Goals: Stacey will effectively develop individual, departmental and organizational goals to attain the objectives of the unit. She will ensure that when addressed with changes within the unit that the changes are accepted in a respectful and professional manner. She will continue to promote and collaborate with her peers in a respectful and professional manner. She will continue to be diligent when researching records that are to be scanned and/or expunged from the TOKOpen, as well as performing the task of IDO's in Computerized Criminal History (CCH) database. She will also be introduced to the task of DL discrepancy.…
Crime is a common occurrence that is prevalent and brought up in many facets of society. This extends from the political arena, where politicians attempt to push forward policies to reduce crime, to our news. Theft, murder, robbery, and other types of crime are done every hour constantly occurring yet, we may not all see it personally. Motor vehicle theft happens daily and can be a large ??? Not sure how to do…
Policy The Comprehensive Crime Control Act There are currently five million Americans in the criminal justice system that are under community supervision like probation or parole (Walshe, 2012). This equates to approximately 1 in 45 adults. This is nearly double the incarcerated prison population. In 1984, the Comprehensive Crime Control Act, among other things, made probation a stand-alone sentence.…
Lime Crime is a cosmetic company that has built a strong reputation based on being true to yourself. In other words, the product line is a tool to claim your own creativity. The founder of the makeup company is Doe Deere. Certainly, this is her personal philosophy too. Her personal philosophy has attracted millions of fans to the makeup since they exploded on the scene close to a decade ago.…
The Uniform Crime Reports (UCR) and the National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS) are two major sources of crime statistics commonly used in the United States (Sources of Crime Data: Uniform Crime Reports and the National Incident-Based Reporting System, n.d.). Crime statistics is a complex process because it must revel accurate information when reporting the incidences of crime in society (Criminal Statistics, 1998). Crime statistics first took shape in France around 1827. It is now based on notifiable (triable by jury) recorded offences, the cumulative data recorded by official agencies such as the police and courts, and along with criminological research (Criminal Statistics, 1998). This paper will compare and contrast these two primary…
Do you love bold, exotic, brightly colored make-up that makes you stand out in a crowd? Would like a make-up that matches your personality? Continue reading to learn more about a make-up brand that did just that. Lime Crime, launched in 2008 by Doe Deere. She launched Lime Crime cosmetics when she was unable to find cosmetics bold enough to compliment the clothes she was designing and selling on Ebay.…
The Bureau of Justice Statistics is an important collection of data that seeks to report information about the criminal justice system. It is important in analyzing our justice system. I was interested in determining the demographics of incarcerated offenders and the results surprised me. I found that in 2014, 37% of the male prison population was black, 32% was white, and 22% was hispanic. While a 5% difference between black and white incarceration may not seem like a large discrepancy, it does seem incredibly noteworthy when blacks make up only 12.8% of the population compared to whites who make up 63% of the population.…
The Federal Bureau of Investigation has a group of experts that study the characteristics and traits of offenders. Criminal profiling also known as criminal investigative analysis (CIA) is an investigative process that examines the offender’s crime to identify major personalities and behavioral characteristics (Turvey, 2011). Although these investigators are specialists and have numerous training to become subject matter experts, the opinions can differ depending on the profiler. There have been studies done that showed the unreliability of criminal profiling and how opinions can interfere with factual information.…
Of importance is the core prosecutions unit, the National Prosecutions Service (NPS). The NPS is mainly responsible for general prosecutions and the appeals that might follow, inclusive of the resolution of criminal matters outside of the formal trial process through alternative dispute resolution mechanisms, determination of admissions of guilt for minor offences and the consideration of dockets brought by the police where persons have not been formally charged (National Prosecuting Authority, 2015). The NPS is furthermore divided into nine regions, each lead by a Director of Prosecutions and each region is divided into a number of Clusters lead by Chief Prosecutors. Clusters are made up of a number of magisterial offices lead by Senior and/or…
Review Questions Identify and discuss two different goals that the criminal justice system has. Two different goals that the criminal justice system has are deterrence and rehabilitation/reintegration. There are two types of deterrence in criminal justice. The first is general deterrence, where criminal justice exemplifies what happens to people that do commit a crime, which the crime can be specific or general.…
The Uniform Crime Report (UCR), which is gathered by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), is a primary source for crime statistics in the United States (Walsh 2015, p. 25). Through the UCR, the citizens and the law enforcement officers can see the crime rates or statistics in a given city. The UCR identifies offenses in two categories, Part I – the index crime and Part 2 – the less serious crime. The index crime is the violent crimes, property crimes, and human trafficking. Violent crimes include homicide, assault, forcible, rape, and robbery.…
The historical development of the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting Program came about in 1930’s. The UCR Program began in the 1930's when Congress authorized the U.S. attorney general to survey crime in America. Not only to survive crime but to survey it by uniforming crime statistics. In order to get information to the program, law enforcement agencies provide crime information, with data coming from city to city, country, colleges, universities and state departments. These citizens crime reports included reports from different cities, states and even millions of people were covered by the first survey.…
The Accuracy of Criminal Profiling As society keeps expanding, through growth and technology, more opportunities for crimes pop up in our daily lives, ranging from internet gambling, all the way to insider trading. But as with any criminal movement, criminal justice is not far behind. Half the battle of fighting crime is knowing what to look for, and the other half is knowing how to stop it. Criminal profiling does both, and being in a generation with James Holmes and The Columbine shooting, there couldn’t be a better time for criminal profiling.…
There is also a misconception exist that the majority of sexual predators are male. However, a study in the Journal of Family Violence shows that although female sex offenders are increasing in notoriety very little research has been done and therefore, they’re more difficult to understand. And for that reason, colleges should do more to inform their students about registered sex offenders enrolled in college campuses, not only to protect the students but also to better protect the children in the childcare center of colleges.…
As modern lifestyles become increasingly intertwined with technology, criminal investigations have done so as well. The new field of cyber forensics has arisen to meet the need to gather information that has been increasingly hidden from investigators through the criminal use of technology. While businesses often have difficulties implementing effective information security policies, new challenges arise when they are confronted with the potential for cyber investigations which may jeopardize the security of corporate information. This report will examine the situation regarding cyber forensics as it stands, detailing why the circumstances of these investigations may be concerning for firms in regards to the security of their private information.…