Category: Criminology

Module 01 Content
Crime prevention methods of the past were reactive. This means that police simply responded to criminal incidents leaving citizens to wonder how future criminality would be prevented. In order to reduce the social anxiety caused by past crime prevention that did not offer methods for citizens to protect themselves, new strategies needed to be designed.
Current methods require police to be proactive. In other words, they are identifying potential pockets of crime so that prevention methods can be implemented. It also means sharing that information with residents so they can take measures to avoid becoming a victim.
As the police chief in your town, you want to introduce the new resource – Compstat – to your community. Write a 1 to 2-page description that could be used as a script for an informational video, about Compstat.
HERE IS AN ARTICLE ABOUT COMPSTAT AND WHAT IT IS AND WHAT IT DOES

The CompStat Process

NOTE – Be sure that the descriptions are written in simple language and are easy to read out loud.
In the script carefully include the following:
Define the core principles of Compstat. The four distinct principles- accurate and timely intelligence, effective tactics, rapid deployment, and relentless follow-up and assessment. .
For each principle you defined, explain one strategy that you consider most beneficial to crime prevention. Which principle do you consider most important to crime prevention?
Discuss a challenge to using Compstat. One challenge is that the program is costly.
Offer a resolution to the challenge of Compstat usage you identified.
NOTE
The articles from this module’s Reading Assignments will assist with this assignment.
Be sure the paper displays proper grammar, spelling, punctuation, and sentence structure.
Resources
Grammar checking – How do I create a Grammarly account?
Librarian & Tutor Help
Writing Guide
Submit your completed assignment by following the directions linked below. Please check the Course Calendar for specific due dates.
Save your assignment as a Microsoft Word document. (Mac users, please remember to append the “.docx” extension to the filename.) The name of the file should be your first initial and last name, followed by an underscore and the name of the assignment, and an underscore and the date. An example is shown below:
Jstudent_exampleproblem_101504

Overview
The field of communication has a wide variety of career possibilities, both within and outside of business environments. Some roles require you work with customers, while others require you work with internal staff, media, technical writing, and so on. While all of these types of roles require you to be an effective communicator, they also each have a unique purpose and specialized skills.
Prompt
Using the Role Comparison Graphic Organizer (below) to compare and contrast three different roles and responsibilities of communication professionals who work in business environments.
Specifically, you must address the following rubric criteria:
What types of communication are communication professionals responsible for?
What types of stakeholders do they work with most?
What kinds of unique skills do they need to be effective in their roles?
How is their work influenced by organizational mission, vision, and values?
What are the key similarities and differences between the roles?
What to Submit
To complete this project, you must submit the following:
Template: Communication Role Comparison Graphic Organizer Word Document
Use this template to compare and contrast three different communication roles that work within business environments. Use the guiding questions in the prompt to guide your comparisons. Any references should be cited in APA format.

student
will post one thread of at least 500 words For each thread, students must
support their assertions with at least 3 scholarly citations in APA format..
Acceptable sources include peer reviewed journal articles, textbooks, the
Bible, etc.
United States v. Steven C. Perrine
518 F.3d 1196 (10th Cir. 2008)
The Perrine case illustrates how law enforcement must utilize the statutory framework to trace the source of criminal activity and then operate within the Fourth Amendment framework to seize evidence on the digital device that was the source of the activity. Some aspects of an investigation do not implicate any regulatory regime and law enforcement may, just like any private citizen, utilize the numerous ways that the Internet now offers to learn something to facilitate the investigation. Hence, an investigator passes in and out of three frameworks to obtain digital evidence: 1) statutes; 2) the Fourth Amendment; and, 3) non-regulated cyber-space. The point here is not to gain an understanding of the doctrines but to understand the complexity of such investigations, including passing in and out of various legal regimes during the course of the investigation. Picture yourself as the investigator in this case. 
Question 1: What evidence of crime is there? (recount the facts of the case). 
Question 2: Who is the criminal; how do the police find him? 
Question 3: What do you do next? (Discuss the various legal regimes that the police must confront and how they must comply with those regimes. For example, search engines such as Google, public websites, and chat rooms offer a host of information to anyone who chooses to use them. Perhaps you could use a free IP locater service and enter the IP address in Perrine to show how easy it is to find who is assigned the IP address. Discuss all the steps you would take until you have seized Vanlandingham’s computer and why each step is important.

Tactical Plan White Paper
Module 01 Content
In a 1 – 2 page white paper, create a tactical plan showing how you will gather intelligence about crime and how your department would identify the hot spots.
HERE IS THE COMPSTAT FOR PHILADELPHIA
https://www.arcgis.com/apps/dashboards/b324008cbf0f4272bfc03f289ead0b15
Keep in mind the following criteria will be used to evaluate your assignment:
Choose a community where you can access crime and demographic information.
Locate the hot spots where most criminal activity occurs.
Describe the community, the type of criminal activity, where it occurs, and what resources you will use to gather this intelligence (data).
The assignment is formatted as a white paper (see resources)
Once again HERE IS HOW TO DO THIS PAPER:
For anyone not understanding the tactical white paper plan here it is in a nutshell as I explained it in the live lecture.
find a city – any city (I gave you Philadelphia so I already did step one for you)
look up the Compstat or Crime mapping for that city on the internet (I gave you the Philly one just to save you time).
Prepare to write your 2 to 3 page paper in APA format so first do your cover sheet, then do your double spaced essay and your last page is your reference page.
to write your essay you need to first tell me about the city you chose such as the demographic: race, gender, education level, socioeconomic status, crime rate of the town.
Then tell me (from you looking at the compstat) what types of crimes are most prevalent (again – look at the crime map I gave you from Philly).
Then tell me how you plan to identify where the crimes are happening (the answer is you will use CompStat) and how you plan to stop those crimes from happening in that city (you are the chief remember).
THAT’S IT FOLKS! THAT’S ALL THERE IS TO THIS WEEK’S TACTICAL PAPER (THE FIRST PART OF YOUR PROJECT)
NOTE – Be sure the paper displays proper grammar, spelling, punctuation, and sentence structure.

a research proposal on raical profiling in young black men in the west midlands.
1. Introduction 
2. Literature review 
3. Methods
4. Ethics 
5. Conclusion 

Paper Format:
The written paper should be completed in Microsoft Word Document format, double spaced, Times New Roman Font (12), and be no less than five full pages and no more than ten full pages in length.   All papers should adhere to the MLA format.  One page is considered to be three hundred words for a minimum total of 1500 words.  A minimum of five intext citations should be included along with a minimum of three sources listed on the Works Cited Page.  Submit by the due date of May 8th.
The paper should address the following components:
A detailed description of the individual you are researching.
Discuss major incidents of interest during his or her tenure.
What impact did this person have on his or her agency and upon law enforcement in general?
What leadership style did this person utilize to lead his or her agency?
Your opinion. What do you think of the person’s leadership?

Part I
This segment of the discussion asks you to examine due process. The Due Process Clause is a guarantee of basic fairness. Fairness has many components to it. Here, please thoroughly discuss each of the following:
What are the various components of due process in criminal procedure?  In your response, include some examples of procedural protections that are afforded to individuals in a criminal case.
What is meant by “Fundamental Fairness”?
Part II
Please read the following fictional case scenario below. You will be using these facts over the next several weeks. The case heading and type of case is listed below.
PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS, Plaintiff
VS.
Scott Mayo, Defendant
TYPE OF CASE-Criminal
SUMMARY OF FACTS
Scott Mayo worked as a bartender at The Local Watering Hole. One night at work, Scott got into an argument with Basil Scowen. Mayo owed Scowen $1500.00. The argument heated up and afterwards, Scowen picked up a beer bottle threateningly and appeared to be intoxicated, Mayo grabbed a pistol kept behind the bar and fired at Scowen, killing him. Mayo says Scowen told him, “I am going to kill you,” and what he believed was imminent danger from Scowen.  
Mayo was placed under arrest. He was not read his rights. He was transported to the local county jail. The prosecution witnesses are the police officer, who came to the scene and took statements from Mayo, and a frequent bar customer, Dawn Dietz, who witnessed some of what happened. The defense witnesses are the defendant, Mayo, and Joe “the fireman”, who was outside and saw some of the action through the window while sitting on the patio.
Based on the facts provided to you, if you are the prosecutor, with what crimes will you charge Mayo, using your own state law? Please discuss why in your response, providing a detailed analysis of how you reach your decision on the charge(s). 

Exam Content
One of the best ways to understand the criminal justice process is to examine the work of the people who are on the frontlines. Law enforcement has a variety of roles and functions within your local community, and many are unaware of these roles and functions.

Imagine you have been asked to provide information to your community at a town hall meeting about the functions of your local police department. You have been asked to provide a handout to the people who attend.

Consider the research you completed in Week 1 on the following items:
The impact of policing in your community
Community programs offered by the police
Theories of criminal behavior that most align with the goals and programs of police in your community

Write a report to provide to the townhall meeting attendees in which you explain your findings. Respond to the following:
What is the mission of your local police department?
What goals does your local police department have? How do they work to accomplish these goals?
What are the various roles police play in your community? What is their impact?
How do your local police partner with citizens and other entities?
What community programs (e.g., D.A.R.E., Police Explorers) are offered by your local police department? Explain the programs, including the benefits they provide to society and the role the police play in these programs.
Which criminal theories (e.g., biological, psychological, and sociological) most align with the goals or programs you identified? (Refer to Ch. 3, “Explaining Crime,” in your textbook, as needed.)
Complete in APA Format – Review APA Sample Paper for proper format. All papers must have a title page, a reference page, and the entire paper must be double-spaced. The paper must also have properly formatted in text citations.
Submit your assignment as a Word or PDF attachment.

Part I
The Fourth Amendment sets limitations to stop and frisk and arrests. It also affords individuals to be protected against unreasonable searches and seizures. This discussion asks you to examine probable cause and illegal searches and seizures.
Please thoroughly discuss each of the following:
A police officer must have probable cause to arrest an individual.  How much probable cause is needed to secure an arrest or search warrant? What is the difference between a stop, a frisk, and an arrest? 
What is the exclusionary rule? Discuss the exceptions to the exclusionary rule.
Part II
Using the facts provided to you in the Week One discussion, answer the following questions:
1) Did the police have probable cause to arrest Mayo?
2) Did law enforcement violate Mayo’s constitutional rights? If yes, explain how. If not, explain why.
3) Were the police required to read Mayo his Miranda Rights? Discuss why.

What is a bureaucracy? Provide a example of a bureaucracy. What are some drawbacks of a bureaucracy?