Essays on Justice Department

Fingerprints identification has a very long history in the criminal justice department. It is the perfect way to track and pick out a criminal from the suspects. This makes it raise a lot of questions of what makes it the best way to identify a criminal. The question leads to the two premises of fingerprint identification. Fingerprint identification has two major premises; uniqueness and persistence (permanence). Every person has a unique fingerprint that is different from everyone else. It is not easy, almost impossible, to have to share the same fingerprint patterns. Uniqueness premise gives fingerprint identification the most ...

Issues Facing Portland Police Bureau

The Portland Police Bureau in Oregon, similar to other police departments, faces some policing issues that hinder the effective performance of its mandate. Examples of the salient issues facing Portland Police Bureau include ethical and effective policing issues, domestic violence issues, drug and substance abuse, gang problems, low police staffing, gun violence, hiring and training problems negative public perception of the bureau and high rates of crime.

One of the greatest issues facing the bureau currently is the low level of police staffing that has negatively impacted on its ability to effectively fight crime in the Oregon region. This ...

1. Anderson, L.V. (2016, May 19). Ethics compliance training is a waste of time. Slate Magazine. This article, despite the cynical title, provides good research concerning the process by which companies implement ethics compliance training programs, including what incentive they have and how the external legal environment influences them to do this. The article begins by stating that the predominant form of ethics compliance training that all onboarded employees typically take in corporate organizations in the United States are in the form of eLearning courses. The article describes the typical mandatory basic ethics, harassment and discrimination training that are ...

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American founding fathers were brave, noble and great as they pioneered the drafting of the America Constitution. America government has over the years suffered from a series of problems that proves the need for a new constitution. There is the urgent need for amending the constitution while maintaining its legal, ethical, and moral structure. Over 224 years since the ratification of the America Constitution, several amendments have emerged, and only 27 of these changes were approved and included in the constitution. Depending on the challenges faced in the 21st century ranging from corruption and poor leadership the constitution should ...

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Juvenile delinquency in the United States is steadily increasing at an alarming rate. The age pool of offenders keeps on decreasing even for violent crimes such as homicide and rape. It is unclear on how the society deteriorated in successive decades since the 1970s crack cocaine epidemic. Street gangs took over droves of students into their establishments while promising acceptance. The programs that came to the aid of the criminal justice system were two pronged. The primary program is prevention. This program holds the potential to safeguard schoolchildren who are yet to succumb to the pressures and circumstances around ...

Wing SzeWence, Jampolsky and Alsbury shade light on the lifelong disability that arises from prenatal alcohol exposure in their article titled, Experiences in the Canadian Criminal Justice System for Individuals with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders: Double Jeopardy? According to prior research, FASD is viewed as one of the most vital growth disabilities in Canada considering that it consumes up to five billion dollars of the nation’s budget as each individual suffering from the condition is allocated around twenty-one thousand dollars. Therefore, the researchers undertook to carry out a research on the experience of people in the criminal justice ...

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The use of information technology in the matter of justice provision has enabled the law enforcement agencies to ensure that the criminals are effectively captured and put behind bars. The technological tools that have notably contributed towards the cause are surveillance and cameras, forensic equipment for detection of criminals and communication means. These technology items have helped in making the law supreme and to make the criminals afraid of the law. Gun control has been made possible largely with the help of these technology tools as the people are being monitored and managed much more effectively with ...

The New York Times article titled Why Americans Can’t Vote, published on April 16, 2016 by its editorial board, paints a bleak picture of the current state of the electoral system. The main argument focuses on recent trends in primary elections following up to disenfranchise voters from participating in November for the Presidential elections, backed by incidents such as Maricopa County polling places fiasco and the state of the technology, process and law governing the national elections. Even with the truth in its report, the article fails in its estimation of its points. In Maricopa County, the voters ...