Category: Criminology

a 20-year old, was arrested for killing a police officer. As a newly elected prosecutor, you are responsible for prosecuting Mr. James. You announce your decision not to seek the death penalty in this case, but under your state’s law, the offense charged is considered special circumstances, which would qualify as a death penalty case. Your decision does not sit well with the law enforcement community.

Assignment Guidelines

Address the following in 900 words:

1-List the various hearings that will typically occur and how the case is affected by each event.
2-Provide an overview of the various courts in the typical state system where Mr. James will appear and why he is appearing there, from arraignment to trial and the various levels of appeal. Be sure to provide specific information as it relates to any constitutional issues that may be raised at each stage in the process.
3-What are the potential hearings that might be involved in this case? Be sure to describe them from the time of arrest through appeal.
4-What are the relevant civil liberties issues pertaining to the 4th, 5th, 6th, 8th, and 14th Amendments present in this case?
Be sure to reference all sources using APA style.

Discuss your support or opposition to such proposals. Based on your understanding of Positivist Criminology, how might you respond to lawmakers seeking guidance and direction on this issue?

The Criminal Process
The defendant has been arrested for a crime of manslaughter. He has been confined at the local jail for more than 6 months. The Sixth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution guarantees the accused the right to a speedy and public trial.
Write 400–500 words that respond to the following questions with your thoughts, ideas, and comments. Be substantive and clear, and use examples to reinforce your ideas:
What factors do you think the judge should take into consideration when trying to arrive at a decision on how to ensure the defendant’s right to a public and speedy trial?
Do you believe that the press has a right to be present during trials? Why or why not? Explain your position.
What problems do you foresee, if any, with allowing television cameras inside the courtroom? Explain your position.

A: Discusses each of these three frames of reference-classical, positivistic, and theories of criminal behavior and their relationship to criminal justice policies.

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B. Identifies which of these three frames of reference you align yourself with the most and why?

The large purpose of Sheinin’s Diary of a Criminologist is to evoke trust that you, as readers, should feel when he, a prosecutor, tells you what’s right and what’s wrong in terms of the law and one’s social behavior. Is he successful in establishing this trust with you?

 

McNae’s Essential Law for Journalists (22nd edition) is recommended to use to answer the following questions. Please only apply UK media law to answer the questions.

Give detailed answers to the following questions:

1) New criminal behaviour orders are being introduced which could be imposed on juveniles who have been convicted of an offence. What is the situation with regard to naming a young person when such an order is imposed? Can they be named if they are charged with breaching an order of this type? Explain the law.

2) As proceedings in youth court are about to start, the presiding magistrate tells the only reporter present to leave the court as the press are “not allowed to attend”. Is she right? What would you tell the bench?

Later, the reporter asks for the name of the presiding magistrate, but the clerk of the court says it is not the court’s policy to give names of the justices to the press. Is he right to refuse the name? What would you tell the court?

3) A man is remanded in custody charged with the unlawful killing of his girlfriend’s 18-month-old daughter. The chairman of the magistrates says: “we are making an order under section 39 of the children and young persons act that nothing should be published that would identify the child. We do so to preserve the anonymity of other children in the household even though they have no connection with the circumstances of the alleged offences” Is such an order valid? What view has been expressed by High Court Judges? What action would you take if you were sitting on the press bench when this order was made?

4) A publican is accused of sexually assaulting his teenage niece while she was working behind his bar. Explain how you would report the trial to avoid any legal or ethical problems.

In a separate case, police have arrested a number of men for kerb-crawling. When they appear in court, will you be able to name them? Explain your reasoning.

 

Pick a recent crime trend in the U.S., such as a city or national event. Apply one or more theories of crime learned in the course to explain the crime, including any underlying behavioral, social and structural causes. Use these theories to recommend crime control policies and any social changes that are necessary, citing relevant research proving such steps have been proven to work. For example, they can range from crime prevention programs to policing and incarceration policies. Also offer a range of solutions to solve this problem.

 

Criminal Justice
In a four to five page paper, discuss
1. What are social institutions?
2. List and describe five major social institutions
The body of your paper should be at least 4 full pages in length; not including title and reference pages. Your paper should be double-spaced, 12-point font, with one-inch margins on all sides. Include at least 2 reference sources in APA format and use in-text citations in the body of your paper to show where you have used source material.
As one reference weare using the text book listed here:
Palmiotto, M., & Unnithan, N. P. (2011). Chapter 3: Police and social institutions. In Policing & society: A global approach (pp. 37-60). Clifton Park, NY: Delmar Cengage Learning.

Read through this investigation and decide what the important factors are and write a profile of the killer. This is a general exercise to see if you are able to identify key information needed for profiling. Write/ create a criminal Profile on the following;

Police investigation report.

The body of a young woman was discovered in the water of Belstead Brook at Thorpe’s Hill, near Hintlesham, by a member of the public on December 2, 2006.The body, later identified as 25-year-old Gemma Adams, had not been sexually assaulted. Six days later, on December 8, the body of 19-year-old Tania Nicol, a friend of Adams, who had been missing since October 30, was discovered in water at Copdock Mill just outside Ipswich. There was no evidence of sexual assault. On December 10, a third victim, found by a member of the public in an area of woodland by the A14 road near Nacton, was later identified as 24-year-old Anneli Alderton.

The body of a young woman was discovered in the water of Belstead Brook at Thorpe’s Hill, near Hintlesham, by a member of the public on December 2, 2006.The body, later identified as 25-year-old Gemma Adams, had not been sexually assaulted. Six days later, on December 8, the body of 19-year-old Tania Nicol, a friend of Adams, who had been missing since October 30, was discovered in water at Copdock Mill just outside Ipswich. There was no evidence of sexual assault. On December 10, a third victim, found by a member of the public in an area of woodland by the A14 road near Nacton, was later identified as 24-year-old Anneli Alderton.

Anneli Alderton, aged 24, a mother of one who was also in the early stages of pregnancy had been living in Colchester, Essex. Alderton disappeared on December 3 and was last seen on the 17.53 train from Harwich to Manningtree. Alderton got off the train at Manningtree at 18.15 before going on to Ipswich via another train, arriving at 18.43. Alderton’s body was found on 10 December near Nacton, in woodland in front of Amberfield School. Alderton had been asphyxiated and was found naked, and posed in the cruciform position. Alderton had been addicted to drugs since age 16, shortly after her father’s death from lung cancer in 1998.

In a press conference police warned all women to stay away from the red light district of Ipswich. On December 12, Suffolk police announced that the bodies of two more women had been found. On December 14, the police confirmed one of the bodies as 24-year-old Paula Clennell. Clennell had disappeared on December 10 and was last seen in Ipswich.

Paula Clennell, aged 24, born in Northumberland and living in Ipswich, disappeared on December 10 in Ipswich at approximately 00.20. Clennell’s body was found on December 12 near Levington. Clennell was found naked but not sexually assaulted and a post mortem reported that she had been killed by a compression of her throat. Prior to her death, Clennell commented on the then recent murders in an interview with Anglia News, stating that despite them making her “a bit wary about getting into cars” she continued to work as “I need the money.” Clennell moved to East Anglia ten years before her death, following the break-up of her parents’ marriage. Clennell had three children with Elton Norris; all were taken into care and adopted due to her drug addiction. Clennell herself had spent some of her childhood in a referral unit, and it was shortly after being placed there that she started taking drugs.

On 15 December, the police confirmed that the other body was that of 29-year-old Annette Nicholls, who disappeared on December 5. The bodies of Clennell and Nicholls were found in Nacton near the Levington turn-off of the A1156, close to where Alderton was found. A member of the public had seen Clennell’s body six metres from the main road and a police helicopter dispatched to the scene discovered the second body of Nicholls nearby.

Annette Nicholls, aged 29, a mother of one from Ipswich, was initially thought to have gone missing on December 4, but at the trial it was revealed she was last seen in Ipswich town centre on December 8. Her family reported her missing after they grew concerned at the news of the other murders. Nicholls’ body was found on December 12 near Levington, naked but not sexually assaulted, and posed in the cruciform position; a definite cause of death could not be established, but her breathing had been hampered. Nicholls, the oldest victim, had been a drug addict since the early 2000s, shortly after completing a beautician’s course at Suffolk College. Soon afterwards, she had started working as a prostitute to fund her addiction.

During press conferences on December 13 and 14, DCS Gull revealed that police believed the locations where the five bodies were found to have been ‘deposition sites’, not murder scenes, indicating that the victims were all killed elsewhere and transported to the locations where they were later found; no comment was made on where the women may have been murdered.