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Burglary Rates and the Issue of Gun Ownership

In 2005, 3,984 burglaries were committed in the municipality. This translates to a rate of 0.011 burglaries per citizen (Nemerov,...

Nursing Practice/Texas

(BNE:NPA, 2006). To investigate for heart disease was clearly indicated by physicians orders and, furthermore, Eddie failed to not...

Legal Aspects of Home Day Care

It is left to regulatory agencies such as the DFPS to interpret the law, write regulations that are in accordance with the law and...

Improving High School Graduation Rates for Texas Minorities in the Presence of Exit-Level Testing

U.S. District Court Judge Edward C. Prado observed: "The receipt of an education that does...

Code of Ethics and Accounting Standards of the State of Texas

are still held responsible for conduct as set out by the Government Accounting Standards Board. It is in the best interes...

San Antonio< Texas

CLIMATE AND AREA San Antonios climate is considered to be a "modified sub-tropical climate" (Westover, 2002, PG) with approximate...

Texas Crime and Minorities

in Texas is immense and far-reaching. Bratschi (1995) contends the ultimate factor in the overwhelming racial bias within mass me...

High School Football and H.G. Bissinger's Friday Night Lights

above understandable within the socio-cultural context of the town. Bissinger explains how Odessa, in 1988, when he was doing his ...

Justice and Ethics II

it is likely that he is carrying a significant amount. If he reaches his destination in no worse physical condition than that whi...

Overview of Terrorism in the State of Texas

that area that there had been "chatter" discussing the possibility that the oil wells there might be under the crosshairs of a pot...

Overview of Texas's State Fair

first look at the newest and best in products and performances" (BigTex.com, 2004). After that somewhat prosperous, and perhaps ...

Slavery and the Causes of the U.S. Civil War

Ordinance was one of the earliest reflections of the importance of the issue of slavery in this nation. There were many more refl...

Overview of Texas Politics

This paper describes contemporary issues in Texas' politics, such as the charges against Gov. Rick Perry, as well as the historica...

Fictional Gubernatorial Campaign

This essay discusses various campaign issues for a fictional character who is running for the governorship of Texas. The paper bui...

The Computer In Criminalistics

connect him or her to a particular cyber crime. Indeed, policing tactics have vastly improved over the years to include such aspe...

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...

The Use Of Nonlethal Force By Police

in order to achieve the same results; beanbag shotguns, tasers, stun guns, pepper spray and light blindness are just some of the a...

Criminal Justice Policy Change: Open-System

each community and asking about individual "safety concerns and security needs" (Greene, 2000, pp. 299-370). One particular commu...

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...

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 ...

Ethics Concerning Homeland Security and Law Enforcement

homeland security and especially the Patriot Act, it may well be that the law enforcement agencies of the nation are infringing on...

California: Emergency Response by Law Enforcement at State and Federal Levels

(Ghilarducci and Guerin, 1999). SEMS incorporates the following: the "Incident Command System," which is the "field level" respo...

Implications of X26 Tasers in Excited Delirium Deaths

this case reveals how X26 Tasers are being implicated in deaths attributed to excited delirium. Is this implication justified? F...

Video Surveillance and Stun Guns Should Not Be Used by Police

injury and even death. In some way, the police have a false sense of security in using these devices. Stun guns are thought to b...

Preventing Attacks: A Comparison of Two Approaches in Reducing Susceptibility to Becoming a Victim

The articles reviewed for the purpose of this paper parallel one another quite closely in terms of the criteria that they identify...

The Protection of the People Against the Exercise ot Arbitrary Power: Miranda v. Arizona

resulted in a much needed tightening up of standard law enforcement procedure particularly when it comes to arrest and interrogati...

Australian Public Disturbance Case

as this deal with damage to property during public disorder where property is damaged, but this time it may be purposefully, but i...

Police and Police Issues: Due Process

probably have that arrest thrown out. Likewise a rookie who obtains evidence in an illegal search will have that ruled inadmissibl...

Overcoming Language Barriers in Law Enforcement

to the census had difficulties conversing in the English language (Drake, 2006). An alarming 3.3 million of these respondents adm...

Community Policing in Lynchburg Virginia

cases of criminal activity, the Virginia courts had a history of being rather reluctant to support the use of anonymous complaints...