Find a recent media or news article on the Internet concerning budget issues a police or other public sector agency is currently facing.

• Give a summary of the article
• Outline the type of operating budget utilized by the chosen agency
• Discuss challenges faced by leaders in the article in working through the budget issues
• Summarize how you as a criminal justice leader would work through the specified budgetary issue you outlined

Social Control Theory: How Positive socialization corresponds with reduction of criminal violation. (This is the topic)

Research Proposal

Each student will submit a research proposal that must be related to the criminal justice or criminology field. Topics outside the criminal justice or criminology will not be accepted and given any credit. The research proposal is a written assignment that includes a statement of the problem to be studied, the formulation of the research question and hypothesis, literature review, and methods section. The paper should be written in Times New Roman, 12 font, 1-inch margins style. It should be written between 6-8 pages in length (introduction, 1-2 pages; Literature review, 3-4 pages, and methods, 2-3 pages in length).

Reiterate the information from your first discussion by submitting the following information: your major, your pathway, what is your realistic future desired job. Then, choose, share, and briefly discuss the topic you would like to use in your final project.

*Consider that your final project should answer the following: Choose a social, cultural, or ethical issue related to your field of study. Chose ONE area to focus on.

In this assignment, you are continuing on in your role as a police officer. The Chief wants to continue her emphasis on empathy training. Now that she’s comfortable that officers have a grounding in criminology theory, she wants to see how effectively they are able to apply what they’ve learned about criminology theory and empathy to their daily police work. As part of their prework for an upcoming departmental training session, the chief wants all officers to complete a chart that requires them to specify for 10 given scenarios:

• The crime committed and the underlying cause of the behavior, based on criminology theories.
• A police response to the scenario that addresses the behavior and provides a solution to the incident.

Instructions

Complete the Criminology Theory Application Chart [DOCX], which identifies 10 scenarios of criminal or deviant acts that officers are likely to encounter in performance of their duties.

The first scenario is completed for you as an example to guide your responses for the remaining scenarios. For each scenario:

1. Identify the crime(s) or deviance committed.
2. Determine the behavior’s underlying cause, based on criminology theories.
3. Outline a responding officer’s response to the scenario that addresses the behavior and provides a solution to the incident.
4. Use three sources to support your writing.
   • Choose sources that are credible, relevant, and appropriate.
   • Cite each source listed on your source page at least one time within your assignment.
   • The preferred method is for your Criminology Theory Application Chart to be typed, single-spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides.
   • Include a cover page containing the assignment title, your name, your professor’s name, the course title, and the date.
   • Include a separate source list page. Citations and references must follow SWS format.

ACTION ITEMS

Identify one issue from the weekly reading and create a Legal Issue Brief.

In a Word document, compose a one-page legal brief that follows the order indicated below:

• Title (Issue summarized in 2-5 words)
• Student Name

Issue (1-3 sentences)

• Facts (3-4 sentences)
• Student position (2-4 sentences)
• Rationale (5-7 sentences)
• SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS
• Complete and submit this assignment according to your professor’s instructions.

Develop an inclement weather plan for all potential weather threats for a multi-purpose recreation facility (indoor and outdoor facility). You will:

• Explain the physical location of the facility
• Discuss all potential weather threats (blizzard, thunderstorm, hurricane, tornado, etc.) to the facility (discuss a minimum of 4 weather threats).
• Develop a plan for each weather threat including how weather threat information will be communicated to participates.
• Explain how/if the facility will be used as a shelter during any particular weather threat.

Learning Resources

Required Readings

U.S. Department of Justice: Bureau of Justice Assistance. (2011). Plea and charge bargaining: Research summary. Retrieved from https://www.bja.gov/Publications/PleaBargainingRes…

Griffin, L. K. (2017). State Incentives, plea bargaining regulation, and the failed market for indigent defense. Law & Contemporary Problems, 80(1), 83–105.

Etienne, M. (2017). A lost opportunity for sentencing reform: Plea bargaining and barriers to effective assistance. South Carolina Law Review, 68(3), 467–486.

By Day 3
Post a response to the following:
How can overcharging or horizontal and vertical charging be employed as a strategy for discovering the truth? When is it most appropriate?
By whom are the strategies best applied?
At what point does overcharging or horizontal and vertical charging become coercion?
Is the strategy ethical?
By Day 5
Respond to two colleagues:
Choose a response that is different from your own.
Explain how your colleague’s position has changed your perception or understanding.
Submission and Grading Information

I’m working on a law question and need an explanation to help me learn.

Journal: Plea Bargain—Innovation or Imperfect?

The ability to reach a plea agreement has perceived benefits for prosecution and even the defense. An offender assisting law enforcement to catch “bigger fish” could lead to a lighter sentence. One may deem that justice is served by getting closer to the source of a criminal enterprise, such as a mob boss whose downfall would topple many other enterprises. However, when pleas are traded to create efficiencies, the ways in which justice is defined, and for whom, may vary. In this Journal entry, you explore your own opinion of negotiated justice.

By Day 7

Is “negotiated” justice—i.e., plea bargaining—a positive evolution in the criminal justice system

Learning Resources

Required Readings

Required Media

Serial Productions (Producer). (2018a). Serial: A bar fight walks into the justice center [Audio podcast]. Retrieved from https://serialpodcast.org/season-three/1/a-bar-fig…
Discussion: Factors in Judicial Decision-Making
When presented with numerous variables and possible outcomes of prosecuting an offender, criminal justice professionals have a foundation upon which to base decisions. There are rules and laws, guidance of what has acceptably been done in the past, a specific pathway that ensures transparency, and the understanding that something can be proven. But which of these is most important? And do they work in concert? In this Discussion, you focus on one of these factors in judicial decision-making and assert why it could be viewed as the most important.
By Day 3
Choose one of the following key factors in determining how to proceed in the judicial system. (Your Instructor may choose to assign you and your colleagues to certain factors to ensure a range of opinions.)
Judicial rules
Precedent
Method/manner of bringing a case to court
Burden of proof
Post an argument for why the chosen factor is the most important to decision-making once a case enters the judicial system.
By Day 5
Respond to two colleagues:
Choose a factor that is different from the one you argued.
Explain how your colleague’s position has changed your understanding of that factor’s importance.
Submission and Grading Information