Category: Criminal justice

Unit 1 Discussion 1 300 words 
Unit One Discussion Question: Please explain the differences between state terrorism and state-sponsored terrorism. Give examples of each and your opinion on which one is more difficult to defeat and why?
Unit 1 Discussion 2 300 words 
Unit 1 – Review the different definitions of terrorirsm in your text book, choose the one you feel encompasses terrorism the best. Provide your own definition of terrorism and defend your definition over the others provided.   
STATE TERRORISM DEFINTION 

Being able to conduct a root cause analysis (RCA) of a problem you are facing and determine potential solutions is a skill you will use often as a criminal justice professional. A very common issue, and one that is paramount to solving crimes, is witness cooperation. This issue can occur in any of the following criminal justice subdomains: law enforcement, courts, and corrections.
In this assignment, you will use concepts you learned this week to analyze response strategies for addressing an issue with a witness in a criminal case.
Preparation
Select and research 1 criminal case where witness cooperation was an issue for investigators.
Write a 450-word executive summary
Develop your executive summary deliverable from the perspective of a criminal justice professional who has been asked to conduct the analysis of your selected criminal case for your police chief as part of the agency’s quality-control procedures.
Include the following in your presentation: 
Summarize the facts of the selected criminal case. 
Describe the challenges investigators faced in dealing with witnesses to the crime. 
Conduct an RCA using the 5 whys approach to analyze the root cause of a witness cooperation issue. 
Summarize your analysis and conclusions to identify issues with witness cooperation in a criminal case. 
Propose 2 appropriate criminal justice responses to the witness cooperation issue and explain how they can be used to improve communication and cooperation with witnesses during future criminal investigations. Support your ideas by explaining why your proposed improvements would be successful. 
Cite at least 3 scholarly sources to support your summary.
Format citations and references according to APA guidelines.

CJ 120 Project Two Guidelines and Rubric
Competency
In this project, you will demonstrate your mastery of the following competency:
Explain how cultural differences and diversity influence professional practice in criminal justice
Scenario
The American Bar Association (ABA) has sent an email to your organization looking for a presentation that pitches ideas for a “360-degree view” installation at the new museum in Chicago. This installation will focus on the crack cocaine epidemic of the 1980s and 1990s, with a specific focus on how diversity can influence professional practices—both individual and systemic—in criminal justice. Your immediate supervisor is interested in pitching an idea for your team, and she has asked you to create a presentation that highlights the theme of diverse people struggling both with and within the criminal justice system.
Directions
Installation Ideas
You will present your pitch research in a presentation format of your choosing. Numerous issues listed below are encompassed in the Sharanda Jones case. For the issues not related to the case, consider how they will fit into an installation; consider using a “What if . . . ?” slide that explores how it might have been different if she had been white, mentally ill, or otherwise different for each factor you’ve been asked to include.
Describe how policing is affected by a lack of cultural competence in both systemic and individual biases. Include commentary on the following issues in relation to cultural bias:
“Overpolicing” certain races or ethnicities
Militarization of police
Field decisions
Other issues of diversity:
Mental illness
LGBTQ+
Describe how courts are affected by a lack of cultural competence in both systemic and individual biases. Include commentary on the following issues in relation to cultural bias:
Discrepancies related to drug crime sentencing
Bail
Discrepancies related to socioeconomic status
Discrepancies related to death-penalty sentencing
Other issues of diversity:
Mental illness
LGBTQ+
Describe how corrections is affected by a lack of cultural competence in both systemic and individual biases. Include commentary on the following issues in relation to cultural bias:
Geography and female prisons
Medical issues (e.g., Sharanda Jones’s mother)
Lack of oversight in private prisons
Placement of transgendered people
Male corrections officers in female prisons
Treatment of mentally ill, disabled, pregnant, etc.
Explain the need for diversity in the recruitment of criminal justice professionals. Include commentary on the following issues in relation to cultural bias:
Current demographic information related to diversity
Gender equity
The importance of mirroring society
What to Submit
To complete this project, you must submit the following:
Installation Ideas
Your installation ideas can be presented through whatever medium best suits your needs, including a portfolio of text and pictures, a video presentation in which you explain your ideas as if you were in a face-to-face meeting, or a presentation with speaker notes or voice over.
Supporting Materials
The following resource(s) may help support your work on the project:
Reading: Federal Sentencing Reform
This page on the ABA website discusses the ABA’s focus on criminal justice reform.
Website: Timeline Wall Ideas
This website provides several examples of timeline installations, like the one you’ve been asked by the ABA to conceptualize. It’s provided to aid your understanding of the final product.
Reading: New Reforms Bypass Dallas Inmate Sentenced to Life for First Drug Arrest
This article explains details of the Sharanda Jones case.
Reading: From a First Arrest to a Life Sentence
This article explains details of the Sharanda Jones case.

Juvenile Courts
What are five ways that juvenile courts differ from adult courts?
Should juvenile courts be more, or less, like adult criminal courts?
Additionally, if you could change the juvenile court system, how would you do so?
Find a news article or academic article addressing juvenile courts to support your answer.
Your response should be approximately 2 paragraphs in length and contain at least one outside source. Make sure to use APA format to structure your citations and reference list.

Briefly discuss the impact of external societal factors on a juvenile’s decision to participate in delinquency. As part of your response, identify at least three (3) different external societal factors that can influence a juvenile when deciding whether to participate in delinquent behavior.
You are instructed to submit a minimum of three (3) full pages (top to bottom), excluding the references. The title page, abstract (optional), and the reference page are excluded from the minimum 3-page requirement. You are to adhere to APA rules of writing (7th edition). Do Not Use MLA or any other writing style. All Assignments need to be uploaded as a Word Document attachment. Do not submit as a PDF, Pages, or any format other than Word. The assignment must be written in an academic tone. You are not to write in the first person. Remember, an academic essay is not to be written like you are having a casual conversation with your friends.
Direct quotes are not to be used. Instead, you are to paraphrase and cite. While the assignments are to include an examination of current research on a particular issue or concern, they also need to include the student’s careful and informed analysis of the problem. Remember each assignment must be submitted as a Word Doc attachment. The assignment must be typed in Times New Roman 12-point font. Margins must be set to one inch on all sides.
Please submit these assignments as attachments and save them in the following format. Last name, first name initial Assignment 2. For example – Smith J Assignment 2.
Each assignment will need to include the following:
APA formatted title page
Abstract page (optional)
The body of your response must be a minimum of 3 full pages
Reference page You must support your response with a minimum of two current, scholarly sources. Web sources can be used, though they should come from credible sources such as government agencies, academic institutions, and private agencies with a strong reputation within the discipline they serve. Review the APA guide that has been posted for further guidance.
You are not permitted to use non-scholarly sources such as Wikipedia, answers.com, etc., as the information contained in these web pages are academically questionable. You cannot use web pages with a questionable background or academic source.
Furthermore, you will not be permitted to cite encyclopedias, dictionaries, newspapers (unless otherwise permitted), and popular magazines. If you have a question about the quality of a potential source, contact your instructor for clarification.
You are encouraged to use the university’s library to locate the needed material.

What are the types of cyber-crimes? What are the characteristics of cyber criminals? Who responds to cyber-crimes?
Chapter 8 in the Payne Textbook and the article in the following link: Cyber Crimes . (Payne, 2017) White Collar Crime, The Essentials, Second edition, Sage Publications, 2455 Teller Rd. Thousand Oaks Calif., ISBN: 978-1-5063-4477-5

I have made a bad action in my police academy and I was being dismissed and unable to apply until a year from when I was being dismissed. and I need an apology email from me to the chief of commend to give me another chance to re enroll again at the police academy. it has to be professional email.

FINAL ASSIGNMENT RESEARCH PAPER
Students will write a scholarly paper that is a minimum of 8-10 pages in length (8-10 pages excluding the title page, abstract, and reference page)
References may be found in the APUS library or search engines such as Google Scholar. The paper must include at least five, peer-reviewed sources that cover your chosen topic from the list below. Keep in mind that 5 is the minimum. A good quality research paper usually contains in excess of 10. Sources should be less than 10 years old and if using statistical data, it should be less than 5 years old. Do not forget to use in-text citations to credit your sources.
Note that references used for your research need to be peer-reviewed/scholarly journals. These journals typically have the following characteristics:
1. articles are reviewed by a panel of experts before they are accepted for publication;
2. articles are written by a scholar or specialist in the field;
3. articles report on original research or experimentation;
4. are often published by professional associations;
5. utilize terminology associated with the discipline.
Use of newspapers, news magazines, and similar periodicals must be kept to a minimum and will be acceptable only as sources for supplementary information.
References like “Wikipedia,” “Psychology Today,” and “Court TV” are not primary sources, are not peer-reviewed (reviewed for empirical integrity, accuracy, and authenticity), and are not appropriate references for scholarly writing (with the possible exception of use for anecdotal background information).
This assignment is a criminal profiling research paper. The student will pick a high-profile criminal listed on the assignment page and explain the biological, situational, and developmental factors that contributed to this criminal’s behavior to include geographic mobility, victimology, and M.O./signature.
Make sure you provide the following:
1. Give a thorough description of the criminal’s background (life story).
2. Utilize course material to explain the criminal’s behavior to include geographical mobility, victimology, modus operandi, and signature
3. Discuss how psychological theories and research contributed to the apprehension, prosecution, understanding and/or treatment of this criminal.

Case Study Profile: Jeffrey Dahmer
For this assignment you will need to make a list of objective verifiable facts you learned about your case, a list of facts you learned about the individual’s crime(s), and a list of facts you are missing or could not find, and think could be important. You should be working to build this as you conduct your research.
Section A: Instructions /Criteria List of Facts About Crimes
Make this a bullet point list.  List out all the details you can find about the persons crimes.  Include crimes committed prior to killing if any and note the age of the crime and consequence if any.  Then list and note details of the crime event or events (serial killer).  This should include what they did, weapons used, acts or behaviors as their MO or signature etc. 
Section B: Instructions / Criteria for List of Facts About Case Study Subject
Make this a bullet point list.  Using the information provided in the “building a case study” document list all the facts you have learned about your case study for each of the following areas:
Birth and Parents (who were parents etc)
Childhood experiences
Describe their school experiences
Describe their peers and friends
Describe their dating life
Describe relationships with parents, other family members, siblings etc.
Demographics and social-location during childhood, middle school, teenage and college age
Describe if they got in trouble at school and if so for what types of behaviors
Describe if they had any institutional interventions like arrests, family arrests, child protection etc.
Mental health and physical health history if any
Significant events from birth through when started their violence
Section C: Applicable Theory and Explanations
For this section you will apply the content we are learning in class and concepts from your textbooks. For this section you are to apply the theory proposed in  by Dr. Athens in your textbook to your case study. For this last section you need to clearly assert if you think Dr. Athens theory applies well to your case study, or which aspects apply well, and if other parts of Athens theory do not fit your case study and then support your reasoning. This will be discussed further in class and example will be provided.
What Do You Turn in For Grading?
You will turn in one combined Word document with the following:
Your top page or page 1 will be your Section C. This section should be started with your assertion in 3-5 sentences that states something like:
“The focus of this case study was —(you fill in with yours)—. Dr. Athens theory on violent offenders applies (well, very little, in some parts etc. you state) to this case because …(reason or two). Specifically, the (part of theory) applies or doesn’t because …give a why. However, the part does apply because ….”
Next for Section C you will create an outline of Dr. Athens theory (following how we do in class). Next to each part of the outline you will provide content information you learned in your case study research that pertains to that part of the theory. We will do examples and work on this in class.
Section A which bullet points the key facts aspects of the crime.
Section B which is your outlined list of facts about your case study.
Make sure this is professional in appearance. Types in a Word document using Times New Roman 12-point font. Make sure each section is clearly indicated.
5 or more sources are needed and at least 3 different types of resources are used

This written assignment consists of two essay questions. Students are expected to develop a 2-3 page essay per question(excluding title and reference page). A minimum of 2 peer-reviewed, scholarly sources per question are to be utilized for the assignment. Sources should also be up-to-date (less than 10 years old). Direct quotes are not permitted.
Topic 1: Explain the differences between obscenity and pornography. State the case both for and against the belief that viewing pornography contributes to the commission of sex crimes. Does this apply to child pornography as well?
Topic 2:  Internet sexual predators continue to elude law enforcement in great numbers. What are the similarities and differences between the online sexual predators and in person sexual abusers?
Citations/References: You must use the most up to date edition of APA format for citations and reference listings.