Category: Criminology

A Probation Officer

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You are a Probation Officer who has just been assigned the case below. Consider all the information below before responding.

Name: John Ripley

Age: 45

Marital status: Divorced, no children

Education: GED diploma

Employment: Employed as a Plumber with his uncle who owns a small plumbing business

Residence: Ripley will be living with his elderly mother, who resides in an apartment building.

Prior Convictions: None

Current Conviction: After a credible tip, investigators confiscated Ripley’s desk computer and found over 12 images of child pornography depicting nude pictures of children younger than 10 years old in an electronic folder labeled “vacation.”

Given that he had no prior convictions, his age, employment status, and ties to the community, including caring for his elderly mother, the judge imposed as 5-year probation sentence.

Based on the information that has been provided, what level of risk would you classify Ripley, and then explain why?

Based on the risk level you have assigned to Ripley, what specific probation conditions would you set for him, and explain why? Consider every detail that has been provided and remember that you must support your response with a minimum of three scholarly research studies.

Gina Lombroso-Ferrero

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Gina Lombroso-Ferrero (who represents the Modern or Positive school) gives credit to Beccaria but points out that she believes in something quite different. According to her, what mistake(s) does Beccaria (and other Classical thinkers) make about the understanding of the criminal?

 

 

Terrorism Tactics

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The use of terrorist tactics and strategies is linked to a terrorist organization’s goals and underlying motivations. Additionally, a terrorist organization must execute certain functions to conduct operations. This requires the selection of new recruits to support the terrorists’ cause. Address the following: Select a particular terrorist group. Describe how or why this group’s target selection is linked to its underlying ideological perspective. Briefly explain how the 8 phases of terrorism support the attainment of terrorist goals and objectives. Describe the radicalization process and how recruits are targeted and indoctrinated.
The use of terrorist tactics and strategies is linked to a terrorist organization’s goals and underlying motivations. Additionally, a terrorist organization must execute certain functions to conduct operations. This requires the selection of new recruits to support the terrorists’ cause. Address the following: Select a particular terrorist group. Describe how or why this group’s target selection is linked to its underlying ideological perspective. Briefly explain how the 8 phases of terrorism support the attainment of terrorist goals and objectives. Describe the radicalization process and how recruits are targeted and indoctrinated.

Terrorism Tactics

Posted on | by Brian Leakey

The use of terrorist tactics and strategies is linked to a terrorist organization’s goals and underlying motivations. Additionally, a terrorist organization must execute certain functions to conduct operations. This requires the selection of new recruits to support the terrorists’ cause. Address the following: Select a particular terrorist group. Describe how or why this group’s target selection is linked to its underlying ideological perspective. Briefly explain how the 8 phases of terrorism support the attainment of terrorist goals and objectives. Describe the radicalization process and how recruits are targeted and indoctrinated.
The use of terrorist tactics and strategies is linked to a terrorist organization’s goals and underlying motivations. Additionally, a terrorist organization must execute certain functions to conduct operations. This requires the selection of new recruits to support the terrorists’ cause. Address the following: Select a particular terrorist group. Describe how or why this group’s target selection is linked to its underlying ideological perspective. Briefly explain how the 8 phases of terrorism support the attainment of terrorist goals and objectives. Describe the radicalization process and how recruits are targeted and indoctrinated.

Prison rodeo as spectacle actually fails

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Draw upon the lecture (in additional materials) and the other following materials from Module 1.3 to answer this question:
– https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4O518i4eRpU
– https://www.kanopy.com/nipissingu/video/wildest-show-south-angola-prison-rodeo?frontend=kui
– “The Wildest Show in The South” by Jessica Adams (in additional materials)
With reference to one or two of the Angola Rodeo games, explain Jessica Adam’s claim that the prison rodeo is a spectacle through which “the criminalization of the prisoner body under duress” aims to
accomplish three things:
a. The disciplining / punishment of prisoner bodies (say how)
b. The demarcation of law/order from social disorder (say how)
c. The construction of tourist collective identity as free/consumer (say how).
Explain why the prison rodeo as spectacle actually fails to accomplish the above three goals. What does Adams’ conclude about how power operates at this site?