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Define and discuss the critical stage and how this stage affects the defendant’s rights. Your initial discussion board response must reflect at least three reference sources: your textbook and other scholarly materials (i.e., journal articles, magazines, newspaper articles, webpage, dictionaries, thesauruses, or encyclopedias.
Effective corrections personnel recognize that inmates, like other U.S. citizens, are people protected by various constitutional rights. Not only do they recognize that inmates have these rights, they are also knowledgeable about those rights they are responsible to protect.
In this assignment, you will have the opportunity to analyze inmates’ rights, the cases that afforded inmates those rights, and the impact inmate rights have on correctional administration.
Instructions
After reviewing Chapter 11 of your textbook, the “Summary of Inmate Rights” document, and conducting research on inmates’ rights and the corresponding case law, a 3–5 page in which you:
Summarize inmates’ rights and the U.S. cases that awarded them those rights.
Explain how inmates’ rights impact correctional administration.
Articulate your perspective about whether inmates have too many or too few rights.
Be sure to include the rationale behind your perspective.
Recommend, based on research and/or experience, additional rights to be afforded to inmates and those which should be removed.
Outline the issues that special prison populations pose for correctional officials.
Describe strategies you uncovered to address these issues that appear promising based on the existing evidence.
Juvenile’s and gangs as well as Hate Crimes.
Our discussion this week will look at juvenile’s and gangs as well as Hate Crimes.
Numerous risk factors contribute to juveniles becoming involved with gangs.
Explain how community policing strategies can be used to target two of these specific risk factors.
Explain what Hate Crime Laws are and the reason that they exist.
Look at case study 6.1 in our textbook and answer one of the following discussion questions drawn from that case study:
How can police better identify the motive of an offender to determine whether a crime was a hate crime?
Should punishments be harsher if a crime was motivated by hate? For instance, if an offender assaults a person motivated by hate, should the penalty be enhanced because of the offender’s motive? Make arguments for and against enhanced punishments.
Discuss two options available to the President if foreign governments are unwilling or unable to render unto justice terrorist elements within their country that threaten the United States.
How does the Incident Commander direct all elements towards a common objective?
Write a persuasive argument regarding your chosen topic. You will be persuasive in your argument by providing numerous examples of supporting evidence for your thesis.
The Task:
• Write 3-4 pages arguing for or against your chosen topic: Are smartphones dangerous?
• Persuade your reader to support your notion (thesis) by using Pathos, Ethos, and Logos.
• You need to be subjective in your argument; consider how your topic affects a larger range of people, not just you. Therefore, stay away from making this a personal, passionate piece.
• Incorporate at least two credible resources that either support your side of the argument or that you might want to argue against.
• Finally, your essay must be appropriately formatted in MLA, including your article(s), which must be appropriately cited both within your essay and Works Cited page.
What to Write About:
• Explain why there is a problem.
• Offer solutions to the problem.
• Why is this topic relevant?
• Why should we care?
• How does this it affect people?
• What are the positives and negatives of this topic?
• Do not limit yourself to these questions. Explore more ideas so that you can create an effective and sound argument
Write a persuasive argument regarding your chosen topic. You will be persuasive in your argument by providing numerous examples of supporting evidence for your thesis.
The Task:
• Write 3-4 pages arguing for or against your chosen topic: Are smartphones dangerous?
• Persuade your reader to support your notion (thesis) by using Pathos, Ethos, and Logos.
• You need to be subjective in your argument; consider how your topic affects a larger range of people, not just you. Therefore, stay away from making this a personal, passionate piece.
• Incorporate at least two credible resources that either support your side of the argument or that you might want to argue against.
• Finally, your essay must be appropriately formatted in MLA, including your article(s), which must be appropriately cited both within your essay and Works Cited page.
What to Write About:
• Explain why there is a problem.
• Offer solutions to the problem.
• Why is this topic relevant?
• Why should we care?
• How does this it affect people?
• What are the positives and negatives of this topic?
• Do not limit yourself to these questions. Explore more ideas so that you can create an effective and sound argument
Write a persuasive argument regarding your chosen topic. You will be persuasive in your argument by providing numerous examples of supporting evidence for your thesis.
The Task:
• Write 3-4 pages arguing for or against your chosen topic: Are we becoming too dependent on computers?
• Persuade your reader to support your notion (thesis) by using Pathos, Ethos, and Logos.
• You need to be subjective in your argument; consider how your topic affects a larger range of people, not just you. Therefore, stay away from making this a personal, passionate piece.
• Incorporate at least two credible resources that either support your side of the argument or that you might want to argue against.
• Finally, your essay must be appropriately formatted in MLA, including your article(s), which must be appropriately cited both within your essay and Works Cited page.
What to Write About:
• Explain why there is a problem.
• Offer solutions to the problem.
• Why is this topic relevant?
• Why should we care?
• How does this it affect people?
• What are the positives and negatives of this topic?
• Do not limit yourself to these questions. Explore more ideas so that you can create an effective and sound argument
Write a persuasive argument regarding your chosen topic. You will be persuasive in your argument by providing numerous examples of supporting evidence for your thesis.
The Task:
• Write 3-4 pages arguing for or against your chosen topic: How long is it acceptable to stay in a restaurant after finishing your meal?
• Persuade your reader to support your notion (thesis) by using Pathos, Ethos, and Logos.
• You need to be subjective in your argument; consider how your topic affects a larger range of people, not just you. Therefore, stay away from making this a personal, passionate piece.
• Incorporate at least two credible resources that either support your side of the argument or that you might want to argue against.
• Finally, your essay must be appropriately formatted in MLA, including your article(s), which must be appropriately cited both within your essay and Works Cited page.
What to Write About:
• Explain why there is a problem.
• Offer solutions to the problem.
• Why is this topic relevant?
• Why should we care?
• How does this it affect people?
• What are the positives and negatives of this topic?
• Do not limit yourself to these questions. Explore more ideas so that you can create an effective and sound argument