal Justice

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• Compare and contrast the due process and crime control perspectives.

chapter 1 of criminal procedures edition 3

As a criminal justice professional, you should be educated about complex issues that can obstruct the equitable administration of justice. This awareness will help you understand systemic concerns in criminal justice that you may encounter in your daily roles and responsibilities. In this assessment, you will consider crucial issues related to crime and justice.

Research 2 issues related to crime and justice and their impact in your community. Examples include:

• Facial recognition technology
• Predictive policing/profiling
• Bail/bond inequity
• Use of force
• Mass incarceration
• Sentencing guidelines
• Judicial and prosecutorial discretion
• Other, with faculty member approval

Create a 10- to 12-slide presentation with detailed speaker notes in which you explain 2 critical crime and justice issues in the criminal justice discipline.

Audience: Develop your presentation from the perspective of a concerned citizen speaking at a city council meeting in your city. You want to raise awareness about the impact of these issues in your community.

Use the to complete your assessment by doing the following:

• Write a response to each prompt in the template.
• Support your responses with relevant details and/or examples, where appropriate.
• Incorporate concepts you have learned from the Weeks 1 and 2 textbook readings to support your ideas.

Include the following in your presentation:

• Summarize each criminal justice issue.
• Explain the adverse impact each issue has on individuals or groups within the community.
• Describe the intended and unintended consequences of the issues in the criminal justice discipline.
• Conclude the presentation by explaining how the council can use the research from your presentation to support the community.
• Ex: How can the council advocate for changes to address the issues?
• Ex: How can the council engage the community to address the issues?
• Ex: How can the council demonstrate a commitment to addressing the issues?

Note: The total slide count does not include the title or reference list slides.

Cite at least 2 scholarly sources in addition to the textbook according to APA guidelines.

Submit your assessment.

Resources

Reforming and improving the criminal justice system to address issues in policing and improve community relationships is an important current area of focus. While many police departments, correctional facilities, and court systems have processes where they routinely enact changes to their policies and procedures, future reforms are inevitable and can begin at the individual level.

Criminal justice professionals must always demonstrate professionalism, including when facing peers, senior officials, and the public to advocate for changes in the system. The mayor of a city in your area wants to make changes to the criminal justice system in response to an issue that has been worsening. Due to that, you and other representatives from various agencies and communities have been invited to speak at an upcoming city council meeting to propose and advocate for reforms that would be most beneficial to the city to improve this issue.

Preparation

Determine 1 issue within the criminal justice system in your geographic area that could benefit from reform. Select an issue supported by recent data trends. Refer to the following resources to select your issue:

• Review the 6 pillars of recommendations on positive justice reforms from the from the Office of Community Oriented Policies Services (COPS).
• Research trends using the FBIs website or the page on the U.S. Department of Justice BJS website.

Research has been researched into the criminal justice system in your area that has been proposed or implemented for positive changes related to the issue you selected.

Select 1 positive reform to use as an example for this assessment.

Investigate the following roles in the successes of the reform movement you selected: legislative efforts, police unions, agency policy, social media, and community and nonprofit partnerships.

Assessment Deliverables

This summative assessment has 2 deliverables:

• Part 1: 10 slide professionalism presentation
• Part 2: 525-word executive summary of the presentation

Refer to the instructions in Parts 1 and 2 to complete both deliverables.

Part 1: Professionalism Presentation ++REQUIRED

Create a 10 slide presentation that persuades the city council committee to vote to enact your proposal. Include the following information supported by evidence from your research:

Criminal Justice Trends and Reform

• Issue and Proposed Reform for Positive Change: Describe a trending issue within the criminal justice system in your local area that would benefit from a change according to recent data. Identify a reform to the criminal justice system that could be made that you think will have a positive future impact on this issue. Explain your reasons for predicting that the reform will be successful.

Efforts Toward Reform

• Past Reform Efforts: Evaluate the effects of any efforts that have already been made toward this reform. If a police union was involved in the reform, describe their involvement.
• Potential Future Effects of Proposed Legislation: Evaluate the potential effect of proposed legislation on future reforms and explain which legislative effort will have the greatest impact on policing, if passed. Support your claims with examples from your research.

Reform Implementation

• Possibilities for Implementation of Reform: Describe the ways that the reform you are proposing could be implemented in your area.
• Legislation/Policy Required for Implementation: Explain how legislation at the state or federal level or in departmental policy changes could be used to implement the reform.

Pros and Cons of Implementation of Reform

• Benefits and Pitfalls of Implementing Reform: Advocate for implementation of your chosen reform by summarizing its benefits and potential pitfalls.
• Recommended Strategy for Implementation: Explain the way you believe the reform can best be implemented. Justify your proposal with examples from your research.

Citations and References Formatting Requirements

Cite at least 2 scholarly sources to support your presentation. Include citations either within the slides content or in the speaker notes on the slide where they are mentioned.

Format citations and references for any sources and images according to APA guidelines. Use the references slide to list your references.

Presentation Formatting Requirements

Download and review the . This example has been customized to reflect your summative assessment presentation components, and it will help you get a better idea of how to organize your presentation so you can focus on the slide content and on demonstrating professionalism while you present. Review the following formatting notes and requirements:

• Template usage: Inputting your content into this presentation template is optional; you can use presentation software and design layouts of your choice to customize your presentations appearance (i.e., color, images, and font). However, ensure you have faculty member approval in advance to use other software.
• Slide titles: Whether you use the presentation template example or another template of your choice, include the following slides, their titles as presented here that correlate to the assessment instructions, the order theyre presented in here, and topics in your presentation:
• Title
• Introduction: Introduce your presentation.
• Issue and Proposed Reform for Positive Change
• Past Reform Efforts
• Potential Future Effects of Proposed Legislation
• Possibilities for Implementation of Reform
• Legislation/Policy Required for Implementation
• Benefits and Pitfalls of Implementing Reform
• Recommended Strategy for Implementation
• Conclusion: Conclude the presentation with a final statement.
• References
• Presentation recording link (if recording using video software)

++ Recording Formatting Requirements (Adding a recording to this assignment is ++OPTIONAL ++- You do not need to record yourself if you do not wish to do so and/or do not have the technological capabilities).

Record yourself delivering the presentation either by:

• Recording narrations within the presentation slides without appearing on screen: If you record narrations for each slide within the presentation software, such as Microsoft PowerPoint, you do not need to record a video.
• Recording a video or screencast of yourself delivering the presentation: If you record a video of yourself delivering the presentation, either by appearing on screen or by recording a voiceover, paste the link to your completed video on the presentation recording link slide at the end of your presentation.

For either format, ensure that slides are visible and your voice is heard clearly. Contact your faculty member for alternative delivery formats if you need accommodation.

Part 2: Executive Summary ++ REQUIRED

Write a 525-word executive summary of the presentation for city leaders to reference after the meeting. Create this summary in a separate document from your presentation.

Cite at least 2 scholarly sources to support your summary. These can be the same sources that you cited and referenced in your Part 1: Professionalism Presentation.

Format citations and references according to APA guidelines.

Submit your presentation and executive summary for your assessment.

Introduction:

Levels of measurement are important to any study. The goal is to measure variables at the highest level possible. For example, a person’s sex will always be a nominal level measure. It can never be a higher level of measurement. However, variables such as satisfaction level can be changed from Nominal to Ordinal, while ratio level measures such as grade point average can also be measured at the ordinal level. In the assignment below, you will be identifying levels of measurement for independent and dependent variables used in the and transforming them into different measures.

Instructions:

Be sure to watch the lecture on Levels of Measurement.

Review the following two articles:

1. Griffin, M.L, Hogan, N.L., Lambert, E.G., Tucker-Gail, K.A., and Baker, D. N. (2010).
4. Scherer, H.L., McMahon-Howard, J., and McCarthy, J.T. (2022).

Additional Instructions:

1. Download and answer all the questions for
4. You are to work independently/alone on this assignment.
5. Save the assignment as a doc or docx file.
6. Submit the assignment no later than 11:59PM Friday of Week 3.
7. Point values for each question are listed in the assignment.

This assignment requires you to choose a residential treatment program located in either Volusia, Seminole, or Orange County, Florida. These programs are listed at this

Be sure to narrow the search in the first drop down to “Residential Treatment” and the second to one of the three counties that are required here. Once you have made your choice, use content from the class text as well as the official website of that program to explain the benefits of this type of residential treatment program as well as a coverage of the program that you have chosen to include at a MINIMUM:

1. Who qualifies to participate in this program?

2. Where do the participants have to go to participate? When? How long is the program?

3. What are the goals of this program?

4. Why is this program beneficial to the offender? To the community after re-entry?

This assignment is to be submitted:

• As a Microsoft Word document.
• In APA format (there is an APA module at the top of the modules tab with resources)
• With a minimum of 500 words (500 words in the body of the document, not any other part).
• With a Copyleaks similarity score of 15% or less. The best way to have an acceptable similarity score is to put the work in your own words and paraphrase. Useful link:

*This website will help you put the references in APA format: Cite the exact location that you collected the data on the websites not just the homepage. For instance: This would be an appropriate reference for information collected on Roof from FBI.gov (but remember to use the hanging indent as outlined on the reference page in the APA Sample Paper:

Statement by FBI Director James Comey Regarding Dylann Roof Gun Purchase. (2015, July 10). Retrieved November 09, 2020, from

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You will have a final milestone research paper due in week seven of this class. Your research paper will cover topics associated with Victim Studies and Victimology.

Overview

The study of victimology and restorative justice (i.e., victimology) is important to criminology because it is impossible to completely and comprehensively understand criminal behaviors, which is the goal of criminology, without also understanding the relationships between the perpetrator of a crime with its victim. Please submit your Milestone paper on your Topic Choice in Victimology and Restorative Justice. The topic of your milestone research project should be approved by your professor in advance.

Your Milestone Paper should include the following elements:

Cover Page

Executive Summary Page Introducing the Content

Your Topic

Overview of Topic

Historical data that has shaped the topic

Current Situation

Conclusion (can include implications for the future)

Reference Page

Your final paper should consist of 5-7 pages and be written in APA 7 format.

Rixton is a small community of 16,000 people with a police force of 36 officers. Police Chief Walton Eager came up through the ranks and is a pleasant man, but he has little administrative ability. He promulgates all policies and procedures by tacking notices to a bulletin board already overcrowded with memorabilia dating back several years. He makes no effort to determine whether his officers understand his policies and procedures, and officers feel no need to pay any attention to them. The department has many excellent officers who, despite poor leadership, conduct themselves in an exemplary fashion. A small minority of six, however, causes some severe problems. These six officers, 17% of the force, have their own police subculture and peculiar role expectations. The dominant police culture in Rixton, although not predicated on officially established rules and regulations, is generally accepted by most police officers and dictates role expectations consistent with democratic processes. The minority subculture conflicts with the dominant culture; each group thinks the other is ineffective. The officers in Rixton refer to the two groups as cliques. Each clique operates according to its role expectations, with neither clique particularly constrained by Chief Eagers policies and procedures. The minority clique believes the police role should be predominantly militaristic, based on heavy enforcement of the law with little consideration of law, policy, principles of policing in a democratic society, or community-oriented policing practices. The following situations involving minority clique members provide some interesting data on how role expectations and perceptions affect behavior. Patrol Officer Luigi Pasternak, who collects guns and believes that most people are criminals, received a radio call to mediate an argument at a gas station. On receiving the call, Pasternak said, Good. Maybe Ill get a chance to crack someones head. Patrol Officer Brodie Fishbaum, when asked what changes he would recommend to make the Rixton Police Department more professional, remarked, Id make it more military, have them all get haircuts, and have them wear combat boots. He commented on his role, I like this [police work]. This is just like being in the military. At least I think so. Pasternak and I think we are. Patrol Officer Mindy Mickehaus, commenting that Brodie Fishbaum and Luigi Pasternak had been transferred to her shift, said, Now that Fishbaum and Pasternak are back, youll see a lot of arrests. We try to outdo each other. These three conversations were typical of how minority clique members felt about themselves. Their attitudes and behavior were dictated by their own subcultural role expectations and reinforced by the members of their small but influential peer group. The fact that the dominant police culture behaved differently based on different role expectations had little effect on what they did. Members of the minority clique were disturbed, however, that their group consisted of so few officers. Mindy Mickehaus, for example, was forever comparing her professionalism with that of other department members; she was disturbed by her perception that other officers were not as professional as she perceived herself to be. She once remarked that she gets so upset about societal degeneration and her departments inability to deal with it that she sometimes has to drink herself to sleep. Although Mickehaus considered herself to be professional, she was looked on by officers subscribing to the dominant police culture as being dangerous. The Rixton Police Department, with its two cliques of patrol officers, illustrates a department with more than one set of role expectations. The fact that the dominant police culture in Rixton was service-oriented and not militaristic was a fortunate quirk of fate. The minority clique, however, caused tremendous problems for the chief and a significant amount of internal disharmony within the ranks of those officers who were trying their best to do their jobs properly. Discussion Questions – How (and why) does a minority police subculture develop in a police organization? – How can two such different cliques (the dominant culture and the minority subculture) coexist within one small police organization? – If Chief Eager retired and you were appointed police chief in Rixton, what would you do to reduce the size and influence of the minority police subculture?

Also have to respond at least the two peer posts!!