Criminal Justice

Prison Officers Name Institutional Affiliation Prison Officers Prisoner officers not only have an obligation towards the government, the prison stakeholders, and the community but also to the prisoners. More often, communities rely on the services of federal and state prisons and other correctional amenities to facilitate public safety by running secure establishments. Prison officers recognize that their job is to offer public service and when any unethical behavior or misconduct is observed, it not only taints the image of prisons but also erodes citizens’ confidence in such facilities (Coyle, 2010). For this reason, correctional officers and any other staff responsible for overseeing...

Patriot Act Name Institution Patriot Act The Patriot Act was enacted after the September 11 terrorist attack that had adverse impacts on the USA. The act was declared as law during the President Bush administration, and it provided a supplementary extension of executive power. This counterterrorism policy was not only implemented to combat terrorism but also to protect the US citizens. All this was also done in an attempt to block terrorists from being financed (USA Patriot Act, 2016). As a result, the Act makes a lot of changes on current federal statutes, it widens the demarcation of terrorism, increases punitive penalties for terrorist, gives the government more power on wiretapping,...

Moral Conflicts Name Institutional Affiliation Moral Conflicts Absolute moral rules guide ethical decisions based on objectified rules. They uphold that some things are always wrong while others are right regardless of time, place culture or even people. For example, it is not right to kill. The Absolute moral rules provide that harsh judgment has to be undertaken since the law has to be followed no matter the consequences. However, life is not always black and grey, and everyone cannot live with the same rules (William & Donelson, 2013). It might not be right to treat people the same, and yet the circumstances are different. For example, according to these rules, it is wrong to kill and...

Ethics Name Institution affiliation Definition Ethics or moral philosophy regards the complex aspect of the right and wrong which dictates the manner in which humankind should conduct itself. The realm holds that a rational human being should have the capacity to assign moral judgment to conducts, and thoughts (Banks, 2012). The knowledge of ethics paves the way for making the right decision in cases that trigger a moral dilemma scenario. There rules are desirable not because they are right, but because they inherently solve the dilemmas of life. Its applicability spans across requiring discretional power, assumption analysis, and moral content. Application in criminal justice Ethical...

The Functionalism Perspective Name Institution Date The perspective I agree with and why I agree with the functionalism perspective as it involves societal development and the maintenance of social order. This perspective shows how the behavior of persons leads to society functioning effectively. The perspectives assumption is that for a society to be in order, all parts have to be intertwined and dependent on each other (University of Minnesota, 2016). Therefore, changing some part of the community results in a change of other parts and the police are a part of these aspects. All sectors of the society combined see to order, and stability and failure of being intertwined mean a new order...

American Police Name Institute Affiliation American Police Deviance is conduct that infringes the set rules and norms of society. On the other hand, medicalization involves turning something that was previously non-medical aspect of life into a medical matter. Various phenomena have been medicalized such as birth, menstruation, aging, sexual difficulties among others. Medicalization of deviance is, therefore, a process whereby morally condemned belief, conduct or appearance is put under the medical jurisdiction (McGann & Conrad, 2007). With the medicalization of deviance, the American police end up not being involved in a matter that was initially under their authority. For instance, a...

Heroin Epidemic Name Institution Heroin Epidemic The heroin epidemic is one of the most severe challenges facing the healthcare sector today. The outbreak resulted in 7,000 deaths from overdoses among middle-aged adults in 2013 alone (Case & Deaton, 2016). Nevertheless, several measures have been taken by the healthcare sector to try and curb the epidemic to prevent more people from becoming heroin addicts. In this context, the paper discusses methods such as monitoring drug prescriptions, increasing the availability of opioids addiction treatment drugs, and adopting a continued-care approach as effective methods for addressing the heroin epidemic. In response to the heroin epidemic,...

Laws that Sex Workers Want Student’s Name Institution’s Affiliations Laws that Sex Workers Want Consensual exchange of sexual services for the transaction or gain of money and services is dominant in the contemporary society. Sex workers have experienced a series of victimization such as being termed as criminals due to the kind of self-employment they are pursuing. This essay explains the campaign for legal laws that sex workers want as explained by Activist Juno Mac, a feminist, sex worker, and an activist. Juno Mac wants decriminalization, which involves complete removal of laws targeting the existing sex industry. She campaigns for commercial sex to be treated with equality like any...