Category: Criminology

Collecting evidence

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Collecting evidence is key to help solve crimes. When there is a problem with preservation and collection, red flags are raised during a trial. If given an opportunity to investigate identical twins, interviews and interrogations will be vital in how evidence is presented to the prosecution.

Address the following questions:

What are some ways in which a person’s genetic makeup can impact law enforcement’s ability to get a search warrant?
What are some tactics that law enforcement can use to obtain information from hostile witnesses?

Offender rehabilitation programs.

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In a 1985 issue of Texas Monthly, Dick Reavis discussed How They Ruined Our Prisons at great lengths. Specifically, he discussed the conditions of American prisons in general and, more specifically, the conditions of the Texas prison system. In this, he acknowledged that the prison system wasn’t ideal and that it made little, if any, effort at rehabilitating convicted offenders. However, in the same breath, he argued that it is not the State’s responsibility (and in particular, the responsibility of taxpaying citizens) to finance rehabilitation programs.

After reading the article, please discuss your opinion of offender rehabilitation programs.

Using a real-life example, either someone personally known to you or someone that you read about in the news, discuss the following:
How rehabilitation programs can provide offenders with the advantages commonly associated with reform efforts
How rehabilitation programs can fail and what could be done differently to better help offender rehabilitation efforts

When an act in sports become a criminal act

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When does an act in a sporting event cross the line and become a criminal act? Is there a difference whether it occurs during a high school, college, or professional competition? Why or why not? Why is a fight in a hockey game essentially condoned (usually resulting in a mere five-minute penalty) where the same act, even if consented to, subjects the combatants to a crime of mutual combat?

 

 

 

Fear of crime

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The discussion assignment provides a forum for discussing relevant topics for this week on the basis of the course competencies covered. The Process of Critical Inquiry , Variables, Ethics in Social Science Research

For this assignment, you will submit five research questions on five topics that could be used in a survey on fear of crime that you could give to people in their neighborhood.

In your response, include answers to the following:

Describe each topic.
Explain the intended approach toward each research question for each topic.
Describe the ways in which these questions will support your survey analysis.

 

Criminological terms and concepts describe a hypothetical crime problem

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• Using criminological terms and concepts describe a hypothetical crime problem in a specific area or jurisdiction type.
• Using the concepts and techniques you have learned during this course include details and discussion as to frequency of occurrence, patterns of offending, patterns of victimization and enough supporting detail to inform a coordinated law enforcement response.
• Discuss the crime mapping methods that would be employed to identify this information. You should incorporate a theoretical component to your paper to help inform this response to your identified problem.
• Describe what policing enforcement methods that would be most effective at reducing the frequency or severity of these offenses. Include discussion of any types of CPTED concepts such as alley gating, defensible space or others that might be also employed to deter or mitigate these types of offenses.
• Discuss any technologies that might be employed to identify or address the identified problem. Research and include a real example of an enforcement method that has been successful in addressing a similar problem as the hypothetical example you created.

 

The internet fraud schemes

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Discuss some of the internet fraud schemes
Discuss the difference between “insider corporate spies” and “outsider corporate spies.” How does each group engage in corporate espionage?
Identify and describe at least three methods that identity thieves use to steal personal information.
Explain how the historical description of an embezzler no longer applies. How are modern embezzlers described?