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Is it cost effective from a risk analysis perspective to spend billions of dollars to stop a “hand-full of people” who are bound to terrorize the United States? What is the “Hardened Border Paradox? What is the “Open Border Paradox? How can both be overcome? Compare and contrast the two.
Discuss at least three strategies that would stimulate more interest in law enforcement from women and minorities.
Provide at least two recommendations for how departments can work to retain these valuable employees after hiring them.
Question: What is the journey of juvenile confession law as reflected in the various cases in the article? (Gault, Graham, J.D.B.)
What are the implications of such rules/policies in juvenile confessions? Do the cases strike an appropriate balance? Do you think the authors got it right?
Your instructor will assign one of the topics listed below. You are required to do research on your state specific law (based on your current state of residence) about your topic. In your discussion, please make sure you include the following:
The specific age by which the adolescent can consent without parental consent
The state law or regulation specific to your topic
Disclosure of Health Information to Parents/Guardians (requirements)
Cite your reference- must be from a reputable source
Topic Treatment of Alcohol –state Pennsylvania
Discuss the complexities of defense of home and property.
Discuss the complexities of the defense of consent.
Describe the relationship between syndrome-based defenses and mens rea.
What is mental incompetency? What are some of the challenges in proving an individual is incompetent or insane?
Explain the five different sentencing rationales.
Reflect on seemingly conflicting ideas surrounding cyberlaw discussed throughout this course. Identify areas of weakness in the current law and practices, and offer suggestions for society to improve. Include specific examples to support your reflections.
Discuss whether you feel that some types of media (films, books, electronic video games, for example) are more criminogenic than others or whether some content is more dangerous than other content.
Discuss the differences between cultures that appear to have large amounts of criminogenic media but small levels of copycat crime, such as Japan. Identify several countries that have higher levels of both, such as the United States. What might change in a culture to increase the copying of media portrayed crimes?
Why do you feel that the media often portrays law enforcement in a poor light rather than for their positive attributes?
How do crime shows portray police work? Is this helpful or harmful to the criminal justice system? Give examples.
Discuss how a trial by jury is a small-scale example of social constructionism.
Present a famous court case, either in real life or fictional; how has the media’s portrayal of the case affected the court system in the United States? What role do you think the media should have in the courts? Include your word count.
Should the presence of skin cells at a crime scene or on a victim’s body be a sufficient basis for DNA evidence alone to lead to a criminal conviction? What if someone has a skin condition involving shedding skin cells, such as psoriasis, and a crime victim picked up those cells unknowingly from riding in a taxicab were those skin cells were left behind by the previous passenger? If you were a prosecutor, what specific things would you communicate to the police about their crime scene investigations? What specific things would you communicate to jurors about DNA evidence?
Should the justice system accept all criminal evidence that is found and therefore not apply the exclusionary rule when police officers did not intentionally do anything wrong?