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Impacts of Surveillance Cameras on Crime: Privacy in exchange for security?

Local governments across the United States are constantly looking for an efficacious public safety interposition that will provide a bi-fold effect on society. One, this public intervention should help in restraining crime and two, enhance the economic welfare and the sustainability of neighborhoods in the nation. Though the prevailing law enforcement philosophy remains to be anchored on “community policing” strategies, which is believed to be a potent and sufficient police strategy, law enforcement units are still hard put to cope with the increasing demands of curbing crime; here, the use of new systems and mechanisms that can help “community Continue reading...

The US law enforcement model is best described as a fragmented system. The absence of a national police force in the US results in a system where law enforcement exists at all levels: federal, state, and local levels. As of 2009, about 16,224 law enforcement agencies exist in the state and local levels and about 34 major law enforcement agencies in the federal level (Conser et al 2011, pp. 80, 90). The distribution of police in the different levels is as follows: 82% in the local level, 10% in the state level and 8% in the federal level ( Continue reading...

Question 1

It is evident that the “War on Drugs” disproportionately affects the women and especially the women of color. The “war on drugs” greatly affects women and families who have been the victims of mandatory minimum sentences and criminalization of females addicted to drugs among other policies. Subsequently, the number of the women in federal prison due to the nonviolent drug offenses in noticeably increasing. Therefore, this illustrates that the “war on drugs” is in a way a war against women.
There are three main factors that have shown the association between the “war on drugs” and War on women.” Continue reading...

Motorcycle clubs are a group of bikers aspiring after freedom and using motorcycles and a rebellious lifestyle as a means of setting themselves free from social confines. Still, when they get loose, they come untied from restraining shackles of social decency. When they do, a social menace arises since they step on the path of criminal activities. While some reputed, respectable, and law-abiding citizens take to riding a bike, they do it for no purpose other than to entertain themselves in a socially acceptable way. Club members classified as criminal engaged in a wide range of illegal and proscribed Continue reading...

In the classical study, The American Jury, Kalven, and Zeisel indicated that to about 75% to 80% the judges concur with the juries in criminal cases. They observed that a few disagreements happened when the evidence was clear. Kalven and Zeisel agreed that judges were more lenient and soft on such cases and termed them as normal disagreements. To further explain the normal disagreements and others, they quantified the effect of factor well known as population attributed risk.
Data was collected from 1977 to 2005 in North Carolina to test whether extralegal factors on the defendant of the victim Continue reading...

Illicit Drug Decriminalization, Legalization, and Stricter Control Policy

The global illicit drug industry is estimated to be worth $320 billion in annual sales, representing 0.9% of the global GDP, with the Americas representing close to 50% of the global drug market. Europe, Asia, Oceania and Africa represented 33%, 11%, 5% and 4% of the total retail sales respectively. The US market is estimated to be worth be worth $111 billion between 2002 and 2012, with marijuana representing up to $40.6 billion in sales, compared to cocaine, heroin and meth, which were estimated at $28.3 billion, $27 billion and $13 billion respectively. The costs imposed on the health Continue reading...

The criminal investigating process is a very important aspect of the criminal justice system and so much is dependent on it. It provides, for example, for the foundation of the prosecution and conviction of criminals. A solid and fruitful criminal investigation, therefore, significantly impacts the potential doom or success of a criminal case. Aside from aiding prosecution, criminal investigation also serves other important goals, such as the uncovering of a crime, the location and identification of suspects, the location, documentation and preservation of evidence, the arrest of suspects, and the return of stolen property. The police detective, thus, plays Continue reading...

Introduction

The paper will elucidate strategic goals and objectives that reflect the priorities of the President, the Attorney General, and Department components. For instance, Department of Justice components normally and routinely operates in under law enforcement as well as the administration of justice. The paper will provide an insight on the comparison and contrast of the private security entities and criminal justice organization in different perspectives.

Criminal Justice and Private Security Goals and Challenges

On the other hand, private entities aim to be efficient, effective and fair in regulation of the private security entities. Both criminal justice organizations and private security they have essential leadership responsibilities to ensure Continue reading...

Abstract

The word gang is usually used to describe a menacing group of people that cause chaos to society’s rules and laws. However this defines a broad spectrum of different types of gangs which are individually characteristic setting them far apart from one another at times. A gang is defined as a group of people that are involved in illegal doings for the purposes of making money. This paper will go over many things that make up a gang, different typologies and highlight two gangs as well as describe their typology. The intent is to discover how gangs are Continue reading...

It is bewildering that some of nature’s own organic products are considered illegal. For some reasons however, illegal drug use is promoted by reserving some safe abuse sites. Our society promotes and protects a flourishing alcohol industry which is to blame for widespread violent behavior and multiple deaths. This is not forgetting the tobacco industry which is also the cause of thousands of deaths annually. However, marijuana, nature’s own natural product is considered immoral and harmful. In many regions of North America, a small nugget of marijuana can possibly land one in jail for a longer period Continue reading...

Origins of the lack of empathy

The lack of empathy or psychopathy is a disorder that is most prevalent in the society and is common in prison inmates. Furthermore, one can conclude that an individual with tendencies of violence tends to have psychopathic traits. Psychopathy can be linked to both genes and the environmental surrounding. According to Patrick (2005), some genes have been investigated to be the reason why individuals become psychopaths. Some of the character traits of psychopaths such as manipulation, early reproduction have been linked to the Darwinians natural selection theory survival for the fittest. Using the natural selection perspective one can conclude Continue reading...

Incorporating Kohlberg’s Stages of Moral Development into the Justice System

Incorporating Kohlberg’s Stages of Moral Development into the Justice System
Ethics in different professionals is a significant aspect that requires special considerations to uphold integrity, transparency and accountability. The justice system includes law enforcement that is one of the highly affected areas when it comes to ethics. Kohlberg developed a model that helps in understanding the levels of moral development. This model can be used in ensuring that professional ethics is upheld at all times in the line of duty (McLeod, 2011). Therefore, this paper discusses how Kohlberg’s stages of moral development can be incorporated into the Continue reading...

Introduction

The utilization of deductively determined and demonstrated systems toward the protection, gathering, approval, recognizable proof, examination, understanding, documentation and presentation of computerized confirmation got from advanced hot spots with the end goal of encouraging or promoting the reproduction of occasions discovered to be criminal, or serving to foresee unapproved activities indicated to be troublesome to arranged operations. A specialist can see the records and registries of a suspect framework by utilizing either concentrated measurable programming or by utilizing the working framework of an investigation framework and survey the documents by mounting the drive. Both systems permit the examiner to Continue reading...

Over the course of time, there has been a general agreement among scholars and experts that the American Criminal justice system is hugely flawed. Although it is said to be the fairest and the most-justice oriented in the world, a thorough investigation and look into this system reveals a massive rot. There are several flaws that are identifiable in this system with the most prevailing one being racial discrimination. Data and statistics on issues such as criminal convictions and incarceration show that the system has not been fair to members from minority communities and consequently the system has been Continue reading...

In this scenario, I am the law enforcement scene commander at a convenience store robbery where the robbers have taken the customers and clerk hostage. A local television station is broadcasting the event live through a telephoto lens, and the robbers are watching the coverage on a television inside the store. This is an incredibly difficult situation with a great deal of complexity; my actions would have to be very carefully considered and examined. As the scene commander, it is up to me to make the major decisions that are necessary in order to prevent the hostage-takers from achieving Continue reading...

Between July 1982 to 2001 a serial killer ran rampant within the Green River area, where 48 women eventually went missing. While several of the bodies have been found and laid to rest, there are still several others that have not been found or identified. Serial murderer Gary Ridgway pled guilty in 2003 to the known murders, but has professed that there are even more that have remained unsolved. To date Ridgway is incarcerated at Washington State Penitentiary where he is being held on life imprisonment without the possibility of parole.
Gary Leon Ridgway was born in Salt Lake Continue reading...

Introduction

There lacks a standard definition when it comes to gangs. Various scholars and research teams have come up with varied ways of looking at the term. The National Gang Center (2015) provides several terms that are synonymous with the word gang. These are street gang, youth gang and criminal street gang. Through these terminologies, two aspects stand out when talking about gangs. These are the street aspect and the street crimes. The first street aspect is all about the socialization process that takes place in the streets for the gangs, while the other crime aspects define what the gangs Continue reading...

The present paper summarizes expenditure and revenues of the Douglasville Police Department. It discusses different sources of revenues and expenditures of the agency and how they influence political and public policies. In addition, recommendation for the alternative revenue sources has been provided in the paper.

Impact of the expenditures on revenues

The financial statement of the Douglasville Police Department reveals financial information of the agency. Douglasville Police Department is a public agency; government-funded that reports about the governmental activities. The treatment of expenditures on the revenues of the agency differs as the source of revenues of the agency is the government funds. The capital is Continue reading...

Introduction

Electronic surveillance started as soon as electronic communication came into use. It dates back to the days of the civil war and the 1920s when law enforcement was enforcing prohibition. Whether it was telegraph or telephones, the government always found a way to tap into conversational exchanges. During the civil war, the Union had employed a team of telegraph engineers for the purpose of intercepting telegraph messages exchanged between Confederate forces. Ironically, the telegraph engineers employed by the Union were from American Telegraph and Telephone Company also known as AT&T. After the war, telephones became popular and with prohibition Continue reading...

Abstract

Violence between partners is a significant cause for medical treatment and injuries. Often these injuries are seen in the emergency room or they may be hidden from a medical profession. Nurses need to be aware of such injuries, not only in identifying them but having understanding of why they occur. Partner violence occurs between partners who are married, living together or intimately involved. The violence knows no gender or sexual orientation boundaries. The violence can take any form: of man on man; man on woman; woman on woman and woman on man. Stereotypes must be ignored and sensitivity needs Continue reading...