Why is an understanding of addiction and addictive behavior important for criminal justice professionals? How would you describe the difference between addiction and addictive behavior? What type of counseling plan would you develop for an offender who suffers from addiction and addictive behavior and has experienced physical and emotional trauma in his or her life? […]
Describe and discuss the rehabilitative programs for female and male offenders. Describe and discuss female versus male offenders’ recidivism. in chapter 6
Discuss the economics of people who work in the drug trade, from the source to street delivery, from the people at the very beginning of the process (such as coca leaf pickers) and at the very end (street salespeople) make very little money.
Discuss the ramifications of competency to stand trial for someone claiming intellectual disability using the Dusky standard. Do you believe there is a better way to assess competency? What might that be? Discuss the areas they would assess for cognitive impairment. What factors would you rely on in your evaluations to support their competency conclusions? […]
Discuss the different types of surveillance and the legal issues related to surveillance. Define the purpose, effectiveness, and advances in this field. What is the difference between loose and close surveillance?
Peruse the Basic Principle on the Role of Lawyers in Appendix A of the Fairchild and Dammer text. Determine whether any of the model nations would have a compliance problem with these principles. What principles would be most problematic? For what countries?
What other info would be important in regard to popular restorative justice practices? Thanks! Three popular restorative justice practices are victim-offender mediation, family group conferencing, and circle sentencing (Doerner & Lab, 2014). Victim-offender mediation allows the offender and victim to come together and discuss issues such as restitution, resolve any lingering conflicts, and allows the […]
Examine the impact of the war on drugs on minority communities by comparing and contrasting black versus white usage, arrest, conviction, and incarceration rates for drugs. In addition, contrast how we dealt with the “crack epidemic” as opposed to how we are dealing with the “heroin epidemic”.
What is the thinking and logic behind nonreactive methods, and why are they important to criminal justice and crime studies? Nonreactive research methods are a way of collecting data in such a way that the person/persons being studied do not know they are being studied. There are three major types of nonreactive method ( field research, […]
Explain the rationale behind racial profiling. Your answer should explain the strengths and weaknesses of the prevailing arguments for and against racial profiling.
