Media and Cyber-Crimes Cletus Subetiq Nachelle Instructor: Stephen Newsome CMST 301 6981 Digital Media and Society (2152) University of Maryland University College March 22‚ 2015 Abstract Technological devices and infrastructures such as the internet have led to their pervasive use across socioeconomic factors such as gender and age as well as geographical boundaries. The proliferation has led to a perfection of cyber-crime activities‚ which have threatened global economy. Cyber-crimes have
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Does law enforcement run into citizens who lacks in literacy skills? By examining literacy programs‚ juvenile incarceration and ability to understand the laws and expectation of the community‚ it is clear that law enforcement should be aware of the literacy crisis in the public. Literacy crisis affected public ability to understand the law and expectation. Youths who struggle with literacy leads the youth to have history of juvenile incarceration. Law enforcement set up program‚ so youth are encouraged
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Influence of Case Law on Policing Of the numerous things that can change policies and procedures within a police department‚ or multiple police departments‚ case law is probably the most common. Case law extends from rulings of the courts on certain topics that may not have a written policy or that may cause existing policy to be reviewed and rewritten. Perhaps the landmark case that has had the most substantial influence on modern policing is Terry v. Ohio. In the case‚ Detective
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Measuring police performance is a concept that many departments still have trouble perfecting. The problem is that the agencies do not know how to properly measure what is good police work‚ or what makes a police officer a successful one. Most agencies use a performance appraisal system that looks at various traits of the officer‚ not their quality of job performance. Larry Coutts and Frank Schneider discuss the shortcomings of Police officer performance appraisal systems from their article from
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Citizens and Law Enforcement: Communication and Perceptions of their Relationship Mariah Cadwallader Beloit College Abstract This project will look into the communication between citizens‚ and citizens and their authorities. The authorities that I will mostly focus on will be police officers‚ anyone who is executing the law over citizens on a daily basis‚ and determine whether their actions are necessary or in need of revision. The video ‘bike lanes’ was where I started off‚ an example of
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Groups (HSOW 3631) Proposal Ex Youth Offenders Group Sylvia Tjizake Student Number: 201003490 ‚ I. Abstract Youth offenders are a problem in every town of Namibia‚ and Otjiwarongo is no exception. More youth are committing crimes and are kept in prisons all the country to serve their sentence‚ but little are done about the successful reintegration of these ex-offenders in the community. Ex- offenders need programmes and services that will assist them in dealing with crisis
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Executive Summary The focus of this paper will be based upon different crime prevention strategies implemented by members of the communities‚ local and government authorities. It will focus mainly on those practices involving community cooperation and portray how they are successful or unsuccessful in reducing criminality in high crime areas. Firstly‚ the topic of this research report in clearly stated below. The methods used to acquire the information
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taken to reduce and prevent juvenile crime. Juvenile crime prevention is a major issue that faces many communities in the United States. A number of different treatment methods exist for juvenile offenders. Incarceration is seen as the toughest form of punishment; however it is quickly becoming the least operative penalty for juveniles. Recent studies show that community based prevention and rehabilitation programs are better deterrents of juvenile crime and recidivism than incarceration is.
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throughout time attempting to explain the phenomenon of crime‚ consequently‚ there is not a perfect explanation for all crimes (Bohm & Vogel‚ 2011). The various crimes coupled with the various minds of individuals make it nearly impossible to predict‚ prevent‚ as well as apprehend all offenders. The situational crime prevention‚ as well as routine activity theories created as derivatives of the Chicago School‚ explain causal factors of crime in the most practical sense‚ in my opinion. The works
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Assignment 2: Chapters 3‚ 4‚ and 5 Chapter three begins the chapter by focusing in on the many types of evaluation that there are for measuring crime and then the chapter continues on and gives a detail description about the theories and measurements in evaluation. The word evaluation in the chapter “refers to investigating the usefulness of some exercise or phenomenon; the goal is to understand implementation of the intervention and the impact of the initiative (Lab 36).” The three types of evaluation
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