Sarah Szafranski CJA/394 1/26/2015 Maxine Bryant Police Practices and Operations To keep up with the criminal problems in society‚ functions and components of the criminal justice system has to evolve in order to be able to detect and keep up with growing trends in society. New laws need to be created to help keep up with the evolution and its new trends. In this paper the evaluation of past‚ present‚ and future trends that connect to societies and the components of the criminal justice system will be
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restoration justice is as futile as restitution justice. Concerns about the ineffectiveness of traditional criminal justice systems have perpetrated new approaches to criminal justice. Such new approaches to transitional justice or restorative justice like truth commission‚ trails‚ reparation‚ and lustration or vetting. But the apprehension of restorative justice and retributive justice bring to light the argument and made clear that each is not as impeccable or a straightforward answer to justice for
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Communication Skills CJA 304 11/14/2013 University of Phoenix Communication Skills In law enforcement it is critical for officers to be proficient in the art of communication both written and oral. All officers from a rookie to the head of command will find that a career in criminal justice demands a person “read‚ write‚ and understand what is written‚ as well as to orally transmit and receive information” (Wallace & Roberson‚ 2009). Communication has a flow of information that follows
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Insanity Defense Paper Angela Harris‚ Samantha Kunz‚ Jermaine Kelley CJA/354 June 8‚ 2014 Ann Perry We believe that the defendant may not be competent to stand trial‚ due to the fact that he had has emotionally and mental issues. The defendant has no knowledge of the crime or its consequences‚ if put on the stand he may revert back to that emotional state of mind and will not be able to give and accurate statement and will not be able to understand charges and sentencing. As a team we believe
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Federal Tort Acts of 1946 Jenna Smith CJA 520 Professor Mark Holley July 30‚ 2011 Introduction In the United States today if you as an officer put either you or your department in a liability‚ for any type of act that is not warranted and handled in a professional manner you are opening yourself for a number of different actions which could hurt both you‚ your department as well as causing you to loss everything that you own‚ just because you decided to not following proper protocals which
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Community Problem-Solving CJA/454 Community Problem-Solving One specific problem that is ongoing in my community is the recurrence of domestic violence. There are many women that have tried to receive help through certain programs just to find them re-entering into the same situation they are trying hard to get out of. There are a lot of programs offered to help but are just educational and they have no real world applications when really dealing with their specific situations or daily life
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In the United States we have two parallel systems that deal with individuals that commit crimes and or offenses against society. First we have the criminal justice system‚ a court which deals with adults who commit various crimes. Secondly‚ we have the juvenile justice system‚ a court designed especially for minors and is generally thought to help rehabilitate the offender. The salient difference between these two systems‚ as Mitcheal Ritter puts it‚ “is the use of distinct terminology to refer to
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Policing Functions Paper Priscilla Martinez CJA/394 November 25‚ 2013 Instructor: Jeffrey Hooker Abstract Law enforcement in the United States have three levels of law enforcement that are local‚ state‚ and federal who have tasks every day ‚ but their functions are somewhat distinct. Their main purpose of their daily objective is to serve and protect all citizens from any harm‚ and they also enforce all laws to people violating them as well. Because each agency has their
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people call for retributive justice in response to police officers who committed the crime against young African – American men. According to Urquia‚ excessive use of police force is wrong. They should focus on the dysfunctionality of the system that seems to be affecting the community.(Urquiza). Criminal justice system should focus on reforming the policies in order to maintain law and order within the communities. Restorative justice rather than retributive justice is implemented to those police
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being moral choice and personal responsibility‚ rather than being misguided or as a product of social and economical deprivation. This opposed welfare justice policies of the 1960’s and minimal intervention practices of the 1990’s (Bateman & Pitts‚ 2005: 2-7)‚ effectively serving to criminalise more young people by exposing them to criminal justice intervention. The attitude expressed in Misspent Youth‚ a research paper considered as being critical in the formation of the CDA 1998 (Unitas‚ 2012:
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