Category: Criminal justice

Identify and discuss the various punishment philosophies and the goals that accompany each. Which is your preferred method of punishment? Why? Do you believe intermediate sanctions can be effective in achieving the goals of your philosophy? Which punishment philosophy/goal is most utilized within your state? How do these philosophies and goals compare to the Biblical goal of corrections?

List, compare, and contrast the different theories of why juvenile delinquency occurs. Identify an intervention that would impact delinquency in a positive way.
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Dalrymple- that was enjoyable
Matthew Dalrymle posted May 22, 2024 1:11 PM
There are a lot of small-time agencies out there with little budget.  There are a few in South Carolina with ten officers sometimes less on the department.  They don’t have the need or the budget for the department to use a lot of the forensic testing that sometimes is needed.  It makes it harder for them when the people in their cities think they need to solve the crime just because of that, not a lot of crime and enough people to figure it out.  Not knowing what it really entails.  To help bridge the gap they can partner with some of the other local agencies, federal, state, and local forensic services.  Some of the agencies may not like that however, it has to be done and crimes need to be taken care of.  In South Carolina, where I work, a lot of the things that need checked such as firearms, disposal of narcotics, and some forensic services is sent to South Carolina Law Enforcement Division, SLED.  Smaller departments will send some things there as well; however, they are not always prompt with the reply.  It is also acceptable to reach out for assistance from other departments when something is not common in crime.  Small cities don’t get the crime some of the bigger cities have, reaching out to get assistance for some of the procedures if not known, or the officer don’t feel comfortable.  This is a major networking that all law officers do from the day the start the academy process.  There is also grants for departments to send their officers to the training that is sometimes advance in the forensic science that federal agencies put on. 
Diversity is something that has always come to play within the community for juror.  Peers is where the controversy comes into play, which means an equal.  The judge cannot dismiss anyone based on race, or gender.  However, there are rules to who can and cannot be a juror, such as felons are not allowed to be jurors.  Which is a lot to do with the reading.  One approach to try to get a jury could be no checks on them just let them be interviewed see how the outcome is.  The study could indicate that the absence of felons within a jury could lead to some of the diversity within the jury selection and go against a jury of peers.  However, on the other side of that it could also show a bias to be more relax on the criminal population, a lot of them know each other.  As well as they could be known to pressure the other members if they did know the individual.  What is to keep them from lying and saying they don’t know the individual, if they did.  There can be a lot of ways the selection can go for and against a known felon to be in a the jury.  Looking more into it and probably more than needed.  How can a felon juror be on a case with a firearm case, when they cannot even own one? 
References:
APA PsycNet. (n.d.). https://psycnet.apa.org/home
Binnall, J. M. (2018). Jury diversity in the age of mass incarceration: an exploratory mock jury experiment examining felon-jurors’ potential impacts on deliberations. Psychology, Crime & Law/Psychology, Crime and Law, 25(4), 345–363. https://doi.org/10.1080/1068316x.2018.1528359

Much of the job of a criminal justice professional involves problem-solving and dealing with “difficult” people. This requires criminal justice and law enforcement employees to master customer service. What has your internship experience or any job experience taught you about dealing effectively with people that do not want to cooperate with you? What have you done to improve your customer service delivery method?
How have you learned to be effective in dealing with difficult people as an intern? What will be the hardest thing about working with difficult people when you are in the field?

W8: Conclusion of Forensics – Stephen
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STEPHEN BAILEY 
Good Afternoon Professor/Class,
As technology grows and continues to develop in society, it is understood that anything to do with forensic science will guarantee to grow rapidly as well within the law enforcement agencies. It is important that we have well trained professionals at all angels regarding anything with forensic science. Part of limiting the budget and manpower to meet the public’s expectations is to train all law enforcement officers, under oath, the basics regarding this. Cross training police officers and other related agencies can help reduce the cost and budget plans within the agency itself. Having basic education regarding the process and how to use specific equipment can help preserve time and energy before getting evidence to the experts.
Some things cannot be help by only having professions to get involved, such as, forensic nursing for sexual assault cases, or anything regarding physical contact that must be observed under an expert. According to the U.S. Department of Justice, back in has awarded and passed more money into supporting and recognizing the important of forensic science. The Office of Justice Programs (OJP) has awarded more than $200 million dollars to support laboratories, research, DNC testing, and backlogs to identify mission individuals, all in support for law enforcement. Form 2004 until current, over $1 billion dollars were funded into this support mentioned above (see reference Justice Department Awards).
Moving forward into future capabilities when investigating criminal activities, education, coaching, mentoring, and training our law enforcement personnel cannot be stressed enough moving forward. Keeping up with training with new equipment and perhaps test kits and having basic knowledge gathering evidence moving forward will keep everyone on the same page. Everything investigator should have a basic wealth of knowledge obtaining evidence on the crime scene to help aid and assist the experts when preserving important evidence to close and solve cases.
When it comes to having diversity and lack of diversity revolving the jury in criminal cases, this can boil down and go both ways, depending on how one may view this. In some states, selecting personnel for jury duty can be pulled out of the system randomly. For example, if a town has predominately Caucasian individuals with fewer minorities, the system is most likely to pick Caucasians due to numbers. In some cases, depending on if it requires a jury, the criminal may also request that the jury have a certain number of minorities, gender, etc. to be the ones to pass judgement on their specific case. This is where it the jury will not lack diversity depending on if it’s requested through the prosecutors as such.
Reference
Consortium of Forensic Science Organizations (CFSO). Budget Brief. July 2022. extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://us-east-1-029060369-inspect.menlosecurity.com/safeview-fileserv/tc_download/5be6a0e62a4ed078c8181345d85dfde761126d8ef76ccfe325f02b5845586ef1/?&cid=N3BC1820E86A6_&rid=9ee7826956e88e40d8c23f92ba3fbfea&file_url=https%3A%2F%2Fthecfso.org%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2022%2F07%2FCFSO-July-Budget-Briefing.pdf&type=original
Justice Department Awards More Than $210 Million to Support Forensic Science. Office of Public Affairs, U.S. Department of Justice. December 23, 2021. https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-awards-more-210-million-support-forensic-science
Courts Seek to Increase Jury Diversity. United States Courts. May 9, 2019. https://www.uscourts.gov/news/2019/05/09/courts-seek-increase-jury-diversity

Part 1 Using proper APA format in at least 800 words, briefly discuss the evolution of fire investigations and its impact on arson cases. Also briefly provide an overview of the reliability of computer fire models at trial. (2 scholarly sources)
Part 2 Using proper APA format in at least 800 words, provide a brief overview of terrorist use of improvised explosive devices (IEDs), such as pipe bombs and what is known about the fragmentation of pipe bombs with varying case thickness. (2 scholarly sources) NOTE: This is a 2 part essay both topics need 800 words minimum. The sources are not counted in each 800 word essays. Attached are the original instructions.

1. Explain why you think some people have a propensity to commit crimes? Why do some people seem to lack control balance? (200 word minimum)
2. dentify which of the six causes of resistance to change do you think is the most important. Why is this the most important cause of resistance to change public administrators should understand? Identify how this can be applied to help solve human resource (HR) problems and/or situations within public organizations. (400 word minimum)

Pages marked COMPLETE THIS PAGE/RED LETTTERING are the required
pages.
Students will submit 30, 100% completed, pages (8, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32,
34, 35, 36, 37, 67, 68, 69, 70 (The War of …), 71, 72, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 107,
108, 109, 110, 111, and 112). Read the questions and use the book to Answer questions in a professional manner TOTAL PAGES 30!!!! 100% completed

Describe each of the different approaches to restoration provided in this module (Robinson, Duff, Braithwaite, etc.)
Explain how the different theoretical perspectives from modules 1 & 2 anchor their arguments about restoration and restorative justice.
Explain which is more convincing/compelling.
How can restorative justice as conceived here play a role in criminal justice, criminology, political considerations of justice?
Analyze the shift in perspective in your answer (focus on offender in punishment module v. focus on victim in restoration module)

Instructions:
Critical thought is important! Your essay should be 1-2 pages, single-spaced. You should not need to do outside research, but if you do, cite your sources according to Chicago citation format.

FULL GUIDELINE IN ATTACHMENTS The Department of Justice is interested in finding ways to improve health and wellness among police officers. They want to know if providing mandatory mental health counseling will reduce stress among officers. They are willing to provide $ 400,00 to fund a pilot a project in Massachusetts (where no departments currently have mandatory counseling requirement) to determine if police departments with mandatory mental health service requirements for all officers have lower levels of officer stress than departments with voluntary services.
The research proposal will be approximately 10-12 pages of well-written and well-organized text and will address the following aspects of a proposed research project:
1. Proposal Topic and Literature Review: (5-6 page limit) Identify the issue or problem, present the research question, importance and literature review. (30%)
2. Key Concepts: Describe the key concepts (IV and DV) involved and how they will be operationalized (measured) in the proposed research approach. (10%)
3. Design: (3 pages) Explain the research design (classic experiment, quasi-experiment,etc). Include: target population and proposed sampling design; a data collection strategy (survey, interview, administrative data); discuss data collection concerns (type and quality, strengths and limitations) and the rationale for the proposed approach; provide example(s) of data collection instrument (survey, questionnaire, coding instrument,etc. ) (35%)
4. Plan: Describe a proposed analytic plan (how are you going to examine the data to answer your questions – will you make group and time comparisons?) (10%)
5. Implications: Discuss the implications of possible findings. (10%)
6. Resources: Discuss the resource needs: how the research should be staffed, the cost implications and the likely research timetable. (5%)