Federal crime

Native Americans and Crime Increase Native Americans and reservations are topics that most people that live in big cities have little knowledge about. Native Americans and their tribes live in reservations which are located apart of cities. Due to the separation of reservations and cities, Native Americans have not completely assimilated to the mainstream of the American culture. According to McNamara and Burns (2008) Native Americans have a vast array of cultures and a different life styles.…

When investigating a crime scene, NIBIN, IAFIS, and CODIS are used to help collect and individualize evidence. The use of these helps investigators find and determine the perpetrator of a crime easier and faster. Before these it would take investigators a lot longer to find suspects of the crime and determine who committed it. Overall, NIBIN, IAFIS, and CODIS have helped make solving a crime a easier and quicker process and are a big step in making forensics evidence a more reliable source.…

There are roughly 1,300 state, federal, and privately run prisons in the United States (Schmalleger & Smykla, 2015). Depending on the location in the U.S., the state prison system ranges from nearly fifty percent under maximum amount of prisoners allowed to almost fifty percent over the maximum amount of prisoners allowed. The federal prison system in total is running approximately forty percent over maximum amount of prisoners allowed. The fact that both state and federal prison systems are…

Act on July 3, 1996. This act stipulated that is a crime to deface, damage or destroy religious property, or interfere with a person’s religious practice in situations affecting interstate commerce.9 This changed the sentencing of destroying religious property from 10 years to 20 years. It also increased the statue of limitations from 5 years to 7 years after the date the crime was committed. F. The Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2009 Unfortunately, not all…

experiences of victims and even witnesses. In 1975 the national organization for crime victim assistance was founded, and through their leadership, the criminal justice system began creating victim assistance programs,…

Chevar Mcnair In my opinion criminal procedures in our federal and state courts is very unorganized in a plethora of ways. First, everyone does not get the same type of punishment for the same crimes. The fact that there are crimes individuals commit that can be the same exact crime yet get complete different punishments conveys how precarious our criminal procedures in our courts are. I believe everything that is legal may not be ethical. There was once a time where slavery was legal,…

topic I will be researching is systemic disadvantages bestowed upon Canada’s Aboriginal peoples, and the reasons behind their innate inferiority in Canadian society. Research Question: Why is there a higher incidence of crime in Aboriginal communities in Canada? Literature 1: Crime and control in three Nishnawbe-Aski Nation communities: An exploratory investigation: The questions asked and answered in the article by Auger, Doob, Auger, and Driben (1992) pertain to criminal activity and disorder…

1. Both rural and metropolitan police face problems. The metropolitan police face corruption. They have to deal with the increasing risk of terrorism. They deal with more crime, because of the bigger city aspect. Metropolitan police have to also deal with more homelessness, unemployment, drug addiction, and child abuse crimes (p. 44). The rural police deal with problems, such as not having immediate backup. They have less officers, where bigger cities have more officers. Rural police have to…

Should the Federal Government Intervene in Chicago? Did you know that there has already been 35 homicides through January 22, 13% has increased from the last year in chicago. In Chicago there is a high percentage of crimes, murders, and shootings. The government wants to send in the feds to help reduce the crimes that occurs , but the feds are already there. People are ambiguous about what the government is referring to. The government should intervene in chicago. The federal…

government jurisdictions in criminal prosecutions involving crimes against persons. The essential goal of this paper is to clarify how the same behavior might be arraigned either in the state or government court according to material state and elected statutes. In addition, with the use of a scenario I will choose specific crimes and describe the elements of each. Lastly, I will describe a cultural factor and how it can impact how the crime. In different cultures, they interpret the writings of…