Serial Killers And The Media

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The many questions associated with serial murder investigation bring about criticism and public and media pressure. There is a globalization perspective to a serial murder investigation. Identify and discuss some of the factors that affect investigative tools and approaches used by law enforcement here and abroad. Is this affected by media pressure and actions or by public criticism?

Your response should include current and credible research to support your claims and should be 1000 words or more in length (3–4 pages).

The informational paper needs to:

  • Include a title page with full name, class name, section number, and date.
  • Include an introductory and concluding paragraph and demonstrate college-level communication through the composition of original materials in Standard English.
  • Be double-spaced in Arial or Times New Roman in 12 point font size.
  • Use examples to support your discussion.
  • Viewpoint and purpose should be clearly established and sustained.
  • Your writing should be well ordered, logical and unified, as well as original and insightful.
  • Include a reference page citing all sources on a separate reference page at the end of your paper and cited within the body of your paper using APA format.

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Explain the ethical dilemma portrayed in this case and how Uustal’s “Ethical Decision-Making Model” can assist in navigating the situation.

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Your health care team is presented with the following case:

A 6-year-old develops a high fever accompanied by violent vomiting and convulsions while at school. The child is rushed to a nearby hospital. The attending physician makes a diagnosis of meningitis and requests permission from the parents to initiate treatment. Both parents are Christian Scientists, and they insist that no medical treatment be given to the child. The physician initiates treatment anyway, and the parents later sue the physician and the hospital.

In a formal, written paper of 1,250-1,500 words, provide the following:

  1. Explain the ethical dilemma portrayed in this case and how Uustal’s “Ethical Decision-Making Model” can assist in navigating the situation.
  2. Describe the perspectives, needs, and expectations of each of the following health care stakeholders: (a) child, (b) parent, (c) physician, (d) health care staff, (e) hospital, (f) administrator, and (g) attorney.
  3. Summarize potentially conflicting values and principles that exist in this case based upon ethical theories and principles you have learned in this course.
  4. Assuming the role of the hospital administrator, provide a solution to resolve the identified ethical dilemma in this case.

Include at least three scholarly, peer-reviewed references from the GCU Library to support your positions.

Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required.

you will need to search online for Uustal’s 9 step ethical decision-making model for the writing assignment

“Solicitation Vs. Conspiracy To Commit A Crime” Please Respond To The Following:

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  • This week, we will be comparing and contrasting the required elements of solicitation of another to commit a crime versus the required elements of conspiracy to commit a crime. Using the Internet or Strayer University Library resources, find a real-world example of one of the two crimes (your choice) from a news article and please provide the link. Give us a brief synopsis of the facts, and then think like a prosecuting attorney – present what crime you would charge the defendant with, and demonstrate how the facts prove each individual element of the crime you have chosen.
  • In your responses this week, as you view your colleagues’ posts, think like a defense attorney – using the link they provided to the incident or case, review the facts and see if you can present a defense to the charges.

    Note: an exemplary score will include an original post of at least 150 words, with a well-written response to at least one other student.

Digital Forensics In The Criminal Justice System

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This week (and past weeks) your reading focuses on the techniques and tools you would use to collect, preserve, and analyze digital evidence. While this class does not focus as heavily on the highly technical aspects of digital forensics (e.g., using the tools, techniques, processes to collect, preserve and analyze digital evidence), it does stress how to be prepared for the digital evidence process, as it fits into the criminal justice system.

Of course, it is critical that computer forensic examiners understand processes such as capturing volatile data, recognizing and collecting digital evidence, analyzing the evidence once it is collected, etc.; however, what I want you to focus on this week is why and how the processes are designed to identify, seize, collect, preserve, and analyze digital evidence, and how they relate to the criminal justice process.

You should all understand the need to verify what a warrant will allow you to search for and seize in a criminal case (ensuring that you do not exceed the scope and potentially compromise your case). You should also be aware of what a company’s policy, or an organization’s leadership will allow you to do in a non-criminal justice investigation. In either case, you need to be able to testify about all the steps you took, articulating from the point when you were first notified of the incident or called in to collect the digital evidence, until the time you are called to testify about it. Digital evidence must not just be simply collected (e.g., picked up and put in a bag), but procedures must be put in place to preserve the evidence so the defense cannot raise reasonable doubt (in the criminal case) about the integrity or provenance of the evidence.

For this week’s discussion, complete the following questions below in detail.  Please discuss thoroughly and substantively in your post. Additionally,  respond in a thorough, substantive, intelligent way to  at least  one  of your fellow classmates that adds to our discussion and learning of this week’s topic!

1) Describe at least 5 steps in a process to collect digital evidence to the time you testify that you consider important. Please explain why they are important.

2) You are a witness and I am asking you the following question – please answer thoroughly as if you are testifying in court on the witness stand. “Upon entering the room where the computer was located, what was the first thing you did?”

3) Continue your testimony by answering – “After seizing the computer evidence, explain what you did with it?”