Category: Law : Criminal Justice

1. Write a research proposal on the impact that body cameras have on the interactions between police and citizens. How body cameras affect the behavior of both police officers and citizens, also if the body cameras contribute to an increased level of transparency in law enforcement engagements with the public.  2. Research Proposal Outline provides…

Annotated Bibliography Assignment   Instructions:   1) Find 3 peer-reviewed journal articles related to your research topic that you picked with your topic summary.   2) For each article that you found, write an APA reference citation for it.   3) Under the reference for each article, write two paragraphs.           -The first paragraph should briefly summarize the…

Give an example of how each of the stages of development listed in the article would be exhibited in your own classroom by your students.

You will watch a presentation about a sworn CSI (Lynchburg Crime Scene Investigator and graduate of Liberty University) and the many aspects of the job. Drawing from the items in the Learn section and outside scholarly articles (researched on the Internet or otherwise), you will participate in the discussion by comparing and contrasting the advantages…

In this module, we discussed two major theoretical perspectives with vastly different viewpoints on crime and potential policy implications. Biosocial perspectives on crime largely bring back the biological perspectives on criminal behavior that served as a strong foundation for criminology while also integrating some sociological explanations for crime. Life-course theories are a newer perspective that…

Management by objectives (MBO) has been a management principle applied in the criminal justice profession for quite some time. (It has been used throughout most if not all management fields.) MBO fits well in criminal justice because this profession lends itself to addressing emerging problems on a systemic level. For example, the current increase in…

One of this week’s reading assignments explores some of the problems posed by the inability to exchange information among criminal justice agencies in the US and the importance of information sharing and the inter-operability of communicationsystems. (“The Importance of Information Sharing Among Agencies”) Indeed, contemporary law enforcement requires more than just a willingness to work together. …

The Virtual Criminal Justice Alliance….Background Information For the past 11 months, the Virtual Police Department has applied a variety of investigative resources and strategies and is prepared to bring a number of criminal charges against the members of the Very Bad Bike Club. These started out as investigations of individual calls-for-service, complaints and criminal investigations. They merged…

The first article on the Week 2 Learning Resources page is “Evaluating Multi-Agency Anti-Crime Partnerships: Theory, Design and Measurement Issues”. Each of your assignments this session are centered around this mindset as each of you represent one facet of “crime fighting” in the scenario about the Virtual Criminal Justice Agency. The police can’t do it…

For the past 11 months, the Virtual Police Department has applied a variety of investigative resources and strategies and is prepared to bring a number of criminal charges against the members of the Very Bad Bike Club. These started out as investigations of individual calls-for-service, complaints and criminal investigations. They merged into a collective effort as the…