Category: Law

After Reading Chapters 7 and 8 of your book and learning the authors’ perspectives, in your own words, answer the following questions. Be sure to elaborate by giving examples to support your position. 1.You learned that certain victims are valued above others. Why do you think that is? How do you think that impacts the CJS overall? More specifically how do different statuses play a role in bias-motivated offense laws? 2.Explain how victimization occurs for people by class, race and gender. How do these different kinds of victimization overlap and create issues of intersectionality previously ignored? 3.Chapter 8 reviews several financial crimes, many wide spread. What do you think is most problematic about these types of crimes in criminal justice policy and how laws are created? Use examples to illustrate as much as possible. Then describe in detail what policy changes you would put in place to solve these problems. https://read.amazon.com/?_encoding=UTF8&asin=B079YZ43Q6&consumptionLimitReached=false&hasMultimedia=false&requiredCapabilities=EBOK_PURCHASE_ALLOWED&ref=yb_qv_ov_kndl_rn_rw&yourBooksUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fyour-books%3Fref%3Dyb_ip_dp_iou_d%26ccs_id%3D92ebc959-7704-4aa8-8631-b7be40d99622%26filtersMapping%3D%257B%2522contentFilter%2522%253A%255B%255D%257D%26ref_%3Dyb_ip_kwf_rn_a

This week, we’re going to review how (or if) “strict punishment” deters crime. This continues our sort of blend of classes you may have had in the Criminal Justice program, with this section focusing on Criminology and Crime Prevention.  
We’re going to take a break from research papers this week and instead focus on the Discussions. For your assignment, please author a detailed post regarding this topic. For some guidance, here are some questions you may want to address:  
• In a macro view, do harsher penalties deter criminal acts?
• Have the states that implemented some sort of three-strikes law seen a reduction in crime? If so, can the decline clearly be attributed to the three-strike laws?
• Does capital punishment deter violent crimes?
• Should we have mandatory sentences to “draw a line” for when offenders should receive strict sentences?
Along with some analysis of this topic, please also give your opinion as well.
Should we have mandatory sentences?
Should we ban capital punishment?  

To complete this assignment, you will prepare and submit an outline on your chosen topic (Copyrighted texts including movie scripts and novels), as well as a draft of your PowerPoint (PPT/PPTX) presentation. 
Outline: 
Introduce topic and intended scope.
Purpose—What is the goal of this presentation?
So what? Why should your audience care?
Background of relevant legal issues
If more than one area of law is affected, cover each area separately. Your goal is to be concise but also thorough.
Focus only on including information relevant to the overall topic.
Current Impact
Provide two concrete examples of potential concerns relevant to your company or other companies that own similar types of intellectual property.
Final recommendations
Include a full bibliography of the assigned documents that you will be using, as well as any outside sources that you believe you mayend up using in your assignment.
PowerPoint: 
Prepare a PowerPoint (PPT/PPTX) presentation to your chosen topic. Your presentation should include 6 to 7 slides. Regardless of the number of slides, it is important for your presentation to be complete, comprehensive, and concise.
An opening slide with your name, class name and number, and date of submission
Use suggested PowerPoint template
Your presentation should follow the format you used in your outline
Include Speaker Notes (bottom of each slide) that you will use for presenting your narrative
Note: There should be an in-text citation in the Speaker Notes narrative wherever a supportive resource is referenced
A final slide titled “Resources”, listing the sources you used in developing your presentation
Note: Use the Speaker Notes on this slide to provide a citation of all resources

Write a 1 page-2 page case brief on the 
Anthony Distefano v. Andrea Distefano, 253 So.3d 1178 (Fla. 2d DCA 2018) case. Case attached. the sections: 
Procedural history
Disposition
Facts
Issue
Holding
Reasoning
Sample case brief attached 

Post answers to the two questions below.
Hobbes wrote, “The law is more easily understood by few than many words. For all words are subject to ambiguity, and therefore multiplication of words in the body of the law is multiplication of ambiguity. Besides, it seems to imply (by too much diligence) that whosoever can evade the words is without the compass of the law.” Do you think he had it right? In your answer, discuss whether you believe legislation be drafted as precisely as possible, or should it set forth general principles, leaving agencies and judges to define the contours?
Discuss an issue of legal ambiguity you have faced either personally or professionally. How did you deal with the situation? If you were able to resolve it, how did you do it? 

Attached is your first  legal memorandum assignment.  In phrasing your discussion rely solely on the cases briefed and discussed in class:  Lewis, and  Kanner.  Except for the use of the legal dictionary, should this become necessary, do not rely on any other caselaw or statutes. 
1.  Type your assignment using the format for memoranda discussed in class.
2.  Double space your typing. 
3.  Your memoranda should be no longer than four pages.   If you alter the font or typeset to squeeze in additional information onto those four pages, be sure that your rather nearsighted instructor can still read the resulting print. 

Develop a case study based on the article given and examine the pros and cons of providing Constitutional protection to commercial speech. Include in the recommendations whether and to what extent any commercial speech should be protected. I have attached a Word document detailing the requirements and the abstract I have started. The U>S Supreme Court case we are analyzing is 
Matal v. Tam, 137 S.Ct. 1744 (2017)

After reading the CCNV case in the Module 3 Reading materials please answer the following questions.  
The term “work” is used multiple times in the statues and opinions you’ve read. What do you think a “work” is? 
Would the outcome of this case be different if the subject matter was a movie rather than a statue?

Length: 1500 words
Select a news article that depicts
crime, criminality, or a criminal justice response to crime.
Critically discuss how the article
relates to at least two (2) of the following concepts or topics
covered in the unit:
·       
Law
and order common-sense
·       
Newsworthiness
·       
Representativeness
and impartiality of juries
·       
Juries
and jury decision-making
·       
Moral
panics
·       
Ideal
victims
·       
Evidence
·       
The
role of victims in sentencing 

Describe at least three compliance risks faced by financial institutions vis-a-vis  Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons.
2.  “Rafael Márquez, one of the best-known stars on Mexico’s World Cup soccer team, is….on a United States Treasury Department blacklist of people it says have helped launder money for drug cartels….FIFA, world soccer’s governing body and organizer of the World Cup, routed Mexico’s portion of the $1.5 million it sent to each team to prepare for the tournament in euros via banks unconnected with the United States financial system.” See Mexico’s World Cup Captain Is on a U.S. Blacklist. 
Actions
Please discuss the compliance risk to a bank involved in the transaction described above.