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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 ...

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...

DNA Testing and Joseph Wambaugh's The Blooding

tights, underpants and shoes were in a rolled-up heap about ten or fifteen feet away.2 She was naked from the waist down, with her...

Force Used by Law Enforcement

definition of excessive force is, "the use of any more force than a highly skilled officer should find necessary to use in that pa...

Force and Law Enforcement Organization

unnecessary force are minority members. According to this report, police have employed lethal force to subdue unarmed suspects fle...

Law Enforcement and Communication

a crime. Even a convicted criminal cannot be the subject of punishment meted out by officers whose emotions get out of control. I...

New Jersey and the Administration of Stop and Frisk

up the incident. While the precedent makes for an exciting police drama, the reality is that corruption does exist and New Jersey ...

Criminal Justice System and Discretion in Law Enforcement

Discretion, 2003). In his acclaimed study of discretion, University of Chicago law professor Kenneth Culp Davis discovered that p...

Police Officer Recruitment

done a good job. James Champy (1998) of reengineering fame goes so far as to say that the annual bonus is about as motivating as ...

Media and Law Enforcement

people closer to the processes of arresting suspects and investigating crime scenes than ever before (Getty, 2001). Law enforceme...

Law Enforcement, Morality, and Ethics

in order for the public to have trust in law enforcement officers. This is particularly true as there is evidence that trust in la...

Police Reform Suggested in Films

Suspect (Beachem, 1998) does not mention police corruption, this writer/tutor assumes that this must be an element of this film as...

Types of Profiling in Law Enforcement

the points you will be covering in the body of your paper. Profiling by police officers has become a very controversial issue in ...

Four Films and Their Portrayal of Crime and Judicial Procedures

element introduced when Utah encounters Bodhi, and is made to consider rather deeper philosophical aspects of life than the straig...

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...

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...

Diversity Hiring and it Benefits

there are other reasons for diversity hiring. In police departments around the nation, there have been accusations of prejudice. O...

U.S. Policing, Racial Prejudice and 'the War on Drugs'

the economic and political struggles of inner-city existence in the United States. "Racial discrimination exists in the criminal ...

Black in Blue by Nicholas Alex

of the people and in the political structure of the Criminal Justice system. Nicholas Alex found that, in 1969, police officers...

Abnormal Psychology Study and Law Enforcement

repressed anger" (Shannon, 2001; p. 60). This rudimentary profile can describe hundreds of thousands of Americans, of cours...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...