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    compliance issues are nothing new. The U.S Federal Sentencing Guidelines for Organization instituted in 1991‚ and now the Sarbane-Oxley Act 2002 are aim to protect shareholders and other stakeholders from corporation misconduct. One of their goals is to require employees to report observed misconduct. In 2002‚ after accounting fraud at Enron and WorldCom‚ Congress passed the Sarbanes-Oxley to establish a system of federal oversight of corporate accounting practices in response to corporate accounting scandals

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    lean towards choosing a “filler” or an individual other than the suspect. Given that “eyewitness misidentification is the single greatest cause of wrongful convictions” (The Innocence Project‚ 1999) an immediate response is necessary in order for the criminal justice system make changes to lower if not eliminate the number of wrongful convictions that occur

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    should look all the same. One headshot should not be bigger than the others or have different lighting (para. 8). In 2011‚ the Innocent Network Report‚ contained 21 cases of exonerations in the United States. Of those 21 cases‚ 19 of them were wrongful convictions due to misidentification (Clare‚ 2012‚ para. 1). The majority of these cases have been over turned due to DNA evidence. Eyewitness testimony is not as reliable as we may have thought it was. Eyewitness statements can be interfered with by many

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    divorce and family cohesiveness. * Climate. * Effective strength of law enforcement agencies. * Administrative and investigative emphases of law enforcement. * Policies of other components of the criminal justice system (i.e.‚ prosecutorial‚ judicial‚ correctional‚ and probational). * Citizens ’ attitudes toward crime. * Crime reporting practices of the citizenry. The main differences of the Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) and the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS)

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    Rampart Scandal By: Cindy Medina Cindy Medina CJCU 403 John Strain April 15‚ 2012 Rampart Scandal in the LAPD Department Growing up everyone has been told stories of cops and how they represent being hero’s. Cops are supposed to save peoples lives and stand up against crime and violence but the stores we have been told are not exactly one hundred percent correct. The LAPD was involved in one of the most talked about scandals known as the Rampart Scandal

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    attitudes or work behavior. Misconducts Can be defined as : 1. Improper behavior 2. Intentional wrong-doing or deliberate violation of a rule of standard of behavior 3. Any behavior inconsistent with the faithful discharge of his duties There are two criteria for donating misconduct. That are the intentional doing of something which the doer knows to be wrong and which he does recklessly‚ not caring what would the result would be. The majority of misconduct occurs in the work setting

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    are held to concise sentencing guidelines (Burke‚ 2007; Finkelstein‚ 1975; Ma‚ 2002). Prosecutors have been found to use threats that coerce defendants into accepting pleas to secure a conviction when the evidence in a case is insubstantial (Finkelstein‚ 1975). Moreover‚ several researchers have noted that prosecutorial biases can influence the plea bargaining process‚ because prosecutors are given such wide latitude when they reduce charges for offenders (Burke‚ 2007; Ma‚ 2002). There are many different

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    difficult to promote trust and authenticity within their children. Those who remain emotionally over-controlled and alienated from others experience problems being psychologically available and nurturant.” (Haney‚ 1). In addition to racial bias and wrongful convictions‚ the American prison system uses the ancient practice of solitary confinement‚ which leaves victims of the technique unable to properly find their place in their community. Haney states that incarceration “interferes with the transition from

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    labor. Termination is the process by which an organization releases an employee from his duty against his or her will. Causes for termination include poor job performance‚ inability to perform job responsibilities‚ misconduct‚ relocation‚ absenteeism and so on. Concerns about “wrongful discharge’’ began to increase during the mid twentieth century urging protective legislations and court regulations like the federal Wagner Act of 1935 (including Title VII of the civil right act of 1964) to establish

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    Business Law Midterm Chapter 1 - Nature of Law and Legal Rights * Legal Rights: rights (legal capacity to require another person to perform or refrain from performing an act) and duties (obligation of law imposed on a person to perform or refrain from performing a certain act) coexist. * Individual right: any statutes‚ ordinances‚ or court decisions cannot violate the rights given in Constitution. * The Right of Privacy: Fourth Amendment (only search under reasonable suspicion) and protecting

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