Serial Offender Profile

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Write the paperThere will be one (1) paper assignment due at the end of Week 13 (Sunday, April. 7 by 11:59pm). The assignment is worth 7.18% of your final grade. For this assignment, you will submit a profile of a serial offender that you will be selecting on your own. You can choose an offender discussed in the text, online, from other books, or any other resource (at the disclosure of the professor). Once you select your offender, you will:

  • Discuss if the offender fits the common profile of the serial murder offender. This requires much more than providing a biography of the serial killer.
  • Apply a typology used in the text and apply it to the offender. In doing so, explain how the offender aligns with the typology.
  • Discuss how the particular offender’s crimes were solved (if applicable: if they were unresolved, discuss this, too); and the resolution of the case.
  • Cite sources using APA format. There is no required length for this paper. However, it must be comprehensive and fulfill all necessary requirements.

Communication Issues In Policing

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Create a 15 to-20 slide PowerPoint  presentation based on this week’s Police Legitimacy and Procedural Justice podcast, and the readings in Chapter 8.  Answer the following questions:

  • How have police communicated with the public in the      past and how it has affected the public’s perception of public      safety?
  • How can police better communicate with the public to      better affect the public’s perception of public safety?
  • What are some ways managers in LE communicate with      their workers?
  • What are the three express purposes of      communication in the LE organization?
  • How can managers better communicate with their      subordinates in the LE organization?
  • How do agencies communicate LE information to each      other?
  • What are the communications challenges facing criminal      justice agencies?
  • What are some ways agencies can better share      information so that communication barriers?
  • Discuss the case study in Chapter 8 (Regarding Brady      Johnson), and provide ways that could prevent something like that from      happening again.Create a 15 to-20 slide PowerPoint  presentation based on this week’s Police Legitimacy and Procedural Justice podcast, and the readings in Chapter 8.  Answer the following questions:

     

    · How have police communicated with the public in the past and how it has affected the public’s perception of public safety?

    · How can police better communicate with the public to better affect the public’s perception of public safety?

    · What are some ways managers in LE communicate with their workers?

    · What are the three express purposes of communication in the LE organization?

    · How can managers better communicate with their subordinates in the LE organization?

    · How do agencies communicate LE information to each other?

    · What are the communications challenges facing criminal justice agencies?

    · What are some ways agencies can better share information so that communication barriers?

    · Discuss the case study in Chapter 8 (Regarding Brady Johnson), and provide ways that could prevent something like that from happening again.

. Discuss and debate which side of the issue you most favor regarding judges

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1. Discuss and debate which side of the issue you most favor regarding judges being presented with potential sentencing costs before they render a sentence.

2. If you were a pre-sentence officer, discuss your reasons and the sentencing options you might recommend to the judge in the case of a seriously mentally ill defendant, ensuring that both the public’s and the defendant’s rights are protected.

  • Respond to the following: Answer the 2 discussion question. Include at least 1 reference.

    A good response to a written question should combine your personal experiences with theory to support your work. Be thoughtful and insightful and it must demonstrate critical thinking and analysis. A good response to the question should be about 3-4 paragraphs, and address all of the issues that are raised. (Introduction, body and conclusion.) Thank you. When answering discussion questions use an example in your answer. These examples can be from your own experience or from something you’ve read in the news, on the internet, or from any other credible source

    M5D1: What Does Money Have to Do With it?

    It was once a common adage that “you get as much justice as you can afford.” That is, the rich and powerful exact better legal representation than the poor and indigent. However, with overcrowded prisons, enormous caseloads, and given the current economic climate where many state and local governments are struggling with budget deficits, some states are actually presenting their judges with the approximate costs of prison, probation, and other forms of punishment so that these economic factors can be carefully weighed in their sentence practices. But, critics and prosecutors are concerned that judges may go too easy on criminals in order to meet budget goals, at the real “expense” of the larger social costs of crime, particularly as it relates to the victims.

    1. Discuss and debate which side of the issue you most favor regarding judges being presented with potential sentencing costs before they render a sentence.

    M5D2: Sentencing Options for the Mentally Ill

    Often, the seriously mentally ill in our nation are more likely to be incarcerated than hospitalized, although due process advocates argue that deinstitutionalization would allow the mentally ill to have the same rights and freedoms as others; however, others argue this is not a simple “one-size-fits all” issue. Judges at all levels of our court system often struggle with this sort of sentencing decision, relying heavily on the findings of the pre – sentence report. Pre-sentence investigators attempt to define the defendant’s illness and weigh it to the particular crime when suggesting sentencing recommendations, but, ultimately, the sentencing decision rests with the judge, and both society and the defendant must endure any unintended consequences that may arise from the sentencing decision, as presented in the following video.

    View the video, The Released: Downside of Deinstitutionalization (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.  [Video File][01 Min 53 Sec]

    2. If you were a pre-sentence officer, discuss your reasons and the sentencing options you might recommend to the judge in the case of a seriously mentally ill defendant, ensuring that both the public’s and the defendant’s rights are protected.

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Challenges Of Court System Administration

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Part 1

Your first task is to post your own Key Assignment Outline to the discussion area so that other students are able to review your plan. Attach your document to the main discussion post, and include any notes you feel are appropriate. The purpose of this assignment is to help improve the quality of the Key Assignment Draft you will complete next week.

Part 2     5-6 pages

The objective of this assignment is to enable you to demonstrate your ability to develop a court management policy proposal that addresses the key factors that should be considered to ensure that legal requirements and best practices in management are observed. You will craft a policy proposal designed to address problems of case backlog and excessive delay in calendaring of hearings that have resulted from the growing workload in state courts. You will select the U.S. state court system of your choosing as opposed to a hypothetical or generic state court in an effort to make this deliverable more realistic and to enable the use of information for your research that may be available through actual court administration offices (e.g., via their Web sites or publicly available research reports).

The environment in which this policy proposal is being generated is one characterized by several realities:

  • State budgets for managing necessary services are shrinking.
  • The political environment is somewhat unstable because of lack of consensus on how to address various types of social problems, including crime.
  • Property-related crime is on the rise, including collateral offenses against persons.
  • Court systems are so overwhelmed that there is growing public perception that public access to timely dispute resolution has become severely constrained.
  • Correctional facilities are over-crowded, and problems of recidivism have accelerated.
  • Plea bargaining and out-of court settlement of cases has increased in part as a way to side-step lengthy and expensive court trials.
  • Certain alternative dispute resolution programs have been operating successfully in many circumstances and jurisdictions.

You will produce a policy proposal from the perspective that you are a senior policy analyst employed by a state’s Administrative Office of the Courts. In this role as a senior policy analyst, you have been assigned to draft a proposal for the court administrator recommending viable options based on the legislature’s interests and objectives. The background information that you have been given by your employer is that the Judicial Committee of the State Legislature is very interested in a policy proposal that weighs options for new programs and/or approaches to dispute resolution designed to satisfy the legislature’s stated objectives to do the following:

  • Reduce case backlog
  • Shorten the average time for court hearings to be calendared and for decisions to be rendered
  • Avoid the expense of expanding the number of court houses, judges, and associated court staff and/or detention facilities and associated staff
  • Minimize the need for funding of new programs
  • Consider the viability of “community burden-sharing” through partnerships with private (where private includes both profit and nonprofit) organizations and resources

In addition, the judicial committee has specified that it would like to look at a policy proposal that focuses on dispute resolution options related to juvenile offenders that address the legislature’s objectives as a “pilot test” of new approaches to managing court-related services in the existing environment. Thus, the court administrator has asked that the policy proposal be narrowly focused on the juvenile justice division of the state court system.

The policy proposal should exclude considerations of whether any proposed new programs or expansions of existing programs meet existing statutory requirements. For purposes of this project, you are to assume that once the proposal is presented to the Judicial Committee of the State Legislature, that committee will charge the Office of Legislative General Counsel to determine what, if any, statutory changes would be necessary.