Category: Criminal justice

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Pre-work:  Research the job of a Detective first from legitimate sources (ex. NOT Wiki or About.com or blogs) to be able to answer the questions below.
There are numerous types of investigators (ex. sworn or non-sworn) & Detectives (ex. sworn).  They work in every level of the government (ex. city, county, state & federal).  Very few agencies have dedicated “homicide” or “violent crimes” units because they are not large enough.  Most Detectives are “generalists” who handle a wide variety of crimes in a single day, from credit card fraud, burglary, child abuse, robbery, etc.).  Often students tell me they are going into Criminal Justice so they can be a “Detective” without realizing you have to be a road patrol officer (ex. requires completing a six month FT police academy & earn a FDLE certificate from passing the academy & state exam) for many years & take “advanced training courses.”  In any public safety career (ex. CJ, Fire, EMS, paramedic), you are a permanent student during your entire career.  You always go to school & are responsible for your learning to improve your skillset to keep your job.  Whether your agency pays for your training or you pay on your own, an investment in your life-long training can result in a better job within your agency or a better schedule.  Review the “Advanced Training, Special Courses and Exemption from Training (EFT)” by scrolling down on this link:  Advanced Training & Specialized Courses at PBSCLinks to an external site.. Review a few of the classes & their associated fliers before answering the questions below.
Critical Thinking Question:
(A) Research on your own using resources not provided on what additional training Detectives must undergo to be considered for a Detective position.  Discuss your findings & cite the resources used.
(B) Using the PBSC-AT&SC list provided, what two trainings would you attend if your agency sent you to go?
(C) After completing those two trainings, what impact would those training have on your ability to go into a specialized unit (ex. DUI, motorcycle, community policing, K9, Detective, etc.)?  
(D) How would changing from a road patrol officer to a specialized unit increase your work hours, pay, schedule, or quality of life? 
(E) How would using your vacation/personal time & attending/going to a non-FDLE training course out of the county or state & paying for it on your own make you more competitive & potentially advance your career/pay/opportunities?   
(F)  How would going to college on your own time & using your agency’s reimbursement benefit to earn the next level college degree (ex. AA => BA or BA=>Master’s Degree) potentially advance your career/pay/opportunities in the short, medium & long term? 

So we will be using the same textbook that I had sent as a pdf. 
Instructions: 
Students are to find and read an article on Women who are Incarcerated and the Effects it has on the children and family.
Students are to give the name of their article and share 1-2 paragraphs on this article. 
Some relevant places to look at to answer the Questions is in the textbook pdf Section XI Women and Work in the Criminal Justice System: Police,
Courts, and Corrections page (513-526) and ( page 527-542) 

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Watch the below video, and in a minimum of 500 words discuss your thoughts on the effectiveness of the message and the video itself. Your post is due no later than 11:59 on 5/16/24.

Textbook:Beck,A. (1993) Cognitive Therapy of Substance Abuse. New York: Guilford Press
Early, K.E. (1996) Drug Treatment Behind Bars: Prison-Based Strategies for Change, Westport, CT.
Praeger.
PART 1
Read Chapter 8 in TIP 44 Substance Abuse Treatment For Adults in the Criminal Justice System.pdf
Discuss the key issues identified in the text related to substance abuse treatment. What treatment services can reasonably be provided in a jail setting? 
 
PART 2
Read Use of Medication-Assisted Treatment for Opiod Use Disorder in CJS.pdf 
Discuss the risks and benefits of Medication – Assisted Treatment for Opiod use. How would you determine if a client in the criminal justice system would be a good candidate for OAD Treatment? What factors would you  consider when deciding for or against the use of this type of treatment?
Provide your answers in 2 – 3 paragraphs. 

Week 5 
Week 5 Discussion
Criminal Procedure and Process
Discussion Topic
This week we learn about profiling. Are you in favor or against profiling beings used at airports during the screening process. What are the pros and cons to such a procedure? Are there any potential abuse problems?
Week 7 
Do you believe that random drug testing should be allowed? Please address those areas of society (or those groups of people) that you would allow, or not allow random drug testing. Make sure to explain your position. (Some things to think about: would you submit to a drug test to play sports; to get a job, to receive public benefits, to attend Monroe?)
Week 8 
How does the First Amendment relate to criminal law and procedure? Please explain your answer. Go with your gut feeling but please don’t give just a one or two word response. Give this some thought.
Week 9 
Please discuss whether you’re in favor of the type of technology used in the Kyllo case that you learned about this week. What are the pros and cons of allowing the police to use such a procedure. 
Week 10 
Would you allow DNA samples to be taken from all people who were arrested? If not, when would you allow DNA samples to be taken? (Please explain your reasons and don’t forget to discuss the pros and cons of your position.)
Week 11 
Doing away with Miranda? Most people could probably recite the Miranda warnings without even taking this course. Do you think a suspect needs them to be read to him or her or can we dispense with the reading of the rights. (I’m not saying to get rid of the rights…just the requirement of having to read them or risk losing the suspect’s confession because they weren’t read.) (Remember to include the pros and cons.)
Week 12 
What is the ruling in the case of Batson v. Kentucky and what effect does it have on jury selection?
Week 13 
This week you learn about the death penalty. Discuss if you are in favor or against it. Please support your position with specific criminal justice principles.

Discuss in 6 to 8 pages, the similarities and differences between 12-step approaches and two therapeutic approaches. Use at least 4 current (last 5 to 10 years) research articles from scholarly sources (other than your textbooks and course materials) to show examples of the different approaches. In addition, address the following questions: Which type of treatment or 12-step approach or combination of approaches do you believe is most effective? Which approach or approaches do you think would be most effective in the Criminal Justice System and why? Do not count your title page as one of the required number of pages.  Please Use APA style 7th edition.

Week 2 – Kennedy
Bobby Kennedy
Good Monday Morning, Professor and Classmates,
This week, we were asked the following questions:
If profilers are able to identify specific traits and/or characteristics of mass murders, how could criminal justice utilize these predictors to prevent future incidents?
Mass murderers and the heinous acts they commit can not be compartmentalized or narrowed down into a strict characterization of traits (Holmes & Holmes, 1992). There are, however, some identifying traits and characteristics of the individuals who commit mass murders. Statistically, Mass murderers often die at the scene of the crime, during or shortly after committing the mass murder (Holmes & Holmes, 1992). Mass murderers often want to be famous and want it to be known who committed the murders (Holmes & Holmes, 1992). At the same time, routinely, serial killers try to avoid being identified but want to prove a point or kill out of some deep-rooted disdain for their victim demographically (Holmes & Holmes, 1992). 
It is difficult to determine the specific traits of a mass murderer as each one has different driving factors that cause them to commit the mass murder. Generally, the mass murderer is not significantly different from the average citizen on the surface, and most times, the individual is closer characteristically to suicidal individuals than they are to serial killers (Lankford et al., 2021). Statistically, most mass murderers are male, live alone or with family, are unmarried, have little to no interaction with other members of society except through the internet or social media apps, and have been reported as quiet (Lankford et al., 2021). A large number of mass murderers, in some form or fashion, will tell others about their plans to commit the act or will have some sort of manifesto ready to explain their actions since they do not plan to survive the act. 
Having identified these traits, could Investigators use these to help solve, prevent, or identify mass murderers and prevent future acts? 
Theoretically, they could. However, the description of most mass murderers is, as stated, not that much different than regular citizens. Many people are single, unmarried, or live with family. Even so, plenty more would be described as quiet, strange, and may be socially awkward. Add in the fact that most individuals will say things in person or online that they have no intention of acting upon. The amount of white noise and excess of individuals that act in line with the specific traits of mass murderers makes it next to impossible to sift through all the individuals and identify the ones who will act prior to a mass murder. 
These indicators, coupled with a narrowed search area based on other factors in an investigation, such as locality, age, family concerns, tips from the public, and more, make the chances of a criminal profiler narrowing the field of possible suspects relatively good. This further solidifies the point that criminal profilers are a resource to help direct an investigation and not the definitive driving factor. 
How might cultural bias threaten the objectivity required to investigate a crime scene?
Cultural biases are a concern in any investigation. Investigators must work to understand the cultures in the area with which they are working. For instance, in some cultures, individuals are more comfortable living with family members in the same home. Likewise, some cultures are less openly social outside of their families and communities; this in and of itself should not scream mass murderer to an investigator if they are well versed in other cultural norms.
In general, no investigator should let any lack of understanding or personal beliefs drive an investigation. Investigations should be driven solely by evidence. The best means to help do this are an individual’s understanding of not only cultural norms but also their own potential biases, as well as the utilization of peers or multiple resources, which help to promote thinking outside the box and drive evidential-based direction in investigations. 
Thanks,
B. Kennedy 
References: 
Holmes, R. M., & Holmes, S. T. (1992). Understanding mass murder: A starting point. Federal Probation, 56(1), 53. https://web-p-ebscohost-com.ezproxy2.apus.edu/ehost/detail/detail?vid=0&sid=23f33c4f-8f1d-408f-8c4c-8d688f77d62d%40redis&bdata=JkF1dGhUeXBlPWlwJnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZSZzY29wZT1zaXRl#AN=9205184279&db=i3h
Lankford, A., Silver, J., & Cox, J. (2021). An epidemiological analysis of public mass shooters and active shooters: Quantifying key differences between perpetrators and the general population, homicide offenders, and people who die by suicide. Journal of Threat Assessment and Management, 8(4), 125-144. https://doi.org/10.1037/tam0000166

The U.S. Supreme Court is not the branch of government tasked with making laws and policy. But in maybe its most consequential term in decades, it had an arguably more impactful policy session than Congress, with decisions to overturn Roe v. Wade, expand the rights of gun owners, and curtail the Biden administration’s power to combat climate change.
This term “showed just how much the 6-3 conservative majority will influence and reshape those areas of policy and law,” said Todd Ruger, editor of immigration and legal affairs at CQ and Roll Call, at a recent FiscalNote event. “This one was momentous, not just because of the issues that were decided, which were huge, but how they were decided and what they could mean for the future.”
The ramifications for government relations and advocacy professionals who traditionally looked to influence policy through educating legislators are vast and far-reaching. 
A major case decided by the Supreme Court this term was a victory for gun rights advocates who challenged New York’s concealed carry permitting law, which made it a crime to carry a concealed firearm without a license. New York also required administrative interviews and that a person prove the need to carry a concealed firearm. The Supreme Court found those restrictions unconstitutional in this ruling.
“This also was the opportunity that they took to state that there was a right to carry a firearm for self-defense outside of the home, which was the first time that they’ve done that,” Macagnone said.
Justice Clarence Thomas wrote the opinion for the case and used a method of looking at gun regulation that he said keeps with the history and tradition of the country, “accepting only those gun restrictions that had a longstanding history, going back to the colonial era,” Macagnone explained.
This ruling has many potential implications for future gun regulations. One issue that could arise is whether there are particular places that can actively prohibit carrying firearms, such as churches or public transportation. The court discussed this in its oral argument but didn’t reach a decision this term. Another future issue to watch in gun regulation regards the acceptable limits of the state’s regulation of the right to bear arms.
Based on the information above about the Bruen case and the information that you have acquired this semester, please explain in a one-page memo whether, in your opinion, courts play an increasingly marginal or persistently significant role in American politics and why (or why not).  
https://fiscalnote.com/webinars/on-demand-the-new-policymakers-scotus#entry:61119@1:url

Step 1: Choose a criminological theory that you believe explains this crime.  Choose a different theory than that used in assignment number one.
The first paragraph should explain the case, who, what where when and how, in your own words. Make it clear you understand what the crime is and how it was carried out.  You can access other DOJ documents on this specific case only by doing a google search with the following search phrase:
Add name of primary perpetrator here + DOJ site:gov
The document I have added below may be enough for you to write the paper.
The second paragraph should be a thorough discussion of the criminological theory you have chosen to explain this crime. Make sure you include the name of the person who developed the theory, background, and demonstrate a clear understanding of the theory. You are allowed to use only the course text for this discussion.
The remaining paragraphs must be an argument supporting your claim that this specific theory explains the specific criminal case you have chosen.
The total paper should be about 500 words.
It must include citations for any quoted material.  All verbatim copy must be in quotation marks and properly cited, and under 25% match rate on turnitin.
I am looking for your understanding of the theory and your ability to apply it to the criminal case you have chosen.
https://www.justice.gov/usao-edva/pr/pennsylvania-family-pleads-guilty-fentanyl-trafficking