“Wedding Cake Model” Michal Bates Intro to Criminal Justice The criminal justice wedding cake is a diagram to show the importance of a crime and where it would be categorized. There are four layers on the cake that signify each of the major types of crimes: (1) misdemeanors‚ (2) less serious felonies‚ (3) serious felonies‚ and (4) celebrated cases. Also‚ the size of these layers depends on the importance of the crimes‚ with misdemeanors being the largest and at the bottom and the celebrated
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Criminologists study crime and criminal law. They analyze criminal behavior patterns and criminal laws‚ and provide theoretical explanations for criminal and delinquent behavior. Primarily involved in research and teaching‚ criminologists supply a great deal of knowledge to the study of policing‚ police administration and policy‚ juvenile and delinquency‚ corrections‚ correctional administration and policy‚ drug addiction‚ criminal ethnography‚ macro- level models of criminal behavior‚ radical criminology
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Analyzing training leads to the application of recruitment‚ retention‚ as well as mentoring appeared from human resource officers within the criminal justice profession. Top law enforcement leaders are considering new and improved methods for leadership training that will develop future law enforcement leader. Organizational analyzation leads to the overall successful by creating a sense of confidence that encourages leadership growth resulting in retention of future leaders. 12 Through the implementation
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Conversely‚ the First Nations view of the world and more specifically the criminal justice system is vastly different. First Nations view of the world is one of community‚ relationships‚ equality‚ and holistic views of harmony and balance (Monchalin‚ 2016). Professor Leroy Little Bear stated‚ “[i]f the whole is maintained‚ then beauty‚ harmony‚ and balance result” (Monchalin‚ 2016‚ p.40). This idea of complete harmony and balance was not only for each and every human‚ but in every aspect in life
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My next class is Foundations of Criminal Justice Systems. I am pursuing my Bachelors in Criminal Justice. I am looking forward to completing this goal in my life and continuing on to my Masters. Being a mother to a three year old little boy and more than half way through another pregnancy with a little girl‚ my schedule is already very busy. Which brings me into what I believe will be the important concepts in my future courses. One being time management. Time management is a hit and miss for
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An abundance of non-traditional justice programs have been implemented throughout the United States‚ Canada‚ Europe‚ New Zealand‚ Africa and Australia. Many are considered restorative in nature; however‚ these programs may not fully conform to restorative principles. The scope of this paper will be on those programs that have adopted the aforementioned principles. That is to say‚ the empirical results that are discussed in this section are from programs that attempt to restore the relationship between
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The mentally ill is over-represented in the criminal justice system when compared with the larger United States population. People with mental illness are incarcerated approximately 8 times more frequently than they are admitted to state mental hospitals‚ and are incarcerated for significantly longer time than other inmates (Ascher-Svanum‚ Nyhuis‚ Faries‚ Ball‚ & Kinon‚ 2010). This has been linked to an increased danger to themselves‚ other inmates and persons employed in the prison system. Effectively
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Throughout history in America‚ minorities have been poorly treated in the criminal justice system‚ particularly in cases where darker-skinned people from a diversity of racial backgrounds including African Americans‚ and Latinos—being treated worse than their lighter-skinned folks by whites or even members of their own racial community.Early America‚ blacks were torchered for the slightest violation of informal laws and a lot of times they were blamed for crimes they did not even commit but the
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jobs in a career that we loved and worked hard for. Its crazy how one move can change your whole life? My brother is now 25yrs old and is still committing crime. On the other hand‚ what about people from poor families who have not fallen into criminal behavior? I have a friend who was raised in Chicago Illinois‚ to a drug abusing mother. My friend was taught that you have to do whatever it takes to survive‚ even if that meant breaking the law. I remember having conversations with her where she
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racial discrimination in the criminal justice system is controversial because there is substantial evidence confirming both individual and systemic biases. Although‚ many people believe there is no systematic racism in criminal justice; research in the past and present displays racial minorities are treated unfair and unjust in all aspects of the criminal justice system. African
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