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Conflict Of Interest: Part of Police Department Culture

For a South Florida investigative reporter, the realization of how South Florida police officers can disregard inherent citizen ri...

Higher Education For Police Officers

upon a combination of myriad elements that work in a synergistic way to address the criminal mind. The aspects of psychology and ...

Sworn Strength And Its Impact Upon Crime: Times Have Changed

- cowardly - that he is compelled to go along with the illegal activities of others of his group, is not qualified to wear a badge...

California: Police Organization And Trends

as both judge and jury as they physically assault alleged perpetrators and prematurely fire upon suspects. What comes from the re...

Human Rights And The Use Of International Legal Institutions

upon this perpetual effort has been marred by those whose self-proposed mission is to make sure only certain people are privileged...

Conflict And Crime Control Models Versus Consensus And Due Process Models

crime speaks to how competition and inequitable distribution of norms and values play a significant role in why race and crime are...

Global Property Rights and Power Shifts

be seen as a bundle of rights which may be separable, for example the sub soil rights may be the property of the state, but others...

Police and its Main Functions

at sporting events and just generally ensuring that there are no tie-ups in the smooth running of anything in the public areas. T...

Societal Changes and the Future of Law Enforcement

public reprisal. What happens is that when a suspect is unfortunately shot in the course of illegal activity, the officer is scrut...

Effectiveness of Law Enforcement

is occasionally not as effective in fulfilling its role to society and its citizens as it should be. There can be little doubt t...

Ethics and Law Enforcement

one is afraid to get caught? And what of rationality - is that not merely a reflection of ones own self-interest? It is importan...

Drug Offenses and High School Undercover Law Enforcement

however, an easy demonstration to make. Indeed, drugs in our schools have resulted in the formation of its own subculture and tha...

Police Brutality and Reducing Its Incidences

et al 1997, 642). A much more dramatic impact followed the beating of Rodney King, with ninety-four percent of whites, eighty-nin...

Interrogation Rooms and the Mandatory Presence of Cameras

it mandatory for video and audio recorders to be in the interrogation rooms. This would aid in preventing excessive coercive pract...

Law Enforcement Changes

they have witnessed. It sometimes takes a long time for the psychological aspects to come out after these traumatic events, but i...

Domestic Violence and Criminal Investigations

country on a regular basis, the good news is that many concerned people are trying very hard to fix the system. And, it is throug...

Overview of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police

were being ordered to advance through the most difficult terrain and the least traveled terrain in Canada. "The horses suffered so...

Misconduct in Law Enforcement

techniques used by some of those in law enforcement can still exact a confession from a completely innocent person, but it is now ...

Randy Woodfield, 'the I5 Killer'

killing spree along the I-5 section of interstate. His story seems to typify that of several other serial killers, Ted Bundy, for ...

Effective Law Enforcement Tool Known as Foot Patrol

foot are able to mingle with the crowd, maintain order and keep a much closer eye upon the goings-on than any car patrol ever coul...

Peter Horne's Women in Law Enforcement

consequences of their involvement were far reaching. Not only did womens prisons improve but new jobs were created form women. T...

Police Officers and Stress

home as well. All of this adds up to the fact that officers rarely have a place they can go to relieve their stress; it follows t...

Components of the Criminal Justice System

be the individual to conduct the follow-up investigation. In other words, after the initial report is made, a detective may be ass...

Juvenile Delinquency and A Child's Emotional Needs

contributing to delinquent behavior it may be nearly impossible to formulate an appropriate and meaningful intervention or treatme...

Arguing Against Racial Profiling

voice, it can be present in attitude, or behavior and no matter its vehicle, it is painful to those on the receiving end....

Practices of Interrogation and Police Officers

Court decision Miranda v. Arizona, which imposed carefully define limits on how far police interrogations could go. According to ...

Philippines' Sex Industry and Economics

money legally from licensing fees and taxes on hotels, bars, and restaurants ("Sex industry," 1998). There is a feminist advocac...

Psychological Testing and Preemployment Law Enforcement Background Screening

job" (Brewer and Wilson, 1995, p. 189). Members of the community feel betrayed when those they look to for protection are, themse...

Frances Heidensohn's Women in Control?

the treatment received. The work examines, as would be imagined, both the United States and Britain. According to one review of...

Police Profession and Subculture's Dark Side

entrenched police culture, call for fresh approaches to managing for ethics in police work. Gaines and Kappeler (2002) argue that...