Criminal Justice

Substance Abusers Common Characteristics Student’s Name Institutional Affiliation Course: Date: Substance Abusers Common Characteristics The behavior of a substance abuser is sad, frightening, frustrating, and baffling. The power of an addictive substance is robust that a lot of individuals get overwhelmed by it, resulting in criminal, abusive, and erratic behavior. One of the characteristics common to substance abusers includes mood swings (Jalilian et al., 2015). The person steadily develops personality change, and all his or her thoughts and activities revolve around the drug. Furthermore, his or her insight and judgment also become impaired. Secondly, a drug abuser exhibits changes...

Student’s Name Professor’s Name Course Title Date of Submission Bernie Madoff America has seen its share of fraudsters who have defrauded innocent civilians of their savings through the establishment of Ponzi schemes used as the tool for duping the public. Bernie Madoff is one of the famous white-collar criminals in American history that was responsible for deceiving investors most of whom had committed their savings out of $65 billion in investment. Ponzi schemes are not a new phenomenon but have neem in existence since the 1950s. They refer to financial scams where the investment is premised on the promise of high returns to the investors without the possibility of high returns. However,...

TERRORISM IN THE MIDDLE EAST AND LATIN AMERICA Student’s Name Course Instructor Date Israel has been utilizing the targeted assassination technique for a considerable time and claims it to be an effective method of counter-terrorism. In fact, Daniel Byman, Israeli counter-terror expert is noted to have said that this method worked following alleged successful targeted killings of Palestinian terrorists after 2000 reducing Israeli deaths from 172 to below 40 between 2002 and 2005 respectively.It is, however, essential realizing that these claims were misleading as evidenced from facts from experiences of other nations that have employed similar tactics whose results reveal ineffectiveness...

Do the Right Thing Student’s Name Institutional Affiliation Do the Right Thing Do the Right Thing is one of the popular films produced in 1989, exploring the discrimination of African-Americans in Brooklyn. The flick was inspired by the escalating levels of bigotry by the police against the blacks in the United States. Spike Lee, the producer of the movie, practically mirrors the attitude that the law enforcement officers have on civilians. In the context of this analysis, police brutality is defined as excessive physical abuse and intimidation to injure a citizen intentionally. The harm may either be psychological, emotional or physical. The director dedicates the film to the family of the...

Watergate Before 1972, the word Watergate had little meaning in the United States. However, in summer of the same year events unfolded that came to be associated with the most significant political scandal of the 20th century. On June 17, 1972, five men wearing business suits were arrested breaking in the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee located at the Watergate. The men had been wire-tapping the premises as well as gathering information in the form of pictures. Upon investigation by Bob Woodward, a journalist at The Washington Post, it became apparent that the burglary was linked to the White House. McCord was among those responsible for the Committee to Re-Elect the...

Cases Role- Play Name: Institutional Affiliation: Precipitating event: He thinks that he might have contracted gonorrhea from a woman that he had a night stand with. Cognitions: I had sex with another woman. My wife is going to leave me when she finds out because she ultimately will. I feel so guilty, and I'll end up telling her. I should avoid seeing her for now. If she leaves me, I don't know what I'll do with my life. I will kill myself before she finds out because if she does, she’ll leave and I can’t live without her. Emotional distress: The client appears to be highly agitated, anxious, and sad. Impairments in functioning: He avoids his talking to his wife. He cannot face her...

CRIMINAL LAW RESEARCH TOPIC: PRISON INFORMANTS Name Professor Institutional affiliation Course Date Criminal Law Research Topic: Prison Informants For this assignment the criminal law topic that is up for discussion is the matter of Jailhouse informants. Jailhouse informants are people who act as witnesses from the prisons. The information that they provide is mostly based on the fact that their jail mates told them of how they committed a crime. This topic is interesting as it can be tackled from three areas that are in line with the purpose of the class. These are procedure and evidence looking at the reliability of such witnesses. Punishments, this will focus on the rewards given to jail...

Student’s nameInstructorCourseDate Justice The five main goals of punishment are; restoration, deterrence, restitution, incapacitation, and retribution. Deterrence is frightening the defendant to prevent the occurrence of future crimes while incapacitation is removing the defendant from the public to prevent future crimes. Rehabilitation is modifying the behaviors of the defendant through therapy, educational and vocational training. Retribution is preventing the occurrence of future crimes by eliminating the urge for personal revenge. Restitution is punishing the defendant financially to prevent the occurrence of future crimes. This is...

Student’s Name Professor’s Name Course Number Date Criminal Law & Justice Final Exam The Criminal Justice system has seven major steps, and they include arrest, initial appearance, preliminary hearing, arraignment and plea, the discovery of evidence, trial and sentencing. Crime can be classified into two broad categories namely: infractions and misdemeanors. There are various types of crimes, and the most common are assault, battery, burglary, robbery, aggravated assault, arson, bribery, kidnapping, rape, and homicide. There are six identifiable theories which can be used to explain the cause of crime. They include strain theory, rational choice theory, social disorganization theory,...