Using your local law enforcement jurisdiction as an example, gather the most recently published crime statistics, as well as a review of recent headlines, and prepare an answer to the following scenario:Mary, charged with a felony burglary, has been indicted by a grand jury and is facing trial next month. Given the history of your jurisdiction's key players in the police department, court, and corrections, will she likely experience the due process model or the crime control model? Why? How, if at all, will this vary from recent trends within the United States?
What will be an ideal response?
Answers will vary according to jurisdictions but should include a discussion of liberalism and conservatism as reflected in each of the two models and a likelihood of how the current presidential administration will impact these models. Discussions of these are reflected in the text under "Crime Control versus Due Process."
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A) gender bias. B) racial profiling. C) socioeconomic discrimination. D) selective incapacitation.
Philip Zimbardo (2008) himself decided that his Stanford Prison Experiment was unethical because it violated the first two of the principles outlined by the ACJS Code of Ethics. What were they?
What will be an ideal response?
In the early decades of the 1900s, there were concerns about all forms of ____ as delinquency instigators.
a. popular culture b. human interaction c. antisocial behavior d. media
Youthful offenders who are involved with the juvenile justice system at earlier ages and are adjudicated delinquent in their early adolescence, and those ______ are at greatest risk for ongoing felony convictions and recidivism.
A. involved in multiple forms of delinquency B. held in secure facilities C. raised in broken homes D. with poor academic performance