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While the media and certain NGOs (non-governmental organizations) focus on sex trafficking, labor trafficking is nearly as prevalent, or even more so, as sex trafficking. Why do you think this is the case? Have you noticed in your neighborhood situations in which you felt there may be a presence of human trafficking (be it labor or sex)?
No country is immune from sex trafficking, and the United States has a significant trafficking problem that potentially extends into every state and county. Women and children everywhere—even in the heart of America’s heartland—are being exploited. Yes, even in the U.S. this evil is increasing and destroying lives, despite a proliferation of federal and state anti-trafficking laws, awareness campaigns, law enforcement training programs, activism, growing media coverage, and even Hollywood films on the subject.
Why are traffickers growing bolder and richer? Why are the numbers of victims ever increasing? Who is ultimately responsible? Where do you think the greatest promise for combatting human trafficking comes from (NGOs, legislation, enforcement, etc.)
The focus of the Holistic Victim Restitution Plan is to critically analyze victimology through the application of information from sociology, law, psychology, ethics, and related fields to the study of victimology and to develop a holistic plan for victim restitution.
Consider the following questions when analyzing the 10 required scholarly sources:
Who conducted the research or project?
Who or what was the topic or focus of the research?
What was done (if it was a data driven article)?
How was it done (if it was a data driven article)?
What were the findings or conclusions of the author?
What were the contributions (findings that may have been made to new information on the topic area or applications)?
In creating your Holistic Victim Restitution Plan, you are required to
Discuss the history of victimology, victimology theories, and varying approaches used to address the needs of crime victims.
Explain who the stakeholders are in crime victimization.
Describe the interrelationship of victimology to social justice and the operations of the criminal justice system, including, but not limited to: crime scene investigation techniques and security; the collection, preservation and presentation of evidence; and issues related to correctional institutions, incarceration, and release of offenders.
Identify the socioeconomic (cultural) diversity and its relation to contemporary criminal and social justice and victimology.
Detail the breakdown of possible strategies and interventions designed to address criminal victimization.
Describe how techniques of addressing victimization impact the needs of crime victims.
Predict how crime prevention and intervention strategies will be handled over at least the next two decades.
Create a holistic plan for addressing victim restitution.
The Holistic Victim Restitution Plan
What are the main points of the specific chapter(s) below?
Book 1- Family Violence in the United States: Chapter 2 Child Physical Maltreatment, Chapter 3: Child Sexual Maltreatment, Chapter 4: Child Neglect and
Psychological maltreatment
Book 2- Family Violence Explanations and Evidenced Based Clinical Practice: Chapter 11: Child Maltreatment, Chapter 12: Assessment and Treatment for
Child Maltreatment
Can U.S. Citizen be tried by the military commission under the Constitution and laws of the United States? Make arguments on both sides as to why or why not U.S. cannot be tried by the military commission.
You are the training officer in your department. Your agency has been receiving an unusually high number of Bivens Actions (lawsuits and complaints) from citizens stating that officers have been using excessive force to make arrests. The Chief has tasked you with developing a training program that will teach officers about verbal judo and de-escalation techniques.
Research using the Internet, your textbook, the AIU library, and other resources to support your discussion on the following:
Provide an example of how an officer can use verbal judo to de-escalate a volatile situation.
Provide an example of how an officer’s words can escalate a volatile situation, thus making it worse.
Remember, mere words are powerful in volatile situations.
Crime laboratories started in Europe, when Dr. Edmond Locard, Director of the Crime Laboratory in Lyon, France, postulated the theory that an individual cannot enter or leave a location without leaving something of him- or herself behind and taking something from the location with him or her when leaving. This became the foundation for all of forensic science. Eventually in 1923, the first American crime lab came into being in the Los Angeles, California Police Department. Director John Edgar Hoover of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) realized that there was a need for a national criminal investigation laboratory and founded the FBI National Crime Laboratory that would service law enforcement agencies throughout the nation.
Discuss the following in your main post:
Explain the increased need for crime laboratories to be spread throughout the United States.
Detail the benefits of regional crime laboratories that service multijurisdictional agencies as opposed to every agency having its own laboratory.
Relate how technology impacts the ability to conduct successful prosecutions using real evidence.
What are the criteria examined by a judge when vetting a proffered expert witness by either the prosecution or defense in a criminal trial?
Crime laboratories started in Europe, when Dr. Edmond Locard, Director of the Crime Laboratory in Lyon, France, postulated the theory that an individual cannot enter or leave a location without leaving something of him- or herself behind and taking something from the location with him or her when leaving. This became the foundation for all of forensic science. Eventually in 1923, the first American crime lab came into being in the Los Angeles, California Police Department. Director John Edgar Hoover of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) realized that there was a need for a national criminal investigation laboratory and founded the FBI National Crime Laboratory that would service law enforcement agencies throughout the nation.
Discuss the following in your main post:
Explain the increased need for crime laboratories to be spread throughout the United States.
Detail the benefits of regional crime laboratories that service multijurisdictional agencies as opposed to every agency having its own laboratory.
Relate how technology impacts the ability to conduct successful prosecutions using real evidence.
What are the criteria examined by a judge when vetting a proffered expert witness by either the prosecution or defense in a criminal trial?
In most jurisdictions, a person is considered an adult at the age of 18. As such, many juveniles who commit serious crimes are simply released to a parent or guardian without any repercussions.
Explain the reason, nature, and extent of increased youth crime and violence. What means are being used by law enforcement to prevent and deter delinquent behavior and youth crime and violence? What obstacles are officers facing in their efforts to fight said crime and violence?
Recommend changes in the criminal justice system that you feel would be effective in not only matching the punishment to the crime, but also reducing the amount of crime being perpetrated by the youth overall.
Compare the physical crime and the computer crime from the standpoint of substantive law. What crimes did Fred commit when he entered the jewelry store with a gun and ordered the store clerk to hand over the jewelry? How serious are those crimes? What harms did Fred Cause? Why should the law deter such activity, and why was it morally culpable?