Police lineup

College students that follow Criminology as a career, learn about different types of crime and how public responds to crime. This field focuses more in the psychology and ideology of a criminal (Criminology 2010). Criminology always is trying to solve the question, why crime occurred and why people commit them? This is why Criminology prepares a student to understand criminal’s behavior. Criminologists are mainly concerned with identifying the suspected cause of crime. Even though some…

Most times private security officers are only required to have a one state background check, drug test, and obtain a FOID card. The training that a public police officer must obtain is much more extensive. The typical training and screening usually consists of an extensive background check, psychological exam, physical fitness test, and the applicants must also have a minimum level of college credits. As time has went on private security companies are realizing that the need for better…

The way police serve their communities have been organized around different philosophies which are not always perfect but have had a lot of success. Traditional, problem-oriented, community oriented, and order maintenance policing models of policing are very different but ultimately have one goal, a way to solve problems in the community. Crime has evolved over the years and so must policing so that there is order. Some of these methods like traditional policing is still widely used and is the…

be practiced in disadvantaged neighbourhoods. When it was practiced though it significantly decreased certain crimes such as crimes related to drug sales and had overall positive outcomes. Community policing also improved the relations between the police and the rest of the community and reduced the perception of disadvantagement in the communities it was practiced in (Reisig & Parks, 2004). Another method that recently has started to be implemented is the use of body cameras by law…

Racial profiling occurs when police officers have a suspicion of crime based on ethnicity, race, religion or national origin (NJI, 2013). Obviously, arrests made upon criminal suspicions based on the physical appearance of an individual raise several ethical concerns as this is not…

United States has dropped dramatically. This drop in crime could be related to the adjustment in police tactics, adoption of community policing techniques, and to the combination of innovative police strategies. Policing changed from an incident based response to a problem-oriented strategy. Prior to the 1990’s police had the discretion to handle a situation with their own judgment to use force. Police were looked upon at the “enemy” and not the savior. In 1972 and 1973 there was an…

ADomestic violence as a definition has developed significantly over time, previously this behaviour was limited to just physical violence, however the current definition has branched out to include emotional, financial, sexual and psychological abuse. The Home Office defines this as being ‘any incident or pattern of incidents of controlling, coercive, threatening behaviour, violence or abuse.’ There is no doubt that the law has evolved over time to generate an increased awareness of domestic…

in order to make progress. Sometimes that is a great thing that needs to happen or it could be the complete opposite of what we were looking for. For instance, let’s look at the current situation with the police departments and the courts. The media is bringing more attention to excessive police officer aggression on civilians. As well as, how Judges are giving an excessive amount of time to offenders for petty crime. What are we supposed to think about the Criminal Justice system? My daily…

charged, it will include Purchase Order Fraud, which is a federal crime (FBI, 2014). The consequences for that in The United States can be incarceration, fines, probation, or a combination of all three (Fichtelberg, 2008). This crime can be charged by the International Criminal Court. There is no jury at the International Criminal Court. A panel, made up of three judges, will decide if the defendant is guilty and what the punishment will be. They also have the ability to sentence them to…

Police brutality has been an issue that as continued to grow and progress over the last several years. What is police brutality? According to Lindsey Boggess she defined it as the unlawful use of physical force by officers in the performance of their lawful duties. In this case it often involves with physical pain but, it can even be shown through through verbal aggression. Abusive language is not only aggressive but, often offensive, including the use of insults, degrading language, and…