Criminology

Q1. There are a number of advantages and disadvantages which can be achieved by vesting police and intelligence operations under one agency. Police officers are the legal law enforcement agents who have the authority to arrest, detain and prosecute suspects. This has the implication that combing police and intelligence operations will enhance effectiveness and acceptability of service (Chalk 2004, p.43). Such will resolve the problem of conspiracy involved in evidence collection thus making the...

What has been the impact where police and intelligence operations have been vested under the one agency Vesting a single agency with the task of policing and intelligence gathering had brought mix impacts and results, both positive and negative. Integrated agencies of both policing and intelligence gathering are less prone to the lowering of the democratic threshold. The MI5 of the United Kingdom for example is often accused of working independently even without ministerial permission. As stated...

This paper examines an article that appeared in the Seattle Times Newspaper in 2009.This article reported a traffic police stop check that happened in the county of Skagit. According to the article, the court was united in it verdict that the smell of pot does not entail probable cause to guarantee arresting and even searching everybody who was in the car. (Jones 2009).I will evaluate the requirements of warrant in relation to this case and to some extent, the works that cuts across probable and...

Jails are institutions used to rehabilitate people with behavior that is not acceptable within the society. They are established by the legal systems of a country as centers of punishment to people who have disobeyed the laws of the country. Jails are used to take away the freedom of the people convicted of illegal activities to enable them change their behavior (Tonry, 2000). The purpose of jails in society They serve as correction centers. They are established to keep people convicted of crimes...

This paper discusses and analyzes the history, purpose, and other aspects of American prison. It is addressing the effects of the great penitentiary rivalry experienced between Pennsylvania and New York prisons in the current prison system in terms of design and how the inmates are housed. It also explores the effect of the rivalry on the peoples thinking on the roles of prisons. The paper also has comparisons between private and publicly funded prisons. Brief history The prison system in America...

California as a state has been faced with various challenges in the administration of justice. Because of this, the local government together with the state has opted for notable policy improvements that will help in addressing some of the challenges. This paper is going to look into the proposed changes and how they will help them overcome these challenges and deliver good results to the citizens. Current budgeting issues in administration of criminal justice in California The state of Californias...

According to Bennett (2007 pp.1), the word terrorism was derived from the Latin word terrere meaning to tremble. The U.S Department of State in the United States code defines terrorism as a premeditated violence which is politically motivated against non-combats targets carried out by groups intending to influence an audience. Terrorist attacks are in most cases random and indiscriminately and intentionally target noncombatants. It is criminal in nature, motivated politically, and premeditated,...

The role of planning and implementation of effective standards related to public housing and security remains to be an important principle shaping and cultivating new dynamics related to sustenance and growth. Using Shaw and McKays theory of disorganization, it illustrated the capacity to apply the ability of institutions to interact and communicate with one another. By fostering these elements altogether, it can create better dynamics in providing change and reinforcing the strategies to prevent...

Part A The Belmont Report The Belmont Report talks about the importance of the subject when it comes to research and experiments. They report categorized its discussions to into three parts. The first part distinguishes three very important concepts when it comes to the field of medicine, namely practice, research and experimental. Practice refers to actual interventions that are widely known and standardized in the field and applied to patients. Research on the other hand is an activity that is...

In criminal law, corporate liability is the determinant to the extent at which a corporation as an artificial legal person is liable for acts of natural persons it employs. In certain circumstances, employees such as government officials, police and other civil workers commit mistakes. The mistakes by these people turn out to be liability to the artificial body as is observed in the case of corruption of public officials, police using operation ABSCAM and Mollen Commissions investigation of the...

Peace and order are prerequisite for development in any community.  They are important aspects that help in maintaining peaceful coexistence of community members.  However, the role of maintaining peace and order in the community is solely the responsibility of law enforcement agencies (Larry, 2003).  In the recent past, there has been a major shift in policing from reactionary to preventative approaches which are being propagated by community-oriented policing and problem solving...

A Critical Evaluation of Methods of Data Collection and Analysis of Their Applicability to the Research Question, How has corruption affected the cultural development of the people of Thailand  or How did the rates of corruption in Thailand reach their current astronomical levels Introduction Corruption has been a major hindrance for developing countries such as Thailand (Phongpaijit 2000). Recorded evidence of corruption in Thailand dates back to the 16th century. It is a social vice that...

Kansas City experiment is an experiment that was done by Kansas City police department. It was based on the hypothesis that gun seizures and gun crimes are inversely related. They assumed that a decrease in illegal fire arms could lead to a decrease in the number of gun related crimes in the city. The officers involved worked overtime and concentrated exclusively on gun detection through patrols and they were not required to respond to any service calls. The strategy targeted illegal gun owners...

The speaker in the video was Dr. Richard Saferstein,. He is the former Chief Forensic Scientist in the New Jersey State Polive Laboratory. He was the best person to ask about such things since he knows a lot when it comes to this. He defined forensic toxicology as the study of the human body for the presence of drugs and poisons. Organic samples such as blood and urine are used to determine what foreign drugs are present in the body. In the US, all states emply a legal blood alcohol limit of 0.08....

The Ultimate Sanction  Death as Justice In the United States, the capital punishment is either death by electrocution or lethal injection. The death penalty is the legal infliction of death for people who commit capital crimes. This method of punishment was practiced since the colonial period. Nevertheless, the perspective and attitude towards the death penalty had gradually reduced over time. In the past, executions are made publicly. Today, the executions are not publicly shown. Moreover,...

The International Criminal Court (ICC) is impressive by name, yet it does not have much work to do in terms of the number of cases going on at present, all of which involve criminals from African countries (All Cases).  The Court was established to help end impunity for the perpetrators of the most serious crimes of concern to the international community (About the Court).  Hence, Bahar Idriss Abu Garda was presented to the ICC because his country, Sudan, could not try him for his attacks...

Death penalty is a social justice issue and has remained one for over 4000 years. Today, some countries oppose it while others use it to deter criminal activities in the society. Whether it is a deterrent or not will be studied by the paper. This paper examines death penalty as a social justice issue. Moreover, it applies Immanuel Kants theory of ethics to explain capital punishment in the light of value judgment. It also gives a review of studies relevant to death penalty and Kants theory respectively....