Law Homework Help

Primary Discussion Posts:

After viewing the video, and completing additional research about the Crime Control and Due Process models, please offer a 900 words primary response in which you address each of the following

• What, according to Herbert Parker, does the Crime Control Model emphasize as goals?  Contrast this with the goals of the Due Process model.
• Complete the Due Process or Crime Control Poll. How does this personal perspective about crime and justice shape what you know, and believe, about the justice system?
• Which perspective is dominant in the media? Provide examples of this perspective in action.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QErNLveFxGc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjJ5SQ-VXxQ

Assignment 2 

Watch the following youtube link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2tOp7OxyQ8

Also, please review the following websites and complete additional research.

• https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2020/06/facing-the-denial-of-american-racism/ (Links to an external site.)
• https://www.brookings.edu/blog/how-we-rise/2020/06/11/systemic-racism-and-america-today/ (Links to an external site.)
• http://www.city-journal.org/2008/18_2_criminal_justice_system.html (Links to an external site.)
• https://time.com/5851855/systemic-racism-america/ (Links to an external site.)
• http://www.asanet.org/images/press/docs/pdf/ASARaceCrime.pdf (Links to an external site.)
• https://www.raceforward.org/videos/systemic-racism (Links to an external site.)
• http://www.crf-usa.org/brown-v-board-50th-anniversary/the-color-of-justice.html

Policy Choice Examples:

I. Arrests

• Policy: Police should collect data on the race and release records of every person they arrest.
• Pros: This will enable departments to track officers who arrest minorities without sufficient cause.
• Cons: Police have too much paperwork already and the statistics collected will be meaningless.

II. Plea Bargaining

• Policy: Plea bargaining should be abolished.
• Pros: It will do away with an informal process subject to abuse because the courts do not review it. It will ensure that all defendants have their day in court.
• Cons: Doing away with plea bargaining will clog the courts with cases awaiting trial, resulting in increased court costs.

III. Sentencing

• Policy: Federal law should not make first-time drug offenders face mandatory sentences. Judges should be allowed more discretion in sentencing these drug offenders.
• Pros: Mandatory-minimum sentences cause first-time offenders, mostly minorities, to go into an already overcrowded prison system.
• Cons: Mandatory-minimum sentences are needed to show we are serious in our war on drugs.

Your assignment:

1. Is systemic discrimination a serious problem in the criminal justice system?

• At this point in our history, is this even a subject for honest debate?

2. Select one of the three policy choice examples above. Evaluate the policy by answering each of the following questions about that policy:

• What problem is the policy designed to address? Does it address the problem? Why or why not?
• Who might support the policy? Who might oppose it? Why?
• What benefits might come from the policy?
• What costs might result from the policy?
• Does this policy have the potential to systematically increase or decrease discrimination?
• What other policies might address the problem? Are they better? Why?