Marjorie Benton

United States criminal justice system

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Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascon has introduced multiple proposals intended to reform the criminal justice system in LA. For your final project, you will summarize and evaluate the evidence on the impact of ONE of the 11 Special Directives listed on the Los Angeles District Attorney’s Office lice of Polices. All are linked here: (you can copy paste them on google to view)

Felony_Case_Special_Directive_03-04.pdf

SPECIAL-DIRECTIVE-20-06.pdf

SPECIAL-DIRECTIVE-20-07.pdf

SPECIAL-DIRECTIVE-20-08.pdf // (2 Editions) 1. SD-20-08-1.pdf 2. SD-20-08-2.pdf

SPECIAL-DIRECTIVE-20-09.pdf

SPECIAL-DIRECTIVE-20-10.pdf

SPECIAL-DIRECTIVE-20-11.pdf

SPECIAL-DIRECTIVE-20-12.pdf

Special-Directive-20-13.pdf

SPECIAL-DIRECTIVE-20-14.pdf

Special-Directive-21-01.pdf

Each student should select one of these directives to evaluate, in a double spaced, 12 point times new roman, 7 page term paper. All external sources should be cited using APA format. Your evaluation should address the following three issues:

  • What is the problem that the directive is trying to solve? Clearly explain how the directive alters the incentives facing potential criminals, defendants facing adjudication, defense attorneys, district attorneys or judges relative to the status quo – note that not all groups might be affected by all directives.
  • Is there any empirical evidence on the likely impact of the suggested reform? What sources of data might be used to evaluate the extent to which the directive improves social welfare?
  • Do any of the theoretical concepts covered in class, or examples from US of World history offer any lessons for how this directive might impact the crime rate, incarceration rate, and racial disparities in who interacts with the criminal justice system?
  • NO PLAGIARISM, PLEASE CITE SOURCES

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Another common contributory factor is official misconduct by the police officers, prosecutors, and at times even the judge. According to Hamer and Edmond (2019), even though some wrongful convictions can be attributed to honest mistakes from these parties, in most cases, these parties lose sight of their obligation to ensure the administration of justice and instead opt to focus on getting a defendant convicted. When this pursuit for a conviction trumps over the desire to see the administration of justice, a wrongful conviction is bound to be the end result of such a proceeding (Hamer & Edmond, 2019). Spending time in prison, especially when one is certain they are innocent, can cause immense psychological, physical, emotional, social, and financial harm to a defendant (Hamer & Edmond, 2019). This is why Los Angeles District Attorney Gascon felt that it was pertinent to remind prosecutors within his jurisdiction of their duty.

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United States criminal justice system

Marjorie Benton

Juvenile Delinquency

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Assignment Details – In 300 words or more address the following providing references for support

Assignment Details

Part 1: Review the U.S. Department of Justice definition of a gang.

Part 2: Invent a fictional character and select at least 3 specific elements, known or unknown to them, that might have influenced their decision to join a gang. Consider the following:

  • Their parental influences
  • Community
  • Home environment
  • School performance
  • Any other element you believe relevant

Part 3: Using what you’ve learned thus far (Delinquency Theories) , address the following:

  • Explain how the elements you selected influenced your character’s choice to join a gang.

( Examples – Strain Theory, Rational Theory )

The textbook we are using in class that you can use as a Reference:

Bartollas, C., & Schmalleger, F. (2017). Juvenile Delinquency (Justice Series) (3rd Edition). Pearson Education (US).

Requirements: 300 words or more

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Notably, the social learning theory explains Tyson’s involvement in crime due to his home environment. This theory emphasizes that people learn behavior from their environment by imitating others, observational learning, and getting rewards that motivate them (Bartollas & Schmalleger, 2017). As seen in Tyson’s case, his social environment inspired him to imitate gang behavior. Further, the strain theory explains the parental influences that motivated Tyson’s deviant behavior. This theory reveals that social structures such as financial challenges and lack of proper education drive people to commit crimes (Bartollas & Schmalleger, 2017). Finally,

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Juvenile Delinquency

Marjorie Benton

Crime reduction action plan

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The gangs in your town have become increasingly more violent over time. There have been several serious incidents of violence and drive-by shootings, an increase in drug traffic, and attempts to recruit new gang members in the local middle and high schools. In the past, your local police department chose not to partner with the community and failed to see a lasting reduction in gang activity. You know that they have recently started a new community policing program in an effort to try and address this situation.

Your supervisor at the juvenile justice non-profit organization where you work has asked you to create a plan for a community gang initiative that works with the police efforts. You recognize that increasing police patrols and gang arrests in the area are only a short-term solution. You want to implement a program that will provide a long-term solution through community and police cooperation.

Write an action plan of at least 3-5 pages that addresses this problem in the community. Your action plan should include, but is not limited to, the following:

  • Several initiatives that will assist in rectifying the problems, including the following:
  • How can the negative effects of violence on children be lessened?
  • Do you believe that there should be a limitation on the violent video games that children are permitted to play? Explain your position.
  • What type of assistance will you ask for from the community as a whole?
  • What role will the police department take?
  • How will you measure the effectiveness of your plan?

Use this tutorial to help you complete this assignment.

Requirements: 3 – 5 pages in depth

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Educating all key stakeholders who play vital roles in ensuring the safety of children is an effective strategy in reducing the negative effects of violence on children. Some of these stakeholders include parents, caregivers, teachers, medical professionals, and mental health professionals. Stakeholders’ awareness of children and violence will help them identify risk factors early to eliminate or manage them effectively (Al-Ali, Yaghy, Shattnawi & Al-Shdayfat, 2018). Additionally, knowledge empowers them to help children who have undergone violence and need physical, emotional, and psychological support. These stakeholders can be educated through seminars, conferences, and programs that teach on the topic of children and violence. Forming strong and wide networks of these stakeholders in the community is useful

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Crime reduction action plan

Marjorie Benton

Thus enhance justice

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Please read: citing is very important to this assignment and making sure you site properly and refer to the citation and not making anything up and then putting a citation at the bottom( please don’t do that )

You are a prosecutor and you are working a high profile case in your jurisdiction. The case involves the murder of a two young boys. The police arrested two males – one who was 17 years old and another who was 18 at the time of the murders. The evidence collected by the police includes the testimony of two eyewitnesses: a 9 year old boy who claimed to see the two victims talking to the defendants on the day of the homicides and a former girlfriend of one of the defendants who claims he confessed to the murders. It comes to your attention that both eyewitnesses have changed details of their stories throughout the investigation, however, police did manage to get the 17 year old defendant to confess to the crime. He later recanted his confession claiming police coerced him to confess. Both defendants have a history of drug arrests and the older defendant has been arrested for assault twice in the past. The citizens in your jurisdiction believe that the two men sacrificed the boys in some sort of satanic ritual because the two men had made claims to worship the devil while in high school and both had pentagram tattoos on their necks. As the trial approaches and you are reviewing all of the evidence submitted by police, you happen upon a piece of exculpatory evidence indicating that the two defendants are innocent. You know that the election is coming up and that if you do not win the case, you’ll likely lose the next election.

  1. What would you do?
  2. What ethical system influenced your decision? Explain thoroughly.
  3. Based on what you have read about the rules governing legal professionals, was what you did ethical? Explain.

Reminders for Grading (refer to syllabus and discussion board rubric for full details):

  • You must make at least two contributions a week to the discussion board. This includes: your own response to the discussion question(s) AND at least one response to other posts in the discussion area. You must ANSWER ALL PARTS OF THE QUESTION(S).
  • Comments to other students’ discussion posts cannot be “I agree/disagree.” You must provide substantive feedback in responses to other students’ post. This means you must provide an explanation for why you agree or disagree, and/or raise possible concerns/questions you may have regarding the arguments set forth in the post.
  • You must cite any source(s) you use to support your statements/arguments. All citations should be in APA format. DO NOT COPY AND PASTE INFORMATION from sources – this is plagiarism! If you copy and paste information in your discussion post, then you will be given a zero for the assignment.
  • Each discussion post is worth 6% of your final grade. Half of your grade is based on your original response to the discussion question(s) and the remainder is based on your response to other posts in the discussion board. To receive full credit for the assignment, you must answer/address all parts of the discussion prompt.
  • Incorporate course readings into your posts (original and response). See syllabus and rubric for details

Required Texts: Pollock, J. M. (2019). Ethical dilemmas and decisions in criminal justice, 10th edition. Boston, MA: Cengage.


if you cant access the book I will send you pictures of the chapter required. Please cite from the book twice at least and include the chapter and page in the citation . Citation is in APA and so is the paper

please site from the book I have listed. Do you need me to submit screenshots of the chapter required

citations should be from chapter 10 of the boo

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Moreover, there are also higher risks of false confessions, which are the basis for the convictions. In this case, one of the defendants had been made to confess by the police officer.   Conversely, one of the criminal defense attorneys’ unethical practices is to guide the client to manufacture an alibi or other exculpatory evidence (Pollock, 2019, chapter 10, pg 299). Hence it would be significant to cross-examine the defendant to ensure the evidence presented would be useful. On the contrary, the defense attorney’s misconduct may involve non-commitment to determine whether testimony made to convict the defendant is credible (Pollock, 2019, chapter 10, pg 309). The reliability of the exculpatory evidence is the foundation for the justification of the decision made as ethical.

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Thus enhance justice

Marjorie Benton

Drug abuse

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Assignment Details

Your son has been having behavioral problems lately. He has not been completing his homework, he has been late to school, and he is having disciplinary problems at school and at home. He closes his door and withdraws from the family. You were thinking that this was just normal teenage angst that he was going through. One morning, while he is at school, you go into his room and see pieces of aluminum foil with burn marks on them. You also find several lighters inside his dresser drawer. You now suspect that he is using drugs.

Address the following in 5–6 paragraphs:

Requirements: 5 to 6 Paragraphs in depth

here is the textbook to use as a reference – Abadinsky, H. (2017). Drug Use and Abuse: A Comprehensive Introduction (9th Edition). Cengage Limited.

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Sharing the negative effects and consequences of using heroin might trigger him to stop using the drug. Through the conversation, I will be able to know why he is using drugs; this will help me use an appropriate approach to solve his issues. For instance, if he is getting drugs from his peers in school. I would choose to take him to a different school hence reducing the chances of getting the drugs from his friends. He might also agree to seek help from a counselor who can help him fight his drug problem. However, he may decide to hide and continue using them in private since he knows I have known. To avoid this, I will keep track of his behavior to know if he is still using the drugs.

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Drug abuse

Marjorie Benton

Large-scale cases of rape

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Discuss both videos regarding the crime of rape in Nanking and Bosnia-Herzegovina ? Do you believe these acts will continue in future conflicts? What can be done to prevent rape as an act of war? Should the international community hold national leaders responsible for the crime of rape during a conflict?The Nanjing massacre Documentary of the Rape of

Nanking (WARNING: Graphic Content ) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CAYFxXBohA
• Frontline discusses Rape in Bosnia
Still on the Frontline – YouTube
• What led to the genocide in Rwanda
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RphYwV91MN4
MODULE 3: Genocide and Rape as Volitions of Human Right

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The crime of rape in wartime, such as the Nanjing Massacre, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and Rwanda genocide, shows the need for expansion of the international legal framework. The mass incidences of rape show it was a deliberate and structured policy to demoralize the opponents. Considering that Japanese soldiers forced Chinese civilians to rape their relatives and monks clearly shows it was not a by-product of war. Ethnic cleansing atrocities are critical, and there are higher risks for these crimes in the future. Expansion of the legal framework, including holding the national leaders responsible for these crimes, is necessary to foster policies to reduce sexual violence.

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Large-scale cases of rape

Marjorie Benton

Universal laws

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Case Study

At present, there is there is no universal definition of defamation and there is not a set of elements that define defamation for judiciary concerns. How would a universal definition of defamation be beneficial?

Action Items

  1. Read the case study above.
  2. By the due date, submit your answers to the case study questions. Justify your answers.
  3. references.

Requirements: as much needed

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Universal defamation laws will provide legal protection even to social media providers whose reputation is destroyed on the internet. With the current defamation laws, different standards are employed when dealing with private individuals, public figures, or even public officials (Nieto, 2020). As a result, this poses challenges to the social media providers in identifying their position, whether they qualify to be a private or a public figure, when presenting cases where their reputation has been attacked. Thus, having a standard way of proving that a particular case is defamatory regardless of their position in society will eradicate this challenge.

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Universal laws

Marjorie Benton

Police departments and crime control strategies

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Assignment Instructions

Instructions

Research Paper/Term Project: (Due Week 7)

Each student is required to complete the term project, which is an 8–10-page research paper in APA Style. The project should have 8-10 pages not counting the cover, abstract and reference page.

Assignment Instructions

AN OVERVIEW OF RESEARCH PAPER REQUIREMENTS

All work should be submitted in APA 7th edition style, which includes (if sources are used) in-line citations and a References page. No exceptions.

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.

Research Paper Instructions:

Choose one of the topics listed below to write an 8–10-page research paper on. (8-10 pages excluding the title page, reference list, appendices) Your paper MUST be in APA Format.

Do not include quotes in your work. I want to see your critical thinking skills on display and not a string of quotes written by published authors. Your analysis is what is needed for a successful paper. At this point in your educational journey, you should have solid substance and proper academic formatting in your college-level writing assignments. Students will be graded on both so make sure you turn in your best work. Do not wait until the last minute to research, write, format, and edit. Proper time management is required to turn in a quality paper that highlights your criminal justice writing.

This is a major assignment so please follow the instructions carefully.

1. Use at least five articles from scholarly sources in a paper that discusses police departments and crime control strategies.

2. Use at least five articles from scholarly sources in a paper that discusses illegal drug use, illegal prostitution, and money laundering.

3. Use at least five articles from scholarly sources in a paper that compares and contrasts the problems associated with defining and determining the frequency of corporate crime in the United States.

4. Use at least five articles from scholarly sources in a paper that examines one of the various theories that explain crime.

5. Use at least five articles from scholarly sources in a paper that critiques middle-class delinquency’s relationship to gangs.

Use the APUS library to find at least five, peer-reviewed articles that cover your chosen topic from the list above. Again, you are required to use scholarly, peer-reviewed journals, in-text citations, and provide a reference page for this paper.

IMPORTANT NOTE: Once you have submitted the assignment it is automatically run through a plagiarism checker. When you submit your paper into the “assignment” area (as a word doc only) it is processed for plagiarism detection. The paper should not contain any direct quotes. In other words, sources used in the paper should be paraphrased, cited in proper APA format and reflect critical thinking.

In addition, it is important to note the following critical aspects for your paper that if not completed correctly could result in a 0% despite the paper’s content and other evaluation criteria as noted below:

Your paper MUST be in proper APA format.

Your paper MUST utilize APPROPRIATE references.

You MUST avoid any form of plagiarism at all costs.

Requirements: 8-10 pages

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Money laundering is increasingly becoming a significant focus area for stakeholders in the American criminal justice system. According to Tiwari et al. (2020), money laundering denotes the processes used by criminals to try and hide the illicit origin and ownership of the proceeds gotten from their illegal activities. Tiwari et al. (2020) further assert that the ultimate objective of criminals involved in this practice is the transformation of the proceeds from their criminal ventures into money that appears to come from a legal origin. When these criminals succeed, the proceeds from their illegal ventures will become legitimate. Tiwari et al. (2020) argue that this practice either be a pretty straightforward endeavor performed at the national or local level or a very sophisticated undertaking, not only exploiting the global financial system but also using many financial intermediaries located in multiple countries. According to Tiwari et al. (2020), money laundering exists for two primary reasons. Firstly, criminals embrace this practice to avoid getting connected to the crimes that led to their criminal proceeds.

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Police departments and crime control strategies

Marjorie Benton

Nonviolent drug offenses

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Drug courts are supervised judicial entities that specifically deal with nonviolent drug offenses. The purpose of these courts is to accommodate recovery and restoration of the offenders to make them productive members of society.

Assignment Guidelines

Address the following in 6–10 pages:

  • What are the specific goals of drug courts? Explain.
  • When is a person tried at a drug court? Explain.
  • Find a drug court in a municipality near you.
    • What types of agencies are involved in this drug court? Explain
      • What is the reason for each of the types of agency involvement? Explain.
    • What methods and techniques does this drug court use for supervision, treatment, and graduation? Explain.
    • What specific types of offenses seem to be most common in this court? Explain.
    • What special programs are in place to ensure the success of this court? Explain in detail.
  • Are drug courts effective? Use research to support your response.
  • Be sure to reference all sources using APA style.
  • Content/60% (21 points each)
  • Organization/15% (21 points)
  • APA Formatting/10% (14 points)
  • Verbatim Text/5% (7 points)
  • Mechanics/10% (14 points)

Requirements: 6 – 10 pages

Here is the textbook to use for reference – Abadinsky, H. (2017). Drug Use and Abuse: A Comprehensive Introduction (9th Edition). Cengage Limited.

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Supervision in the drug courts is an acritical process as it ensures whether the drug treatment program runs as expected and the set goals are achieved. One way that the Midland County drug court uses supervises testing the offenders at different levels is to evaluate their response to the treatment program Midland Daily News. 2016, March 22). Similarly, the court screens every offender before introducing them into the treatment program. The court also evaluates the offender’s behaviors during the probation period to evaluate whether they have adopted the desired behavior. The offenders must meet the minimum requirements.

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Nonviolent drug offenses

Marjorie Benton

Crime scene investigative

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Assignment Details

You are a new member of a crime scene investigative (CSI) unit that is only a couple of months old. The Chief of Police asks you to create an introductory document for a new community outreach program. The goal is to help the community understand the different types of evidence and how they are used.

Write a 3-4 page paper that addresses the following points:

Requirements: 3 to 4 pages

 

here is the textbook for the course for a reference – Garland, N. (2019). Criminal Evidence (8th Edition). McGraw-Hill Higher Education (US).

The paper will need an introduction and conclusion as well. We are to use APA 7th addistion

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The concept of overwhelming circumstantial evidence is drawn from facts presented to a hearing without direct observations. It becomes overwhelming for a jury since the witness lacks direct testimony of a crime. For example, if a witness claims that they heard a gunshot and found the accused with a pistol next to the victim on arriving at the scene, it is circumstantial. This form of evidence overwhelms the prosecutors and officers involved in the cased due to a lack of facts. Several circumstances may surround this testimony, such as the accused shooting at an escaping murderer or having picked the gun from the crime scene.

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Crime scene investigative