Jails and Prisons Pedro A Prieto CJA/204 04/27/2015 Steve Kurrle Jails and Prisons Imprisonment has been around since the middle ages. Centuries ago‚ other forms of punishment were more favorable over imprisonment. In this day and age‚ prisons and jails serve a vital role in the criminal justice system and also provide a more humane way of punishing criminals (Mutchnick‚ 2009). Types of Prisons There are three different types of prisons; maximum-security‚ medium-security‚ and minimum-security
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Technology and Communication Paper Technology affects the communication of specialized databases by allowing individual cities‚ states‚ or countries to store information on individuals and relay this information to and from different systems to identify an individual’s past criminal record. The Automated Fingerprint Identification System (AFIS) is one of the many types of computerized systems that officers can use to help provide information about a suspect. Live scan fingerprinting and the
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Wireless Security Policy Rena Jackson Wireless Computing CIS_513 Dr. Edwin Otto November 29‚ 2014 Wireless Security Policy Wireless Security Policy A security policy is a set of actions that an institute or business plan to achieve to safeguard the establishment’s physical and untouchable (information technology) properties in writing. The security policy is thought of as a living document (the policy is constantly restructured as technology and workers specifications transforms). Safeguarding a
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Technology and Communication Paper Communication and technology are two things that are considered extremely important in a law-enforcement agency. Over the last 20 years technology has grown smarter‚ faster and has become cheaper to law-enforcement agencies as well as the public. Overtime technology has moved from pay phones to smart phones and television waves to digital high-definition picture. There are two main specialized databases that have recently been upgraded to better serve police forces
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Comparing and Contrasting HBM & TTM By: Glenn C. Mack CJI 6530/HCP 6250 Substance Abuse Treatment in the Community Nova Southeastern University June 29th 2011 Substance abuse‚ also known as drug abuse‚ refers to a maladaptive pattern of use of a substance that is not considered dependent. The term "drug abuse" does not exclude dependency‚ but is otherwise used in a similar manner in nonmedical contexts. The terms have a huge range of definitions related to taking a psychoactive drug
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divergence of the NCVS and UCR. Cambridge studies in criminology. Cambridge University Press. Doi.9780521862042 Quick Facts. (2012) Federal Bureau of Investigation. Http://www.fbi.gov/quickfacts.htm. Retrieved 2012-06-12. http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/ucr Reaves‚ B. (1993) Using NIBRS data to analyze violent crime. University of Michigan library retrieved from Washington‚ D.C. U.S. Dept. of Justice‚ Office of Justice Programs‚ Bureau of Justice Statistics www.doj.gov/ Wikipedia (2012) Uniform
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References: Federal Bureau of Investigation. (2010). FBI: Uniform Crime Report: National Arrests by Race‚ 2010 Table 43. Retrieved December 15‚ 2011‚ from FBI-CISU Home: http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2010/crime-in-the-u.s.-2010/tables/table-67/10tbl67a.xls Hoopes‚ Jennifer‚ Tara Lai Quinlan‚ and Deborah A. Ramirez. "Defining racial profiling in a post-September 11 world." American Criminal Law Review
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Measuring Crime Team D: Alfreda Simmons‚ Kelly Ashbrook‚ Lucas Burrington‚ and Kiavonni Jones CJA/204 Introduction to Criminal Justice December 8‚ 2014 Mary Ellen De Frias Measuring Crime The Department of Justice uses two types of programs to measure crime in the United States. The two types of programs are the Uniform Crime Reporting Program (URC) and National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS). Which both have valuable details about the crime problems that are going on in the world.Since both
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Useful Tools of Justice: the FBI Uniform Crime Report and National Incident Based Reporting System. The Federal Bureau of Investigation Uniform Crime Reports (2011) Crime in the United States. Information retrieved from http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/ucr 1/16/2014. Cooper ‚ A. & Smith‚ E. (2011) Homicide Trends in the United States. Information retrieved from http://www.bjs.gov/index.cfm?ty=pbdetail&iid=2221 1/16/2014 Rosenfeld‚ R. & Goldberger‚ A.S. (2008) Understanding Crime Trends: Workshop
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Crime Data Comparison Crime Data Comparison Crime is being committed every second of each day around the world. Citizens of certain communities view crime as unwanted and causes of unnecessary stressors‚ although citizens from the lower class society view crime as a normal standard for everyday life. Certain crimes across the United States can be directly associated with gender‚ ethnicity. For instance‚ woman shoplift more than a man‚ and men conduct more violent offenses such as murder
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